Agreed. As was your mention of The Lemonheads. Evan Dando is an underrated writer. I went down a YouTube rabbit hole a while back and found that he and Juliana Hatfield had done some shows together that had passed me by.
'Patience is like bread I say,
I ran out of that yesterday.'
Lovely...
In answer to the OP, it's always impossible to rank art, but as a lot of my favourite huge bands have already been mentioned, Beach Boys, Steely Dan, VU, Pixies, Talking Heads, Blondie etc. I'll be the irritating geek who champions some of the more culty bands that should have been alongside...
I went to see them at the Top Rank Suite on their second UK tour in 1989 knowing very little, mainly because of the excitement amped up by Radio Sussex's 'Turn It Up' Sunday evening indie show. (Thanks again @chaileyjem). They were absolutely incredible. They had the pop sensibilities of the...
If you just want to dip in, the compliation 'Death to the Pixies' touches all the bases and is dominated by the first three releases, which is where most of the gold is. However, I'd go in order, starting with the mini album 'Come On Pilgrim'; not changed much from the original demos, that...