The Pixies vs Nirvana
 

The Pixies are my favorite band so I must say I am totally 100% biased in this poll. There are just too many songs to count that I love from The Pixies. I love seeing the text of the song titles and knowing that each song means something to me. I have never really ever been all that interested in Nirvana, I really only like in Utero and their greatest hits. I did however find a lot of great music by looking up Kurt Cobains top 50 albums list.

Nirvana embody so many of my favorite bands (including the Pixies) into one emotionally charged package so I chose I prefer Nirvana - but be advised I'm a massive Pixies fan.

I honestly can't decide. I used to listen to Nirvana a whole bunch, but then I learned about the Pixies and started listening to them more. Both of them are great in different ways for me.

Prefer Pixies, although that's because certain aspects of the Nirvana phenomenon, in particular those horrible "Kurt Cobain 1967-1994" t-shirts have put me off their music to a degree. As well as this,I consider Pixies to have a more varied discography which rewards repeated listening better than Nirvana's work.

"I prefer Nirvana" I would have gone with Nirvana is way better but I've only heard the pixies once or twice, I grew up with Nirvana's music so it sticks with me.

It doesn't even make sense to compare these two other then because they're both 'grunge'. Pixies are miles ahead, and this is coming from a Nirvana fan.

I wouldn't call the Pixies grunge... I'd say that's a bit of a stretch.

Agreed. I just don't see why else the two would be compared.

I don't really either. Other than the fact that Kurt Cobain was supposed to be a huge Pixies fan and Nirvana drew inspiration from them. But Black Francis was a huge Beach Boys fan and the Pixies drew influence from them so...

But I see where you are coming from Odyshape - a lot of people are introduced to either band through one or the other.

It's really not all that different than all the Dinosaur Jr. vs. Pixies threads that are all about the forum, I mean I'd say all three of the bands have about the same amount in common and both were influences on Kurt Cobain.

I picked Pixies, I really like Nirvana and I've been listening to them for years but the Pixies are something else. Their music has something to it that I just don't hear in Nirvana. I'd say the Pixies catalog is more varied as well, they went through there whole straight college rock/proto metal or whatever stage on Trompe Le Monde. Both great bands though.