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Cryptozoologist
Age: 33
Location: New York 
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 01:43
- Post subject: Can somebody explain to me the appeal of the Pixies?
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I mean, seriously. They sound like a band at a high school talent show. Robert Smith can't sing or write. Is it just a case of the Emperor's New Clothes?
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 01:53
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um Robert Smith?
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40footwolf
Gender: Male
Age: 34
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 02:18
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So are you talking about the Pixies or the Cure?
Either way you're wrong but knowing which band you're actually referring to will help me to form an argument.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Paris, France 
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 09:27
- Post subject: Re: Can somebody explain to me the appeal of the Pixies?
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| Cryptozoologist wrote: | | I mean, seriously. They sound like a band at a high school talent show. Robert Smith can't sing or write. Is it just a case of the Emperor's New Clothes? |
haha. With Smith fronting them, I can understand the lack of appeal. As far as the Pixies, fronted by Frank Black, are concerned, if you don't like rock, you will most certainly not like them.
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 16:48
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Wrong lead singer, but if you are talking about the Pixies, I didn't like them much at first, and I think I had to listen to Doolittle 6-7 times before I understood it.
Listen to 'Monkey's Gone To Heaven', "Gigantic' & 'Where Is My Mind?'
If you don't like those, then you just don't like that genre of rock.
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Cryptozoologist
Age: 33
Location: New York
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 17:36
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Oh wait, I meant Frank Black. That's embarrassing.
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mooseboy101
Gender: Male
Location: Geneva 
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 17:40
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I like them because there fun little songs to listen to every once in a while just to put me in a good mood.
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 17:43
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Frank Black has admitted he can't write and spouts out bullshit that sounds cool together with ideas that ma or may not be cohesive. As far as the music, it's not about skill here: it's simply great guitar-pop. It's catchy music that both punks and pop listeners alike can listen to and usually like. The reason people praise albums their albums, like Doolittle, so much is because they're practically albums that could have most of their songs released as singles
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The Seer
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Location: Paris
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 20:05
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you simply don't like Rock then ... you have the right to. The Pixies are a sacred cow actually in rock. no one can insult the Pixies without losing all credibility !
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Mr.Music
Location: Estonia 
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- Posted: 03/05/2011 20:34
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the Pixies and Sonic Youth, probably the two most IMPORTANT alternative rock bands from the 80s. For some they may not be the most easy listening but calling them a high school band? hehehe?
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