{"id":2634,"date":"2024-03-30T23:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:53:27","slug":"pixies-pixies-at-the-bbc-1988-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/music\/pixies-pixies-at-the-bbc-1988-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixies &#8220;Pixies At The BBC, 1988-91&#8221;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If we need to introduce you to the Pixies, it&#8217;s because you probably weren&#8217;t a teenager in the 90s. The band, which first formed between 1986 and 1993, had a major impact on the American independent scene in the 90s. Kurt Cobain, among others, has never hidden the fact that he was heavily influenced by this Boston-based quartet.\u00a0Led by Black Francis (or Franck Black, depending on the incarnation of Charles Thomson), they blend the energy of punk with melodies inspired by the surf music of the &#8217;60s, which are designed to be sung along to. Given the small number of studio albums they&#8217;ve released, they&#8217;ve churned out a mind-boggling number of pop-rock anthems with sometimes abstruse lyrics. On this compilation of their John Peel appearances, we find most of the band&#8217;s bravura songs, often in a faster version and with a little more aggression in the vocals, which doesn&#8217;t spoil anything. Although live, the recording without an audience brings the sound closer to that of a studio album, and there is some repetition of certain tracks, but what a madeleine for people of my generation. The rest of us will also appreciate the tangy flavour of these must-have tracks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we need to introduce you to the Pixies, it&#8217;s because you probably weren&#8217;t a teenager in the 90s. The band, which first formed between 1986 and 1993, had a major impact on the American independent scene in the 90s. Kurt Cobain, among others, has never hidden the fact that he was heavily influenced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}