Pixies Vs. Dinosaur Jr.

crazymenrunningback · 08-13-2009, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by +81

Okay. To me, The Pixies have a much greater ratio of filler songs to good ones. Dinosaur Jr. have have had much more of an impact on me. They've written some off my favorite songs/albums. The playing is more inventive and I think they had better ideas than The Pixies. I do like The Pixies though.

Thanks i was just curious y cause so far no one gave a good answer of y they like dino jr more

Stone Birds · 08-13-2009, 03:21 PM

Pixies are a lot better than dinosaur jr. !!!!

Violent & Funky · 10-05-2009, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

I don't know how you could argue that Deal is not a good bassist unless you want to go by skill, and you don't come off to me as someone who really gives a sh*t about skill.

Deal makes simple but memorable basslines and you really couldn't have The Pixies without them, they're the foundation for a lot of their songs, they often provide the real drive or hooks to their songs.

But not even the best headphones in the world is gonna do you any good in spotting the bass in You're Living All Over Me or Bug, Barlow was a throwaway bassist during his tenure with Dino Jr, plain and simple. They clearly did alright without him, they had at least two more good albums and holy sh*t those had actual basslines. Hmm...

Bass does play a bigger role in Sebadoh and I can agree that technically he is better, but yeah, Sebadoh being the definition of sh*tty lo fi, technical skill isn't doing him the world of good. Overall I consider him to be a very mediocre songwriter, he wrote the two worst songs from YLAOM, seriously, why is this guy so popular?

Saying a disposable, inaudible bassist for a band that during his tenure didn't emphasize bass at all is somehow better than a bassist who provided the hooks for a band that was all about poppy basslines that were to be copied shamelessly by most alt rock bassists for the next 20 years? Yeah, I think you're being heavly influenced by a little thing called fanboism.

Sorry for the bump, but I was running through the Dino Jr. threads and saw this post.

For the record, I have very similar tastes to boo boo--outside of his prog addiction--and I love me some bass. But I also love Dinosaur Jr. and don't mind the way Lou Barlow plays his bass. Yes, he strums it like a guitar--well, he was a guitarist in their previous hardcore band after all--but it meshes beautifully with J Mascis's overpowering guitar work. And you are crazy in saying he didn't write some great bass lines and that he was "always inaudible". You can't hear his bass on one of my favorites?

boo boo, I was wondering if you have given their most recent album, Farm, a listen? I think you can get a good feel for what he has brought to the band over the years by listening to his two tracks, 'Your Weather' and 'Imagination Blind'. I love both of them and like you I'm not really a fan of any of his earlier Dino Jr. songs.

loveissucide · 10-11-2009, 06:55 PM

Pixies,mainly based on how they had a firmer grasp on noise and song when fused than Dinosaur Jr(original incranation did).

Lu_Galasso · 10-19-2009, 09:59 AM

The Pixies, strictly for their bass lines and Frank Black's vocals. Don't get me wrong; Jr. is a great band too, but if I had to choose, the Pixies definitely come first on my list.

music_phantom13 · 10-19-2009, 10:44 PM

I find myself listening to Dino every day, but the Pixies much less frequently. I love both of them, and it's a hard call, but I'd say Dino. Partly because I love noise, which Pixies had but not like anything on You're Living All Over Me or Dinosaur, and J.'s guitar playing blows my mind. But the main reason is the fundamental difference I've seen in the two bands. Dinosaur Jr. appears to make their music with ease; watching J play live he simply stepped back from the mic and shredded his guitar without ever trying, it appeared. Their music, when you listen to it (at least for me), gives off an impression of being the only thing in the world that matters. The Pixies, on the other hand, often have quite a different feel. Their music always has a strange foreboding presence of unease and angst that builds up until the songs either explode or end without a resolution to the feel, leaving their music with the feeling that it could fall apart at any minute but they just manage to hold on and play their songs (this may sound like a bad thing to some of you, but it is fantastic to me). The lyrics of The Pixies are also often very ****ed up, whereas Dinosaur Jr can have dark songs but not approaching what The Pixies sing about. A last point is that I feel inclined to think that The Pixies must have been influenced by Dinosaur Jr (or perhaps Dinosaur at the time), at least in using noise and their dynamics (the soft-loud-soft thing).

And Lou Barlow blows Kim Deal out of the water, imo.

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Lu_Galasso Groupie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 16	The Pixies, strictly for their bass lines and Frank Black's vocals. Don't get me wrong; Jr. is a great band too, but if I had to choose, the Pixies definitely come first on my list.

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music_phantom13 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 942	I find myself listening to Dino every day, but the Pixies much less frequently. I love both of them, and it's a hard call, but I'd say Dino. Partly because I love noise, which Pixies had but not like anything on You're Living All Over Me or Dinosaur, and J.'s guitar playing blows my mind. But the main reason is the fundamental difference I've seen in the two bands. Dinosaur Jr. appears to make their music with ease; watching J play live he simply stepped back from the mic and shredded his guitar without ever trying, it appeared. Their music, when you listen to it (at least for me), gives off an impression of being the only thing in the world that matters. The Pixies, on the other hand, often have quite a different feel. Their music always has a strange foreboding presence of unease and angst that builds up until the songs either explode or end without a resolution to the feel, leaving their music with the feeling that it could fall apart at any minute but they just manage to hold on and play their songs (this may sound like a bad thing to some of you, but it is fantastic to me). The lyrics of The Pixies are also often very ****ed up, whereas Dinosaur Jr can have dark songs but not approaching what The Pixies sing about. A last point is that I feel inclined to think that The Pixies must have been influenced by Dinosaur Jr (or perhaps Dinosaur at the time), at least in using noise and their dynamics (the soft-loud-soft thing). And Lou Barlow blows Kim Deal out of the water, imo.