Ah well, knowing me I probably wouldnt have even gone to see them anyhow!
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
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― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:03 (twenty years ago) link
There is a connection -- 4AD was originally a spin-off from and now is part of the label umbrella of Beggars.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
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― blutroniq (blutroniq), Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
One thing I like about Frank Black is that he doesn't have his head up his ass. In the Pixies days, their success may have made him a little arrogant, but for most of his solo/Catholics days he's been very modest about it all. He doesn't blow his own horn or take himself too seriously.
So, for now, I have trust in him that this will be good.
― Hildy, Thursday, 11 September 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
Are they or aren't they? I wish we'd get a definitive answer from somebody.
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― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 11 September 2003 06:37 (twenty years ago) link
NEW YORK (Billboard) - A decade after a bitter breakup, seminal alternative rock act the Pixies may reunite next year.
Asked about rumors of a tour and a potential new studio album, the group's manager told Billboard.com: "I have received an offer for the Pixies to perform in April. That said, over the past 10 years, I have received dozens of offers for the Pixies."
A spokesperson for the group's former label, 4AD, had no comment on potential reunion plans.
The group's last major tour came while supporting U2 on a number of U.S. dates on the 1992 "Zoo TV" trek.
Goldenvoice Promotions head Paul Tollett tells Billboard.com he has tried to book the Pixies "every year" for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. "I still haven't made any movement," he reports. " not sure if they are speaking to each other."
The Pixies -- vocalist/guitarist Black Francis, vocalist/bassist Kim Deal, lead guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering -- released four albums and an EP over the course of five years in the late 1980s and early '90s, providing a blueprint for the alternative rock boom that dominated the latter decade.
In 1993, two years after the release of the group's final album, "Trompe Le Monde" (4AD/Elektra), Francis (real name: Charles Thompson) sent a press release to the media announcing the breakup of the Pixies.
He went on to forge a solo career, now nine albums strong, as Frank Black. Deal found post-Pixies success with the Breeders, whose 1994 album "Last Splash" (4AD/Elektra) peaked at No. 33 on The Billboard 200 in 1994 and has sold 978,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Black has been incorporating Pixies songs into live performances with his band the Catholics with increasing regularity over the past few years.
Songs like "Where Is My Mind?," "Mr. Grieves," "Crackity Jones," "Nimrod's Son," "Holiday Song" and "Gouge Away" have all surfaced in recent setlists, and a version of the latter recorded in April in Regina, Saskatchewan, appears on a new Frank Black & the Catholics EP, "Nadine," licensed this week by spinART exclusively to a number of independent U.S. retailers.
In July, Black told London radio station XFM that he still fantasized about reuniting his old band.
"I do dream about the Pixies reunion, I do have to say," he said. "It's like those schoolboy dreams when you don't do your homework and you don't study for the test, but I'm at the gig and we're hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs, and hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk out. That's what I'm afraid of, that it'd be a big, big failure."
He added: "We might. We do get together and have private jams together, but not for public consumption."
During the Pixies' career, the group never made a huge commercial dent (their top-selling album is 1989's "Doolitte" at 552,000 copies).
But its impact on critics and fans was far-reaching. A handful of collections of Pixies material has surfaced during the band's hiatus, including the 1997 Elektra double-CD set "Death to the Pixies," which featured favorites and live compilation discs. Last year, spinART Records released "Pixies," a collection of unreleased songs from the band's original 1987 demo tape.
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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 12 September 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
Biggest argument against them reuniting is based in some vague indie ideal of punk or selling out, but I don't think the Pixies ever pretended to hate the idea of success like alot of indie bands do now. I'll listen to arguments against this, though.
But seeing them live would be a golden opportunity to erase a huge regret from my teenage years... and I'd do anything for that... to have one less thing to be bitter about.
― Shaun (shaun), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Geech, Saturday, 13 December 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link
De Pixies hebben de wereld veroverd. Niet met grote megahits maar met een immer aanhoudende invloed, ook na hun uiteengaan. Ze groeiden uit tot helden van de alternatieve rock. Zoals de BBC het zegt "Try and imagine Nirvana with out The Pixies, nah, not gonna happen". En inderdaad, de invloed van de Pixies stond aan de wieg van vele grote en kleine namen in Rockland.
Op chronologische volgorde zijn hun albums: 'Come on Pilgrim', 'Surfer Rosa', 'Doolittle', 'Bossanova' en 'Trompe Le Monde'. Het zijn stuk voor stuk sterke platen maar werkelijk onmisbaar zijn vooral de eerste drie lp's. Een goed overzicht geeft de verzamelaar 'Death to the Pixies', in 1997 uitgegeven en samengesteld door zanger Francis Black.
Wellicht kun je hem en companen Kim Deal, Joey Santiago en David Lovering in 2004 weer live gaan bewonderen want er gaan sterke geruchten dat ze vanaf april weer bijeen komen voor een aantal live-shows. Gaat dat zien
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― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.itv.com/news/361356.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1040059,00.htmlhttp://www.nme.com/news/107239.htm
― hmmm, Monday, 19 January 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago) link
'Cuz o' people like you. Cunt.
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
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― hmmm, Monday, 19 January 2004 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
If you ever, under any circumstances, go to Kent State University, then just fucking shoot yourself because your life will be a living hell.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
Is that from the Neil Young song?
― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
I'll bet Kelly subs for Kim and no one will be the wiser!
― nickn (nickn), Monday, 19 January 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
Why? If I were a Pixies fan, I'd be absolutely BOWLED OVER with excitement after hearing about them reuniting, but it appears that (mostly) you ILM folk are indifferent to it. Eh? Isn't it true their bass player was so pissed off at Black Francis after they broke up that she never discussed the Pixies at all in any interview she ever gave after that? And now they're burying the hatchet, so why the less-than-stellar reaction?
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago) link
Well I don't see many people talking about the brilliance of the 1989 Poco and Jefferson Airplane reunions, for instance -- to name two of too many examples. If turns into a Bauhaus 98 thing where they got together for the money but actually made it work or a Wire mid-eighties deal where they got together and specifically avoided all their earlier songs, great -- but those are exceptions, not rules.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago) link
My brain won't let me access American indie bands who may have reformed in the sights but there are a bunch
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
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I'm very much at peace with it. I think of them as two different bands.― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:09 AM (four hours ago)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:09 AM (four hours ago)
this exact feeling clicked for me several years ago. i don't really think of post-reunion activities as damaging their legacy, because as far as i'm concerned the legacy of the original Pixies is set in stone. (maybe that's not fair / doesn't make sense, but that's where i'm at.)
and what they do now doesn't bum me out! i mean, those guys built a band lots of ppl will pay to see and they have bills to pay. who am i to stop them from working? it's fine ... there are a million other (newer) bands to be excited about.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
Happy birthday, Kim and Kelley
― alpine static, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
wow, what are the chances of them sharing the same birthday
― Prosecutor Bradley Tankerton (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
lol
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link