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 31,677.

Pixies is ranked number 18 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 54,162.

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Pixies best albums

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

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Pixies At The BBC 
Live compilation
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1998
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58
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2010
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37
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2018
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35
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2017
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29
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2020
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2021
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2025
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4
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2022
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Total albums: 12. Page 1 of 2
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 10 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 21 75%
Yes 7 25%
Live? Albums %
No 16 57%
Yes 12 43%

Pixies best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums Help 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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Average Rating: 94 (958 votes)Comments: View 20
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Debaser
(from the album Doolittle)
Average Rating: 92 (933 votes)Comments: View 21
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Average Rating: 92 (943 votes)Comments: View 22
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Average Rating: 91 (880 votes)Comments: View 14
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Hey
(from the album Doolittle)
Average Rating: 91 (822 votes)Comments: View 19
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Gouge Away
(from the album Doolittle)
Average Rating: 90 (719 votes)Comments: View 14
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Average Rating: 89 (740 votes)Comments: View 14
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Gigantic
(from the album Surfer Rosa)
Average Rating: 89 (471 votes)Comments: View 10
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Velouria
(from the album Bossanova)
Average Rating: 89 (247 votes)Comments: View 4
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Bone Machine
(from the album Surfer Rosa)
Average Rating: 89 (440 votes)Comments: View 7
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Caribou
(from the album Come On Pilgrim)
Average Rating: 87 (182 votes)Comments: View 1
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Mr. Grieves
(from the album Doolittle)
Average Rating: 86 (633 votes)Comments: View 16
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Average Rating: 86 (388 votes)Comments: View 8
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Average Rating: 86 (156 votes)Comments: View 2
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Dig For Fire
(from the album Bossanova)
Average Rating: 86 (215 votes)Comments: View 1
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I Bleed
(from the album Doolittle)
Average Rating: 86 (638 votes)Comments: View 11
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Tame
(from the album Doolittle)
Average Rating: 86 (665 votes)Comments: View 16
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Break My Body
(from the album Surfer Rosa)
Average Rating: 85 (373 votes)Comments: View 6
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Average Rating: 85 (129 votes)Comments: View 0
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Cactus
(from the album Surfer Rosa)
Average Rating: 85 (341 votes)Comments: View 5
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Pixies ratings

Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 398 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 86.2/100, a mean average of 85.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.5/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 14.6.

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65/100
From 11/09/2025 14:53 | #311622
Not my bag but people respect their influence so I can appreciate that.
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From 07/15/2023 20:29 | #298149
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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35/100
From 05/13/2021 13:09 | #269683
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From 03/11/2021 14:07 | #267231
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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85/100
From 06/13/2020 17:54 | #253461
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 | #235490
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 | #231505
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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65/100
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From 11/30/2018 04:27 | #225906
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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90/100
From 11/07/2018 19:16 | #224056
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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