+AgentXPQ If David Bowie had ever spoken about me in such terms, I'd have been insufferably smug and pleased with myself for the rest of my life.

ace..so amazing.

Yeah, he had me at 'Psychotic Bealtes'.

Hey its Lev

He was good at critique too, AgentXPQ.

This validates my love of Pixies. Kim Deal rocks.

Totally agree.

How the fuck could you downvote this?

exactly :0

Bowie loved all the same bands that I do .. He had equally endearing words for Arcade Fire.

Right! No higher praise.

busterkeatonsbriefs yes! Bowie was a genius, receiving such a distinction from him is probably the highest achievement for an artist. And thom yorke is also a huge fan of the pixies.

One of the best comments I have ever read.

Shut the fuck up

So basically "Mott The Hoople"

Because hes not talking about it like hes a wine taster

Gil B that’s an interesting description for Bowie, and may have been true to some extent. He was at least equally a fan as an artist. I think that’s undeniable looking at his career.

@@trembling3674 Another person like that is Damon Albarn. Still constantly consuming new music and adapting like he doesn't have a 30-year long music career under his belt.

He covered their song Cactus too.

@@trembling3674 He loves music, that's for sure, but he's not an artist second. David Bowie is a great artist and that entails knowing what's moving within the medium. Damon Albarn is definitely fan first, artist second, considering alot of his work is just meh

Exactly! My life would be fucking made.

@@zoilalulu3798 i hope u r joking

No it s not it s like hitler approving of your baal shit

Agreed dude

@@aminor1950 It's possible you just don't understand or enjoy their music. You don't need to be a dick about it, though.

💯

Sonic Youth, Pixies, Go-Betweens, and the Smiths were the most exciting 80’s bands for me.

I like maybe three songs on every Sonic Youth album, but I LOVE those songs. I have never heard a Pixies song I didn't like. But, also I love how he calls them "compelling." They were both so original and did things nobody else really did, so compelling indeed.

Facts

He wasn't citing sonic youth as a positive thing lmfao 😂

They didn't exist until '86, your point still stands but your years are off.

@@charliericker274 Oh shit, lemme change that. Good looks

Another correction, wouldn't both work? Your meaning the answer he gave, as in possessed and You're as in Your are. I think either way work, depending upon how you read it..

You could say that about Sonic Youth as well

Big Black, Husker Du, Killdozer, Scratch Acid, Pixies, etc... all 1980s bands, and not before their time -- exactly of their time, for the few who appreciated them. David Bowie comes across like a geezer here, just discovering something 'new' and giving all the credit to one band.

Didn't he big up Kanye West tho.

@@maxdamagus That's a good argument against his infallibility. But Kanye definitely pushed hip-hop into new areas that were so influential then, and so prevalent now, that his work as an artist/alchemist can be overlooked. Bowie was right there to notice. Whereas Bowie himself was such a genius at synthesis and evolution that no one I can think of has quite caught up. There is still nothing like the albums Low or Blackstar that I can point to and say, "Hear that? Total Bowie-vibe!"

LMFAO. EVERTHING Bowie says here demonstrates that he hasn't a CLUE what he's talking about!. 🤣

@@sunnyjim1355 Care to give us the corrections?

​@@sunnyjim1355it's ok to let everybody know you didn't get jack s*** of what the man said, just not this pathetic way.

I can’t believe it’s been four years

they were close too. maybe he didn't feel like mentioning brian's name, he certainly knew him well enough to remember

Who?

Wow, great detail! Cheers!

Brian Eno Rocks!

*God

@@darrendavenport3334 no.

God is not great. Pixies are!

Yes a great feeling for them I'm sure.

LMFAO. EVERTHING Bowie says here demonstrates that he hasn't a CLUE what he's talking about!. 🤣

I'm straight as an arrow. But for Bowie, I'd take one for the team.

Sad to think he was still alive back then, but isn't anymore

Sad how he got ripped off

I came to the comments for this, calling them the Psychotic Beatles is the absolute best description possible.

Both the Beatles an the pixies are great but they're nothing like each other

They are “psychotic Beatles”

Maybe they were “psychotoc beatle” at the minute ..Bowoie’s second

But he was one rhousand before that comment

Well, Coke helped him with the slim appearance in the 70s lol. Cigarettes probably for the rest of his life. Although i could never imagine DB ever getting fat!

he didn't 'refuse to get fat' and he did get fat at the end of life.... he was a drug addict, heroin then coke, then a number of things. he finally cleaned up the last couple decades

Sam O'd im embarrassed to say i didnt find out about them til i was 23. Im 36 now and they are my favorite band

I was fascinated by PIXIES sound at a young age ....late elementary school. I grew up listening to Bowie; I've always admired Mick Ronson's layered guitar playing and have collected his records over the past 3 decades. Already had 2 copies of Bowie's entire catalogue from my Mother's and Father's collection from before they were married. When Bossanova came out, I found out that a Woman played bass and I immediately got my hands on a bass guitar ...started an all girls rock band at Catholic high school, auditioned with a PIXIES medley and performed Divine Hammer before getting the boot for lyrics I had yet to overstand. PIXIES brought me to tears each time I saw them live. Opening with the UK Surf Mix of Wave of Mutilation was one of those times. Dancing with my Mom when PIXIES opened for U2 achtung baby tour will ALWAYS be my favorite memory of being with my Mother. RIP to Bannon 🎷 who was an amazing musician and artist and painted my DEATH TO The PIXIES leather when I was 12. Thank you David Bowie.... #HangOntoYourself

Al Pacino And what, exactly, does Joy Division have to do with this video?

