Sometimes, in a genre of music, you can trace a whole bunch of famous, successful artists back to one band, whose unique style started it all. The Pixies is one of those bands. Alternative and indie rock wouldn't have been the same—or perhaps wouldn't have been at all—without them. The song's instant likeability makes it a standout on one of the most highly regarded, eclectic, and influential albums of modern rock history. When asked about the Pixies, bands love to make comments like these reported on Slate.
I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. You can't keep copying them. Pretty much every alternative rock and indie band owes something to the Pixies. As Spin magazine put it in , "So many bands have owed so much to Surfer Rosa over the past 17 years that it's hard to grasp how freaky and futuristic the album sounded in What we're getting at is that Pixies' influence has become so ingrained in the foundations of modern rock that extracting every bit of it would be, well, a lot of work.
Suffice it to say they're really, really important. Josh Frank, Fool the World: The Oral History of the Band Called Pixies This collection of quotes tells the story of the Pixies through the words of the band members, record industry and music professionals who worked with the group, and later artists who were influenced by the band. Doolittle Here's another classic Pixies album. Many fans and critics debate whether this or Surfer Rosa is the best Pixies record.
Even though Kim barely sings on it, there's something about her singing that little haunting two note riff. The same thing with Joey, he's got a little two-note thing going on too. It's so simple, and then there's me in the middle singing the wacky cute little lyrics. So it's kind of a quintessential Pixie song. It sort of displays everyone's personalities are very strong. The song has something very likeable about it and I'm not sure what it is.
Sadly, this account of Black's creative process isn't really going to help us become rock stars—but this quote is classic Black. The gist of many of his songwriting explanations is that he was experimenting, and just sort of came up with something that he thought was unusual and interesting, and then wrote a song. Sometimes he offers suggestions about why the song works, but they're just suggestions, and he doesn't force anyone to accept his interpretations.
This can be both freeing and frustrating for information-hungry fans. Despite the fact that "Where is My Mind? As a result, the song never charted. However, the song has been covered a ridiculous number of times, by folk singers, indie bands, and electronic artists alike.
It also appeared in the enormously popular movie Fight Club. There's one widely reported fact about "Where is My Mind? It was partly inspired by a dive in Puerto Rico: apparently a little fish chased Black while he was in the water, and the experience stuck in his head. Beyond this, though, we don't want to read into the lyrics too much. The fact is that a lot of Black-penned Pixies lyrics resist easy analysis. This doesn't mean we can't learn anything from them; rather, it actually tells us a lot about the band.
The Pixies set out to destroy conventions, and eliminating most story arc and coherence in their lyrics is part of that strategy. In "Where is My Mind? Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. With your feet in the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself.
I was swimmin' in the Caribbean Animals were hiding behind the rock Except the little fish But they told me, he swears Tryin' to talk to me to me to me. With your feet in the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse If there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself.
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