****Official Kim Deal quit the Pixies thread*****
Share your favorite memories of the band here.
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Never heard of either
But I offer you my condolences just the same 
gouge away!
great band....in a time of many great bands - helped make music interesting again (after it got pretty lost).
Oh well.. at least the 30 or so insufferable hipsters who want to can still buy their albums.. I mean, most record stores still have bargain bins, right?
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Deal earned few songwriting credits in the Pixies and sang lead vocals on even fewer, but Gigantic, from the band's 1988 debut album Surfer Rosa, was among their best moments: jaw-droppingly sexual ("my big, big love"
and catchier than a medieval plague. Deal's breathy voice, which provided a sensual contrast to Black Francis's bloodcurdling screams on the rest of the Pixies' catalogue, was here allowed centre stage, and it was a relief – shocking, even.
Pixies were groundbreaking and original at a time when rock music had seemed moribund. They used unconventional chord structures and time signatures, but they never forgot to write a tune. Chief among their innovations was their use of dynamics. Having a hushed verse followed by a sudden, deafening chorus seems obvious post-Nirvana, but the Pixies were the ones who pioneered it. And during those quiet bits it was always Deal's snaking, four-to-the-floor bass-lines always kept the show on the road, allowing Black Francis to pant and yelp his frightening Old Testament lyrics about sex and death before the chorus's ecstatic eruption.
The band didn't go in for stage tricks or dazzling light shows. Black Francis was an unlikely-looking frontman as it was. But onstage, Deal provided reassurance, grinning her way through songs that were often genuinely unnerving.
I'll have to check them out Itunes to see if I can find them. They do sound interesting even though I'm a Country Music (no jokes please) kinda guy.
Have a good weekend 
imo.
So I can see why she'd want to move on.
Listen to Last Splash by The Breeders and Pacer, by The Amps. (Pacer is the only cd from Deal as The Amps)
Cannonball. No Aloha. Do You Love Me Now. I Just Wanna Get Along. Divine Hammer. Pacer, I Am Decided, She's a Girl. Dedicated.
These have the least... dissonance and distortion in them... She's "lo-fi" but not.
Her lyrics are devastatingly sarcastic - she's my kind of feminist musician, much more than, say, Helen Reddy. I don't go in for "anthems." She's creative in her bass lines, and never went in for the packaging of females as "stars."
Won't make fun of you for liking country music. I'm not too fond of most "mainstream" music from the country music industry (emphasis on industry) though I know there are a lot of talented musicians who work in the genre. I grew up in Nashville, and you just can't help but be exposed to a lot of the music there. Rebellion, for me, was listening to anything other than country.
Some of my favorite country music genre performers are Lucinda Williams, Uncle Tupelo (which broke up into Wilco and Son Volt), Gillian Welch, Neko Case, Hot Club of Cowtown, The Sadies... I LOVE Jolie Holland (she came out of The Be Good Tanyas- they're also good) oh, and check out The Raconteurs. ...and older country music and western swing eras are interesting to me, too...Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Wanda Jackson (tho I like her rock more than country stuff) and, best of all, yodeling cowgirls! LOL. true because they're so funny to me.
I never listen to country music stations or watch any country music programs, so I don't keep up with the genre. But in just about every genre I can think of, there are artists and musicians working within that create work I like. My tastes include all genres. My ear just gets bored hearing the stuff chosen for you on commercial radio, tho, so I listen to community and public and college radio more than anything.
But, hey, even Kim Deal has some "country" songs...
As Cool As Kim Deal requires vocal counterpoint, which they rarely do enough of anymore 
(major huge nerd fan; has one of those ...Earth to the hand printed posters expensively framed in my living room, so yes, I'm envious! 
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My brush with greatness is that Anton Newcombe returns my emails
Have a great time! I'm hoping to catch the show at the Fillmore.
And glad it hasn't been shut down!
I see you beneath the archway of aerodynamics.
I never got to see them live.
