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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Right, Glice, I am influenced by my surroundings and I can't really respond to things any other way since I haven't been everywhere in the world and individually interviewed every single person to find out if they know who the Pixies are. You make a good point...
However, even the non-rock-curious have seen Fight Club and have heard "Where is My Mind?" playing. To me, that means that, yes, TONS of people have heard the Pixies... I mean, not everyone knows A Flock of Seagulls, but we'd all agree that they were a pretty huge band, right? Everyone's heard "I Ran".
But as far as me in my home town, almost everyone I can think of actually owns or has downloaded Pixies CD's. I can't speak for the entire United States though... which I never intended to do. It just shocks me that there still exists towns where no one is into music at all, when my small NOTHING town seems to enjoy a wide variety of shit.
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Ok, ultimately, I don't care, but from my perspective I cannot for the life of me ever remember hearing a note of a Flock of Seagulls. That's where I'm coming from. From the place where I might have heard of a band but that doesn't mean I can recall anything they've done. I'm glad you mentioned flock of seagulls because if you'd've said the Cure or something I wouldn't be able to say I hadn't heard of them.
People don't immediately know what they're hearing if they are exposed to it. I'm entirely certain lots of people would recognise Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, for instance, but very few outside of those into it would actually
know it. I mention that because there's bits of that concerto that re-appear time and time again in backgrounds to things on telly and film, but even so I'd be surprised if more than one in ten could name it.