sparrowhead hawkins without a doubt

@curragh 42 They were still brilliant at the academy 2 years ago and hopefully will be next July supporting Pearl Jam in Hyde Park.

@curragh 42 that's their fledgling years, Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde were unbelievable albums and a clear sign of a progressing band, plus all the years of touring the older material how can you say this isn't them at their peak?

@curragh 42 not live. They had a way thinner sound. Saw them on Doolittle and TDL tours. This performance is just more precise. Louder. Never seen Black Francis this committed to a vocal performance. The TDL tour was spectacular.

@curragh 42 I agree with Patrick, I don't think the turmoil is that important when talking about a band at their peak live, this is after all of those crazy long tours, they've adapted and perfected the older tunes, they've all become tighter and better musicians over that period of time, sure the earlier stuff had catchier songs on but would you say Nevermind was Nirvana's musical peak? No chance for me, and tbh I always find myself going back to Bossanova and Trompe more than the earlier material, I think they're better albums personally!

He doesn't have to act cool, he just is.

Yeah and his very unassuming, average guy appearance just made him even more rock and roll.

Good musicians

100 % you ‘ re right!

That's bcuz he's not, " A Rock-Star ! " Seeing 'Tool' is the same. Too Professional to dance around the Stage, like their Janet Jackson, or something. It's so impressive seeing those guys just standing there while this dark sounding music is inundating everybody.

Nailed it. The way he screams the whole building down in River Euphrates too, "ONE SIP FROM THE SALTY WIIIINE"! It comes out of nowhere but fits perfectly and captures them as you said.

Dude… get a fucking life asshole

fuck yeah

I bought Doolittle right after I graduated high school and I had just started a new job. I got off work at 11p, went to Tower Records (open til midnight 😎), got home and popped it in my cassette boombox. I remember thinking that I had a lot of living to experience, and this was going to make a great soundtrack for it. 35 years later, so far, so good.

@@angelotro so true

Ideal Gal. Plays Bas and v cute lol

Same

I sent her a paper-mail love letter when I was 15. That's was 1990.

are u lesbian and a moan?fuck her

Dammit! We all love Kim!

I have only listen to the intro, and today I just listen to the full song. Now I’m here, goosebumps.

@@cherrykoolaiddisasters You are doing it right!

i guess ya need ta be a pothead ta feel it

if the tame encore doesnt give you chills you're dead inside*

@@S.G.W.C. I will allow it.

I'm jealousy.

Saw them supporting Jane's Addiction and being supported by Primus a few months before in Brixton. Quite a night. :D

Me too, but I was 26 and Australian in London, on mushrooms and moshing out like my life was gonna end (it might have…)

So jealous, I'm gonna get to see them next year, but it's not the same without Kim and The Breeders are not touring anymore I think, it's sad, Kim just have something that appeals me to see her live so much.

Me too. We bought tickets the day before, skived off work and travelled down to London on Weds afternoon. I'd been to London a few times before, but never to a gig. I will never forget the atmosphere. Got back home at 3am, didn't and couldn't sleep. Ticket is safe, still inside my Doolittle CD case.

Not yet. They're not ready for us

Well I'm traveling 7 years to the past to say epic comment

😂

It is blowing my mind every time when I hear that sounds of his voice) amazing

"ONE SIP FROM THE SALTY WIIIIIIINE!"

they are kicking as this summer - saw them 5 days ago in Belgium - the public got wild at one point - it was Incredible !!!! the Bass player is just who they needed - she plays fabulously well and loves being there .

The faces in the crowd are art, just pure energy.

that's the first time I've seen Frank without a guitar

Agree, is one of best songs played live in my opinion, this live versión is better than the Lp recorded versión for me.

i cried

David is such a drumming machine here, unbelievably tight

He's technically the most proficient musician of the Pixies. The other including Frank Black are on the sloppy and quirky side but they're allowed to be because Lovering keeps the rythmic base tight otherwise it would be a total sonic mess.

@@deadstar44 exactly! and the sloppiness Black Francis defines the sound

Dave smoking a doob during "where is my mind", we love to see it!

He's a fine drummer. Tight.

The Brixton Academy has so many legendary gigs over its history. It's not the biggest venue but it's gotta be one of the best. In my experience anyway. Same for the Town n Country Club. I've seen 'big' bands play huge venues like Wembley or the 02 and it's just nowhere near the same.

I'm still watching it now and it never EVER gets old

Thought my pc was gonna break

Best closer, ever.

@@NuclearVagabond They finished with this at Leeds last year. Unbeatable.

holy shit... every song !! :)

Absolutely bonkers version!!! Without doubt, one of the wildest encores of all time. The delicious irony of the title never thicker!

