Taking Sides Pixies vs. Nirvana

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Kurt Cobain was a big Pixies fan. The question is did his band surpass one of his primary influences? I think not.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

Yes they did because they helped me get through high school and all the Pixies did was that "Fight Club" song

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

The light from the Pixies won't reach Nirvana for another 30 years. Nirvana were the Jesus Lizard Jr.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Sunday, 4 January 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

I was about to say that Chris.

But anyway, The Pixies utterly owned Nirvana in every way.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

Yawn

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

"Yawn
-- nate detritus (n***p*****550...), January 4th, 2004."

"all the Pixies did was that "Fight Club" song
-- nate detritus (n***p*****550...), January 4th, 2004."

Yes, well, I'd rather be making 'passe' comments than outright stupid ones.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

"Yes, well, I'd rather be making 'passe' comments than outright stupid ones.
-- Stupid (nottelling@hotmail.com), January 4th, 2004"

????

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

Heh.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

I know there's several different kinds of stupidity, and apparently yers is the sort that doesn't recognize button-pushing sarcasm.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

Personally, I've never considered being unable to detect sarcasm on the internet as stupidity. So until they invent some magical HTML code that conveys a sarcastic tone in text, I will never feel stupid for making that mistake.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

Whatever the case, Pixies vs. Nirvana discussions only lead to tears (or shrugs)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

I will NEVER understand why everybody always compares Nirvana to the Pixies. Because the Pixies were always a huge Nirvana influence? But they don't sound a goddamn thing like each other!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

Kurt said himself that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was always a Pixies tribute and if you look at it from the basic view of soft/loud/soft structure then it's pretty clear. Beyond that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

I figure Nirvana sounds a lot more like Mudhoney than they do the Pixies.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

Mogwai - Slint, Red House Painters - American Music Club, Radiohead - Pink Floyd, Nirvana - The Pixies.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

oh oh oh don't forget The Strokes - Television!!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

Never a huge fan of either, but the Pixies were a bajillion times more imaginative, wrote more interesting songs, had better hooks, greater album cover art and a more distinctive, original sound than Nirvana. Kim Deal was also significantly better looking that Kris Novoselic, and is probably even more so today.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

I'd disagree on that last point Alex.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't seen La Deal lately, but Novoselic looks more and more like a corpse every day.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link

It may be remembered that I am a big Nirvana fan, and I really have tried to like the Pixies. My girl is a fan, my friends are fans, I've bought the records. I've listened intently, and as background, and can't help it, they sucked.(no, they didn't suck, but I just don't like 'em.)

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think they really sound all that simillar either, honestly. I mean, Kurt copped to nicking his approximation of their sound for "Smells Like...", but beyond that, I think the Pixies were an entirely different breed of band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

I like Nirvana much more than the Pixies and Alex et al are right, they don't really sound very similar.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

I find Nirvana's music about fifty billion times more listenable than the Pixies'. The Pixies just annoy the living crap outta me.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

The Pixies just annoy the living crap outta me.

Well, at least they were original.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

ive always thought that Nirvana's best record was the MTV live in new york sessions which featured a load of covers and the meat puppets. I think Nirvana were a high quality band but that most of the legend that drifts around them was born out Kobain's premature death and the time and place they hit the mainstream. The Pixies, however, musically are one of the all time greats in the league of the Beatles and Beach Boys.

― Flotsam of the Fishfolk (Flotsam of the Fishfolk), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

What that last guy said. The Pixies were not only better than Nirvana, they were better than any other rock band ever.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

Most of what the Pixies' music says to me is "hey, we are weird". I can picture Frank Black/Black Francis looking at himself in a mirror à la Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone and cowering with fright in this way. Nirvana showed me that music could be heavy and catchy at the same time, which in a roundabout way led me to Black Sabbath and their ilk.

― Schwingung (Damian), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

"Hey, we are weird">>>>>>>>"music can be heavy and catchy at the same time"

But that's just me.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link

Um... well, I like weirdness as opposed to "weirdness". Also, I neglected to mention that I prefer Nirvana for the same reason Nate listed up top - they got me through high school. The Pixies didn't.

But that's just me.

― Schwingung (Damian), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

That's a much snarkier retort than it should be, and weirdness is in the eye of the beholder to the same extent quality is, I suppose. I just like Nirvana better. But I'm sure that if you asked Kurt Cobain or even Dave Grohl they'd say the Pixies were better.

― Schwingung (Damian), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link

I love the Pixies. And Kurt Cobain always sounded constipated.

― Rachel, Monday, 5 January 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link

x-post

and they would be right (although you may have trouble getting an answer from kurt). the pixies gave nirvana the tools to be nirvana.
one the other hand nirvana was a great band and it isn't fair to give so much credit to a band that influenced them.
when it comes down to it liked the pixies better - their songs covered a wider range of sounds/stiles.
nirvana was there when i was in high school but they really didn't "get me through".

