Odyshape

The Pixies are my favorite band so I must say I am totally 100% biased in this poll. There are just too many songs to count that I love from The Pixies. I love seeing the text of the song titles and knowing that each song means something to me. I have never really ever been all that interested in Nirvana, I really only like in Utero and their greatest hits. I did however find a lot of great music by looking up Kurt Cobains top 50 albums list.

someonecompletelyrandom

Nirvana embody so many of my favorite bands (including the Pixies) into one emotionally charged package so I chose I prefer Nirvana - but be advised I'm a massive Pixies fan.

storymilo

I honestly can't decide. I used to listen to Nirvana a whole bunch, but then I learned about the Pixies and started listening to them more. Both of them are great in different ways for me.

sidewinder

Having a hard time deciding as well. I like them both in different ways. In a way I feel like Nirvana are overrated by a bunch of people that normally listen to only what's popular, too many people think they were the greatest band in the world. Yeah ok I like them and love some of their songs, but that's pushing it. That doesn't make me like them any less, mind you.

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Ben Butler

Nirvana by an absolute country mile.

Goblin Tears

Nirvana's music and lyrics feel more intuitive and honest tbh...there is something more calculated about The Pixies, and the pretension kind of interferes with the music. I also feel that Nirvana are sonically superior. They were miserable, but it's wise misery...songs like ''Territorial Pissings'' and ''Something In The Way'' show a huge depth of knowledge that Pixies never exhibited imo.

Odyshape

I would say the exact opposite. I always found kurt cobain (while I like the guy) to be in general quite a pretentious individual. The Pixies to me seemed like they just wanted to make some good rock albums and tried really hard without much distraction.

loveissucide

Prefer Pixies, although that's because certain aspects of the Nirvana phenomenon, in particular those horrible "Kurt Cobain 1967-1994" t-shirts have put me off their music to a degree. As well as this,I consider Pixies to have a more varied discography which rewards repeated listening better than Nirvana's work.

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Werewolf

"I prefer Nirvana" I would have gone with Nirvana is way better but I've only heard the pixies once or twice, I grew up with Nirvana's music so it sticks with me.

chrisjamieson

I don't know if people are still rocking those shirts, but I certainly did in high school, because what i wore was an extension of what i felt. I had just been getting into Nirvana, and then *poof* it was gone. Someone who had been able to break into mainstream that still maintained a genuine persona. For many people, myself included, those shirts were not a gross manipulation of a dead body or capitalizing off the dead, but a coping mechanism for people who felt that they lost the only person in the visible present who had any balls to speak out against bull**** like homophobia or hatred, in a scene where that had been unprecedented. For a kid in high school, I didn't have a lot of outlets to say, "HEY! PEOPLE! THIS IS A RIDICULOUS LOSS FOR ALL OF HUMANKIND! PAY ATTENTION TO THIS!", especially being the kind of kid who would be personally affected by Cobain's lyrics. I'd like to give a bit of leeway to the new school, but by now, especially considering how things have progressed, it's probably not necessary to be wearing these shirts. People know now what we lost in Kurt Cobain, and trying to express this to audiences by wearing said shirt nowadays is presumably falling on dead ears.