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[solipsistnation]

"Good Idea" sounds really a lot like Bob Mould wanted to be the Pixies.

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[zotz]

Consciously a Pixies pastiche/homage, apparently. He, after all, had been a very major influence on them.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

that's what i was going to say! he really was trying to sound like the pixies, if memory serves.

[trystero.livejournal.com]

Somewhere I have an old Musician interview between Bob and Black Francis, and it's pretty much a mutual admiration society (even if Francis does spend most of his time praising Hüsker Dü's "Green Eyes", which was a Grant Hart song rather than one of Bob's). So yeah, when I heard "A Good Idea", I took it as a very intentional homage.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i always thought the lyrics were rather un-Mouldian, but it makes sense when seen as a Black Francis homage.

Sugar kicks so much ass. Malcolm Travis is an incredible drummer.