Nirvana vs the Pixies

[upsidedownwalrus]

innit.

typical pixies lyric i just made up

"oh muchachos, oh muchachos,
Fuck me and kill me in the desert, senorita
let the sun bleach white my bones
Oh muchachos, oh muchachos

AYEEEE!!"

typical Nirvana lyric I just made up

"i like smack and guns
please buy my records
so i can buy some more
unless you're, like, a jock
in which case don't."

Hmm. I think you got the pixies one quite close, but nirvana's lyrics were nothing lie that. They were a lot more oblique.

 

[Dubversion]

Hmm. I think you got the pixies one quite close, but nirvana's lyrics were nothing lie that. They were a lot more oblique.

I know i was being sarcastic

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yep.

I can't vote. My heart's with Nirvana but I think I like the Pixies more.
Nirvana were my favourite band as a young teenager.

I seem to remember your road-to-damascus conversion. One year, family visit to the tastebuds, your wall was covered with take that and east 17 posters, the next, all gone, and you had every nirvana album on tape.

 

[Tank Girl]

Pixies in a heartbeat, without any need to consider.

same for me.

 

[girasol]

sorry, but, what's a 'jock'?

thanks

 

[Dubversion]

I seem to remember your road-to-damascus conversion. One year, family visit to the tastebuds, your wall was covered with take that and east 17 posters, the next, all gone, and you had every nirvana album on tape.

i love relatives, they always sell you out in the end

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

i love relatives, they always sell you out in the end

 

[LDR]

I seem to remember your road-to-damascus conversion. One year, family visit to the tastebuds, your wall was covered with take that and east 17 posters, the next, all gone, and you had every nirvana album on tape.

The shame.

 

[Iam]

sorry, but, what's a 'jock'?

thanks

 

[Dubversion]

that's the advantage of being old - nobody was AROUND

 

[Dubversion]

sorry, but, what's a 'jock'?

thanks

jock 2 Pronunciation (jk)
n.
1. An athletic supporter.
2. Sports An athlete, especially in college.
3. Slang One characterized by excessive concern for machismo.

stereotypically into sports and tits and bad FM rock, i guess

 

[milesy]

sorry, but, what's a 'jock'?

i just googled "jocks" to find a suitable picture but got lots of gay porn come up on my screen, not really the result i wanted.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

J77 (and indeed anyone else) you can download the track direc from here. Just scroll down to "Del and dinosaur Jr - missing link"

 

[The_Reverend_M]

Husker Du and Peter Paul & Mary.

Exactly what I was thinking

 

[Tank Girl]

i just googled "jocks" to find a suitable picture but got lots of gay porn come up on my screen, not really the result i wanted.

tee hee

 

[cybertect]

Whereas I remember exactly where I was the first time i heard the Pixies (in screenprint workshop in Bournemouth on a Wednesday afternoon and it was the Come On Pilgrim EP).

The Scene: my mate's white Mk2 Escort van loaded to the roof with guitars and amps on the way to play a gig at Bosham in Sussex.

Cassette player: # "Your bone's got a little machine"

Me: "What the fuck was that?"

Pete: "The Pixies"

Awesome

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Whereas, it took me a while to 'get' the pixies, but nirvana for me was like a brick slammed in my face

 

[mtbskalover]

i fucking hate jocks

 

[girasol]

jock 2 Pronunciation (jk)
n.
1. An athletic supporter.
2. Sports An athlete, especially in college.
3. Slang One characterized by excessive concern for machismo.

stereotypically into sports and tits and bad FM rock, i guess

Cheers Dub

 

[rekil]

Where's the Jane's Addiction option? Ritual De Lo Habitual is a phenomenal record. Not even excessive widdling can ruin it. My favourite live band at that time was Therapy. No contest.

 

[milesy]

i fucking hate jocks

why's that then?

 

[jbob]

Still prefer Tad to Nirvana, but there you go. His stage diving antics were a sight to behold.

 

[Dubversion]

My favourite live band at that time was Therapy. No contest.

you were doing so well...

 

[Kaka Tim]

Pixies without any shadow of a doubt.

Both played fucking loud and powerful rock'n'roll.

But the Pixies were far more inventive and interesting in terms of music, themes and lyrics - and they managed to combine that 'out-there-ness' with (as mentioned above) an acute pop senisbility - a rare feat in any artform.

And the Pixies had a sense of humour.

Nirvana - some very good songs and should be thanked for killing off hair metal. They were extremely good at expressing the alienation and isolation of the misfit teenager. Unfortunately - even when articulated by someone as poetic and candid as Kurt Cobain - that seems to come accross like one long adolescent whine that 'nobody understands meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'

I much prefer Frank Black's explorations of wierd people having wierd sex in wierd places with a side dollop of muitaltion and aliens and general twistedness.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Where's the Jane's Addiction option? Ritual De Lo Habitual is a phenomenal record. Not even excessive widdling can ruin it. My favourite live band at that time was Therapy. No contest.

That's my upcoming poll": Jane's Addiction vs God Machine. Although I suspect Janes will win by a landslide. Just cos God Machine weren't so well known. But Ritual and Scenes were both fucking epic yet heavy records.

 

[rekil]

you were doing so well...

I mean the pre-metal therapy in tiny stageless venues with 50 nutters.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I think the metal therapy? were pretty cracking too. I saw them in the brixton academy in 1994 playing mostly the troublegum stuff, and they were cracking from start to end.

 

[Dubversion]

I mean the pre-metal therapy in tiny stageless venues with 50 nutters.

so do I

 

[milesy]

Pixies without any shadow of a doubt.

Both played fucking loud and powerful rock'n'roll.

But the Pixies were far more inventive and interesting in terms of music, themes and lyrics - and they managed to combine that 'out-there-ness' with (as mentioned above) an acute pop senisbility - a rare feat in any artform.

And the Pixies had a sense of humour.

Nirvana - some very good songs and should be thanked for killing off hair metal. They were extremely good at expressing the alienation and isolation of the misfit teenager. Unfortunately - even when articulated by someone as poetic and candid as Kurt Cobain - that seems to come accross like one long adolescent whine that 'nobody understands meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'

I much prefer Frank Black's explorations of wierd people having wierd sex in wierd places with a side dollop of muitaltion and aliens and general twistedness.

that's it to a tee. nirvana could easily be dismissed - rightly or wrongly - as complaint rock whereas pixies would more likely be described by the same imaginary preson in my head as weird. and i know which i prefer. pixies are multicolour and nirvana are grey and one-dimensional.

 

[Dubversion]

That's my upcoming poll": Jane's Addiction vs God Machine. Although I suspect Janes will win by a landslide. Just cos God Machine weren't so well known. But Ritual and Scenes were both fucking epic yet heavy records.

Both great, God machine greater