The Pixies have shared which bands they would love to see reunited.
When it comes to reunions, few have been as successful as the Pixies. Eleven years after going their separate ways, the rock band reformed to release some of their greatest records yet.
This week, the band released their seventh album Beneath The Eyrie. Ahead of its release, NME spoke with the band and asked them which reunions they would like to see happen. Here’s what they said.
“Rage Against The Machine would be a good one for me,” Joey Santiago (guitarist) told NME. “Their music’s always been good. Now, I’d consider that modern music, you know, but I happen to like them and I wouldn’t mind seeing them perform again. I’ve seen them perform and it felt dangerous. It really did feel dangerous.
“I saw Public Enemy on that big dangerous tour – their first tour – at the Boston. There was an element of danger in there. A lot. I like it when it feels like that. It feels like rock n ’roll. And yeah, they’d be good for the times right now.”
When Black Francis was asked the same question, he said: “It wouldn’t be a big showbiz wow, but Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers. He tends to not play those songs from that part of his catalogue, and tends to play them much quieter with more of a folk sort of treatment. The Modern Lovers recordings are kind of like a little more, kind of punky, kinda Velvet Underground-y, definitely like louder than all the stuff he did after that just as Jonathan Richman.”
Beneath The Eyrie is out now.
