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ocean_dusk19
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 Posted - 06/04/2007 : 21:48:51
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heya, i just registered here, am doing a popular culture assignment at uni, am doin some research on the pixies, hadnt heard of them before, i was not very old when they were together and live in sydney australia :s
am looking at their albums etc i had a question, are the pixies considered to have sort of invented 'alternative'? let me know what yous think, wil write back later, thanks
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Carl
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 02:16:22
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| Hi, no, they didn't invent 'alternative'. They were at the the forefront of the whole 'indie' scene of the late 80's/early 90's. |
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ocean_dusk19
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Australia
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 03:49:24
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| who invented 'alternative' then? :s |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 04:24:47
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start with wikipedia.
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R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü set the blueprint for much of alternative rock of the 1980s, both sonically and in how they approached their careers
i don't think you could ever say one band invented it, but a few key ones shaped it.
"I'm an editor of a major publication" - coastline |
Edited by - PixieSteve on 06/05/2007 04:27:29 |
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ocean_dusk19
- FB Fan -
Australia
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 04:38:00
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| hmmm ok then thanks. Hey I was goin through their albums on amazon, I've heard that track before 'levitate me' when i was younger, I remember it bein semi-popular. How come it isnt on either of their best of compilations, the death to the pixies cd and 07 wave of mutilation cd? |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 06:17:06
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how old are you?
i don't think it was a popular song, i.e. it wasn't a single, and from their first release. they got bigger later.
i remember thinking i'd heard caribou when i was younger. but the chances were slim. no one i knew had come on pilgrim.
"I'm on PixieSteve's side here" - coastline |
Edited by - PixieSteve on 06/05/2007 06:17:54 |
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pixie punk
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 06:25:35
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"As Black Francis, Boston-bred Black was one of the architects of modern rock as front man of the Pixies, whose "loud-quiet-loud" dynamics, primal scream intensity and free-ranging compositional style exerted a huge influence on alternative music".
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pixie punk
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 06:34:26
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"nearly every post-1987 group has been influenced by the Pixies in one way or another".
PUERTO RICO PIXIE |
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pixie punk
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 06:40:11
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In a January 1994 Rolling Stone interview, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain revealed that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was an attempt to write a song in the style of the Pixies, a band he greatly admired. He explained:
“ I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band — or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.
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ocean_dusk19
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Australia
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 09:00:25
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Thanks for the info
Thats weird, I could have sworn I heard that song on radio a fair few times when I was younger and I remember some people I knew like the song :s This would have been a radio station called 'triple j' though, which is government owned and they play heaps of songs that are never released as singles
Its a cool track, I dont know why its not on either of the best of compilations
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