July 7, 2009

The Creative Melancholy

My mind and heart work and discern at their best in a state I have come to call 'the creative melancholy.' For whatever reasons I have decided would be coarse to try to articulate, the music of the Pixies has always captured this mood for me.

As anti-emo as I am, I like Sense Field's cover of Caribou, the haunting and pretty opener from the first Pixies release, Come on Pilgrim. (1987)


2 comments:

  1. Hmm. Never heard this one before. Dada lyrics!

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  2. The melody is melancholy... I had to look up the lyrics since I had never heard the song...

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