RTP-area local music and culture

["Steven Keith" <skeith AT capstrat.com>]

How many bands have your heard claim they're "sort of like the Pixies?"
Not that they derive inspiration from them but they describe their sound
as such. In the last 10 years alone, I have heard it enough times to
learn how to make fun of it...better.
 
Why the hell is that? And it is so rarely any other band; always the
frickin Pixies. God damn it! And funny thing is, clear as water they
always sound 10 times more like something else they have no idea exists.


Last example: The Aisler Set. Claimed their sound was sort of like the
Pixies and a pinch of the Slits. Huh?!? Not the shags? Huh?!? Pixies?
Really? Huh?!?
  
Curious whether anyone else has experienced this beef-witted phenomenon.


Steven

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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:13 AM
To: RTP-area local music and culture
Subject: Re: this happens from time to time, but

Ha ha, I trump you all: the only time I saw them was just before Pilgrim

came out. I had no idea who they were. The Boston crowd was wild for 
them, but the set seemed a little long for an opening act. I thought 
they kept using the same fast-snare-march beat. Kim Deal was some new 
kind of rock chick hot, though. They actually got called for an encore, 
and I recognized the Eraserhead song, and thought to myself, *these guys

might be on to something*.

I like Surfer the best, specifically, the song Broken Face. Bossanova 
really broke the spell for me, though I thought the song Silver was very

Fleetwood Macish. Even more than Here Comes Your Man.

Hmm. Pixies could do a killer version of "Not That Funny"

Dig For Fire is a horrible, horrible song. I can tell that it doesn't 
mean anything. But Is She Weird is great. Trompe Le Monde works for me, 
from start to finish, almost as much as Surfer. But it wouldn't work if 
the other albums didn't exist. But then, neither would The Lyre of 
Orpheus or Check Your Head.

Since I wasn't here at the time: was Metal Flake Mother as good live as 
their album? The very finest Pixies-ish band short of the Pixies, I
think.

Bendy

Chris Calloway wrote:
> --- Brendan Love <brendan.love AT mac.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have always thought that the Pixies completely
>>suck.
> 
> 
> having seen them in the day (surfa rosa), not only do
> i love them, but the maligned trompe le monde is my
> fave.
> 
> i like bossanova a lot, too. either will get me to
> turn up the volume. so shoot me.
> 
> doolittle i find embarrassingly wretched, however.
> 
> i think tim ross should rule on the matter and i will
> accept the verdict.
> 
> 3
> 
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