*FIRST TIME* 🎵 Pixies - Where Is My Mind REACTION
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- This is our first time listening to the Pixies. Where Is My Mind is a super interesting song. I mean it!
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"I feel like I'm in a fun house." Perfect. Lex nails it again. Its a surreal, non-linear sort of tune.
pixies is a tough act to follow for those guys ahah
Pretty sure Black Francis just mumbles sounds to fit the melody and plugs in the words later creating some of the most surreal and absurdist lyrics ever that evoke so much emotion and yet somehow...make perfect sense.
This girl has the most outrageous and accurate description. Love her.
“It’s like my mind is on the end of a hook on the bottom of the ocean, where it’s black”
Let’s feed it to the fishies, coy koi.
Lex really understands Black Francis’ lyrics.
@@saintsataniko2116 Exactomudo.
Pixies are seen as the band that influenced almost all of the 90s alternative rock bands so its an important listen!
Replacement more so because they influenced pixies
@@robbielux8353 Don't disagree. The pixies came out a minute after the Replacements but I always thought of them as contemporaries. Alex Chilton is one of the most perfect power-pop-punk tracks ever.
@@heyskipj No Replacements came out in 79/80. Not really true contemporaries. Listen to their first album and take it from there. Love the pixies though
@@robbielux8353 Did. Done. They're each only a few years apart from their major debut. So I use "contemporaries" more broadly. I don't want to distract because we both agree Pixies, Replacements are tremendously great influential bands. Did you read anywhere that FrankBlack was impacted or tried to capture the Replacements sound?
I'll keep commenting on this thread so it hopefully catches fire to lead Brad&Lex down this genre.
@@heyskipj yes let’s keep it going..and yes a few years apart from major label debut but that’s not where I start with the replacements. Sorry Ma lp is where I start..a group that started in 80 is a huge difference from a group that started in 86..as music constantly changed like the 60s. I completely here replacements and husker du in the pixies…even sonic youth though Thurston didn’t like the pixies..don’t know why. Yes love all these groups and they should definitely delve more into this sub genre
Brad says “what in the world is this?” 😂 love all your reactions, but your pixies reactions are some of my favorite!
The Pixies did the loud/soft thing in their music better than anyone, and were a big influence on that part of Nirvana's sound.
taaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmeeeeee
Well, they kinda invented the loud/soft thing, so yeah, they did it better than anyone.
Man it took me until 2021 to discover the absolute genius of Doolittle. Now it skyrocketed to one of my all time favourite albums alongside Siamese Dream, Dirt, Sound of Perserverence, Enter the 36 Chambers and Spiritual Healing. Top 5 had to become top 6.
@@Bee-28 so influential
@@Bee-28, I'd suggest The Who used the quiet/loud style many times and many years before Pixies (although I do love 'em, of course).
He came up with this some while swimming in the ocean when he lived in Puerto Rico. The Pixies are the bridge between 80s punk and 90s alternative/grunge.
Yes exactly! They basically fathered grunge music.
I was in middle school when Nirvana first became popular. Before that I listened to sex pistols and Joy Division. My musical ears tell me the shift started with pixies.
I'm not sure that 1980's punk is much of a thing. Perhaps the early 1980's. This song alone dispels the notion that punk had a greater influence on the Pixies' style, sound and lyrics than rock or Beatles-based pop.
@@davidmartinez9804 I don't buy that. The Pixies informed and influenced a bunch of bands and are, without doubt, at the very top of my list of favourite bands.
To say they fathered grunge means that we're ignoring other seminal contemporaries like Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü, Fugazi and Mudhoney, to name a few.
Again, I'm not denigrating the Pixies or denying their contribution. I'd take Pixies over all the bands mentioned above.
Yes!
This is actually the birth of the "true" alternative music genre...so many of the bands that exploded out of the 1991 grunge wave credit the Pixies as one of their top influences....They invented the whole "quiet, loud, quiet" formula adopted by the genre
This^^^^
The Velvet Underground beats them by two decades and REM by nearly a decade.
Shit, Nirvana talks about how smells like teen spirit wad their best attempt to make a pixies tune
Jane's Addiction is the band youre looking for and they formed in 85. Lollapalooza cements this fact. A VERY different early 90's scene without a TOURING weirdo festival to bring the alt lifestyle/culture to middle america.
