Originally posted by sonickteam3:What's the secret to really liking Radiohead?
RADIOHEAD!!!!!
come on people!
Who will be My Generations Pixies
What's the secret to really liking Radiohead?Listening to their music in the order in which it was released.
Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!
Originally posted by Markie doesn't like me :( :2 of these
What's the secret to really liking Radiohead?
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Originally posted by GabrielG54:ooh, I like that. I think i will try that, 6 albums back to back….interesting.
What's the secret to really liking Radiohead?Listening to their music in the order in which it was released.
Originally posted by tbmtt:
Originally posted by brennser:you have a point!
[QB] um, the smiths predated the pixies so how could they be a later generations pixies?
with the use of a retro-fitted DeLorean that runs on garbage and travels through time.
pavement
pavementwithout a doubt. when i was at DAR for the pixies in december, i was like, "yeah, pavement will so be playing here in about 5 years or so."
Originally posted by Venerable Bede:aha. I will agree with the Venerable one. Radiohead may be the best band, but, like the Pixies, Pavement never got the commercial success they deserve and will leave people trying to "understand" them for generations to come
pavement
good call.
yeah, pavement all the way
i never would have said pavement, but i think you are absolutely right. it was so simple…right in front of us the whole time. i hope stephen malkamus gets fat too.
i also hope i get a delorean for x-mas.
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:isn't rage more of a band for suburban white kids to listen to to feel as if they are politically/socially active more than a band that's actually terribly influential? doesn't rage get boring after a while after the songs don't really sound that terribly different from eachother, at least structurally.
back to orginial question… The Smashing Pumpkins or Rage are probably the only ones who would cause a real stir in 15 years, not for me though :) Soundgarden maybe, i.e. Motley Crew, but I don't see their influence carrying forward. Wilco like R.E.M. will probably keep recording touring repeat. Now if Jellyfish, the Greys or Primal Scream ever toured again
step 1: come up with some riff to repeat for most of the song
step 2: have zach make up some political lyrics, with mostly repeated lines
step 3: come up with a weird sounding non-standard guitar solo that doesn't sound like one we've used before.
i suppose steps 2 and 3 could be interchanged.
don't get me wrong, i'd probably rather listen to rage than most of the stuff that's new right now, but i've never been impressed with them.
thats why thier self-titled first album was a tremendous success and one of my favourite records ever, but they were less successful with everytime they released the same record over and over again.
its only cool to bitch about the same thing over one album, not 3 or 4.
its only cool to bitch about the same thing over one album, not 3 or 4.
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:i kind of think coldplay are just fluff and are really just turning into music for yuppies… if they ever even weren't before.
Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:coldplay = beach boys
I don't know how someone could hear debaser and not get at least a little excited.
Oh and you can have coldplay as the new pixies.
and this years tour is called 'let's price gouge the yuppies by charging more than twice what we charged last tour for tickets!' (oh and also let's come up with an "exclusive" ticketing package to charge extra money to get stuff that's actually rather worthless)
i'm sorry, i always liked coldplay before (at least seeing them live), but everything surrounding this upcoming tour/album is just bullshit.
coldplay is just pop fluff. i'm glad i've stopped hearing coldplay/radiohead comparisons.
all popular bands do it that way nowadays… Maroon 5 is particularly guilty of milking money outta the uppie masses
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:well i guess i'm sort of of the opinion that maroon 5 were just crap, musically or otherwise.
all popular bands do it that way nowadays… Maroon 5 is particularly guilty of milking money outta the uppie masses
every time i've heard them i've just though "people can't possibly take this stuff seriously, can they?"
but yeah i suppose it seems a lot of bands are all about milking money from their fanbase these days. and i understand that their jobs are being entertainers, but it just gets to a point where it gets ridiculous. and another good example i can think of of a band that's trying to milk their (limited) fanbase for every cent they can with utter crap is einsturzende neubauten.
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:I think only Pumpkins would cause a Pixies' like stir. I'm not a Pumpkins fan, but they are rabidly loved and seem to have increasing influence over time.
back to orginial question… The Smashing Pumpkins or Rage are probably the only ones who would cause a real stir in 15 years, not for me though :)
Now if Jellyfish, the Greys or Primal Scream ever toured again
And Kosmo, I am SO with you on JELLYFISH!!! But we'd likely be in a minority (a wise and enviable minority, certainly).
Originally posted by bunnyman:Man, I haven't been "Pixie-ified", but I love this description of how music can affect then change you. Happened to me (in a different way, of course) with The Smiths "Hatful of Hollow." I just couldn't believe that I could become so enmeshed, involved and inspired by an album. That was about 900 albums ago…
I recorded their 1989 show at the Metro in Chicago off of WXRT. At first I thought "wow, there are a few songs here that really blow me away." Then after a week I thought, "Damn…there's hardly a bad song here." A month later I felt like I had gone from a world of black and white to technicolor. I was one of those geeks in high school and it was my freshman year, and it was like I couldn't listen to music the same way again. Even though I had discovered the Ramones and Minor Threat by this point, the Pixies made my appetite for music absolutely voracious.
I agree with the Pavement guess but I think to really answer this question we should ask the editors at Spin/promoters of Coachella. As in "who are you going to suddenly â??rediscoverâ?? and reunite for your show?" I think it is hilarious that three years ago Spin didnâ??t see fit to include the Pixies in their list of the 50 most important or influential bands, but when they became a corporate sponsor of Coachella suddenly all anyone who writes for them can do is nothing but name check Frank Black and compare every new band to the Pixies. And yes I did take that 50 greatest list way too personally.