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zot_rrr
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 Posted - 02/19/2003 : 08:55:00
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I had heard of them as a band, but never heard their music. A friend of mine occassionally would mention to me that he thought I would like them, but I never really paid much attention. Anyway one day he brought up the Pixies again, saying how good the were, how wierd and unique, and I thought "hmmm..." sounds interesting, but as per usual didn't really pay much attention. Then the next day another friend out of the blue said how he had rediscovered the Pixies and had forgotten how amazing they were. "Hmmm..." i thought, now becoming a little intrigued. About two days later a girl I was chatting to mentioned that the Pixies were her favourite band, and started showering them with the kind of praise one only hears from the truely devoted. At this point I realised that a higher power was trying to tell me something and immediately set about getting hold of Surfer Rosa and Doolittle. I was blown away... Debaser was the first pixies song I heard and within a few bars I was loving it, but when it got to the line "wanna grow..... up to be..... be a DEBASER!!!" I knew I was onto somthing special.
I have been obssessed with them ever since. Rarely a day goes by without me listening to the Pixies.
my manta ray's alright... |
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paintmeister
= Cult of Ray =
USA
347 Posts |
Posted - 02/28/2003 : 22:27:22
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| I'm a late comer. My son has inherited my interest in music and he mentioned that he was curious about the Pixies because he heard someone say "Nirvana got their sound from the Pixies". At least, something to that effect. I was at a flea market searching through $1 CD's and found Doolittle unopened. I bought it for my son. He liked it so much he kept buying more of their stuff. I was reaping the benefits and listened to it as well. We are now both big fans. |
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DivisionPelagic
- FB Fan -
USA
48 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2003 : 22:51:58
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Pixies and me, well, I think it was when I was 16, in 1996, but I am unsure. Then again, I am really drunk kright now, so, whatever. Anyways, my friend was like, "Here, try this," handing me a joint. So I tried it, and then we listened to Doolittle. Man, I about creamed my pants. Before this, the most music I had heard and loved was White Snake and Nofx. So needless to say, I was hoooked. I love Frank Black's stuff. But yeah, I was in a Geo Metro and I heard Doolittle on tape and I loved it, oh yeah fuck the war.
I've heard a lot of noise, so I'm going to the stereo store, to get a white noise maker and turn it up to ten. |
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Marbonn
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Posted - 03/30/2003 : 08:26:34
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| 1989 going to school in Nashville, TN and was listening to the local college radio station out of Vanderbilt. La La Love you came on the radio while I was driving and I can remember pulling over and turning up the radio. I went out immediately and bought Doolittle. |
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Doog
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1220 Posts |
Posted - 03/30/2003 : 08:51:04
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| On the strength of La La Love You?? |
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Marbonn
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Posted - 03/30/2003 : 10:54:06
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| Absolutely, it caught my attention and got me to seek out more of their work. |
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interloper
= Cult of Ray =
440 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2003 : 06:12:00
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| I think I was a freshman in high school. Pretty much the only stuff I could tolerate was Slayer and Bad Brains. My best friends older brother was friends with Kim because we all went to the same high school. I couldn't stand them for a long time until Trompe le Monde. and then...bang, they were gone. Ive been pretty obsessive since then. Frank is the still way too underrated as a writer. |
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parker_airspace
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
63 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2003 : 11:29:09
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well, unfortunatley the pixies & fb have never had a lot of press (if at all) in the uk, so as a dedicated Nirvana fan at the age of 17 I was reading an interview with (i think) dave grohl who mentioned frank black, the pixies, and the breeders as bands worth checking out.
The breeders album was pretty cool (last splash), and we also managed to get hold of doolittle.......i remember sitting with my bandmates thinking.....shit, how we're trying to write and sound has been done to the nth degree, wow.....f**kin amazing, as we the other albums when we got hold of them, exiting times.
more importantly, i remember my brother (who lived with me & my mates) returning home from shopping one day with teenager of the year.........as recent pixies fans we were a little sceptical, as we'd only just found that they'd seperated.....so we sat down and listened..........it played through without anyone talking, and i remember my mate looking at me saying "fuck.....that was good"
it's one of those spine-chilling moments you remember all your life for its like discovering something sacred and treasured for the first time. Never been disappointed. Seeing him live too for the first time was amazing, just a couple of hundred people in the room (inc Jarvis Cocker from Pulp) wow......COME BACK TO THE UK FRANK .......purrrrrrlease!
