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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/

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

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

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

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

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

Death to the Pixies (1997, 4AD)
Disc 1
1Cecilia Ann (The Surftones cover)
2Planet of Sound
3Tame
4Here Comes Your Man
5Debaser
6Wave of Mutilation
7Dig For Fire
8Caribou
9Holiday Song
10Nimrod's Son
11U-Mass
12Bone Machine
13Gigantic (single version)
14Where Is My Mind
15Velouria
16Gouge Away
17Monkey Gone To Heaven
Disc 2
1Debaser
2Rock Music
3Broken Face
4Isla De Encanta
5Hang Wire
6Dead
7Into The White
8Monkey Gone To Heaven
9Gouge Away
10Here Comes Your Man
11Allison
12Hey
13Gigantic
14Crackity Jones
15Something Against You
16Tame
17Wave of Mutilation
18Where Is My Mind?
19Ed Is Dead
20Vamos
21Tony'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)
1Wild Honey Pie (The Beatles cover)
2There Goes My Gun
3Dead
4Subbacultcha
5Manta Ray
6Is She Weird
7Ana
8Down to the Well
9Wave of Mutilation
10Letter To Memphis
11Levitate Me
12Caribou
13Monkey Gone To Heaven
14Hey
15In 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)
1River Euphrates
2Vamos (live)
3In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator song) (David Lynch cover)
4Manta Ray
5Weird at My School
6Dancing the Manta Ray
7Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)
8Into The White
9Bailey's Walk
10Make Believe
11I've Been Waiting For You (Neil Young cover)
12The Thing
13Velvety Instrumental
14Winterlong (Neil Young cover)
15Santo
16Theme From Narc! (from the video game Narc!)
17Build High
18Evil Hearted You (The Yardbirds cover, sung in Spanish)
19Letter 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)
1Broken Face
2Build High
3Rock A My Soul
4Down to the Well
5Break My Body
6I'm Amazed
7Here comes Your Man
8Subbacultcha
9In 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)
1Bone Machine
2Nimrod's Son
3Holiday Song
4Caribou
5Broken Face
6Gigantic
7Vamos
8Hey
9Monkey Gone To Heaven
10Debaser
11Gouge Away
12Wave of Mutilation
13Here Comes Your Man
14Tame
15Where Is My Mind?
16Into The White
17Velouria
18Allison
19Dig For Fire
20U-Mass
21Alec Eiffel
22Planet of Sound
23Winterlong



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