Pixies we’re an otherworldly experience when I got into them.
It’s like they took a pop song and played all the hooks sideways. And wrote lyrics to fit the music, nonsensical, spontaneous growls, shrieks, rapid Spanish.
It was so odd, so unlike anything I ever experienced, and so PURE. Pure music, not structured, but evolving, like Jazz but with a punk sensibility.
Although they aren’t perhaps my favorite band, their old stuff is still probably the best ‘music’ I’ve ever heard. Caribou still gives me shivers.