― 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
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link
Pixies songs = fill of obscure Biblical references.
QED!!!!!!!!!
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
When i first heard Teen Spirit the Pixies influence was unmistakeable.
Nirvana= one third Pixies, one third Replacements, one third Husker Du.
― Officer Pupp, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
-- Officer Pupp (officerpup...), January 6th, 2004."
BZZZZT.
Nirvana - two thirds Jesus Lizard, one third Sex Pistols.
― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Flotsam of the Fishfolk (Flotsam of the Fishfolk), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
Eh?? I just don't get it. Is it because of the quiet verse/loud chorus thing? But everybody does that! That's been going on since the sixties! Ever heard "What Is and What Should Never Be" by Led Zeppelin? Or "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" by the Electric Prunes?
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:28 (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