RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

Every time a band gets compared to The Pixies, God
kills a kitten.


--- Steven Keith <skeith AT capstrat.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On
> Behalf Of bendy
> 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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