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.

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[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.