* The cult American rock band the Pixies have an album track on their 1991 album Trompe le Monde named " Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons ", on an album filled with references to space, aliens and other ' out of this world ' subjects.

Artists including David Bowie, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, U2, The Strokes, Weezer, and Pavement have cited admiration of or influence by the Pixies.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band — or at least in a Pixies cover band.

The influence of Pixies on Nirvana was noted by Kurt Cobain, who commented in a Rolling Stone interview, " I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band — or at least a Pixies cover band.

" In her later teenage years, she became a fan of American indie rock bands including Pixies, Television and Slint, though not as many critics have suspected, Patti Smith ; a frequent comparison that Harvey dismisses as " lazy journalism.

Although the label held worldwide distribution rights to the Pixies, they did not have access to a distributor outside the UK.

Q < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Ian Cranna wrote that " what sets the Pixies apart are their sudden bursts of memorable pop melody ," and noted that " they could have a bright future ahead of them.

( who regularly covered " Academy Fight Song " on their Green tour ), Sonic Youth, Drive Like Jehu, Throwing Muses, Yo La Tengo, Fugazi, Pixies, Sugar, Guided by Voices, Catherine Wheel, Graham Coxon, Pegboy and Moby-the last four of which have covered Conley's " That's When I Reach for My Revolver ".

One British scholar stated his belief that " Pixies were evidently a smaller race, and, from the greater obscurity of the … tales about them, I believe them to have been an earlier race.

Several other artists — such as Henry Rollins, Courtney Love, The Pixies, Japandroids, Cienfuegos, Joshua Hayward of The Horrors and Mark Lanegan of The Screaming Trees, who covered Miami's opening track " Carry Home "— have been influenced by The Gun Club.

She then offered to join the Pixies, but Santiago replied, " We already have a chick in the band.

Nirvana, The Beatles, The Pixies and the Ramones have been cited as primary influences by the band's members, as well as lesser influences like Air and Guitar Wolf.

The band have recorded versions of songs by Nirvana, Aphex Twin, Blondie, Pink Floyd, Ornette Coleman, Pixies, Rush, Tears for Fears, Neil Young, David Bowie, Yes, Interpol, and Black Sabbath.

The band have variously been compared the Elastica, Sonic Youth, The Pretenders, PJ Harvey and the Pixies.

To that end, they have been compared to Mould's previous work as a member of Sugar and Hüsker Dü, as well as fellow Georgia-based rock acts such as Guadalcanal Diary and Let's Active and alternative rock pioneers Pixies and The Replacements.

Several artists have collaborated with Freeland: His more recent album Cope ™ features Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe playing drums, Twiggy Ramirez in the bass, Joey Santiago from The Pixies and Tony Bevilacqua of The Distillers / Spinnerette played guitar, with Alex Metric in production.

Among the many major groups and artists who have recorded there over the years are the Pixies, Radiohead, Superdrag, Come, Juliana Hatfield, Throwing Muses, Belly, Tanya Donelly, Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, The Lemonheads, Volcano Suns, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Elliott Smith, Eleventh Dream Day, The Connells, The Specials, Blake Babies, Weezer, Yo La Tengo, Warren Zevon, The Shods, Spore, Blameless, and many more.

Esquivel shoes have been spotted on The Shins, Bruno Mars, The Killers and the Pixies.

" Ivo Watts-Russell stated if Black Francis had been possibly persuaded to release the version of the song recorded during the session for the " Gigantic " single — which he described as " totally streamlined and ready for radio "— that " maybe if a major label company was able to convince people to take a more commercial route, maybe Pixies would have sold a whole bunch more records than they did.

They battled at Buckland St. Mary ; the Pixies were victorious and still visit the area, whilst the Fairies are said to have left after their loss.

Notable acts that have performed at previous editions include Sonic Youth, The Mission, Ramones, Nirvana, The Sisters of Mercy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Metallica, Green Day, Blink 182, Guns N ' Roses, Anti-Flag, Pixies, Daft Punk, The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails and Iron Maiden.

* Gibson Thunderbird – more recently, her favorite bass that she did not use on the Pixies reunion, feeling she had to " sound like the records ".

Mason left the group in 1967 and was replaced by Debra Swisher ( previously of The Pixies Three ), who had recently recorded and released her own version of " Thank You And Goodnight " on the ABC-Paramount Records subsidiary, Boom Records.

