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View Poll Results: Which band is better?
Pixies are way better 67 23.93%
I prefer The pixies 62 22.14%
I like them about the Same 40 14.29%
I prefer Nirvana 56 20.00%
Nirvana is way better 55 19.64%
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Old 06-10-2011, 08:10 AM   #321 (permalink)
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I see the Pixies have a regular Surfer Rosa but they also have a Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim combo. Should I get that or normal Surfer Rosa?
I disagree with what Conan says and reckon you should get the combo, as Come on Pilgrim has some great material on it and its a great package with Surfer Rosa.
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Old 06-10-2011, 08:31 AM   #322 (permalink)
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Alright, cool thanks guys.
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Old 06-10-2011, 11:35 AM   #323 (permalink)
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Come On Pilgrim has one of my favorite songs by Pixies, which is "Caribou". If the remastered edition, which is the ones coupled with "Surfer Rosa" is available at a price cheaper then the one just by itself I say it is worth it.

"Surfer Rosa" no matter what is with it is an essential album. I had an ex girlfriend who said she loved "Where Is My Mind?" because of Fight Club (who doesn't it seems) and I told her to buy "Surfer Rosa", she did and wound up thinking it sucked and took it back and bought Floyd or some crap instead... thought, uggghhh... give it more of a chance, let it grow on you.

"Surfer Rosa" to this day, has one of the best production sounds of all-time, it is just amazing... easily amongst the best Steve Albini has done, it is just magical sounding.

"Come On Pilgrim" may not be as good, but it is tacked on at the end of "Surfer Rosa", and is just bonus tracks on that edition. It is a single disc, not a double disc by the way.

Pixies at their best are amongst the greats, Pixies at their worst... are still great.

It may not be the best of Pixies, but it is not bad either. "Caribou" and "Nimrod's Son" are still cool.

I would say get that version.
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Old 06-12-2011, 04:57 AM   #324 (permalink)
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I like Nirvana enough, but it's not even a competition. Pixies are just the better band.
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Old 06-12-2011, 04:58 AM   #325 (permalink)
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technically you could list grunge under metal.... if you've watched "metal a headbangers journey"
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Yeah... it is difficult to say. Grunge has roots in a few styles, that trying to put it in one genre or the other is difficult.

Essentially I believe grunge was a form of music that took it's inspirations from hardcore punk and sludgy metal like Black Sabbath. So trying to catagorize the style as a whole becomes difficult, depending on what band you are basing your catagorizing on.

Mudhoney owed more to the punk, they had more of an influence from hardcore, while Tad owed more to the Sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Each band will either mix the sounds well, or lean towards one or the other..

But then you get into say a band like Thread or Truly.... they add elements of psychedelic... and other styles.

Trying to pidgeonhole grunge to metal or punk can prove difficult, because it owes to both, and as i say, depends on the band you are basing your view on.
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since whens Nirvana punk? I thought it was grunge
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since whens Nirvana punk? I thought it was grunge
Nobody is saying they are punk, just that punk is one of the numerous influences of the grunge scene. As said above, the punk influence on Mudhoney is very evident, most notably the proto-punk of the Stooges and Mark Arm`s vocal style is very Iggy Pop.
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Nobody is saying they are punk, just that punk is one of the numerous influences of the grunge scene. As said above, the punk influence on Mudhoney is very evident, most notably the proto-punk of the Stooges and Mark Arm`s vocal style is very Iggy Pop.
Genres get confusing lol
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Genres get confusing lol
Grunge more so than some, especially as most of the big grunge groups of that era actually sounded very different to each other, a more appropriate name might have been the Seattle movement.
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