Early to mid 80s, you have bands like REM, Husker Du, Violent Femmes, the Cure, Depeche Mode and the Replacements. if you wanna talk late 80s alternative, Jane's was the first bloom, Nirvana the explosion point. that is how it happened in real time.
The Pixies didnt get their due until Fight Club came out in 99, they were almost COMPLETELY overlooked at the time. The band was signed to 4AD, whose artists were viewed as 'soft' by the majority of the American, record buying public and that impacted not only the band's breakup but how aggressive the last album, Trompe Le'Monde sounded. It was a BIG part of the reason lead singer Black Francis left the group in 93 and became Frank Black, the solo artist. In conclusion, the Pixies were very important and very good but calling them the 'birth' of the alt 90's music scene ignores quite a few great artists and oversells what they meant at that time.
remember kids, details matter. (Sorry, I just finished watching Reacher, Season 1)
Watch Fight Club. This song is the outro track in the climax scene at the end of the movie. When it drops it literally elevates that scene from awesome to absolutely EPIC. Lex will get it, though not sure Brad will but I completely respect his in-depth analysis of every song's lyrics and meaning. The problem however is that the lyrics aren't always the focus of the song. They're just meant to move the song forward and fill the soundscape like another instrument.
This.
"You met me at a very strange time in my life.."
Yes!
You don’t talk about it!
YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT IT!
@@alexrobert13 Don't talk about what? 😏
The Pixies are basically the reason the genre "Alternative" was created. Black Francis is a genius. This is one of their longer songs.
Black Francis is a living god.
And the Smiths kakakaak ?
Kim deal, high harmonies, and revolutionary great female bassist (I love her)--the pixies were an IMMEASURABLE influence on kurt cobain and the ENTIRE 90’s in fact, the pixies pretty much had the whole 90’s, and alternative sound WAY back already, in 1987, when they started, their sound is soooo unique....to my mind, and I pretty much don’t care what anyone says, r.e.m., and the pixies are pretty much responsible for the 90’s, and any goodness that came out of it....there’s so many from them I can name, : gigantic, debaser, I bleed, caribou, here comes ur man, hey, brick is red, ....just too many to name, I didn’t even scratch the surface
Also .. Monkeys gone to heavem, Gouge Away, Wave of mutilation, velouria .... that should get them started 😁
Fun fact: I live in her neighborhood and my mom saw her in the local grocery store 😂
@@jibbylibby9889 that’s so cool, that’s exactly whats cool about them-- they’re legends, theyre super influential on so many since, they’re royalty, but they’re low-key, they have like, the perfect amount of fame, for lack of a better phrase...i dont know how to say it exactly...I’m 45, and 2 of my best friends are about 10 years younger than me, they love the pixies,,back about 10 years ago at work, I worked with this 20 year old goth chick who loved the pixies, they’re just one of those influential, “here to stay” type bands....and they go to the grocery store by themselves, lol...idk 🤷♂️
Kim didn't even know how to play the bass when she "auditioned". They hired her anyways. Don't forget No. 13 Baby
@@vincentvancraig yeah I’m a huge fan of em too, unlike many other large artists they don’t have the ego of them
The Pixies made a lot of good, diverse music in their initial run. A new listener could hear three of their songs back to back and not realize it was the same band.
Recommend some songs bro, new listener here.
@@Lymbe06 monkey gone to heaven, hey , gigantic , brick is red .
@@Jeff-Vader-1 ...Holiday Song, Caribou, Mr Grieves, Velouria...
Check out the whole Indy Cindy studio album. Not a bad song on it.
That whole album is genius.
@@Lymbe06 monkeys gone to heaven, gouge away, is she weird, hey.
So influential to many of the 90's bands. Love these guys so much.
guy and gals
"..at the end of a hook being used as bait in the darkness and depth of the ocean...!" Not only is that poetic and beautiful, but probably the most accurate description of how this song makes you feel, I EVER heard!
So many good songs by them.
Debaser and Gigantic are two of my favorites.
Remember the Pixies all went to Berkley music school in Boston, Massachusetts see them in concert.
