Nirvana's melodies were simple, minimalistic, and beautiful. That's why we remember them. It takes more talent to write that kind of music and then to play it with passion than to wank at a guitar for 12 minutes playing your technical heart out.
The Pixies, to me, never wrote the kind of melodies Nirvana did. But they played with so much passion and had such an edge of experimentation to contrast the simplicity of their melodies that it's hard not to love them.
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