Kobbe They were also a great band. That's what the comment was about

+Guilherme Eddino i remember seeing him play cactus on a late show one night. flipped my shit. it was super rad

Gui Porto one of their best I always thought.

He also covered "Debaser" from "Doolittle"

Not to mention how Tin Machine (Bowie's 1988-1992 hard rock-cum-proto-grunge band) owes a lot of their sound to the Pixies.

Yeeeeeeaaaa he even spelled his name at the end of the song

tombassman You’re absolutely right there.

Nirvana are overrated. The pixies were better and to be honest there was a great alt scene before them. Besides look at Dave Grohl now. A cheesy showbiz twat

Famous story: After laying down the tracks for Teen Spirit the guys in the band were unhappy...they thought it sounded like a Pixies rip off. The producer Butch Vig said no no no let me mix this for you. You aren't hearing what you've done. And of course when it was mixed it was fantastic. But Nirvana was absolutely aware that their hit song fit the Pixies pattern.

I’m not surprised, I always though Teen Spirit sounded a lot like U Mass. if you find the tabs you can even see the similarities! Great minds think alike!

And we all know Butch Vig has worked with The Pixies' prior to working with Nirvana

So fucking jealous of Bowie's hair.

Yes. It looks so soft☺

So nice

And thats why pixies isnt nirvana. Bad looks. Poor fucking world

Very distracting in all its loveliness

With out the sonic youth their WOULDNT be no pixies and no nirvana

They definitely ignited the 90s

Very much

His Tin Machine band was very cool!

David was very wise with his views about the Internet, too. Watch his interview with Jeremy Paxman from the 1990s.

And a nice fella

Smart guy

Thank you Teg.

Being high and being smart are much more costly related than your owners in govt want you to know

Gui Porto listen to my Iron Lung. It was very inspired by the Pixies song Caribu

Everyone has ever since especially through the nineties

And Nirvana too

it existed long before both bands, but nirvana is the band that arguably made that sort of dynamic a staple in mainstream music they are very blatant about it in a sense, so while it exists ubiquitously almost, it's very obvious in nirvana's music which is why they get the cred (along with being one of the biggest bands of their time)

Radiohead refused to do a show with Pixies because the venue refused to let Pixies be the headliner and Thom Yorke thought that was a huge insult to Pixies talent.

"velvet underground sold 10.000 records but everyone who bought it formed a band"

Well, he's a musical genius and shows that here but also shows that he didn't let it go to his head.

Hmm I wouldn't say "ordinary" because he was passionate by art, and ordinary people don't care to that degree.

Silent Echos Alright, I'll check 'em out.

yea I am

+Devin “Christopher” Gray Did you guys start the band? I'm genuinely interested.

Add the Replacements for a real trifecta.

Okay...

Whoa, I posted this so long ago I don't even remember posting it. Don't do drugs kids.

+mrovantes Yeah he's huge on Sonic Youth. They joined him on stage for his 50th birthday :)

+mrovantes Bowie's a fan of almost anything good. He recognizes greatness from miles away.

+mrovantes he knew what good music is ;)

+mrovantes Why wouldn't he have been? He was a musical genius! And musical geniuses usually like good music, I would imagine!

Bowie was Great because he listen to everything, too many people live inside a type of music...in a box!😎

Thanks for explaining it. I was so confused by the Charles thing.

Geez, I've been pouring over the comments trying to figure out who this "charles" guy is.

Everyone who knew them at the time called him Charles, not Black Francis.

Hopefully he's resting in peace and not pieces..

damn straight. ziggy does not fuck around

big ass carla

I think I know what you mean about not "typical American"... a lot of sludge was around (as Bowie mentioned, not only in America but UK as well). But I will say that Black Francis's lyrics (btw, how bizarre is it that a man who uses a pseudonym like Bowie, chooses to call the singer of Pixies by his birth name?😊) are quintessentially American. In a long line of Dylan, John Prine, Ron Mael. All have been imitated, but never matched.

Number 13 baby proved that!!

same as it ever was brother. you'll never be understood in high school unless you're a true mediocre sellout of a kid

+sfshinz Innit. In it. Outtit. Onnit.

+sfshinz yes he is, i love his articulation and ideas on a band that I love. If someone asks why do you love the pixies its just a feeling you get, an anticpation and then an eruption - its hard to put in words, not for Bowie though who disects them like a biology professor :-)

The person that made this phrase is a bit mad, innit?

There ain't half been some clever bastards...

Have you seen the interview he did with BBC Newsnight around ,99, talking about how the internet was going to change the world, to a bemused presenter. Well worth a watch it's defo on here somewhere.

oh, he knew. this had already been said directly by then.

David Bowie is fucking awesome.

assmane999 He is very intelligent

Hugh Jass Well, that explains it then

Smartest man in showbiz all time is SPACEFACE.

+assmane999 Its fucking David Bowie douche.