More recently she mentioned Leonard Cohen as a songwriting hero, citing her then current listening favorites as Lucinda Williams and Joan Wasser, and listing Boston-based groups like the Dambuilders, Pixies, and Count Zero as past favorites.

As American alternative bands like Sonic Youth, which had grown out of the No Wave scene, and Boston's Pixies started to gain larger audiences, major labels sought to capitalize on the underground market that had been sustained by hardcore punk for years.

The Pixies ' musical style has been described as " an unorthodox marriage of surf music and punk rock, ... characterized by Black's bristling lyrics and hackle-raising caterwaul, Kim Deal's whispered harmonies and waspy basslines, Joey Santiago's fragile guitar, and the persistent flush of David Lovering's drums.

Kim Deal generally plays four-string solid-body bass guitars and always uses a pick, particularly the " green Dunlops with the little turtle on them ", although since the Pixies ' reunion she has also been using custom green Dunlops with " KIM " written on them.

Josh Brigham, one of the guitarists and the only founding member remaining during the recording of the album, has said: " Our music has always been spacey and heavy, and we use those roots, combined with our love of grunge-era Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr., HUM, and Pixies, we add some bigger, heavier riffs.

Glass ( also a County Upper School alumnus ) had been writing a fanzine entitled Planet Of Sound ( after the Pixies song of the same name ) alongside local singer-songwriter Greg McDonald, who at that time was fronting folk-influenced band The Hip Down ; Glass briefly joined The Hip Down on bass guitar in late 2000.

Their music, hard to classify, has been described as " what you might expect if you managed to merge Pere Ubu and Pixies with a touch of Kraftwerk ".

Pods sound has been seen by critics as an amalgam of the Pixies ' and the Throwing Muses ' music ; a combination of elliptical punk, angular pop, shattered tempos and screeching dynamics.

It is currently out of print, having been replaced by the 2004 compilation Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies.

The Pixies rehearsed throughout 1986, and began performing around Boston in late 1986 and during 1987.

He toured with the Pixies throughout 2005 and 2006, while performing at the Magic Castle on Friday nights with The Unholy Three.

As part of Channel 4's program The JD Set, Wheeler worked with Emmy The Great, The Crookes, And So I Watch You From Afar and Ma Mentor, joining each band in covering songs by Pixies, and then performing at London's XOYO on 24 March 2011.

In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Doolittle, the Pixies launched a tour in October 2009 where they performed the album track-for-track, including the associated B-sides.

No music videos were released from Come on Pilgrim or Surfer Rosa, but from Doolittle onwards, the following videos were made: " Monkey Gone To Heaven ", " Here Comes Your Man ", " Velouria ", " Dig For Fire ", " Allison ", " Alec Eiffel ", " Head On ", and " Debaser "; these were later released on the 2004 DVD Pixies.

Following Doolittle and the Pixies ' resulting hiatus, she formed The Breeders with Tanya Donelly and Josephine Wiggs.

*" Tame " ( song ), a song by the Pixies from their 1989 album Doolittle

Doolittle is the second studio album from the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 1989 on 4AD.

Doolittle was the Pixies ' first international release, with Elektra Records acting as the album's distributor in the United States and PolyGram in Canada.

Pixies released two singles from Doolittle, " Here Comes Your Man " and " Monkey Gone to Heaven ", both of which were chart successes on the US chart for Modern Rock Tracks.

After the Pixies finished touring obligations for their second album Doolittle ( 1989 ) in 1990, band members Black Francis, Joey Santiago, and David Lovering moved from Boston to Los Angeles.

" NME noted that the album's production " leans towards the harsh garage grunge of Surfer Rosa, although the songs retain the strong melodies of Doolittle ," and said that " Bossanova is the composite Pixies LP.

After the band's next two albums, 1988's Surfer Rosa and 1989's Doolittle, the relationship between the band members became strained ; the Pixies were constantly touring and had released three albums in two years.

* Doolittle ( album ), a 1989 album by Pixies

** Pixies – Doolittle

* " Hey ", by the Pixies from Doolittle

The original, upbeat version of " Wave of Mutilation " appears on Doolittle, the third studio album by Pixies.

" Debaser " is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies, and is the first song on their 1989 album Doolittle.

" Monkey Gone to Heaven " is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies and is the seventh track on their 1989 album Doolittle.