I love both the pixies and nirvana. But I have been listening to nirvana for way longer and I'm more attached to their music. Neither is better than the other, but I gotta give this to nirvana.

I like both. Pixies were more together than Nirvana. Equally good in their own right:yeah:

I love both of them in their own way.

I lived in Boston when the Pixies were still playing the local club circuit and I saw them at least a dozen times and they were a hellaciously good live band.

A better either/or proposition would be the Pixies vs. Mission of Burma, another band that played the Boston club circuit in the '80s. Mission of Burma predated the Pixies by about 5 years and started the post-punk scene in Boston that nurtured the artistic development of the Pixies in the late '80s. All things considered, I think Mission of Burma was a better live band but Mission of Burma was over and done with before anybody outside of New England noticed them. The reunited Mission of Burma that re-formed in 2004 doesn't play with the same fury as the band did in 1980, even though the three principal MoB players are in the reunited edition of the band.

It's hard for me to compare the Pixies to Nirvana because I never had an opportunity to see Nirvana live before Kurt Cobain's death and I think it's not possible to fully evaluate a band without attending a live performance. Kurt Cobain was a talented songwriter and I like Nirvana's albums almost as much as I like the Pixies' and Mission of Burma's studio recordings.

I voted for Nirvana bc the name is familiar and my rationalizing is the more well known something is the better they are. From personal experience I've found this to be true with musicians.

That's some strange rationalising you did there. So who do you think is better; Pixies, Nirvana or One Direction?

Using the same elimination process who do you think I'll choose?

Just what I thought. There's no way one musical artist can be objectively better than another. Besides how do you measure popularity when some artists are more popular in other countries than the one you live in? The point of the comparison is whose music YOU enjoy more.

Wrong sir WRONG. In this case, the less well known band is better.

The Pixies vs Nirvana? I think I will go for Nirvana.