What is this? Said Brad. This, my friend is the Pixies. One of the most influential rock bands of the alternative rock era. Their heyday was from 1986-1992 and so much of 1990s alternative owes its sounds to the Pixies' ideas. They were founded in Boston in the mid 1980s after some.of the band members met at University of Massachusetts in Amherst. This song demonstrates their weirdness pretty well. I recommend the songs "Here Comes Your Man" and "Gigantic" next. Gigantic features bassist Kim Deal on vocals (same vocalist as the Breeders on "Cannonball"). The male lead vocalist was called "Black Francis" during his Pixies days and became known as "Frank Black" as a solo artist. Joey Santiago on lead guitar and David Lovering on drums. Fasten your seat belts, you're in for a helluva ride.
Technically, in the early 1980s the genre was loosely called “College Radio,” a format dominated by early Underground Rock bands like the Pixies, the Replacements, REM, the Smiths, Sonic Youth etc. Later, it was placed among other niche sub genres under the blanket term “Alternative Music.” Still later, when Nirvana broke into the mainstream, labels signed dozens of lesser “sound-alike” bands and huge commercial radio conglomerates jumped on the bandwagon after rebranding it to the more palatable term “Modern Rock.”
Agree 100%. -- The only radio station that played the Pixies, was my local college station. -- At the time, the phrase "Alternative Rock" didn't even exist. And if It did, it would've probably only meant, "gay."
Add the fems and you got the Collage radio theme
Yep,...
KROQ in LA and just about every college station would play these bands
and then Nirvana toured as support to Sonic Youth, and something happened and Smells Like Teen Spirit caught the breeze and flew
Absolutely iconic song, shit is legendary and will never get old. They were incredibly influential to bands that came after them especially 90s era bands
overrated
@@carlmarks8170 I mean you can say what you want but it’s a fact they were extremely influential to other bands that came after them and nothing you or anyone says will change that.
@@puppetmaster8551 Yes, yes, and other mythical narratives about this ordinary, overrated band which are told around the campfire. Pixies fans are so full of shit.
@@carlmarks8170 lol. Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, and a slew of others would like a word.
@x I don't think the Pixies suck. They're okay. Not great. A pretty good band who's music and influence is vastly overrated by their fawning fans (mostly kids who thought "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was best song eva and who later became Pixies fans they got older because they thought it made them cool)
Yay! Pixies!!! Now for Monkey Gone to Heaven :)There's so much to explore in this era/genre - Throwing Muses (& Kristin Hersh's solo stuff), Pixies, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, the list goes on - and that's just from your side of the pond, there were some great underground acts in the UK too, but the US turfed out some absolute legends!
id like to see gouge away too
All that!!
Everyone always thinks this is a 90's song, but it's 80's. They just so happened to influence half the bands of the 90's in some way.
The Pixies! Very cool. Such an under-rated band.
Saw them at Leeds 2005 and they started with the smallest crowd. Ended their set with the biggest though. Saw Frank Black and the Catholics 4 years before at Reading festival and thought "man, I wish Pixies never split. I'll never get to see them" but, 4 years later, they got back together for a few festivals. I was so stoked
Dude! I am fuckin vrying, you turned lex into such a rock fan and I can't get over it. Thankyou so much for getting her into this genre.
The pixies influenced not only the 90s bands as stated here but Nirvana. The quiet build up of chords followed by massive bursts of chords and back again to subtle sounds was the biggest impact. Fun Fact: Steve Albini who recorded the Pixies later recorded Nirvana's in Utero.
I remember watching fight club when I was a kid and I couldn't get this song out of my head for a loooong time. It was maybe 2000, 2001 and the internet wasn't what it is now, so you just didn't know all the answers. Fastforward three or four years later and a friend puts pixies, and suddenly here's this song.
I left his house with surfer rosa and fell in love with this band that very same day.
3 things:
1. I've just went on your channel, and decided to look up "pixies" on the search bar. you uploaded this video 6 hrs ago.. 🤯
2. Where is my mind is an immortal masterpiece. Please do more pixies videos!!!
3. Lex is a fucking treasure. She often blows my mind with her ingenious notions and emotional astuteness. Her epiphany at the end there sounded exactly like the sort of things I'd say... I'm in love.
I'm a metalhead but this has been one of my favorite songs for more than 20 years now
Pixies were a big influence on Nirvana. Also co-singer and bassist (I think) was the singer of the Breeders (you reacted to Cannonball from them). - Pixies was a really influential band.
