― Davlo (Davlo), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link
That's `cos he WAS always constipated.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link
I don't think Kurt was that ace a singer, though. He's certainly not much better than Kim Deal.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link
Why is it always Pixies vs. Nirvana with no mention of the Meat Puppets?
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:50 (twenty years ago) link
― may pang (maypang), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 5 January 2004 06:20 (twenty years ago) link
re: singing voice. i pick black because he had a shit singing voice.he had a shit singing voice and he did his best with what he had, - his way of kind of talking + his screaming etc. was brilliant. he gave f'ing 110% yeah¡
i'm glad black (as far as i know) didn't get into heroin, i'd hate to hear him sound constipated + fucked up like kurt.
+ kim, kim just had a nice voice. nothing special.
― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link
Actually, I just realized the ultra-cool answer to this is "neither."
― billstevejim, Monday, 5 January 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
Ick. Whatever reservations I have about Nirvana, they were a thousand times better than the directionless, testicularly-challenged jumble of tune-free sounds that was Pavement.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago) link
― danh, Monday, 5 January 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
I thought kurt had ripped off the chorus from u-mass but I never bothered to check alb release dates. quite a coincidence.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 5 January 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Monday, 5 January 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
Also excepting the ones on Unplugged Nivana did awful renditions of a lot of great songs. It is funny how much I like so many of the bands Kurt would name drop before he shot himself in the head much better than I like Nirvana. All thats left is some lingering nostalgia I have for the tape of Nevermind I used to like.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), January 5th, 2004.
Ha! I love this. I also love Pavement, but this is very funny. And it wouldn't work without the "whatever reservations I have about Nirvana," clause. Very nice.
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago) link
Would people please stop talking about the whole teen-angst Nirvana thing. I am so sick of hearing about this. I'm so sick of looking at video footage of Kurt Cobain slumped over his guitar at some MTV unplugged thing. I wish he was still alive, so that he could get over himself. I wish his fans would please drop the Kurt Cobain as deity thing. blah blu baa!!!!
Anyways, yeah so the Pixies get my vote by a wide margin.
― Debito (Debito), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago) link
― s n d, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 10:34 (twenty years ago) link
Is anyone trying to keep count?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
As in: "lacking tunes", something they were guilty of.
Pavement sucked. There, I said it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link
Please don't call the Pixies "Goth", Anthony. Just please don't do it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link
That's all 4AD's design wing, Envelope 23. The Pixies, meanwhile, were as "goth" as Creedence Clearwater Revival, fer chrissakes.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:40 (twenty years ago) link
Admittedly this isn't so much in evidence on the later albums but on Bleach it's pretty much undeniable.
Steve Jones / Sex Pistols had a fair bit of influence on the guitar sound on Nevermind too I reckon.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 8 January 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 8 January 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago) link
The only good thing about the Joke supporting the Pixies is that ideally it turned a few spend-ready Pixies fans onto a superior band. Beyond that, the Pixies aren't fit to felch the cow-dung from between the treads of Killing Joke's collective Doc Martens.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 8 January 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago) link
― R t V (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 15 January 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link
Not trying to take things off topic or anything, but I did take issue with Alex's assertion that Pavement "sucked". I'm hardly impartial in that particular debate, being a pretty big fan of that band, but it did seem a little harsh and somewhat undeserved. It's fine to not like them, most people I know don't like Pavement, but I think you'd have a pretty hard time convincing most critics as well as music fans that they sucked.
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 15 January 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link