loudQUIETloud
loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies (2006) - Steven Cantor & Mathew Galkin
A nice little mediation on musicians trying to do things all over again, despite their history. It was very poignant for me to watch them fumble through rehearsals trying to remember their own songs that made them famous.
Makes me think back about the Reaganauts. We were never that talented, but I'd like to think we made up for it by sheer will of force. We tried to cover "Where Is My Mind?" once, with disastrous results. The Pixies made it look easy, that's for sure. A member of a band that played with us wrote in zine once that us playing it was "the highlight of the show...in which the haunting cerebral quality of the song mounted until it became an animal, a beast alive and hunting the room". For myself, I will just say that it was more mere frustration coming to an explosive head, as it tends to do in playing music live. You can easily forget people are watching you.
During the end credits, the film revisits a rabid fan from earlier who started her own Pixies cover band. They were fumbling through "Monkey Gone to Heaven" before it seamlessly cut into the pros playing it themselves. It's all a self doubting dream of wanting to be someone else - right down to the ones you are trying to be.
A good watch for the casual or rabid Pixies fan.
*** (3 out of 5)
A nice little mediation on musicians trying to do things all over again, despite their history. It was very poignant for me to watch them fumble through rehearsals trying to remember their own songs that made them famous.
Makes me think back about the Reaganauts. We were never that talented, but I'd like to think we made up for it by sheer will of force. We tried to cover "Where Is My Mind?" once, with disastrous results. The Pixies made it look easy, that's for sure. A member of a band that played with us wrote in zine once that us playing it was "the highlight of the show...in which the haunting cerebral quality of the song mounted until it became an animal, a beast alive and hunting the room". For myself, I will just say that it was more mere frustration coming to an explosive head, as it tends to do in playing music live. You can easily forget people are watching you.
During the end credits, the film revisits a rabid fan from earlier who started her own Pixies cover band. They were fumbling through "Monkey Gone to Heaven" before it seamlessly cut into the pros playing it themselves. It's all a self doubting dream of wanting to be someone else - right down to the ones you are trying to be.
A good watch for the casual or rabid Pixies fan.
*** (3 out of 5)