Pixies United States

The best album credited to Pixies is Doolittle which is ranked number 18 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 37,843.

Pixies is ranked number 17 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 62,444.

Pixies official website: http://www.pixiesmusic.com

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Pixies best albums

The following albums by Pixies are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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1989
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1988
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13,666
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1990
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1991
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2,288
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1987
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2,108
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1988
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975
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2019
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300
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2014
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263
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9.
Complete 'B' Sides 
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2001
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131
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2017
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Total albums: 26. Page 1 of 3

This may not be a complete discography for Pixies.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

Pixies bestography composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 0 0%
1970s 0 0%
1980s 4 0%
1990s 4 0%
2000s 4 0%
2010s 6 0%
2020s 8 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 19 73%
Yes 7 27%
Live? Albums %
No 15 58%
Yes 11 42%

Pixies best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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1.
Rating: 93 (937 votes)Comments: 20
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(from the album Surfer Rosa)
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Rating: 92 (926 votes)Comments: 22
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 92 (915 votes)Comments: 21
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 91 (807 votes)Comments: 19
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 91 (864 votes)Comments: 14
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 90 (703 votes)Comments: 14
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 89 (725 votes)Comments: 14
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 89 (453 votes)Comments: 10
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(from the album Surfer Rosa)
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Rating: 89 (422 votes)Comments: 7
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(from the album Surfer Rosa)
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Rating: 88 (237 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album Bossanova)
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Rating: 87 (174 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Come On Pilgrim)
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Rating: 87 (619 votes)Comments: 16
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 86 (370 votes)Comments: 8
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(from the album Surfer Rosa)
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Rating: 86 (150 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Trompe Le Monde)
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Rating: 86 (621 votes)Comments: 11
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 86 (650 votes)Comments: 16
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(from the album Doolittle)
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Rating: 85 (203 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Bossanova)
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Rating: 85 (355 votes)Comments: 6
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(from the album Surfer Rosa)
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Rating: 85 (325 votes)Comments: 5
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(from the album Surfer Rosa)
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Rating: 85 (119 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Come On Pilgrim)
N.B. Tracks must have received at least 3 ratings to appear in the above list.

Pixies ratings

Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 394 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 86.3/100, a mean average of 85.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.5/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 14.5.

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From 07/15/2023 20:29
My personal 'Pixies' ranking albums :

1- Doolitle (1989) => 83.7
2- Come On Pilgrim (EP 1987) => 80.6
3- Surfer Rosa (1988) => 80
4- Bossanova (1990) => 79.3
5- Beneath the Eyrie (2019) => 74.6
5- Doggerel (2022) => 74.6
7- Head Carrier (2016) => 73.8
8- Indie Cindy (2014) => 72.9
9- Trompe le monde (1991) => 72

A lot of very good songs (46 tracks rated 80 or more), but if I had to create my 'Very Best of Pixies', it would be made of 20 tracks (that i rated 85+) :

Caribou (1987) => 85
The Holiday Song (1987) => 85
Levitate Me (1987) => 85
Bone Machine (1988) => 85
Break My Body (1988) => 85
Gigantic (1988) => 90
River Euphrates (1988) => 85
Where Is My Mind? (1988) => 90
Debaser (1989) => 85
Wave of Mutilation (1989) => 90
Here Comes Your Man (1989) => 90
Monkey Gone to Heaven (1989) => 90
La La Love You (1989) => 85
Hey (1989) => 95
Gouge Away (1989) => 90
Velouria (1990) => 90
Is She Weird (1990) => 85
Dig for Fire (1990) => 85
Alex Eiffel (1991) => 85
Catfish Kate (2019) => 85
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From 03/11/2021 14:07
These guys aren't my favorite, but you can hear their influence in most alternative rock in some way or another. Also, the song debaser is absolutely phenomenal.
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From 06/13/2020 17:54
Good band for me on on step with massive attack very good music which I first heard in Fight Club.
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90/100
From 04/25/2019 19:14
You've gotta love a band who's lead singer can scream just as well now as he did in thew eighties, they're one of the best live shows I've ever seen, amazing songs, amazing musicians, amazing vocals, their new albums aren't great but when you have 5 classics under your belt it's excusable
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From 02/07/2019 14:58
As one YouTube comment I once saw puts it, being a Pixies fan is something else. "No one else knows what it feels like".
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From 11/30/2018 04:27
Doolittle has no bad songs. All killer, no filler. The rest of the band's discography is good - Surfer Rosa is great - but nothing beats Doolittle for me.
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From 11/07/2018 19:16
Do new albums hurt the overall rating of a band?? If they were left to their 80's & 90's they would be perfect but the new stuff....EEEEK
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From 08/04/2018 18:24
Pixies are one of the few bands where I sit and wonder how they came up with this brilliant noise which is equal parts soft loud melodic surf rock. I don’t understand reviewers who criticize Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde they are great albums in their own right. Their brief early career is hugely influential and I have been a bit hesitant due to the standard set but I will give their latest stuff a chance.
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