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The Pixies: "Gigantic"
Onward and backward to Day 2 of Pixies Week here at Reselect! And by “backward” I mean that we’re moving away from Trompe Le Monde today, back to the Pixies’ first full-length album, Surfer Rosa. We’ll be checking back in with Trompe le Monde a couple more times over the course of the week, naturally, being its 20th anniversary and all, but there’s so much other great Pixies music out there for the listening…
I’m selecting “Gigantic” today, as it was the song that introduced me to the Pixies. When I first heard it back in 1988, when WFNX in Boston first started playing it, little did I know that I was hearing the first sounds of what was to become one of my favorite bands. It jumped out of my speakers and grabbed my full attention immediately, with the sparse, subdued bass playing and seductive singing of Kim Deal, followed by the churning guitars and massive kick of “Gigantic…a big big love!” Upon hearing the rest of Surfer Rosa (which I had run out to buy at Newbury Comics as soon as I could), my assessment of Kim's voice changed to “seductive and cute.” I thought she was pretty damn cool and that Black Francis was at least a little off his rocker. Joey Santiago and David Lovering simply kicked butt.
And I still have a big, big love for this song, indeed, all these years later.
Original post date: October 4, 2011