Mr Iko, quale parte non hai capito ? I Clash li avete tirati fuori voi (e con gli Husker Du c'entrano poco e niente), Pixies e Nirvana erano solo un esempio.
Le "sentenze" non sono affatto paradossali, e al di la di ingenue metafore, non capisco cosa vuoi da un "commento": Una recensione del disco ?
Kosmogabri:
"I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying
to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it [smiles]. When I heard the
Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I
should have ben in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then
loud and hard."
(Kurt Cobain about how he wrote "Smells Like Teen Spirit", from a
Rolling Stone interview by David Fricke, 01-27-94)
"I really have no desire to read the lyrics my favorite rock stars
write. I don't pay attention. My favorite album this year was the
Breeders' Pod [from 1990]. Actually, I lied - I do listen to Kim
Deal's lyrics. But I don't really pay attention to what people write.
Even interviews, I just take with a grain of salt. The only ones I've
ever read that I really liked were ones with the Pixies and Butthole
Surfers -other than that I can't even think of any that I even
finished."
(Kurt Cobain again, in Spin, January 1992)
"Frank Black is my vocal hero. And he's the best songwriter I know. You probably won't believe it but during the recording of the vocals for Enough Space he was sitting next to me. Our producer, Gil Norton, invited him. They're old friends. Norton produced many of the Pixies' records. But there he was, in the studio, when I had to sing. I was fuckin scared man! I thought: at least I have to try to impress him. So I yelled/screamed the vocals in stead of singing them, Frank used to be pretty good at that. Finally I had the courage to ask him if he wanted to yell/scream along on the track, but he didn't want to. He was busy rehearsing new material and wanted to save his voice. Besides he said that the song didn't needed his voice, it was good enough. It was one of the best moments of my life: Frank Black. THE Frank Black, saying that a Foo Fighters is good enough." (Dave Grohl again, in an interview for the Dutch magazine Oor, May 1997, translated and reported by Joris Gillet)
Al di la di questo si sente a orecchiometro che i pixies per i nirvana sono stati qualcosa di piu' di una influenza.