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"How would I describe The Pixies? Confused..." - Black Francis

The Pixies are a highly influential American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. The band disbanded in 1993 in acrimonious circumstances but reunited in 2004. Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and Dave Lovering have been the band's continual members. 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.

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 forebearer of the alternative rock boom of the early 1990s, though they disbanded before reaping any of the benefits this might have brought them. (read all)

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Oh - stop

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind
Where is my mind
Where is my mind

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On last night's episode of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" (oh how we miss the old Conan!), Pixies stopped by and played a rousing rendition of the classic indie rock anthem "Here Comes Your Man". The band, still together...
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Wednesday night at the sold-out Hollywood Palladium was the first stateside date of what started last month in Europe--the Pixies coming back together to play Doolittle in its entirety, jumping on the "band plays famous album in full ...

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