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Not sure why we're talking about The Pixies here all of a sudden, but I just wanted to admit that I've never understood all the hooplah over The Pixies--or Frank Black's solo career. As far as I'm concerned, they were just another one of those '80s/early '90s 'alternative' bands whose best tracks were the handful of commercial tracks--i.e., the singles--that could (supposedly) compete with or outshine the hits of the most respectable bestselling bands (The Cure, U2, INXS, The Smiths, REM, etc.). Take their 'classic' Doolittle album for example: 'Monkey Gone to Heaven', 'Here Comes Your Man' and maybe 'Wave of Mutilation' carry the entire record--the rest of the tracks you probably listened to once or twice and haven't returned to since. It's the same thing with Black's second solo record: it's just 'Headache' and 'Abstract Plain'--the two singles--and the rest is just immemorable third-rate filler.
Come to think of it, The Breeders were probably the best thing to ever come out of The Pixies...
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