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re: The Pixies v. Nirvana
Posted on 5/6/13 at 12:15 pm to Cdawg
Posted on 5/6/13 at 12:15 pm to Cdawg
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o shot at Baloo but he's an East Coast guy so he puts The Pixies high up.
Perfectly fair. I'm not a Boston guy, but the Pixies were f'n MASSIVE on the eastern seaboard among that clique of music fans in the late 80s/early 90s. They were right next to Fugazi in the pantheon. The Pixies were the underground band you played to your friends not in the "scene" to get them into it. They were a gateway band in much the same way REM and the Replacements were a few years earlier. My punk friends did sneer at Pixies for being too mainstream.
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Posted on 5/6/13 at 12:15 pm to Cdawg
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I was in Louisiana and Houston at the time and I just do not recall any huge Pixies fans. I do remember Pixies Doolittle being a popular college rock album but so was Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation or Sugar Cubes Life's Too Good.
I dont recall huge Pixie fans either but I was a kid for most of the 90s. I believe Pixies made a comeback to popularity when Fight Club came out. That song(Where is my mind?) sounded like it just came out at the time but was recorded in the 80s.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 12:47 pm to ag3ntpurpl3
I'm at work so I can't link it, but there's an awesome video on YouTube of David Bowie talking about how important Pixies were for music. And if David's on board, then so am I.
And for my two cent: Dig for Fire > anything Nirvana ever put out.
And for my two cent: Dig for Fire > anything Nirvana ever put out.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 12:57 pm to The Seaward
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Kurt Cobain did. On writing Smells Like Teen Spirit, "I was basically just trying to rip off the Pixies."
When he elaborated he said he wanted it to sound like what he thought The Pixies covering Boston's "More Than A Feeling" and if you listen to the guitar riff on MTAF you can hear the SLTS intro pretty clearly.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 1:14 pm to ag3ntpurpl3
Pixies were a much better band IMO, and much more influential in my listening life for sure.
I have never gotten the legendary status of Nirvana. SLTS was in the right place at the right time to blow up.
Pixies would never be hugely commercially successful because they were much too weird to garner big record company support and promotion. This was not the case in Europe where their shows were epic.
I am BR born and raised, and I saw them at the Varsity back in the day. I can tell you in my circle of friends, they were fanatically loved and worshiped. We waited for that show like it was the greatest day of our lives. The place was packed and loving it. No revision here.
I had Doolittle on one side of a tape and Camper van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart on the other side. It was in my cars auto-reverse tape player for about nine months without ever being removed
I have never gotten the legendary status of Nirvana. SLTS was in the right place at the right time to blow up.
Pixies would never be hugely commercially successful because they were much too weird to garner big record company support and promotion. This was not the case in Europe where their shows were epic.
I am BR born and raised, and I saw them at the Varsity back in the day. I can tell you in my circle of friends, they were fanatically loved and worshiped. We waited for that show like it was the greatest day of our lives. The place was packed and loving it. No revision here.
I had Doolittle on one side of a tape and Camper van Beethoven Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart on the other side. It was in my cars auto-reverse tape player for about nine months without ever being removed
Posted on 5/6/13 at 2:23 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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he wanted it to sound like what he thought The Pixies covering Boston's "More Than A Feeling"
ive always like the story of kurt finally letting butch double track the vocals because lennon did it too.
i like nirvana, especially in utero, but id take any pixies album over them.
This post was edited on 5/6/13 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 5/6/13 at 2:39 pm to TigerRad
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Pixies would never be hugely commercially successful because they were much too weird to garner big record company support and promotion.
I'm not so sure I agree with this. They wrote a lot of songs that would have been great pop songs had they ever become pop songs (if that makes sense).
Posted on 5/6/13 at 5:17 pm to ag3ntpurpl3
Not legit.....pixies.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 6:37 pm to Upperaltiger06
Huge Pixies fan.
I still give the nod to Nirvana.
I still give the nod to Nirvana.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 7:05 pm to ItNeverRains
I prefer the Pixies. However, big props to Nirvana(Kurt specifically)for name dropping them and getting me into them.
I pretty much owe my interest in music to Kurt for mentioning all these alt/punk bands.
I pretty much owe my interest in music to Kurt for mentioning all these alt/punk bands.
Posted on 5/6/13 at 7:49 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
I love both bands, but I have to give the Pixies the edge. Nirvana might not have sounded like "Nirvana" without the Pixies influence.
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