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Song: Vamos
Artist: Pixies
Bassist: Kim Deal
Album: Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim
The bass is the same on both versions of the song
Main Riff
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Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
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Em Average |
#1 by Em at Feb 26, 1970 at 9:07 PM EST |
| I agree that this song is great seeing live. Joey's guitar playing is insane. | |
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Trash Rhythm Player |
#2 by Trash Gibson at Dec 14, 1971 at 2:07 AM EST |
| This is one of my favorite Pixies songs ever. It's amazing. I heard someone take a sip of something as well. | |
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josh Wanna Be |
#3 by josh carton at Aug 6, 1978 at 3:27 PM EST |
| This song is soooooo awesome, just random guitar riffs. At first when i heard it i thought it went "Your daddy's rich, your mommas a bi-bitch!" but apparently i was wrong heh. Pixies kick ass! | |
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Jin Jin Average |
#4 by Jin Jin Rockz at Oct 19, 1982 at 1:32 PM EST |
| This is an amazing song, especially live. I think it's about starting over, wiping the slate clean and starting a new life and being optomistic about whats to come ( I was thinking surviving with my sister in New Jersey, She told me it's a good life there. We'll stay well bred, We'll stay well fed) | |
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Dirk Average |
#5 by Dirk Vandermeyden at Jul 25, 1983 at 2:04 PM EST |
| frank black is insane. joey santiago is insane too. all of them (pixies) are just insane. Maybe this is what makes them such an amazing band. btw this song is a work of genius | |
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Corey Wanna Be |
#6 by Corey at Dec 31, 1985 at 5:13 AM EST |
| Does anyone think this song is paticularly significant as a pixies song? Like a landmark or something? Cos i don't know what to think, so you tell me | |
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Travis Average |
#7 by Travis Nichols at Oct 7, 1991 at 4:49 AM EST |
| I absolutely LOVE when they sing in Spanish | |
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Jesse Average |
#8 by Jesse Hoehn at Jan 18, 1993 at 2:51 PM EST |
| VAMOS A JUGAR POR LA PLAYA!! the only spanish I know sadly....I just love screaming that when it gets to that area of the song. | |
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juan Wanna Be |
#9 by juan gonzalez at Nov 5, 1995 at 9:54 PM EST |
| I think think that song is simply about the life of immigrants in the USA from a rather satirical point of view. One of my favorite Pixies songs BTW. | |
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MikE Average |
#10 by MikE SurfacE at Nov 21, 2001 at 1:06 AM EST |
| seems like hes trying to woo his maid maria into moving with him to new jersey to live with his sister, hes trying to convince her to come by promising her a well fed family, and also by claiming to have a big dong. ahh what a life! | |
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craig Average |
#11 by craig gillespie at Mar 21, 2004 at 11:26 PM EST |
| Hey lifemakesechoes, the sipping in the middle sounds more like a water pipe to me, but I could be wrong. | |
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Rory Wanna Be |
#12 by Rory Burlet at Dec 8, 2004 at 11:49 AM EST |
| fantastic song. completely in experimental Pixies tradition. ha- some things just sound better said in Spanish (or Spanglish). | |
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benji Wanna Be |
#13 by benji 182 at Jan 13, 2006 at 5:30 AM EST |
| Being Hispanic! at the Disco and 900% fluent in Spanish, the beginning of the song is a little Babelfishish translation here. It goes "Estaba pensando sobre viviendo con mi sister en New Jersey. Ella me dijo que es una vida bien buena alla, bien rica, bien chevere. Y me voy! Puņeta cabrona!" which means "I was thinking about living with my sister in New Jersey. She told me life is really good there" the next bit "bien rica" can be translated to "really rich" or "really tasty" Like when someone says, "este camaron esta muuuuuy rico" it means "this shrimp is reeeeaaallly tasty" Righty-ho. Anyway. "Bien chevere" is kind of funny because, at least in Mexico, "chevere" is a sort of dorky, quaint way to say "cool" like, "it's really groovy ova thurr in New Jersey" or, "things sure are dandy/kickin'/spiffy/neat-o in NJ" I'm not really sure if this is true for South American countries, it's probably more popular there, but I know in Mexico it was more said in the 70's and now it's an old-timey folk word. Whatevz. "Y me voy!" means "So I go!" and "Puņeta cabrona!" means "Weak bitch!" more or less. I don't know who he's screaming this to? Maybe his sister? Maybe life actually really sucked in New Jersey and that bitch lied to him and it's more like a call of, "So I go! [bad things happen, regrets moving] What a bitch! What a joke!" The song all seems like what hopeful immigrants (like my parents) all think the U.S. is like from what they hear in their countries. They wish for American Dream white picket fences, hot wives, plenty of food, all while keeping tranditions and culture, It is not like that in many cases. It sounds a lot like his idea of what moving would be like ended up clashing with the reality, like maybe he met some crazy Americans ("I keep getting friends, looking like lesbians") instead. "That maid Maria, yeah, she's really OK" kind of makes me think of an American tourist in a hotel, maybe. Maybe Maria, the maid, had drugs or sumfin. I don't know. Maybe I'm really wrong. | |
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Rosa Wanna Be |
#14 by Rosa Christiansen at Jan 15, 2007 at 3:24 PM EST |
| I thought this was another Pixies incest song, myself. Living with his sister, "keeping well-bred" (by inbreeding), all that jazz. Plus he says "we'll have our sons," implying that both he and his sister will have sons, but their friends will say "your daddy's rich, your mama's a pretty thing" -- only one daddy and one mama mentioned. So the singer is the daddy and his sister is the mama. | |
