Pixies Lyrics

Pixies Info:

From:
Boston, Massachusetts

Genres:
Alternative rock

Years active:
1986-1993, 2004-present

Associated acts:
The Amps
The Breeders
Grand Duchy
The Martinis

Name Origin:
The group arrived at a name after Santiago selected the word "pixies" randomly from a dictionary and took a liking to how it looked and its definition as "mischievous little elves".

Their Influences:
Francis : Husker Du, Captain Beefheart, and Iggy Pop.
Santiago: Black Flag, David Bowie
Deal: The Everly Brothers, Hank Williams.
Lovering: Rush


Influence on Others:
Artists including David Bowie, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, U2, Nirvana, The Strokes, Weezer, and Pavement have cited admiration of or influence by the Pixies.

Bono of U2 has called the Pixies "one of America's greatest bands ever", and Radiohead's Thom Yorke has said that, while at school, "the Pixies had changed my life". Bowie, whose own music had inspired Francis and Santiago while they were at university, has said that the Pixies made "just about the most compelling music of the entire 80s."

Kurt Cobain in a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone said: "I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it [smiles]. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band—or at least in a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard."

Current Members:
Black Francis (lead vocals, rhythm guitar)
David Lovering (drums).
Joey Santiago (lead guitar)
Paz Lenchantin (bass, backing vocals)

Founding Members:
Black Francis (lead vocals, rhythm guitar)
David Lovering (drums).
Joey Santiago (lead guitar)
Kim Deal (bass, backing vocals)

Past members:
Kim Shattuck (bass, backing vocals)

Pixies Quotes:

"Those are the two basic components of rock music [. . .] the dreamy side and the rockin' side. It's always been either sweaty or laid back and cool. We do try to be dynamic, but it's dumbo dynamics, because we don't know how to do anything else. We can play loud or quiet—that's it".[ "But who knows what kind of psychology was going on? I haven't really analysed it. I made a joke, they took it too far, so it was in all the papers ... But I was for the first time psychologically open to playing with those guys again."
Frank Black

"It's like those schoolboy dreams when you don't do your homework and you don't study for the test. I'm at the gig and we're hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs, and hardly anyone turns up and people walk out. That's what I'm afraid of, that it'd be a big, big failure."
Frank Black

"I was involved in this relationship that was absolutely terrible. I was bottoming out. And I'm on the way to the bank and my cellphone rings. It's Joe; he says, 'Guess what?' And I just jumped through the ceiling."
Lovering

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