Kim Deal played guitar in The Breeders; her twin sister Kelly was the singer
"First rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."
This song is iconic in "Fight Club" (1999)
🎥🤘
His Name was Robert Paulson
Hey, don't talk about the Fight Club. 😄
One of the best uses of any song in a film.
Also in the movie trainspotting, great movie
Stop trying to control everything and just let go. LET GO.
Two other GREAT Pixies songs are This Monkey's Going to Heaven, and Hey!(chained) Surfer Rosa is just an amazing album!
Debaser was a big song too
This Monkey's Gone to Heaven and Hey are both off Doolittle. Where is my mind is from Surfer Rosa. Both good albums.
@@not_in_the_know definitely my favorite
Gouge away is amazing too!
also here comes you man
LOVE this song. Pixies are such a staple of alternative rock, they essentially are alternative rock that paved way for what came in the 90s giving Cobain, Corgan, and the like to push their sounds out there
Also, i love the conversation between you two at the end there. It's a perfect look at the creative/imaginative mind (Lex) vs the analytical/logical mind (Brad)
Lex, your analogies that you use to describe what you’re hearing are AMAZING!
Pixies are one of my fav bands that I grew up on. So refreshing to see the reaction on new, young ears.
Keep on exploring!
This song, fight club, smoking H, 18, getting inked, girls, E, being a chef. My 20’s……I miss those days.
The Pixies in my opinion are one of the most influential and important late 80s/early 90s alternative rock bands that helped usher in the 90s alternative rock scene. To me Surfer Rosa is the greatest alternative rock record ever made! They along with Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, RHCP, Jane's Addiction and the Seattle grunge bands changed the modern rock landscape of that time.
Gouge Away, Hey, Velouria, Gigantic, Monkey Gone to Heaven. I think these are the most accessible Pixies songs so you might enjoy them. You can't go wrong with any of these.
The "ohh ohh "chick in this song was also the lead singer of "The Breeders"
I like the funhouse argument, 80s and 90s alternative music had a sort almost deliberate quirkiness to it that was very common. 'Not making sense' was a cool thing to do and seeing them react to it with a serious mindset is really cool to see. Good discussion too, very thoughtful and respectful!
They are technically the FIRST grunge band and legends! I fucking LOVE the pixies!
Kim Deal from The Breeders- Cannonball - plays bass and sings backing vocals here. She's amazing
She is I love her! Her name is Mrs John Murphy on the Pixies.
From 1989-2017 I was privileged to see them 6x. They are one of those bands that sound just as good live. 🔥 The first show they opened up for Love & Rockets and blew them off the stage.
Start at their beginning with their music. It's amazing stuff.
I saw them in 2019 and they were better than ever. One of the best live shows I've ever seen. I may see them again this month. Personal faves: Gigantic, Bone Machine, River Euphrates, Debaser, Tony's Theme, Vamos, Broken Face.
@@alibabaghanooj6442 That's awesome. Kim Deal was uber-cool, obviously, but Paz Lenchantin is a fantastic replacement. I was super impressed with her.
Admittedly this song is absolutely abstract..
However,... Only to add to the absurdity, The more you listen to it,the more you will like it and, the more it will make sense... Insane / Brilliant..!
These guys struggle with abstract and surreal.
It's about dementia. The realization that one has lost their mind and trying to snap out of it.
“I feel like I’m in a funhouse” is sooooooooo perfect! The singer feels like he’s losing his mind.
Pixies were so ahead of their time. This song came out in 1988. At the time Nirvana was just a baby and hadn't had any sort of mainstream album. Nine Inch Nails hadn't released Pretty Hate Machine yet. As far as rock went, there were just metal bands unless you were really really into the underground Seattle grunge scene. Watch the live version of this.
The Pixies were so influential, they set the Rock/Alternative scene back ninth 1980's back to par level so other bands could use threir music influence as a launchpad.
One of their slowest songs. They were like the _'Velvet Underground',_ didn't sell many albums, but many of those who did buy them started bands. A huge influence on the grunge movement. check out *_PIXIES - Gouge Away_** Live!* ...Chur from NZ.
