U: U-Mass by the Pixies

 Welcome AtoZ-ers and other blog friends! This month I'm participating in the AtoZ blogging challenge, and you'll see a post every day (except Sundays) about one of the Songs of my Heart. Today's edition: U-Mass by the Pixies.  (If my embed doesn't work, listen at this link).

 

I can't remember how I found the Pixies. It was the early 90s and I was a college student, so new music was always landing in my lap without any effort on my part. I know I had this one on CD: Trompe le Monde. I also remember that my then-boyfriend, later-husband, later-ex-husband HATED it. 

I mean, I get it. The Pixies are not…melodic. They scream rather than sing in a traditional sense. But they do it with verve and style and sometimes screaming is just what's in my heart. Every once in a while, I'm walking around here, more than 30 years later and I just randomly say "University. Of. Massachusetts. Please." in just the cadence you hear in the song because something about it tickled my brain all those years ago and hasn't stopped. 

 I also love screaming "IT'S EDUCATIONAL" when I've had a rough life lesson I'd rather not have been forced to learn. Life is mean that way sometimes. 

 Lyrics from AtoZ: 

In the sleepy west of the woody east
Is a valley full, full o' pioneer
We're not just kids to say the least
We got ideas to us that's dear
Like capitalist, like communist
Like lots of things you've heard about
And redneckers, they get us pissed
And stupid stuff, it makes us shout
Oh, dance with me, oh, don't be shy
Oh, kiss me, cunt, oh, kiss me, cock
Oh, kiss the world, oh, kiss the sky
Oh, kiss my ass, oh, let it rock
Of the April birds and the May bee
Oh baby

It's educational!
It's educational!
It's educational!
It's educational!
It's educational!
It's educational!
It's educational!
It's educational!

University
Of Massachusetts, please
And here's the last five

It's educational!
It's educational!
It's educational!
It's educational!

It's!
It's educational!  

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