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The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985.[1] The band disbanded in 1993 under acrimonious circumstances but reunited in 2004. Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering have been the band's continual members. The Pixies found only modest success in their home country, but were significantly more successful in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, although never achieving mainstream success with their studio albums.[2]
The Pixies' music was heavily influenced by punk and surf rock, and while highly melodic, was capable of being tremendously abrasive at the same time. Francis was the band's primary songwriter and singer and had a distinctly desperate, yowling delivery. He typically wrote cryptic songs about offbeat subjects, such as UFOs and surrealism. References to mental instability, violent Biblical imagery, physical injury, and incest feature in many of the band's songs.
The group is frequently posited as the immediate forebear of the alternative rock boom of the 1990s, though they disbanded before reaping any of the benefits this might have brought them.[3][4] Avowed fan Kurt Cobain's acknowledgement of the debt Nirvana owed to the Pixies,[5] along with similar tributes by other alternative bands, ensured that the Pixies' legacy and influence grew substantially in the years following their demise.[6][7]
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[edit] The Pixies - Hey (Live)
[edit] Discography
- Come On Pilgrim (1987)
- Surfer Rosa (1988)
- Doolittle (1989)
- Bossanova (1990)
- Trompe le Monde (1991)
[edit] See also
- List of alternative rock artists
- Music of Massachusetts
- Music of the United States (1980s to the present)
- Timeline of alternative rock
[edit] References
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Pixies". Allmusic. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "American Alternative Rock/Post-Punk". Allmusic. Retrieved on 2006-05-20.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Pixies > Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved on 2006-09-10.
- ^ Hodges, Jacqueline (2004-05-03). "Rock & Alt Review - The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation". BBC. Retrieved on 2006-10-18. "Then along came the Surfer Rosa album where, without realising it at the time, a pre-Nevermind Steve Albini produced the blueprint for grunge and a legend was born."
- ^ "Kurt Cobain on Pixies and The Breeders". Melody Maker (1992-08-29). Retrieved on 2006-09-02.
- ^ Biel, Jean-Michel; Gourraud, Christophe. "They Said About the Pixies...". Alec Eiffel. Retrieved on 2006-09-11.
- ^ Biel, Jean-Michel; Gourraud, Christophe. "Homages to the Pixies". Alec Eiffel. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
- Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies. (2005). ISBN 0-312-34007-9
- Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies. (2008). ISBN 978-0753513835
- Matula, Theodore. "Contextualizing musical rhetoric: A critical reading of the Pixies' 'Rock Music'" Communication Studies. 51 (3, Fall), 218–237.
- Sisario, Ben. Doolittle. Continuum, 2006 (33⅓ series). ISBN 0-8264-1774-4.
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Categories: Pixies (band) | 1980s music groups | 4AD artists | Alternative musical groups | American alternative rock music groups | American indie rock groups | Boston, Massachusetts musical groups | Musical groups established in 1985 | Musical groups established in 2004 | Musical groups disestablished in 1993 | Musical groups disestablished in 2007 | Quartets | Reunited musical groups
