PIXIES 'Trompe Le Monde' LP
$42.00
Limited edition colour vinyl! 30th Anniversary Edition.
Trompe Le Monde bookended a golden run of landmark PIXIES records - a mini-album followed by four albums, released in quick succession ' that cemented Pixies as one of the best for a generation. Translated from French to mean 'fool the world', Trompe Le Monde showed the band restless to still push their sound forward. Recorded between Burbank, Paris and London, with producer Gil Norton again at the controls, their fourth album is arguably their most playful with Black Francis's lyrics on UFOs and conspiracy theories keeping things weird while power pop creeps in to amplify the space rock established on predecessor Bossanova.
1. TROMPE LE MONDE
2. PLANET OF SOUND
3. ALEC EIFFEL
4. THE SAD PUNK
5. HEAD ON
6. U-MASS
7. PALACE OF THE BRINE
8. LETTER TO MEMPHIS
9. BIRD DREAM OF THE OLYMPUS MONS
10. SPACE (I BELIEVE IN)
11. SUBBACULTCHA
12. DISTANCE EQUALS RATE TIMES TIME
13. LOVELY DAY
14. MOTORWAY TO ROSWELL
15. THE NAVAJO KNOW
Trompe Le Monde bookended a golden run of landmark PIXIES records - a mini-album followed by four albums, released in quick succession ' that cemented Pixies as one of the best for a generation. Translated from French to mean 'fool the world', Trompe Le Monde showed the band restless to still push their sound forward. Recorded between Burbank, Paris and London, with producer Gil Norton again at the controls, their fourth album is arguably their most playful with Black Francis's lyrics on UFOs and conspiracy theories keeping things weird while power pop creeps in to amplify the space rock established on predecessor Bossanova.
1. TROMPE LE MONDE
2. PLANET OF SOUND
3. ALEC EIFFEL
4. THE SAD PUNK
5. HEAD ON
6. U-MASS
7. PALACE OF THE BRINE
8. LETTER TO MEMPHIS
9. BIRD DREAM OF THE OLYMPUS MONS
10. SPACE (I BELIEVE IN)
11. SUBBACULTCHA
12. DISTANCE EQUALS RATE TIMES TIME
13. LOVELY DAY
14. MOTORWAY TO ROSWELL
15. THE NAVAJO KNOW
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