Behind every musician, there is a string of albums that have contributed towards effectively shaping them. With a lot of artists, we’ll never know what these albums are, but that doesn’t apply to Pixies’ Joey Santiago.
Pixies are a band who remain pretty difficult to define. When you read interviews by bands in the modern age, you can guarantee they’ll say something along the lines of, “Our music is a reflection of all of our influences,” which is fair enough, but Pixies are one of the few bands where you can truly hear all of those influences at play.
It’s a sound that transcends all of time, as it borrows melody from one era, effects from another, and themes from something completely different. The albums that inspire them aren’t connected, but share a link because of the fact that they bleed into that iconic Pixies sound. There is truly nothing like it, and when you understand the records that have influenced Joey Santiago’s music, that original sound begins to make more and more sense.
So, it begs the question, what are those albums that inspired him?
