Fact: The Pixies were the best rock band to walk the earth. Then U2 invited them on tour, Nirvana stole their loud-quiet-loud blueprint, and before anyone knew it the whole thing fell apart. But after ...

Like the Ramones, the Pixies took stage and had little in the way of breaks between songs. There was no banter, no awkward joking and no meandering dialogue while anyone tuned or tried to read a set ...