{"id":223,"date":"2004-05-12T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T21:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/record_of_the_w\/"},"modified":"2004-05-12T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T21:17:20","slug":"record_of_the_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/record_of_the_w\/","title":{"rendered":"Record of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0001RVTXO\/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1\/026-9212076-2317257\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"best-of-pixies\" src=\"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.typepad.com\/dots\/images\/best-of-pixies.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"88\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This long awaited little gem arrived just the other day. I&#8217;ve been a life-long Pixies fan, they&#8217;re the only band I&#8217;ve ever actively stalked, getting Black Francis, Kim Deal and Joey Santiago to sign my ticket stub after thier gig in Portsmouth. I don&#8217;t remember seeing Dave Lovering, he must have sneaked past me into the van. I saw them a couple of times, back in the early &#8217;90&#8217;s and really looking forward to seeing them next month at Brixton Academy.  The &#8216;best of Pixies has most of the greats, but there&#8217;s a few missing &#8211; I would have loved to see Tony&#8217;s theme and Motorway to Roswell, which I think is a great, no River euphrates either, but we could be here all night. The DVD is ok&#8230;the documentary is very interesting, but really, the videos are pretty rubbish &#8211; Pixies just don&#8217;t work visually, except for Vaughan Oliver cover art. The video for Dig for Fire had me in stitches. Anyway, the rest of this package is glorious, Pixies are (go on..I&#8217;ll say it) the Greatest Band that Ever Lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This long awaited little gem arrived just the other day. I&#8217;ve been a life-long Pixies fan, they&#8217;re the only band I&#8217;ve ever actively stalked, getting Black Francis, Kim Deal and Joey Santiago to sign my ticket stub after thier gig in Portsmouth. I don&#8217;t remember seeing Dave Lovering, he must have sneaked past me into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}