- was smashed head on by a giant truck :( - Chris |
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wasteofo2
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Posted - 03/31/2003 : 19:29:35
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| about a year or so ago i was on some nirvana fansite and it said that laong with black sabbath and black flag the pixies were nirvanas greatest influence, so i downloaded some songs, and though i liked them very much i just couldn't see the relationship between them and nirvana. then i downloaded more and more songs and yeah |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2003 : 13:35:52
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i was listenin to a john lennon tribute album,only about one or two years ago(so i was about 15) and was a little bored by ash's 'just give me some truth' so i skipped back to the breeders'happiness is a warm gun' cos i saw a thing on them in nme and i liked that song anyway. i was completely blown away, by the two girls singin(i didnt know kim and tanyas names) and the brilliant drumming. and it was creepified! i saw it was from an album called 'pod' and made a pact to myself i would get it. then about two weeks later i was discussing fave bands with someone(i wont say what terrible bands i mentioned) and she sed she loved 'nirvana and the pixies.have you heard of the pixies?' 'no' i sed. i saw doolittle cheap in a record shop one day and got it. i didnt think it was as great as nivana who i was gettin into so much, it was ok. i only understood the uptempo songs, wave, gouge, debaser. anyways, i was in dublin, searchin for pod and title tk, and took a chance on trompe de monde.i only realised then kim deal was in both bands! a week later those three records along with another new one (becks odelay)were in my discman all the time. in time i realised doolittle was better than trompe(sorry) and got surfer/pilgrim, which was even better! i got all the breeders and pixies stuff i could get, and got into kim endorsed stuff-throwin muses and GBV-and became a full on music head. so those two bands saved me from jimmy eat world and greenday.
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leokearse
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United Kingdom
203 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2003 : 04:36:05
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Used to listen to them up the park on my mate's dodgy battery powered ghetto blasta when we played football. I was into Vanilla Ice and the Fine Young Cannibals at the time (I still think FYC are alright). The tunes just kind of stuck in my head, I asked my mates who it was, then got into Sonic Youth and Nirvana, then I got run over, then went to America on holiday.
What was the question again? Oh yeah, I got Trompe le Monde and Surfer Rosa in a record store, but nearly didn't coz in America they add tax on at the end, so I didn't have enough money to buy the albums, but I think they felt sorry for me coz I was on crutches and was wearing a Vanilla Ice T-shirt, so I got them, and haven't looked back since (well except for when FB released the execrable "Cult of Ray").
On the same holiday I went to see Dave Lee Roth in concert. He put on a pretty good show. Coz I was on crutches, a roadie took me down to the front of the stage, where he'd collected an assortment of beeyootiful laydeez for Dave to shag. I was standing there sweating, hoping they didn't think expect me to suck Dave off. "I'm just here because I'm temporarily disabled!!!" my tortured face said to them.
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mundus_novus
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Posted - 04/17/2003 : 11:30:26
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| kind of an embarrassing thing to say, but i got into the pixies when i heard weezer's cover (i'm a huge weezer fan) of velouria for the tribute album. i was intrigued enough to download a bunch of tracks and beg to get the CDs for christmas because i was broke. i did get Death to the Pixies and Surfer Rosa, Come on Pilgrim came later. I'm still broke, but Bossanova and Doolittle will also follow, and Trompe Le Monde if i can find it anywhere. |
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Spartacus
- FB Fan -
Australia
84 Posts |
Posted - 04/17/2003 : 21:38:55
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I was a huge Nirvana fan...until my 12th grade Economics teacher lent me Death To The Pixies. All it took was one listen of Monkey and Gouge Away and that was it. I had all the albums within a year.
I also managed to sway my brother (Don Eduardo on this site). He used to bag me out heaps because Pixies and FB was all i played. Then one day he saw TOTY on the shelves and bought it. Now he's as big a fan as me.
I dont think Ive put Nirvana on once since. |
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mergzez7
- FB Fan -
France
166 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2003 : 06:30:06
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The first Pixies song I ever heard was Where is my mind? on a poxy teenage radio in 1997. Do you remember/have you ever heard of that british poprock band called Blur (Whoo-hoo and stuff)? Listening to an interview. The bass player asked for Where is my mind? to be broadcasted and so it was. So I bought Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim but I could only listen to Where is my mind? - my teenage ears were used to easy-listenning poprock so the rest sounded like noise to me. Until I was lent Doolittle two years later.
