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Originally Posted by nfotiu
What do the Pixies have to do with grunge? I think their music is almost the anti-grunge. Mostly clean guitar, some surf guitar sound. Nothing like the distorted grungy guitar sound that defined grunge.
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Kurt Cobain always hailed them as his biggest influence. The loud soft loud came from the Pixies among others. Lets not quibble about labels.
The Pixies' busy, brief songs, extreme dynamics, and subversion of pop song structures proved one of the touchstones of '90s alternative rock. From grunge to Britpop, the Pixies' shadow loomed large — it's hard to imagine Nirvana without the Pixies' signature stop-start dynamics and lurching, noisy guitar solos. [allmusic]