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A close look at the music & career of The Pixies.

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Recent performance of Winterlong in Philadelphia 

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Breeders | Fortunately Gone

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Pixies |Brick Is Red(Demo)

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Another example of the cut lyrics from Brick Is Red

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Head On single artwork

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The Pixies - (Cameo Theater) Miami,Florida 11.12.91 (Complete Show) The Pixies - (live) Cameo Theatre Miami,Florida 11.12.91 (8mm Master) SET LIST Where Is My Mind? Wave Of Mutilation Nimrod's Son The Holiday Song Ana Subbacultcha Mr. Grieves Isla De Encanta Rock Music Distance Equals Rate Times Time Crackity Jones The Sad Punk Tame Velouria The Happening Motorway To Roswell Gouge Away The Navajo Know Monkey Gone To Heaven Is She Weird Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons Planet Of Sound Head On U-Mass

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Pixies | Letter to Memphis

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In my own personal opinion, this is one of the most overlooked songs in the Pixies’ catalog, despite the fact that from our current perspective it sounds more like a Frank Black song with an extraordinary backup band. It’s got a strong pop melody, a catchy hook, and is one of the very few seemingly complete songs on Trompe Le Monde. The song itself is about a letter to a girl Francis never wrote and regretted. It’s partially a take on Chuck Berry’s Memphis, Tennessee

The day since I met her I can't believe it's true She came here from memphis Across the ocean sailing And I saw her and I pleaded Why do you come so far and she said Trying to get to you How I tried to get you Trying to get you I'm sending a letter I'll send it right to you I'll send it to memphis I know that someday Everything I needed and I wanted Used to be that my head was haunted And all these sirens they make me mad And all this violence it brings me down I feel strong I feel lucky Trying to get to you Said I'm going to get to you Trying to get to you

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Pixies | Ed Is Dead

Track 17: The Purple Tape

Track 4: Come On Pilgrim

Producer Paul Kolderie:

“Once I asked him (Black Francis) what “Ed Is Dead” was about and I remember him telling me, “Oh, it’s about this girl, this weird kinda girl, she was retarded and didn’t have any friends and she would ride her bike around with a transistor radio strapped to the handlebars blasting music” So that’s why there are lyrics like “With music on her bars.” So I said, “okay, I understand that, but what does it have to do with Ed being dead?” and he said, “Well, nothing, I just liked how it sounds.” And that blew my mind. It’s like, here is this guy that’s writing these songs and they are really catchy, but it has no meaning really whatsoever. The hook of it is completely unrelated to what starts you off on the journey of the song and at one point they’re just going “E-I-D!”

Black Francis:

If anything is a big influence on me, it’s David Lynch. He’s really into presenting something but not explaining it. It’s just, “This is an image, this is an idea, isn’t it cool?” The way I understand it, that’s the only way to be surreal. To be not connected with it, except that it came from your brain, somewhere way back here”

Her head is in a bitter way Her brain's on fire She's just looking for the perfect wave It's her brain's desire I think of her when I walk the strand On this true hermosa night Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah Ed is dead (x3) Uh-hu Hu Ed is dead She's just riding in stupid bliss With music on her bars Her face burning in the LA sun She got no, got no fear of cars I'll dedicate my strand cruiser to the memory of mm Ed is dead (x3) Uh-hu, Uh-hu Ed is, yeah Ed is Ed is dead Ed is, yeah Ed is Ed is dead Uh-hu, Uh-hu Ed is, Ed Ed is dead Ed, jahjah jahjah Ed is dead E-I-D, E-I-D, E-I-D No no no no nooo

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Since it seems virtually impossible to upload music to tumblr anymore, I hope you find this collection of music even more useful than before. 