An absolute classic track, it has been covered and used in so many shows and films…
You will truly understand the song when you approach it from a point of view that you look down and you are holding a smoking gun and in front of you is a body…and you have no idea how you just got to that moment (sorry for the extreme view point but it’s that kind of moment when you literally have no idea how you just got to a very f’ed up moment in your life). That has always been the way the song hits me and I’m there right now in in my life…
Pixies are absolutely legendary. The riff from Smells like Teen Spirit, by Kurt's own admission, /is lifted directly from the song UMass [refer to comment chain below]. David Bowie even did a cover of their song Cactus. Hey or Monkey's Gone to Heaven are also personal faves.
Here it is.
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Yeah stealin' from Pixies (UMass) for Smells like Teen Spirit and Killing Joke (Eighties) for Come as You Are. If ya gonna do it, steal from the best.
I love the Pixies, but the riffs sound NOTHING alike.
I always thought the riff from smells like teen spirit was basically a more fuzzier and distorted version of the riff from the chorus of more than a feeling by Boston
Trompe le Monde release date: September 24, 1991
Nevermind release date: September 24, 1991
Yeah, nah. He just said he was ripping off the Pixies, not a specific song.
I think its so unbelievably cool you're checking out the Pixies
So much of what became popular in the 90's has these guys to thank
Lex is a trip, very imaginative and unique viewpoints
The Pixies are one of the best bands ever. I walked down the aisle at my wedding to the Vitamin String Quartet version of this song.
I saw this already in the livestream, came to watch again. To me this would be a great song for anyone to listen to sitting on the beach, just looking out to the water. Not really thinking about much, just existing.
The first 10 seconds of the reaction says it all. This is the song that everyone loves, and no one can ever figure out why. Circus Rock? So great.
The Pixies are a great punk rock band! Lots of great songs to explore! Thanks for this. More please!
Read something that said -not many people bought their albums, but the bands that you listened to in the 90’s owned the albums.
Famously used at the end of Fight Club, redone in Sucker Punch among others!
The Pixies "hey" would be a good one to check out next.
This song plays at the end of fight Club when his Bad half plants explosives in all the buildings and they start dropping 1 by 1 while the song plays. The song is about someone losing their mind obviously.
Where is my mind?
way out in the water,
see it swimmin'?
I was lucky enough to see the Pixies, Primus and Jane's Addiction play a concert together in San Francisco (1990 or 1991). The best rock concert I ever attended.
The Pixies, for me, were the best rock band of the 90's...bar none.
I remember hating then when they first came out, then, suddenly, I got it. It feels raw, like it's played in a club, and they don't want to sound polished. Genius, but an acquired taste. I love them.
This is off the first Pixies album. The Pixies sort of created the blueprint for Grunge, and Nirvana, with their loud quiet loud song structures, along with Dinosaur Jr.
This is the song that plays at the very end of Fight Club after Ed Norton shoots himself in the head.
Check out the Pixies song Guage Away
Spoiler alert lol 😂
@@kencliff9914 Lol. Yeah.
Vader is Luke's father too.
To me, this song made the transition and acted as a conduit from Acid Rock into the Grunge movement of the 90s, written in 1988. The guitar twangy short solo at the 2 min mark reeks of Janus Joplin or Jefferson Airplane but the stream of thought, almost spoken singing and background 2 notes reminds me of Sid Vicious or the ambulance sound of Zombie of the Cranberries It somehow effortlessly escorts us from the British Invasion into the world of Punk.
Hey guys! You must know: Pixies are one of most iconic bands that started the scene of underground music since the decade of 80's. They inspired many bands from U2 (shoking, I know) to Nirvana. By the way, when Nirvana recorded the gigantic album Nevermind Kut Coubain just wanted the album sounded as Pixies, he claimed this to the sound engineer.
So, try to react to another songs of Pixies: Hey, Gouge Away, Velouria, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Debaser, Mr. Grieves + Crackty Jones (This songs complements one another), Bone Machine
Kim's "oooh ooh's" with as much reverb as humanly possible still makes my hair stand up. Without her this song would have a completely different feeling. Kim and Frank were SO DAMN GOOD TOGETHER!
Yes thank you for finally reacting to this!!! The genre is Alternative rock, which the Pixies helped birth
"Gummi bears singing to you"! LOL. Lex should definitely be writing song lyrics!
