the sound of music

[rone]

The Pixies have definitely been a strange musical experience for me. As a Bob Mould fan, i've heard that i should like the Pixies a fair amount. I eventually decided to give them a shot, picked up Trompe Le Monde, and was bored. Then, at a Toadies show, they closed with "Where Is My Mind?" And that was cool. Then, i picked up David Bowie's Heathen and that had "Cactus" on it. Both were on Surfer Rosa, which Blue Man Group thought was an especially influential album in rock. So i picked it up and it was... not boring. But somehow alien. After that sank into my brain, i picked up Doolittle and, again, that alien feeling. It's like you've heard it before, but it's not quite right, and it takes a couple of listens for your brain to adjust. And now i listen to the Pixies and i hear Sugar, i hear Toadies, i even hear a little Nirvana. And i think it's making sense now.

Comments

Indeed

[dwenius.livejournal.com]

As I recall from an old interview, Cobain was a *huge* Pixies fan.

Personally, I will never tire of the slow, swirling UK Surf mix of "Wave of Mutilation." This may be because I saw it used to great effect as the main theme to a production of _Macbeth_, but that hardly counts against it.

[reddragdiva]

Heh. I remember the first time I overheard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on commercial radio. "Nice to hear the Pixies getting mainstream airplay," I thought to myself.

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

I was never a Nirvana fan, but just when they were peaking, a local acquaintance bounced all over me and insisted I should see them play Les Foufounes, which is the sort of venue that usually hosts punk bands and the like. I didn't know their music but he seemed certain this was going to be one of those musical moments. So I went, and the place was packed, ultra smoky, and I watched for a bit and thought "They've ripped most of this sound off from the Pixies" and bailed early because my eyes were hurting from the smoke.

Goosebump material

[pdcawley.livejournal.com]

For the life of me I don't know why I like the Pixies. I like folk music dammit. Still, I was at a friend's house a few months back and she and Gill were out doing shopping type things so I was flipping through the CD rack and pulled out Doolittle, which I can't have listened to for rather more than 10 years, and stuck it on.

Wow! I can't say I ever expected that Debaser would be the type of music that had the hairs on the back of my neck standing up like they do when I'm really inside the song I'm singing and putting it over well. Damn, but the Pixies were good.

Hmmmm, does this mean

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

that you wouldn't be persuaded to pay attention to The Wedding Present by people like me who heard them and thought of the Pixies? Because I certainly don't hear Sugar and Nirvana in them.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hmm, a small endeavor in peer-to-peer filesharing reveals that they are certainly Pixiesish in places.