Who will be My Generations Pixies

[GabrielG54]

I was Born in 79. Although i do recognize the influence frank black and crew had on music as we know it today, for whatever reason i cant relate to all of this pixies reunion hype. Tried listening to the tunes, no dice. Nothing. Not a single goose bump.  Anyways, i thought id pose a question to this highly opinionated board.
 
 Who will be the next pixies in the sense of - they will reunite for a tour in 15 years and all hell will break loose.  They dont even necessarily have to be broken up right now.
 
 My Guesses:
 Smashing Pumpkins
 Wilco
 Soundgarden
 Rage
 Chumbawumba

[kosmo vinyl]

Well if orginial The Stone Roses ever toured all hell would break loose, but then we'd all be disappointed in what a crap live act they are. Actually an instrumental Stone Roses tour might be fun    It would a bit like the Sex Pistols doing it for the kiddies college fund tours.  Of course in their case it would be for more drugs...

[bearman🐻]

I was born in 1975...I say try harder. (Sorry, the Pixies changed the way I listen to music. Al the bands you listed really don't mean much to me except maybe the Pumpkins.) The Pixies are just one of those bands you get or you don't. THey're a phenomenon because they never achieved any real commercial success and they were kind of at the wrong place at the wrong time (then). But people discovered them probably more later on and as a result a lot of people missed out. I was lucky, they were my first show...that being said, few bands will ever get a second chance the way the Pixies did, and it is all about their music. Sure, they took the buck and ran with it, but why shouldn't they? Having met all of them at some point, they seem like good hard-working people and they haven't exactly had easy lives. I hope this time their story will end in a happy ending.

[bearman🐻]

Actually, the Stone Roses at WUST kicked ass Kosmo. It was when I saw them in Chicago later on that tour that they sucked  

[kosmo vinyl]

my comment is more with regards to ian's limited vocal abilities... and wasn't at least reni out by the time they did the later us dates?

[bearman🐻]

Reni left for the tour and Robbie Jay came in. Good drummer, just different. Ian's vocals were hit or miss. On the night I saw him, he did a decent job and the band was absolutely smoking. But I agree that Ian's vocals could be awful. I have a great bootleg from their first Japanese tour that shows that in fact they could be a great live band and Ian COULD sing  

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

those bands you listed are good, but do any of them really cause goose bumps?  I can't imagine.
 
 
 

Originally posted by GabrielG54:
  I was Born in 79. Although i do recognize the influence frank black and crew had on music as we know it today, for whatever reason i cant relate to all of this pixies reunion hype. Tried listening to the tunes, no dice. Nothing. Not a single goose bump.  Anyways, i thought id pose a question to this highly opinionated board.
 
 Who will be the next pixies in the sense of - they will reunite for a tour in 15 years and all hell will break loose.  They dont even necessarily have to be broken up right now.
 
 My Guesses:
 Smashing Pumpkins
 Wilco
 Soundgarden
 Rage
 Chumbawumba

[kosmo vinyl]

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

[brennser]

Sorry, the Pixies changed the way I listen to music

yeah, I will never forget the first time I listened to Doolittle on my walkman after getting a tape from someone at school - it was this visceral, in your face, oh my god this is amazing moment!

[bearman🐻]

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.

[markie]

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.

[MFR]

the smiths.  duh.

[GabrielG54]

I was born in 1975...I say try harder. (Sorry, the Pixies changed the way I listen to music. Al the bands you listed really don't mean much to me except maybe the Pumpkins.) The Pixies are just one of those bands you get or you don't. THey're a phenomenon because they never achieved any real commercial success and they were kind of at the wrong place at the wrong time (then). But people discovered them probably more later on and as a result a lot of people missed out. I was lucky, they were my first show...that being said, few bands will ever get a second chance the way the Pixies did, and it is all about their music. Sure, they took the buck and ran with it, but why shouldn't they? Having met all of them at some point, they seem like good hard-working people and they haven't exactly had easy lives. I hope this time their story will end in a happy ending.  

try harder i will. im so fickle sometimes, but i also know that some of my favorite albums are ones that i was lukewarm at most to after the 1st listen - aenema by by tool being chief among them.
 
 those bands dont necessarliy give me goosebumps, i was just going for what people would freak out over. and yer prolly right about wilco. maybe uncle tupelo then. now if the eagles ever got backt together... i mean, fuck!

[brennser]

um, the smiths predated the pixies so how could they be a later generations pixies?
 
 

Originally posted by itburns:
  the smiths.  duh.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
  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.

coldplay = beach boys