This was before grunge mainstream. It’s trippy for sure but if you analyze certain moments of your life it has meaning.
Love seeing people react to music that was always so important to me since i'll never get to experience ot for the first time again. You two are great i like the vibes.
It's a song about skin diving in Jamaica. Some of my favorites are "Monkey Gone to Heaven", "Motorway to Roswell", and "Gigantic". The lead singer, Frank Black, did some good solo albums too.
Hey kids. Gen-X metalhead here. Ever going about your day, and out of the corner of your eye, you glimpse an eerily blank face in a crowd, and when you focus on it, you see a 50-something standing there staring at some thing or another for a moment longer than you can feel comfortable with, then they sort of blink, wake, and get on with it? I'd give it a twelve to thirteen percent chance you just saw a Gen-Xer listening to one of the Pixies tracks that we have playing in our subconcious _constantly,_ and taking that moment that we all have every day when we wonder what Kim was going to say just before _I'm Amazed_ kicked up. We all kind of wish Frank finished _that_ part for her, but we all also _strongly_ suspect knowing would only make things worse, and with that realization we snap out of it and get moving.
The other eighty-seven to eighty-eight percent of the fugues are just us thinking we went from rotary dials, lawn darts, seatbelt controversy, and Johnny Carson to TikTok, Airsoft, mask mandates, and Pete Davidson, and it's all the same, but _so_ different.
Then we'll muse about the 70s twenty some-odd years ago, realize the _90s_ were twenty some-odd years ago, and just fucking crash. Hard. It hurts, sometimes.
So great guys, finally some Pixies! I am trying to remember how it sounded like for the first time, but fail. Complete acoustic reeducation. Definitely "Monkey gone to Heaven" and "Velouria" next please. Apparently Black Francis had the idea for the Lyrics when he was snorkeling on holidays somewhere in the tropics, seeing the fish upside down in the water. I know, not quite as deep...And I can't help seeing the final scene of fight club in my mind's eye now...
Lex's funhouse mirrors description, though something I'd never previously considered, fits this song perfectly.
My favourite band. It's amazing how it captures the feel of snorkeling in such poetic words. Few write lyrics the way Black Francis does. And for me, this doesn't even scratch at their best song.
The FIGHT CLUB last scene soundtrack!!!! Everytime I hear this song all I can think of is: "Everything's gonna be alright. You met me at a very strange time in my life" FIRE!
I remember this song from an old Halo 2 super bounce montage from like 2005 on the original Xbox, haven't heard it since, wow I miss this song, memories unlocked, thank you!
Oh the confusion on Lexs' face is priceless 🤣
Been waiting for ya to get to them. The Pixies are a great great band. Doolittle and Surfer Rosa in particular are great albums. Very influential. Dive deep.
This Band were 1 of the top INFLUENCERS to CREATE GRUNGE AND ALTERNATIVE MUSIC.
The PIXIES are LEGENDS.
Another one that couldn't be missed out on any party or in any rock/goth club back in the days, love it!
It's a testament to the influence of the Pixies that everyone unfamiliar with them thinks they're a 90's band. Their sound influenced an entire decade of music. 90's alternative rock doesn't exist if the Pixies didn't make the music they did.
Laughed so hard when Lex said “big brain,” I was already thinking about movies because Fight Club uses the song on the soundtrack and when she said that I immediately thought of Pulp Fiction.
I will say, when she asked I was wondering the same thing as Brad, “are you asking about the philosophical question ‘where is the mind located physically?’ or what?”
I always thought that this song was about a skateboarder who knocked himself unconscious and has a lucid dream about swimming in the ocean.
Yall finally done Pixies! jaja They and other alternative rock bands from the '80s and '90s like Dinosaur JR, REM, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Janes Addiction, My Bloody Valentine, RHCP, Husker Du, and others helped influenced many grunge and alternative rock hit mainstream in the '90s. Back in the '80s you only hear music like this on college radio stations and alternative radio stations. And their music videos on 120 Minutes, an MTV program that showed underground music. Until they finally started getting mainstream appeal in the late'80s and early '90s.