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

I thought it was a myth that the generation before mine all listened to Nirvana in "high school". I guess not.

― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

Where else would you want to listen to it?

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

ha ha, true.
luckily, i had weed to "get me through" high school¡

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

Pixies >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nirvana by far.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago) link

That first post of mine was a joke, you know. I mean, I like Nirvana more than the Pixies (and I'm not hugely into either), but I find the constant Pixies vs. Nirvana arguments as tiring and inane as the Beatles vs. Stones shit boomers apparently spent a lot of time on. Half of it just seems to be who can be either more populist or more indie than the other side, depending on which band you like.

Also, Foo Fighters > Breeders

(cough)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link

Planet Of Sound blows away anything that Nirvana ever did, and most everything else anyone else ever did. On the merits of that one song alone, Pixies win.

― Davlo (Davlo), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

But "Planet of Sound" is to "Kick out the Jams" as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is to "Gouge Away".

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

I like the Pixies loads more. I was 16 in 1989 though and not in 1991. I like them best when they're quite cold and abstract.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

i finally felt like i understood my continuing love for the pixies when i read tom's "blankness"/"pop art" thesis in his b-sides review.

whereas i was 14 in 1992, and therefore nirvana are way too bound up in pimply adolescent frustration/longing/confusion and have accumlated too much baggage ala a snowball rolling down a hill (even though really they're just as "blank" as the pixies) to be able to "enjoy" now.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link

I was 16 in 1991, and I thought the Pixies were overrated then, too.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link

Christ you're all fucking young. I was 26 in 1991 and I thought they were great!

― Davlo (Davlo), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

I love the Pixies. And Kurt Cobain always sounded constipated.

That's `cos he WAS always constipated.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

nirvana always reminded me of squirrel bait, a band that helped me get thru my high school years. in fact, when i first heard nevermind i got excited cuz i actually thought it was a new squirrel bait album. that was the first and last time that nirvana ever excited me. whereas, i HAD to like the pixies cuz they were on 4AD and it was in my contract to like everything i bought on 4AD just like in that song that came out on Homestead.I think it was mark arm who said in spin or somewhere that they(Mudhoney) were definitely influenced by squirrel bait's "Sun God" and that is the song that really really sounds like nirvana. plus, there are early wipers songs that really sound like nirvana music. and they did sometimes sound like the pixies. nirvana, that is. nothing wrong with that. i guess in cumulative damage though, you would have to give nirvana the nod. bad pop-punk, bad nu-metal, bad hats, bad colds, etc, etc. you can't really blame the pixies for much of that.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link

Seems to me that the Pixies just had a much broader palette to work with....and were not nearly as concerned with seeming "punk" enough or how they sounded to their peers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link

....tho, of course, I may be just projecting that last part.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link

pixies

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago) link

if I have a problem w/the Pixies (and I do like them, though I'm of the not-at-all popular opinion they got better with each album) it's that I don't hear a lot of breadth emotionally--though not necessarily musically. I'm probably wrong about that, though--it's been awhile since I sat down w/one of their albums. but yes, I prefer Nirvana for all the obvious reasons. whoops.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

What "obvious reasons" would those be, Michaelangelo?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

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Well, being a huge Pixies AND Nirvana fan, I just HAD to put in my two cents worth. I don't think the two bands have much in common, really. The only song by the Pixies that really sounds anything like Nirvana is "Gigntic," and that's really only because of the soft/loud/soft dynamic. Both bands did have a knack for writing really catchy songs, though Nirvana was a bit more straightforward in their songwriting approach, while the Pixies were more quirky. Anyway, I like both bands a whole bunch and wouldn't take sides on either. Yes, I know I'm boring.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

i can totally hear nirvana doing gigantic. in fact, it would have been a perfect nirvana song! they should have done some pixies stuff unplugged. it would have worked really well.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link

Most boring thread ever. Why did I read this? I vote for Pavement.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago) link

I like Nirvana and I absolutely adore the Pixies, but I agree that this thread is unnecessary and pretty boring. I'm casting a second vote for Pavement.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 5 January 2004 06:20 (twenty years ago) link

why for do you then add to the boringness¿

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

Obviously everyone's going to choose the Pixies, because it's a million times cooler to pick the one that hasn't gone diamond or been on the cover of Rolling Stone 8 or 9 times.

Actually, I just realized the ultra-cool answer to this is "neither."

― billstevejim, Monday, 5 January 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago) link

neither = pavement

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago) link

What a bunch of whining crybabies, if you don't like the thread don't read it! I think you can gather from the title what the thread is going to consist of. Then again I guess you are too cool to figure it out.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

I'm casting a second vote for
Pavement.

