people have been here since january first, nineteen hundred and ninety-seven.

Updated 3 . 30 .98

welcome. this is my page, obviously, where i crawl cozily into my alotted web space and wax philisophical about the delightful-yet-defunct band - the pixies.

they truly were one of the most influential bands of the eighties. they emerged from the rotten swill and synth-pop that america loved to love so much. they took all the bullshit musical ability and threw it out the window. this is not to say they could not play their instruments though. they simply knew that it's not the difficulty of what you play as much as the sound that you produce. this is what the pixies brought - new sound. they brought together hard-core acoustic punk, sixties surf, and a frantic mindset as obvious in songs like "santo" and "oh my golly!" black francis could manage to migrate from a pleasant croon to a piercing shriek in no time flat.

where would we be without the pixies influence? guitar players would still be sitting at home drilling through their major scales and modes trying to figure out something pointlessly difficult to play. to digress to a previous subject, many bands today would sacrifice a good sound just to show off the complicated material they can play without the wise influence of the pixies. without them we wouldn't even have nirvana's "smells like teen spirit," a song and sound that would end up defining most of the music of the nineties. cobain specifically cited the pixies' "gouge away" as an inspiration for that song.

well, i'm sure you are sick of hearing me rant about them, so, if you will, take some time to peruse my humble homage to my favorite band of all time.

thanks,
david r

My ranking of Pixies albums as of 7.17.97:
• 1.) Sci-Fi Surf ( don't ask )
• 2.) Bossanova
• 3.) Doolittle
• 4.) Live at the Reading Festival Bootleg Liverpool, UK 5.3.89
• 5.) Surfer Rosa
• 6.) Come on Pilgrim
• 7.) Trompe le Monde
• 8.) The Dream is over (Solo Black Francis performing twently plus Pixies songs)
• 9.) Give me Ecstasy
• 10.) Situation Red
• 11.) Velouria Live
• 12.) Here Comes Your Man Single
• 13.) Monkey Gone to Heaven Single
• 14.) All over the World
• 15.) Paradise, Boston 5.18.88

"Velouria Live," "All Over the World," "The Dream is over," and "Situation Red" I got from Kiss The Stone Records. Unfortunately they were recently shut down ( about 2 weeks after I got my CDs). I'm always looking for more but they're getting even harder to find. I think I came a little to late. The first time I even heard the Pixies was two years after they broke up.

Need lyrics? Here they are.
• Surfer Rosa and Come on Pilgrim
• Doolittle
• Monkey Gone to Heaven Single
• Bossanova
• Trompe Le Monde
• Sci Fi Surf This will have lots of rare lyrics. They're not quite complete yet but you can see what is there.

Also if you know of a graphic of a spaceman that is rendered much in the fasion of the Trompe Le Monde art please send it to me. It was on the back of a shirt they sold when they opened for U2 in the Early 90's. Please send it.

Cute stuff

Pictures of the band donated by one of their adoring fans.