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Afternoon, just leaving here this here. Hope is all well. Reading "Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD" and its utterly fascinating. I finally get Throwing Muses: while I loved Belly at the time I now know that "Your Ghost" was only a gateway to delerious strangeness. At the time they were promised to EU fans as "like the Pixies". Ceoil (talk) 02:25, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ceoil! Thanks for "Grunggae" and sorry for my late reply. Funnily, one reason it took a while to reply is when I originally clicked on the link to YouTube, I must have accidentally clicked something again onto another link or something, and the YouTube that I saw was OP8 - Slush [Full Album], which I thought you were introducing to me. So I thought, "Oh man, I've got to listen to this a few times to be able to properly comment on it." But meanwhile the speaker on my personal computer stopped working and I had to try to fit in little windows of time of listening on my work computer, when working from home, and when I didn't have to concentrate too hard. Then by chance I clicked on your link again and discovered it was "Grunggae," which makes sense with your "Cannonball" title, and took off the pressure of digesting OP8 too much. :D Gosh, I'm not too familiar with Belly or Throwing Muses--I've got to listen to "Your Ghost," will do that soon, but wanted to write to you now while I have a quick moment. I've had Facing the Other Way on my bookshelf since when it came out, and I still haven't read it cover to cover; I've only dipped in for bits that were helpful for Pixies or Breeders-related Wikipedia articles. I do want to read it eventually, for sure. Yeah, speaking of the Pixies, I saw them a month or so ago in Vancouver on one of their BossaMonde shows, where they played those two albums in their entirety. It was so good! I thought of you, because I know like me, Monde is a favourite of yours. I actually had been wondering these last twelve years if I was ever going to go see the Deal-less Pixies, because the band seemed so much less interesting without her. But when this show came up, I couldn't resist, and I'm so glad I went. In the end the fact that Kim wasn't there didn't bother me at all. Kim brought her solo tour to Seattle in the spring and I really wanted to go down and support her, partly because I saw from online set lists that she was performing "Beautiful Moon", one of my very very favourites of hers. Unfortunately that day and that week there was a bit too much family stuff going on and I couldn't make it. Moisejp (talk) 01:26, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. It seems like your headphone and listening to music arrangements are a mess, but understandable given the life circumstances I guess you are going through :) Anyway given I'm an accountant by day and bass player by night ;) Pixies were always about Kim rather than Charles, which both the book and any Steve Albini interview back up. He seems to be arrogant, low EQ, impossibly straight and blindly stubborn. I remember them from a few months after Come on Pilgim that his songs were especially elevated by her charm and groundbreaking bass lines. What killed me after watching the backstage footage of their 2004-2008 tour was the way that he treater he as almost an employee, when The Breeders had sold far more records. Paa. Ceoil (talk) 02:41, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]