List of Pixies songs

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This is a comprehensive list of songs by the Pixies, an American alternative rock band. This list includes album tracks, B-sides, demos, live recordings and remixes of songs written by one or more of the band's members or songs covered by the band; it does not include songs that members of the Pixies wrote, recorded or performed with Frank Black and the Catholics, The Breeders, The Martinis, or any solo projects.

Contents

[edit] Album tracks

Song Album
"Alec Eiffel" Trompe le Monde
"Allison" Bossanova
"All Over the World" Bossanova
"Ana" Bossanova
"Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons" Trompe le Monde
"Blown Away" Bossanova
"Bone Machine" Surfer Rosa
"Break My Body" Surfer Rosa
"Broken Face" Surfer Rosa
"Cactus" Surfer Rosa
"Caribou" Come on Pilgrim
"Cecilia Ann" Bossanova
"Crackity Jones" Doolittle
"Dead" Doolittle
"Debaser" Doolittle
"Dig for Fire" Bossanova
"Distance Equals Rate Times Time" Trompe le Monde
"Down to the Well" Bossanova
"Ed Is Dead" Come on Pilgrim
"Gigantic" Surfer Rosa
"Gouge Away" Doolittle
"Hang Wire" Bossanova
"Havalina" Bossanova
"Head On" Trompe le Monde
"Here Comes Your Man" Doolittle
"Hey" Doolittle
"I Bleed" Doolittle
"I'm Amazed" Surfer Rosa
"Isla de Encanta" Come on Pilgrim
"Is She Weird" Bossanova
"I've Been Tired" Come on Pilgrim
"La La Love You" Doolittle
"Letter to Memphis" Trompe le Monde
"Levitate Me" Come on Pilgrim
"Lovely Day" Trompe le Monde
"Mr. Grieves" Doolittle
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" Doolittle
"Motorway to Roswell" Trompe le Monde
"Nimrod's Son" Come on Pilgrim
"No. 13 Baby" Doolittle
"Oh My Golly!" Surfer Rosa
"Palace of the Brine" Trompe le Monde
"Planet of Sound" Trompe le Monde
"River Euphrates" Surfer Rosa
"Rock A My Soul" Pixies
"Rock Music" Bossanova
"Silver" Doolittle
"Something Against You" Surfer Rosa
"Space (I Believe In)" Trompe le Monde
"Stormy Weather" Bossanova
"Subbacultcha" Trompe le Monde
"Tame" Doolittle
"The Happening" Bossanova
"The Holiday Song" Come on Pilgrim
"There Goes My Gun" Doolittle
"The Navajo Know" Trompe le Monde
"The Sad Punk" Trompe le Monde
"Tony's Theme" Surfer Rosa
"Trompe le Monde" Trompe le Monde
"U-Mass" Trompe le Monde
"Vamos" Come on Pilgrim
"Velouria" Bossanova
"Wave of Mutilation" Doolittle
"Where Is My Mind?" Surfer Rosa

[edit] Remixes and alternate versions

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"Here Comes Your Man" Pixies

[edit] Live recordings

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[edit] B-sides

Year Song Comments A-side
1988 "River Euphrates" Re-recorded with Gil Norton. "Gigantic"
"Vamos (live)"
"In Heaven (live)" Cover of Eraserhead track.
1989 "Manta Ray" Sole B-side on UK 7" vinyl. "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
"Weird At My School"
"Dancing the Manta Ray"
1989 "Into The White" Sole B-side on UK 7" vinyl. "Here Comes Your Man"
"Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)"
"Bailey's Walk"
1990 "I've Been Waiting For You" Neil Young cover; sole B-side on UK 7" vinyl. "Velouria"
"Make Believe"
"The Thing" Part of Bossanova album track "The Happening"
1990 "Winterlong" Cover of Neil Young; sole B-side on UK 7" vinyl and cassette. "Dig for Fire"
"Velvety Instrumental Version"
"Santo"
1991 "Build High" Sole B-side on UK 7" vinyl "Planet of Sound"
"Theme from NARC"
"Evil Hearted You" Yardbirds cover in Spanish
1991 "Motorway To Roswell" Sole B-side on UK 7" vinyl "Alec Eiffel"
"Planet of Sound (live)"
"Tame (live)"
1997 "Bone Machine" "Debaser (studio)"
"Gigantic"
"Isla de Encanta"
1997 "The Holiday Song" "Debaser (live)"
"Cactus"
"Nimrod's Son"
1997 "No. 13 Baby" "Debaser (demo)"

[edit] Demos

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[edit] Miscellaneous

These songs have not appeared on an official Pixies album or single.

Year Song Comments
1990 "Born in Chicago" Paul Butterfield Blues Band cover.
1991 "I Can't Forget" Leonard Cohen cover.
2004 "Bam Thwok" The Pixies' reunion single, released through the iTunes Music Store.
"Ain't That Pretty At All" Warren Zevon cover.

[edit] Unreleased songs

There are two Pixies songs which have never been released:

  • "Watch What You're Doing". The Pixies version of the Larry Norman cover was recorded as the eighteenth track of the band's demo tape, but was never released. Gary Smith commented in 2004 that he had discovered a tape of the song "sitting on a shelf in my house".[1]
  • "Boom Chick A Boom". Performed by the band early in their career. The only recorded performance of the song was made during a WJUL (University of Lowell) radio broadcast in December 1986.[2]

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Frank, Ganz, 2001. p. 68
  2. ^ Biel, Jean-Michel; Gourraud, Christophe. Pixies Discography - Bootlegs. AlecEiffel.net. Retrieved on 2007-09-08.
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