Definitely underrated

Not an angel, a pixie!

Kims vocals added so much to the songs. Charles and Kim together are magic.

Pity they treated her like shit

Whines like a wanker, you lot know jack shite about music

It’s between this and Primus at Woodstock in 1994 for me

You said it perfectly

@@mark83175 one mistake, he said America and not the world.

@@lettucekisses Influenced many young people back then here in the States, myself being one of them. But yeah they were responsible for a lot of bands forming in England lol.

@@tripperdelaluna1 everywhere

@@lettucekisses english speaking world*, I doubt Pixies were that influential in hispanic, african or asian countries lol

Yes, there's just something in that scream

@@andrejsgulins3023 it sounds so raw!

Maybe tied with Zack de la Rocha, but yeah

Clone Abarbe that floral shirt is pretty outrageous

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that song too. So original and yet catchy at the same time. It's creepy and cute....

Take as a privilege that you liked it Bro !

i'm with you

it's so tragic and killing

i slap it on the ass evcerytime I listen to. Thats a compliment...

i know right? its so damn good

Definitely. One of my favorite song!

Incredible here.

the line my head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free always gets me

And what can you say about the 5th Pixie?

@@BMXOPHY The only cool thing I could say about Bob Santiago is that he's related to one of the greatest guitarists of all time lol

Totally agree with you because I believe you, I thought the same for me before reading you. It's a autentic beauty, and that is the true concept of the beauty, see a person doing for that she was making, it's the best. Sorry for my bad English, greetings from Mexico.

I hear you my 1991 self in junior high is crushing on her in this one!

She is a striking beauty. I saw the Pixies live (my first time) a few months prior to this show. I was in high school back then and I spent most of the show focused on her. By the time they played 'Gigantic,' the entire room was looking at her . . .

Im glad I'm not the only one who agrees.

Get back masher! She's mine forever!!!

Very well put considering that it is very difficult to categorise them. One of those rare bands that you really have to "get", let it "click" in your head and then you've discovered one of the best, most original bands in the history of music. There is nothing else like them, no matter how much people tried to copy them.

Right on. That's the highlight of the show for sure

I concur

Yeah truly I played this video hundred of times

jonanjello Yes ~

out of the loop, is this a reference to something?

I get it….

Very well said. I remember "getting" the Pixies and was hooked for life. You really do have to "get" them and I feel sorry for people who haven't. I still rediscover old songs that I'd kinda forgotten about to this day and they never get old. Never got bored of them and I've been a fan since I first heard them at 15 years old, 15 years ago.

The Bossa Nova Tour, no less.

you digress.

"ONE SIP FROM THE SALTY WIIIINE!"

@elijahfinch3349 okay, that sounds cool enough, but I prefer drinking from the main source

the only thing I am more jealous of than francis' guitars are Santiagos shirts

Well, now that you mention it, I do prefer it more than Frank's.

very awesome

I reminds me of the cover art one Fully Completely by The Tragically Hip the other greatest of all time

That's redundant

One of the hottest rock chicks ever, but I guess if you just wear a t shirt and jeans you don't get the acknowledgement.

Indeed!

I fucking agree

@@escapeworks2917 lol

Fuck the rock and roll hall of fame

Do you really want them in the same group with Kansas, journey, bon jovi,...

@@arrysarantidis1854 Kansas was pretty good.

Only ppl in the USA give a flying f about that dumb little club. Here in the UK it means zero. Is it like a special corridor full of busts? We tend to just sign these bands, make them huge, like Hendrix and Nirvana then we tell you who you're own decent bands are, and of course all the best pixies and nirvana gigs they saved for England on account of how we embraced them while the USA was grooving to zz top and motley cru (i bet they're in the horridor of power though, no doubt). If I was in a band I'd be pretty ashamed of belonging to such a 'club'. I think you all saw what 'winning' a Grammy means to an artist from the UK (and Ed Sheerhan doesn't count cause I said artist, and I hope I've spelled his name wrong as well, or Harry homoerotic styles) when Aphex Twin showed his awe by not bothering to even send a cringe acceptance video. He just stayed at home and chilled and probably didn't even know or care if it was even on. Trust me, this 'Rock n Roll Hall of Fame' (hhhhh) means absolutely nothing outside of America. Nobody with any integrity gives it one second of space in their brain.

Do they get inducted or initiated?

