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The hits are mostly straightforward enough, but lots of the rest was really outside the box at the time (or at least it was to my teenage ears). 3-bar phrases in "Tame". Substantial rhythm/tempo changes during "Nimrod's Son". The reversed drumbeat on "Bone Machine"Pixies are pretty easy to "get" - just straight forward songs with some gimmicky spanish bits dressed up with some dynamics and occasional noisy guitar. I'm a fan but obviously dealing with 20 odd years of everyone thinking they invented music can grate.
Ah Bone Machine is such a good track.
The world is indeed a mysterious and wondrous place.Uncluttered bass and drums that complement the song rather than try and overwhelm it, cool guitar line thats discordent without showing off about how it just fucking discovered noise music and has to tell everyone, shouty lyrics about "talking to peachy peach about kissy kiss," yeah sounds great to me.
Just watching some of their glastonbury performance here, I see what you're getting at, the main difference seems to be the lack of a dodgy metal/grindcore section every band in Ireland could never resist descending into when they were given half a second to do what they want.I've tried listening to Idles to see what all the fuss is about. They are no better or no worse than half the bands I played with at punk gigs in Dublin and Cork since the 90s
Is it that the indie crowd, or possibly more accurately, the music press has just discovered this type of punk?
Fair play to them and all, but I've seen better on the bottom of the bill at an all ages afternoon show in Fred Zeppelins
Fucking school talent show music is what it is.
To each his boneyeah sounds great to me.
I even gave it a listen again after all those years for your sake but I still don't get it. Ploddy BASIC bass and drums, horrible guitar sounds, shouty lyrics about "talking to peachy peach about kissy kiss'? Fucking school talent show music is what it is.
OK, I'll stop now.
I thought we on the same page, and then this......betrayal.Devo
Devo are pretty boring, never can understand the love for them.
YES ARE FUCKING AMAZINGI don't really get Yes. I was just thinking about them because I was in the prog thread where it was mentioned that everyone likes them
I'd broadly be the same, I ignored all their early 2000's reunion gigs on the basis that I got into them as an old, split-up band and I wanted them to stay that way. I eventually saw them at Primavera a few years back, I almost didn't bother wandering to the stage, but I ended up really enjoying it, even the new songs! Everyone was giving it socks except Frank Black who was just a black hole of phoning it in, a bizarre sight to see the front person wishing they weren't there while everyone else is having loads of fun. Maybe it's just his stage persona though, IDKRe: the Pixies. I haven't actually listened to them properly since I was in 4th year. At the Drive-In which led to Fugazi and Dischord stuff came along and the Pixies/Bob Mould phase sort of ended then.
Regardless of the lyrics which in my memory seems to me some sort of embodied character thing, Bone Machine still pops into my head. I think that guitar sound wasn't that common then... anyway that's definitely the pick of the bunch songwise [eh, based purely on memory]. I think their reunion was a little cynical. More of a smash and grab money-wise than anything else - played big venues with shit mainstream bands. Deliberately ignored it.
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