Pixies

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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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.

From StefanR10 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.

From Keatownrodriguez 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

From DeusExMackia 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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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.

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

From Brandon8 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.