I think they've never been underrated

Not underrated, just underpopular

You're right The Pixies a greater band than generally given credit but Cobain cited The Pixies as one of his fav bands from one came many other bands remember you're really just hearing Black Francis on albums he is known for this he writes they play 😎👍🏻

Joyous 1991, before smartphones and guitar tuner pedals were invented ;-)

Phone bad rock good

@@mercurial71 people still had digital tuners though

Amen!

Vocal training and strong lungs and vocal chords

whiskey, strawberry milkshake, and a pack of Marlboro filters a day.

Didn't Franck Black have to get nodules removed from his vocal cords ?

Veni Vidi Vici Never seen a photo or video of him smoking ciggies tho. But from some interviews he definitely looked stoned to me, not to mention that it shows on his records.

I was thinking of nodules (may not be the right word)caused by screaming, leading to damage and scar tissue forming on the vocal cords. I think Chino Moreno and Frank Black had to undergo surgery because of it

I agree

Juggernaut

it lacks the mighty Hey and that gorgeous No 13 Baby

"flung around" 😂

I like how Kim (fill in with anything)

Now I understand why Kim says thanks in Japanese at the end of some songs.

im also pretty young (im 16), i can say for certain that i was born in the RIGHT generation. we get to hear all the Pixies' music at the push of a button! we were born at the right time to hear these absolutely incredible bands.

I was born in 1984 and my dad introduced me to this band too

parenting 101

me too, and I love them too

I was horn in 1970...which meant I was able to watch this gig. Which I did. The atmosphere inside and outside the Academy was the most electric thing I've ever experienced. I have tried to educate my kids. 1 out of the 3 loves The Pixies. She didn't believe I was actually there, but I still have my ticket tucked inside the CD case of Doolittle. 😀

yikes

this is the dumbest fucking shit I've ever read lol

WTF?

Plenty of us were into the Pixies in 1991... well, much earlier than 1991 tbh... I was first into them in the late 80's, back when they were still just an off-shoot of the punk scene.. but yeah, they're not the first U.S. band that blew up more overseas than here at home... because the way radio made bands back then in the US, good bands flew under the radar because the large record labels controlled radio... which is why we had the underground, "alternative" scene... we ignored the corporate music, and had our own bands promoted by Flipside, Maximum Rock'n Roll, and smaller zines, etc...

I think if two things kept them from reaching mainstream popularity 1) Their image (particularly Charles as he just kept getting bigger and bigger with each year) wasn't viewed as marketable. 2) Charles not letting Kim do more songwriting and co-writing on Pixies albums. That platinum album Kim Deal help the Breeders get with her writing could've been something she would've helped the Pixies get. People that talk a lot of crap about Kim being replaceable and she was "just the bassist" are pretty much viewing her with Charles' colored glasses. Her contributions downplayed too often, forgetting that on stage Kim was the one Pixie with stage presence (Charles had no stage presence until he unleashed his voice such as in this concert), she was the one that interacted with the audiences on stage and Gigantic was and still is a Pixies staple, which is a song she wrote and is as synonymous with Pixies music as Where is My Mind is to casual listeners. And as far as the Pixies sound? Well, Charles himself said it during their show at The Paradise in Boston, "those sweet Charles and Kim harmonies." If Charles had just not been so insecure and such a control freak, between his unique, quirky, charming and frantic Rock tunes and Kim's more ear friendly, poppy melodies and voice Pixies could've very well been as close to a Beatles as possible in the Alternative Rock scene, well before Nirvana (undeservedly, imo and I love Nirvana) was branded as such.

SOOOOMEone forgot their lyrics

So much for Carol.

That always makes me laugh. He is just staring into space like he is thinking about his groceries or something

what a voice dan gimme creepy ☺♥♥♥

Where did you see them in Belgium? They are coming this year back

@@matthijsvanhulle3369 well , it was at the Werchter Festival ( 89 and 90 ) and also in Deinze around 93 i think + in 2017 somewhere in a festival close to Antwerpen . They are indeed coming back this year with the new album . I also saw Frank around 95 at the Pukkelpop festival and in Brussels for his solo tours ( Frank Black and the Catholics ) .

Me too man

There is something in the Frank Charles Michael Black Kittridge Francis Thompson IV discography to speak to every mood.

You’re not crazy

Bowie complimented pixies!

Ha 😂. I remember the first time I heard the B-52's. Audience participation took on another definition. Been dancing ever since.

Way better than stupid modern rock

Underrated??? In what kind of world do you live? I think they got all the fame and recognition they deserve. Or do you mean they should be played at morning shows on silly major radio stations or in elevators or in supermarkets or should they make christmas singles with Beyonce? I like them as they are!!

I agree! or Can (Damo Suzuki era)