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Pixies
Even if Pixies hadn't re-formed last year (to widespread acclaim) their legend would still be set in amber. Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and Charles Thompson brought a combination of abrasion, beauty, surrealism and squeals of feedback to what was, essentially, surf guitar-pop influenced by the likes of The Stooges and The Beach Boys. It's a line oft repeated, but without Pixies many of today's guitar bands wouldn't have realised the lengths to which rock music, both lyrically and dynamically, could be pushed. From 1987's 'Come On Pilgrim' to 1991's 'Trompe Le Monde', they were the alternative.SESSIONS
- 03/05/1988 (Maida Vale 4)
- 09/10/1988 (The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London)
- 16/04/1989 (Maida Vale 3)
- 11/06/1990 (Protocol)
- 23/06/1991 (Maida Vale 3)
FESTIVE 50 TRACKS
- Alison (Number 48 in 1990)
- Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons (Number 47 in 1991)
- Bone Machine (Number 45 in 1988)
- Dead (Number 43 in 1989)
- Debaser (Number 30 in Millennium)
- Debaser (Number 3 in 1989)
- Dig For Fire (Number 49 in 1990)
- Gigantic (Number 7 in 1988)
- Here Comes Your Man (Number 37 in 1989)
- Monkey Gone To Heaven (Number 5 in 1989)
- Motorway To Roswell (Number 46 in 1991)
- Planet Of Sound (Number 26 in 1991)
- River Euphrates (Number 39 in 1988)
- The Happening (Number 24 in 1990)
- Velouria (Number 31 in 1990)
- Wave Of Mutilation (Number 36 in 1989)
- Where Is My Mind (Number 30 in 1988)