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Originally Posted by Starcat
severian's right doe... the co-optation of 80s post-punk by the mainstream music industry may have been great for nirvana and pixies and U2, but it dethorned sonic youth, fugazi, and jesus and mary chain... genres like hardcore that couldn't survive being dethroned died off entirely. it was exactly what new wave did to punk rock a decade earlier and its just as shitty
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Maybe you forget that Psychocandy, their debut album, entered the UK charts, when they were quite a big concern, very high for an album of its kind. And that was a number of years before the alternative revolution indie rock historian Severian is talking about. Also, Pixies started charting in the UK top ten ever since they released ''Doolittle'',which was released a couple of years before the revolution they allegedly weren't able to survive creatively.