So Pixies and the other groups I mention helped influence many alt rock and grunge into the '90s and '00s. Pixies was kind of surf punk rock with Indie rock. Very neat and their vocal and music shifts (quiet /loud) was common for their songs. You have to hear their other songs like "Gigantic", "Sad Punk", " Caribou", ""Cactus", "Debaser", "U-Mass", "Gouge Away", and many more. The male guitarist sings sometimes, sometimes the lady bassist sings too. Thats why many people say that the Pixies sound very '90s for a groups that has been playing this style since the '80s. Ahead of their time! David Bowie and Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) loved Pixies.. See more of Pixies and the other groups I mention, you won't be disappointed! They were very down to earth too.
Also you guys have heard Pixies before on movies (especially Fight Club from 1999) , tv shows, commercials. I'm pretty sure jaja
Some of the ladies from Pixies formed their own group The Breeders. Very popular alt rock group in the '90s and '00s. Most of us Generation X knows about them.
Good reaction as always, guys. But just to add some context --- the 'Pixies' and this song were grunge rock. This song was released in 1987, 4 years before Nirvana brought Grunge Rock into the mainstream in 1991, bringing an end to the 1980s Glam Rock Hair band era. Put another way, this 1987 song was basically the sound of the 1990s Grunge Rock scene, but when it was released in 1987, that 1980s era was still dominated by Glam Rock Hair Bands....the 1980s wasn't ready for this style of rock just yet. The Pixies were ahead of their time by a few years. Also, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana even remarked that Nirvana's music was heavily influenced by The Pixies.
They really created the 90s sound along with Sonic Youth and Jane’s Addiction.
I love how both of you are such thoughtful attentive listeners. But you each of very different ways of accessing and filtering your experience! ❤️️
Pixies! They are a very influential alternative rock group started in the 1980s. They had the '90s alt rock sound before the 90s. 😆 Many '90s and '00s alt rock and grunge bands were influenced by Pixies and other '80s alt rock groups. Another group like Sonic Youth from the '80s , too.
Pixies had 2 singers. Black Francis a guitarist. And Kim Deal bassist. She formed group The Breeders during the '90s. Pixies and Breeders were great. Check them out more.
These guys basically created alternative rock. YES, there are so many more influences and groups / people that can't be listed in a UA-cam comment, but they and another few groups are generally regarded as so far ahead of their time that they birthed an entire new genre of music whose influence can still be felt today
Black Francis is a damn genius. Forget the lyrics, they mean very little
Not too far off y'all. 🤣 It's about scuba diving. Or snorkeling. For realz. The lead vocalist and creative powerhouse behind the group, Black Francis/Frank Black, wrote it after a trip to the Caribbean. This joint blew my mind back in the day. I played it on repeat for hours.
Bowie was super into this group and was a really early champion of them, especially internationally.
One of those bands that not a lot of people knew about at the time, but it seemed like everyone that did know about them was trying to start their own bands. Really influential.
Surfer Rosa & Doolittle are great albums with such a big variety! If you listen it the first time you will experience several surprises. And the texts are funny! Two of the greatest albums in music history!
The definitive PIXIES tune is THE HAPPENING. Nothing comes even close. Mind blowing.
As someone with synesthesia myself I think Lex has it as well. They way she describes sounds really feels like someone with synesthesia would.
Maybe! My girlfriend has synesthesia and it sounds pretty wild. I’m jealous.
Those lyrics always make sense in a bar after some drinks... around 1am....
The Goddamn Pixies are amazing. And Kim Deal is a goddess. They started in the 80s but were so different and great and others have stated they were super influential. I don't really pay attention to the lyrics, just the vibe.
Love this song so much. I am a first time watcher here but love it already. Also Lex, you have a very nice smile!
Love how Lex explains things! She has a very cool mind!
Iconic song... Iconic movie, fight club, iconic series Mr. Robot...
Okay, Lex definitely needs to explore the PIXIES universe.
Some songs are nowhere near as idealistic as what you think they are. Apparently the song is about the song writer literally swimming in the Caribbean 🤣🤣 he's so in awe of everything and was chased by a fish half his size.
That is hilarious because everyone thinks it's something else like drugs, a mind alternating state or something else. It's fucking brilliant to me that it's so much more simple than that and still yet at the same time the same thing. Bravo
Grunge was basically bands trying to be like the Pixies.
There used to be a nifty little catchphrase (hated by everyone involved and therefore quite accurate) called alternative music.