I'm rubber and you're glue..
But seriously - stop discussing the Pixies so haphazardly and explain yourself better.
Like yourself, the Pixies are one of my favorite bands - that's because I like their music. None of it 'sucks' and especially not Bossanova.

*cough cough* go away.

its not so much that I think it sucks. its just that I enjoy come on pilgrim, surfer rosa, and doolittle infinitely more.

Pixies had a pretty high quality control system throughout,and their later stuff is perfectly good-to-great college rock, Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde do what you'd expect flawlessly.

And yet both of those albums are still better than 80 percent of the following generation's music.

Every generation makes good music and awful ****e.I don't think this "following generation" stuff should hold much credibility.

I'm not saying the Pixies were part of some magical era of music. I'm saying the years of rock music that followed, which I enjoy by the way, can't compare.

So what you're saying is the 90's and 00's didn't spawn any bands you like as much?Personally I think the 90's and 00's are on a par with the era Pixies were operational during.

I guess I'll try to weigh in on this:
I think, for me, it comes down to the fact that the Pixies really set the standard for the following decade. I've said it before, compare "Where is My Mind" to "Say it Ain't So" by Weezer. The influence is clear. The problem with the 90's and 00's when compared to the Pixies' era, is that no one band (and this is topic for a whole other discussion) really set such a clear and dynamic influence. Maybe Nirvana, but Cobain's style was, again, largely a product of what he had picked up from groups like the Pixies, if not the Pixies themselves.

radiohead?