Pixies at the BBC

by Pixies

Pixies at the BBC cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 6 July 1998
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:16
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Dave Lovering, Black Francis, Vaughan Oliver, Kim Deal, Dale Griffin, Joey Santiago, Mike Robinson, David Lynch, Tim Vary, Ken Goes, Chris Staley, Lennon-McCartney, Peter Ivers, Miti Adhikari

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fifteen tracks drawn from six BBC sessions recorded between 1988 and 1991, five of them for John Peel, catch the band in raw, under-produced form. Alongside early versions of 'Caribou' and 'Hey' sit covers of the Beatles' 'Wild Honey Pie' and the Eraserhead song 'In Heaven'.

Genres

Descriptors: live, distorted, guitars, noisy, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Wild Honey Pie (1:51)
  2. There Goes My Gun (2:18)
  3. Dead (3:18)
  4. Subbacultcha (3:17)
  5. Manta Ray (1:49)
  6. Is She Weird (1:24)
  7. Ana (1:29)
  8. Down To The Well (2:14)
  9. Wave Of Mutilation (2:31)
  10. Letter To Memphis (2:22)
  11. Levitate Me (2:52)
  12. Caribou (2:14)
  13. Monkey Gone To Heaven (2:57)
  14. Hey (2:08)
  15. (In Heaven) Lady In The Radiator Song (2:32)

Credits

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