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Originally Posted by jetengine
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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This is horrible revisionist thinking. the pixies were fucking amazing and are still amazing and theuir first EP's and albums rock harder than anything "indie" these days. The breeders fucking suck shit compared to the pixies. DEBASER alone trumps anything the breeders ever put out.
this is what happens when a band is ripped off by EVERYONE to such an extent that the rip-offs garner more publcity and more airplay and people go back to hear the original and find it boring.
that's YOUR fault, not the pixies.