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blackpurse
= Cult of Ray =
USA
299 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2003 : 10:09:04
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It was a freak chance accident: I had noticed that I hadn't bought any new music in months, so I went to the local cool music store and was going to ask my favotite clerk, who knows my taste in music, to recommend something. He wasn't working, but I noticed the featured album on display was Doolittle, and I knew that my favorite clerk had a hand in picking the featured album. So I picked it up, (it was on sale to boot), sight unseen, sound unheard, not knowing a thing about the band or anything. I wasn't even sure if the name of the band was the Pixies, as far as Icould tell the name of the band could have been "Dolittle" and the album title was "The Pixies". Brought it home, listened to Side one, had to listen to it again before I turned it over. Wasn't sure about it, but something about it told me to listen again. It really grew on me. Raced to the store next paycheck and found my favorite clerk and demanded "WHO ARE THESE GUYS" and he said "I figured you'd run across them sooner or later, vron," and the rest, as they say is history. Soon afterwards I started dating a guy (who eventually became my husband) who had the back catalog, which saved me lots of $$$.
Fun fact: Doolittle was my last vinyl before I finally broke down and bought a CD player. |
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OttoJr
- FB Fan -
USA
5 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2003 : 10:39:20
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IAmUnChienAndalusia
- FB Fan -
Netherlands
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Posted - 04/25/2003 : 15:32:20
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When I first heard the Pixies in 1992, thirteen years old, I took the CD (Doolittle) right out of my CD player as fast as I could. I hated it, that stupid screaming, the simplicity of the song. I had the same reaction when I fist listened to Billy Corgan's (Smashing P.) and Robert Smith (Cure).
But some time later I tried it again, I heard 'Monkey Gone To Heaven', which gave me the strength to listen the complete album. After that I wanted to buy Doolittle (borrowed my brothers CD first). When my brother said they were already dead, I wanted to buy all the albums at once because I was afraid they wouldn't be available after some time. So I bought them all, infected some people at school with the Pixies virus, and bought most of the albums again, because I hated to have scratches om my CD.
I am very happy to see that even ten years after the split up, there are still Pixies releases. After 'The Cult Of Ray' I gave up listening to FB. But the Pixies (and Smashing Pumpkins) are the best bands in the world.
I'd wish they released everything they have. And I know there are many other ways to get the music, but I prefer to support the Pixies and Frank Black.
Bye IAmUnChienAndalusia |
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el dude
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
5 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2003 : 10:14:55
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| Like alot of people i was watching Fight Club (one of my favourite films ever) for the first time and when i heard Where Is My Mind? at the end of the film it sent shivers down my back. I think i rewinded the film about 4 times to listen to that song. After that bought Death To The Pixies and was blown away. Started buying all the other albums but it was when i bought Surfer Rosa my mind was completely blown... |
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Itchload
= Cult of Ray =
USA
891 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2003 : 10:31:56
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| I was about 15 and I read Come as You Are, the Nirvana story and remembered the Pixies and Sonic Youth kept coming up. So I got into Sonic Youth first, then when I had all their albums, I decided to give the Pixies a chance. For some reason I was skeptical because I thought they were from the '70s (wouldn't bother me now, but back then it did for some reason) I found Bossanova used and immediately fell in love (though Rock Music took a long time for me to like). I noted it was one of the only CDs I had at that point where I could sit in a chair and listen to the entire thing without doing anything else and not being bored. I had all their other albums within a week. This was before the internet, but I had a music program on my computer, and I looked up the Pixies and noticed "Black Francis" had gone on to a solo career as "Frank Black". I had an orgasm, raced to the record store and bought every Frank Black solo album they had (Cult of Ray had just come out). I loved it all. |
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
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Posted - 04/27/2003 : 15:59:27
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I was about 14 and read Come as You are, the nirvana story and remembered pixies kept coming up. And a teacher recomended them.
So I went to my dad and asked
Do you know the pixies? and he said: I've got a record of them.
I listened to it (trompe le monde) and it was great.
the rest is history.
sorry itchload but that's how it really happened
we've got a lot in common
''it's not a box, it's a submarine'' |
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Nimrods Son
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Brazil
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Posted - 04/27/2003 : 22:19:01
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I was about 14 and read the nirvana story on an internet site, and remembered pixies kept coming up. but i already had listened "here comes your man", then i donwloaded a lot of pixies songs...
