Who will be My Generations Pixies

[MFR]

i never would have said pavement, but i think you are absolutely right.  it was so simple...right in front of us the whole time.  i hope stephen malkamus gets fat too.

[MFR]

i also hope i get a delorean for x-mas.

[distance]

Originally posted by 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

isn't rage more of a band for suburban white kids to listen to to feel as if they are politically/socially active more than a band that's actually terribly influential?  doesn't rage get boring after a while after the songs don't really sound that terribly different from eachother, at least structurally.
 
 step 1: come up with some riff to repeat for most of the song
 step 2: have zach make up some political lyrics, with mostly repeated lines
 step 3: come up with a weird sounding non-standard guitar solo that doesn't sound like one we've used before.
 
 i suppose steps 2 and 3 could be interchanged.
 
 don't get me wrong, i'd probably rather listen to rage than most of the stuff that's new right now, but i've never been impressed with them.

[sonickteam2]

thats why thier self-titled first album was a tremendous success and one of my favourite records ever, but they were less successful with everytime they released the same record over and over again.  
 
   its only cool to bitch about the same thing over one album, not 3 or 4.

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Originally posted by 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 [/b]

i kind of think coldplay are just fluff and are really just turning into music for yuppies... if they ever even weren't before.
 
 and this years tour is called 'let's price gouge the yuppies by charging more than twice what we charged last tour for tickets!' (oh and also let's come up with an "exclusive" ticketing package to charge extra money to get stuff that's actually rather worthless)
 
 i'm sorry, i always liked coldplay before (at least seeing them live), but everything surrounding this upcoming tour/album is just bullshit.
 coldplay is just pop fluff.  i'm glad i've stopped hearing coldplay/radiohead comparisons.

[kosmo vinyl]

all popular bands do it that way nowadays... Maroon 5 is particularly guilty of milking money outta the uppie masses

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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  all popular bands do it that way nowadays... Maroon 5 is particularly guilty of milking money outta the uppie masses

well i guess i'm sort of of the opinion that maroon 5 were just crap, musically or otherwise.
 every time i've heard them i've just though "people can't possibly take this stuff seriously, can they?"
 
 but yeah i suppose it seems a lot of bands are all about milking money from their fanbase these days.  and i understand that their jobs are being entertainers, but it just gets to a point where it gets ridiculous.  and another good example i can think of of a band that's trying to milk their (limited) fanbase for every cent they can with utter crap is einsturzende neubauten.

[Bags]

Originally posted by 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    
 
 Now if Jellyfish, the Greys or Primal Scream ever toured again

I think only Pumpkins would cause a Pixies' like stir.  I'm not a Pumpkins fan, but they are rabidly loved and seem to have increasing influence over time.
 
 And Kosmo, I am SO with you on JELLYFISH!!!  But we'd likely be in a minority (a wise and enviable minority, certainly).

[Bags]

Originally posted by bunnyman:
  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.

Man, I haven't been "Pixie-ified", but I love this description of how music can affect then change you.  Happened to me (in a different way, of course) with The Smiths "Hatful of Hollow."  I just couldn't believe that I could become so enmeshed, involved and inspired by an album.  That was about 900 albums ago...

[twelsh737]

I agree with the Pavement guess but I think to really answer this question we should ask the editors at Spin/promoters of Coachella. As in "who are you going to suddenly â??rediscoverâ?? and reunite for your show?" I think it is hilarious that three years ago Spin didnâ??t see fit to include the Pixies in their list of the 50 most important or influential bands, but when they became a corporate sponsor of Coachella suddenly all anyone who writes for them can do is nothing but name check Frank Black and compare every new band to the Pixies. And yes I did take that 50 greatest list way too personally.