ArtPunk/Metal? ok
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Album:Wave Of Mutilation: Best Of Pixies
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Always good to drag out the Pixies - the genre itunes assigns to these ground breakers? ArtPunk/Metal! gotta love it...
In case ya didn't know:
Pixies are an American alternative rock band that formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986. The band disbanded in 1993 under acrimonious circumstances but reunited in 2004. Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering have been the band's continual members. The Pixies found only modest success in their home country, but were significantly more successful in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, although never achieving mainstream success with their studio albums.
The Pixies' style of alternative rock music is heavily influenced by punk and surf rock, and while highly melodic, is capable of being tremendously abrasive at the same time. Francis is the band's primary songwriter and singer and has a distinctly desperate, yowling delivery. He has typically written cryptic songs about offbeat subjects, such as UFOs and surrealism. References to mental instability, violent Biblical imagery, physical injury, and incest feature in many of the band's songs.
The group is seen as an immediate forebearer of the alternative rock boom of the 1990s, though they disbanded before reaping any of the benefits this might have brought them. Avowed fan Kurt Cobain's acknowledgement of the debt Nirvana owed to the Pixies, along with similar tributes by other alternative bands, ensured that the Pixies' legacy and influence grew substantially in the years following their demise.
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Comments (7)
The Pixies very first release is a must-have in any serious collection of rocknroll.
Have not heard them in a while. History certainly has been kind to them. I feel more open to this now. I'd better "Come On Pilgrim" and get that first one, DMDM.
What is that thing on the cover? Looks like a transformer larva.
Pixies rock. Definitely a band that never got it's dues.
'Doolittle' in full plus related B-sides at Brixton Academy in October is going to eat my debit card if I'm not careful.
The Pixies Rule!!!!