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Pixies | Bone Machine

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The entire reason Steve Albini produced this record was because a warehouse worker suggested to Ivo Watts one day that he should have Albini record a Pixies album due to how good Albini’s bands’ records had sounded. They were originally going to record this record at Fort Apache as well, but Ken Goes and Gary Smith (and Kim Deal) got into an argument over payment for The Purple Tape (Smith had paid for the sessions largely at his own expense and was asking for royalties or payment, their manager Ken Goes wasn’t into it, Smith told him to go fuck himself), and they moved to Q Division due to a suggestion from Fort Apache’s engineer Paul Kolderie. They got $10,000 to record the album and Albini took $1,500 with his usual refusal of royalties.

The band began recording in December of ‘87, and it came out in the March of ‘88. The only single was Gigantic with a River Euphrates B-side. 

The album was not available for purchase in the US. It had to be imported from the UK. It charted in the UK and spent 60 weeks on the indie chart, peaking at number 2. It was released in the US in August of 88, and was certified gold 17 years later in 2005. It did not chart.  

[This is a song to Carol] You were in the Japanese fast food And I dropped off your Japanese lover And you're going to the beach all day You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me You're looking like you got some sun Your blistered lips have got a kiss The kiss of [bitch?] like everyone Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh oh Your bone's got a little machine You're the bone machine I was talking to preachy preach about kissy kiss He bought me a soda, he bought me a soda, he bought me a soda And he tried to molest me in the parking lot Yup yup yup yup I make you gray You make me hard Your Irish skin looks Mexican Our love is rice and beans and horse's lard Your bone's got a little machine You're the bone machine Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh oh (x4) Your bone's got a little machine

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Pixies | Tame (Live)

Track 4

Recorded during the Brixton Academy concert.

Got hips like cinderella Must be having a good shame Talking sweet about nothing Cookie I think you're Tame (x4) I'm making good friends with you When you're shaking your good frame Fall on your face in those bad shoes Lying there like you're Tame (x8) Uh huh huh (x24) Tame (x8)

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Pixies | Head On

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As soon as I get my head round you I come around catching sparks of you I get a little electric charge from you A second hand living, it just won't do And the way I feel tonight I could die and I wouldn't mind And there's something going on inside Makes you wanna feel Makes you wanna try Makes you blow the stars from the sky And I can't stand up I can't cool down I can't get my head off the ground As soon as I get my head round you I come around catching sparks of you And all I ever got from you Was all I ever took from you And the world could die in pain And I wouldn't feel no shame And there's nothing holding me to blame Makes you wanna feel Makes you wanna try Makes you blow the stars from the sky And I'm taking myself to the dirty part of town Where all my troubles can be found I said yeah, yeah, yeah I'm taking myself to the dirty part of town Where all my troubles can be found Makes you wanna feel Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky

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Pixies | Cactus

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Sitting here, wishing on a cement floor Just wishing that I had just something you wore I'd put it on when I go lonely Will you take off your dress and send it to me? I miss your kissing and I miss your head And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead Run outside in the desert heat Make your dress all wet and send it to me I miss your soup and I miss your bread And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead So spill your breakfast and drip your wine Just wear that dress when you dine Sitting here, wishing on a cement floor Just wishing that I had just something you wore Bloody your hands on a cactus tree Wipe it on your dress and send it to me Sitting here, wishing on a cement floor Just wishing that I had just something you wore

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The Breeders | Cannonball

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Perhaps the only solo pixies song to achieve massive mainstream popularity, it was a smash hit. 

Check check check  One two  Spitting in a wishing well  Blown to hell crash  I’m the last splash  I know you little libertine  I know you’re a real coocoo  Want you coocoo cannonball  Want you coocoo cannonball  Hey now in the shade, in the shade  Hey now in the shade, in the shade  I know you little libertine  I know you’re a cannonball  I’ll be your whatever you want  The bong in this reggae song  Hey now in the shade  Hey now in the shade  Want you coocoo cannonball  Want you coocoo cannonball  Spitting in a wishing well  Blown to hell crash  I’m the last splash  I’ll be your whatever you want  The bong in this reggae song  Want you coocoo cannonball  Want you coocoo cannonball  Hey now in the shade, in the shade  Hey now in the shade, in the shade

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Pixies |Brick Is Red(Demo)

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Another example of the cut lyrics from Brick Is Red