Your Personal Soundtrack: The Pixies
Listening to Doolittle today, I full realized the importance of The Pixies' influence on modern rock - to call them the most influential rock band of the late 80s isn't far from the truth. Think hard about it. Who would you put up against them? R.E.M? The Smiths? Maybe. But then you see a live clip like this one below and you realize that absolutely nobody sounded like them in the 80s, and a truckload of people sounded like them afterward. So be absorbed in Kim Deal's bass lines, Joey Santiago's screaming guitar, David Lovering's relentless drumming, and Black Francis' tortured, howling vocals on "Hey".
