Loudquietloud: A Film About The Pixies

The Boston-based Pixies only lasted six years, and not one of their five albums ever cracked the top 10. But the band's trademark loud-soft-loud song structures (hence the film's title), abrasive guitar licks and bizarro lyrics profoundly influenced bands as diverse and popular as Radiohead and Nirvana; Kurt Cobain, whose "Smells Like Teen Spirit" easily could have been a Pixies' cut, proudly confessed that Nirvana was deliberately trying to "rip off the Pixies." The band's acrimonious breakup in 1993 was chalked up to creative and personal differences, notably between front man Charles Thompson, aka Black Francis, and bassist/indie darling Kim Deal, and all four mem...