After the Pixies split in 1991, all of their members went on to form new bands. Their former bass player, Kim Deal, teamed up with her sister Kelly to form The Breeders, and this was one of the marvellous results:
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The Pixies | Here Comes Your Man
The iconic 80’s and 90’s indie rock band The Pixies, like just about every other band who were a little bit smarter than those in the charts, absolutely despised making music videos, and were brave enough to show it in the oddest of ways.
The song being shown off here is taken from their second studio LP, Doolittle, which was released in 1989, and is certainly one of the catchier offerings on the album. The rest of the songs were wonderful too, but tended to frighten or disturb some of the more ‘normal’ members of society – a true mark of genius if ever there was one.
Take a look at the video and notice that Black Francis and Kim Deal, who provide the majority of the vocals for the tune, are content to merely open their mouths when they’re meant to be miming along to the recorded version of the song, and closing them when their parts are over.
David Lovering, the drummer, and Joey Santiago, the lead guitarist, really try to make a brave effort at pretending to play, but they are easily overshadowed by their fellow bandmates’ clowning.
Enough chatter, here’s the video:
The next video, for Velouria from their third studio album, Bossanova, shows them running down one bank of a river and up the other. By this point, they no longer cared about subtlety anymore. As far as they were concerned, music videos were certainly secondary to the actual music.
They’re wildly popular now, a lot more so than they were in their early days – not a whole lot of people bought Pixies albums, but many of those who did went on to to play in and/or form bands of their own, myself included 🙂
The Cocteau Twins | Caroline’s Fingers
This is from their incredible debut album, “Blue Bell Knoll” – bringing this record home was one of the most wonderful days of my teenage life. Put on your headphones, push play and close your eyes – sonic heaven awaits you 🙂
The lyrics are all in a made-up language – super-stylized baby talk – found out more about this wonderful band here.
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