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• The ultimate “best of” the most influential U.S. indie band.
  In 1986 the Boston Times published an ad in which Charles Thompson (alias Black Francis) and Joey Santiago were looking for a bassist and a drummer who would like both Hsker D and Peter, Paul & Mary. Kim Deal (on the first two records still as Mrs. John Murphey) and David Lovering answered the ad, and the Pixies were complete. With their impetuous rock, the brute tempo changes and the sawing guitar riffs they became the indie rock band. Kurt Cobain admitted that he could not have written a song like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” without the inspiration of the Pixies: “I was trying to write the ultimate pop songs, I was trying to rip off the Pixies”. It remains to be seen whether he succeeded. It’s a fact that the Pixies are using Debaser, Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone To Heaven and Where Is My Mind? Indie classics.
  

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• Artist: Pixies Label: 4AD Format: LP Units: 2 Country: US Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Alternative Rock

• A1 Bone Machine
  A2 Nimrod’S Son
  A3 The Holiday Song
  A4 Caribou
  A5 Broken Face
  A6 Gigantic
  B1 Vamos
  B2 Hey
  B3 Monkey Gone To Heaven
  B4 Debaser
  B5 Gouge Away
  B6 Wave Of Mutilation
  C1 Here Comes Your Man
  C2 Tame
  C3 Where Is My Mind?
  C4 Into The White
  C5 Velouria
  D1 Allison
  D2 Dig For Fire
  D3 U-Mass
  D4 Alec Eiffel
  D5 Planet Of Sound
  D6 Winterlong