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The Pixies

MUSIC

Indie rock band, active 1986-93. Reformed in 2004.

Official Website:
http://www.4ad.com/artists/catalogue/pixies/

Location:
Boston, MA

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frank Black
Singer/Songwriter
4-Apr-1965   Pixies frontman
Kim Deal
Bassist
10-Jun-1961   Pixies, Breeders bassist
David Lovering
Drummer
6-Dec-1961   Pixies drummer
Joey Santiago
Guitarist
10-Jun-1965   The Pixies' lead guitarist

DISCOGRAPHY

Come On Pilgrim (1987, 4AD)
1 Caribou
2 Vamos
3 Isla De Encanta
4 Ed Is Dead
5 The Holiday Song
6 Nimrod's Son
7 I've Been Tired
8 Levitate Me

Surfer Rosa (1988, 4AD)
1 Bone Machine
2 Break My Body
3 Something Against You
4 Broken Face
5 Gigantic
6 River Euphrates
7 Where Is My Mind?
8 Cactus
9 Tony's Theme
10 Oh My Golly!
11 Vamos
12 I'm Amazed
13 Brick Is Red

Doolittle (1989, 4AD)
1 Debaser
2 Tame
3 Wave Of Mutilation
4 I Bleed
5 Here Comes Your Man
6 Dead
7 Monkey Gone To Heaven
8 Mr. Grieves
9 Crackity Jones
10 La La Love You
11 No. 13 Baby
12 There Goes My Gun
13 Hey
14 Silver
15 Gouge Away

Bossanova (1990, 4AD)
1 Cecilia Ann (The Surftones cover)
2 Rock Music
3 Velouria
4 Allison
5 Is She Weird
6 Ana
7 All Over The World
8 Dig For Fire
9 Down To The Well
10 The Happening
11 Blown Away
12 Hang Wire
13 Stormy Weather
14 Havalina

Trompe Le Monde (1991, 4AD)
1 Trompe Le Monde
2 Planet Of Sound
3 Alec Eiffel
4 The Sad Punk
5 Head On (The Jesus and Mary Chain cover)
6 U-Mass
7 Palace of the Brine
8 Letter to Memphis
9 Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
10 Space (I Believe In)
11 Subbacultcha
12 Distance Equals Rate Times Time
13 Lovely Day
14 Motorway to Roswell
15 The Navajo Know

Death to the Pixies (1997, 4AD)
Disc 1
1 Cecilia Ann (The Surftones cover)
2 Planet of Sound
3 Tame
4 Here Comes Your Man
5 Debaser
6 Wave of Mutilation
7 Dig For Fire
8 Caribou
9 Holiday Song
10 Nimrod's Son
11 U-Mass
12 Bone Machine
13 Gigantic (single version)
14 Where Is My Mind
15 Velouria
16 Gouge Away
17 Monkey Gone To Heaven
Disc 2
1 Debaser
2 Rock Music
3 Broken Face
4 Isla De Encanta
5 Hang Wire
6 Dead
7 Into The White
8 Monkey Gone To Heaven
9 Gouge Away
10 Here Comes Your Man
11 Allison
12 Hey
13 Gigantic
14 Crackity Jones
15 Something Against You
16 Tame
17 Wave of Mutilation
18 Where Is My Mind?
19 Ed Is Dead
20 Vamos
21 Tony's Theme

Disc 1 is a best-of collection; Disc 2 is a live disc from a 1990 concert in the Netherlands.

Pixies at the BBC (1998, 4AD)
1 Wild Honey Pie (The Beatles cover)
2 There Goes My Gun
3 Dead
4 Subbacultcha
5 Manta Ray
6 Is She Weird
7 Ana
8 Down to the Well
9 Wave of Mutilation
10 Letter To Memphis
11 Levitate Me
12 Caribou
13 Monkey Gone To Heaven
14 Hey
15 In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator song) (David Lynch cover)

Collection of BBC radio sessions. In Heaven is a cover of the song sung by the lady in the radiator in David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977).

Complete B-Sides (2001, 4AD)
1 River Euphrates
2 Vamos (live)
3 In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator song) (David Lynch cover)
4 Manta Ray
5 Weird at My School
6 Dancing the Manta Ray
7 Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)
8 Into The White
9 Bailey's Walk
10 Make Believe
11 I've Been Waiting For You (Neil Young cover)
12 The Thing
13 Velvety Instrumental
14 Winterlong (Neil Young cover)
15 Santo
16 Theme From Narc! (from the video game Narc!)
17 Build High
18 Evil Hearted You (The Yardbirds cover, sung in Spanish)
19 Letter to Memphis (instrumental)

Make Believe is a tribute to Debbie Gibson. Theme From Narc! is, in fact, a cover of the main theme from the Nintendo video game Narc! (Acclaim, 1989).

Pixies (The Purple Tape) (2002, spinArt)
1 Broken Face
2 Build High
3 Rock A My Soul
4 Down to the Well
5 Break My Body
6 I'm Amazed
7 Here comes Your Man
8 Subbacultcha
9 In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator song) (David Lynch cover)

The songs on this album were originally recorded as the band's original demo, the remainder of which became the band's first album, Come On Pilgrim.

Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies (2004)
1 Bone Machine
2 Nimrod's Son
3 Holiday Song
4 Caribou
5 Broken Face
6 Gigantic
7 Vamos
8 Hey
9 Monkey Gone To Heaven
10 Debaser
11 Gouge Away
12 Wave of Mutilation
13 Here Comes Your Man
14 Tame
15 Where Is My Mind?
16 Into The White
17 Velouria
18 Allison
19 Dig For Fire
20 U-Mass
21 Alec Eiffel
22 Planet of Sound
23 Winterlong



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