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

The Pixies wrote catchy songs. Unfortunately, there isn't one Pixies album that doesn't float off somewhere after about 2/3 of the way through. Actually, the songs didn’t even tighten up until they were about through with Doolittle. I’ve got a Pixies mix somewhere that beats any of their records on any terms that you’d use to judge an album. In Utero on the other hand is basically flawless. But yeah, Pavement.

― danh, Monday, 5 January 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

''Am I the only one here who thinks that the chorus of U-Mass sounds similar to Teen Spirit's? I'm sure it's just a coincidence though since their albums were released within a month of one another. But still!''

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

im picking the pixes cause i guzzled beers with them once in a friends basement.

― kephm, Monday, 5 January 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

You can call Pavement directionless (sort of) and without testicles - two qualities I like quite well thank you - but what do you mean by tuneless? I mean they have some great melodies 'off-kilter' as they may be. And by the time of CrookedRainx2 they had a genuine loping swing thing to 'em or something I forgot the word I was going to use. But anyway if anything is tuneless its a good chunk of Bleach, and most of Incesticide after the first 2 and discounting that other good one about brains.

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

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 (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

I have tried, I really have, but I cannot like the Pixies. They say nothing to me, and they come across as smugly geeky rather than endearingly geeky.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago) link

Nothing fades in the rear-view mirror quite like Pavement.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago) link

I love the Pixies. Few bands bring a smile to my face like the Pixies.

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

pixies much better than nirvana. neither exactly set my world on fire, though.

― s n d, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 10:34 (twenty years ago) link

Pixies.

Is anyone trying to keep count?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link

but what do you mean by tuneless?

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

Pixies. Yeah Nirvana was my doorway into hard rock but goddamn I'd much rather listen to goth/sci-fi bubblegum these days.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

if for no other reason than Manta Ray is stuck in my head.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

I'd much rather listen to goth/sci-fi bubblegum these days.

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

I'm not saying their goth in the bauhaus sense, Alex. But Doolittle could easily be described as "goth bubblegum."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

Based on sound, if not sight, natch.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know about that, Anthony. I think there's something inherently goth in being portly. Which FB is/was, even when he was BF.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

lots of dry ice in the "Monkey's Gone To Heaven" video too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

and most of their album covers have a certain goth-aesthetic as well.
and most goths I know over 27 claim the pixies as their own.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

Nirvanites might be confused since the Replacements were better than the Pixies, and Nirvana ripped off the Replacements. But the Pixies were still better than Nirvana.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

of course they're wrong, in many, many ways.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

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― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

I'd definitely call them sci-fi bubblegum from Bossanova on though.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

and most of their album covers have a certain goth-aesthetic as well.

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

I think they have a certain affinity with Goth. And CCR often referred to themselves as Swamp-Goth-Boogie.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

Nephilim = obscure Biblical reference.

Pixies songs = fill of obscure Biblical references.

QED!!!!!!!!!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

The Man-Ray and Eraserhead references were kinda Goth...

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

Pixies by a million miles.

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

"Nirvana= one third Pixies, one third Replacements, one third Husker Du.

-- 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

Nirvana= 2/3 poster boy+ 1/3 his death

― Flotsam of the Fishfolk (Flotsam of the Fishfolk), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link

When i first heard Teen Spirit the Pixies influence was unmistakeable

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

I had never heard the Pixies when I first heard Nirvana, but that tight-beat and bassline with echoing slight guitar riff over it is way more "Gouge Away" than "What Is and What Should Never Be."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

That said the crown for most wonderful Pixies rip-off remains wholly on the head of Spoon's Telephono.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

.. Which almost surpasses any Pixies record..

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

Whoever upthread that said Nirvana were 1/3 the Pixies, 1/3 Husker Du, and 1/3 Replacements is pretty close to getting right nirvana's influnces, I think. They were really a synthesis of all the college rock and post-punk of the 80's, with some mainstream pop/rock sensibilities thrown in. The latter combined with the former is probably what made them huge.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

I can't believe Mr In NYC has managed to contribute to a thread discussing Nirvana's influences without feeling constrained to mention Killing Joke! (Is this a New Year's resolution or something Alex?)

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

i saw killing joke supporting the pixies, if that helps mr in NYC.
about the pixies' influence on nevermind, i always thought the monkey picture on the back cover of nevermind was a tribute to bossanova (the pixies album, obv)

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 8 January 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

Well, I think everyone's tired of that particular debate, and since all living parties concerned have patched things up....what's the point in drumming it all up again?

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

No contest. Pixies by a mile. Can't stand Nirvbloodyvana.

― R t V (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 15 January 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

I was in a bit of a pissy mood when this one came around last time and cast a tongue in cheek vote for Pavement. Not surprisingly took a bit of shit for it. Anyway, in the spirit of reconcilliation my real answer is the Pixies.

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

Don't take it personally, J-rock. It's just that I'm hard pressed to think of a more overrated/undertalented band than Pavement. I didn't say you couldn't listen to them, though. To each their own.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

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