ROCK MUSIC IS GREAT!!! is one of my favourites songs!!!
break my body, hold my bones |
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NimrodsSon
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1938 Posts |
Posted - 04/28/2003 : 18:22:30
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| wow another nimrods son - not to be confused with me of course |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2003 : 03:08:54
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| Yeah, I kind of frown on taking the same name as someone else except with(out) a space or vice versa. Not that anyone cares what I frown at or smile at, but it should be avoided. |
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NimrodsSon
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1938 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2003 : 14:54:06
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| hell I don't care as long as no one thinks he's me |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2003 : 15:25:21
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| Which one are you again? :) |
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Nimrods Son
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Brazil
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Posted - 04/29/2003 : 19:03:10
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nimrodsSon
i'll change my nick...
it was an accident!!! hehe, i hate that shit....
break my body, hold my bones |
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wombat
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Australia
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Posted - 05/20/2003 : 08:06:23
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I had heard bits and pieces about the Pixies from friends who had more eclectic music taste than I did so I was always curious to hear more of them. Some friends were actually really negative but that just made me more curious. Anyway when I first got the access to the WEB in about '94 I ordered a bunch of CDs, one of which was Bossanova. I was pretty excited when it finally arrived. I popped it in the player, turned it up nice and loud, and after about the first 10 seconds of track 1, was completely hooked.
.......I will be blue... |
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Doog
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1220 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2003 : 13:25:54
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no-one beats me :) http://www.Nimrods-Son.co.uk
I was at a party just after DTTP came out, and the "party master" had put it on repeat for about 3 hours... found Tame on a compilation cd a few months later and got into it.. bought Doolittle. The rest, they say, is geography. The "party master"'s kid sis became the 'Kim Deal' figure in Nimrod's Son. Exceeeellent. |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2003 : 14:14:02
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doog, i like your bassist's yellow..bass! what is it???
say anything mean about joey, and i'll punch you. hard. on the shoulder. |
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greg
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Canada
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Posted - 05/24/2003 : 15:31:09
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High School for me, Doolittle had just come out. My best friend was very much hooked on Surfer Rosa
I remember him talking about them all the time. We would be bombing around all over town in his 82 honda civic with Surfer Rosa in the cassette deck. The first five times I heard them I hated it! This is quite a common reaction to a first exsposure to the pixies in my experience. I think for me it was the start of a process that weaned me off of commercial music. I think I have owned at least six copies of Surfer Rosa by now. I have never had the chance to see the band play live but I have seen Frank and the Catholics three times now. Twice I have had a chance too chat with Frank, a kind man, a wise man.. I am most proud of my copy of Surfer Rosa with Franks autograph. I think I listen to a Pixies album at least six days a week. They are the best in my opinion. |
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Doog
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1220 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2003 : 04:11:49
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| It's a Tanglewood Rebel B-Girl, great low price, light and decent sounding bass. |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2003 : 08:55:36
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i'll look out for it. wish i could afford a bunch of new stuff, but right now i've got to get a new practice amp. ah well. its still pretty.
say anything mean about joey, and i'll punch you. hard. on the shoulder. |
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mkingicus
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USA
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Posted - 05/25/2003 : 12:59:01
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I, like most (sadly), had to get to them through Nirvana. I was in love w/Nirvana and me and my friend heard that Kurt and Dave loved them, so we bought Doolittle, Surfer, and Bossanova all in the same day, along with some Sonic Youth, T-Rex, Mudhoney, and the Melvins (we were growing tired of Nirvana, as I now cannot listen to it). That day changed my life more than I had ever hoped it would. Later I found out that Frank Black was still around, which was fucking mind blowing because I was so pissed that I hadn't been around for the Pixies. The first non-pixies I bought was DITS, which had just come out about a month or two before I purchased it. I was pissed to have missed the BLD and DW tour (the Higher Ground show in VT) because I had fucking school and it was on a tuesday or some shit. Anyways, thank god for taking that chance in the record store on that day.
"That which is best hidden, shall be most revealed." - Pete Labonne |
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Brianha
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Denmark
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Posted - 05/26/2003 : 09:22:02
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| I heard em in 1990, when a friend and I where playing guitar together. He got Bossanova for hes birthday. I liked it, but thought it was a bit weird...lol...(I like the others better even today, though its a great album) Then i went out and bought surfer rosa and i was hooked, and have been ever since... My biggest wish would be a live concert with Pixies...I was pretty pissed that they had broken up...lol... Surfer Rosa is my faverit album still today... |
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jOb
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Ireland
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Posted - 05/28/2003 : 17:06:46
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| Well I'm only 18 (is that a good excuse?) so I came across the pixies about six years ago looking through my older brother's record collection where I found 'Death to the Pixies' which had just been released...upon my first listening, me being a 12 year old I thought that Black Francis sounded "kinda gay"! |
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