Comments on: the obligatory nyc music blog pixies article

By: clr

clr — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:06:33 +0000

I’m going to have to respectfully disagree about R.E.M. There absolutely WAS a period in which I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly, but they got some of it back.

I don’t need rock and roll to make me feel young. But make me FEEL, for fuck’s sake.

By: dbf

dbf — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:23:18 +0000

Is it that you felt old or that you didn’t feel young? I think there is a big difference. Rock and roll when its still great makes me feel young, which at 39 is becoming ever more necessary. I’d be willing to bet the Pixies just weren’t (aren’t) that good these days.

On that note, and not to be a drag, but as near as I can tell and as far as I’m concerned, you can slot REM in the not good anymore category. I can’t imagine ever feeling young again at an REM show. It (and what an “It” it was) is over for them. We all need to stop kidding ourselves about it.

By: alyssa

alyssa — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:48:37 +0000

I saw the Pixies in the early 90′s. I think they were opening for U2. I loved the Pixies and thought the double billing was great. There were some people who came just to see the Pixies, and abandoned some great seats, which I then took advantage of. Thing is, I had just about the same experience back then as you did this year. And I was probably 19 years old, for fuck sake. They felt tired and I felt tired listening to them. There was no energy on the floor. I told myself the Pixies were better in the studio and left it at that.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:11:14 +0000

y’know, i feel like that A LOT now, but then every once in a while I go see a performance by an artist I’ve never heard of, say, Magnet, just on the say-so of a friend, because she said it was cool, and I have nothing else going on, and then — goosebumps. I love the goosebumps. Makes me feel alive again.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:24:58 +0000

Interesting perspective. Good read.