Pixies at the BBC is a compilation of live BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 radio sessions by the American

United States

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 alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Pixies. Released by 4AD

4AD

4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today...

 on July 6, 1998 in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records

Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

 on July 14, 1998 in the United States—five years after the band's initial split—it was recorded over several sessions between 1988 and 1991 at the BBC. The album is characterized by its raw, under-produced sound.

Track listing

All songs were written by Black Francis except tracks 1 and 15. The final track, "(In Heaven) Lady in the Radiator Song" was written by Peter Ivers

Peter Ivers

Peter Scott Ivers was an American musician, best known as the host of New Wave Theatre.Ivers was born in Illinois, but raised in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and then Harvard University, majoring in classical languages, but chose a career in...

 and David Lynch

David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...

 for Eraserhead

Eraserhead

Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist film and the first feature film of David Lynch, who wrote, produced and directed. Lynch began working on the film at the AFI Conservatory, which gave him a $10,000 grant to make the film after he had begun working there following his 1971 move to Los Angeles...

.

1. "Wild Honey Pie
   Wild Honey Pie
   "Wild Honey Pie" is a short song by The Beatles written by Paul McCartney and released on The Beatles .-Background:McCartney is the sole performer on the recording...
   
   " (J. Lennon & P. McCartney
   Lennon/McCartney
   The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations in history...
   
   ) – 1:52
2. "There Goes My Gun" – 1:25
3. "Dead" – 1:30
4. "Subbacultcha" – 2:08
5. "Manta Ray" – 2:15
6. "Is She Weird" – 2:52
7. "Ana" – 2:14
8. "Down to the Well" – 2:31
9. "Wave of Mutilation" – 2:22
10. "Letter to Memphis" – 2:33
11. "Levitate Me" – 2:18
12. "Caribou" – 3:18
13. "Monkey Gone to Heaven
    Monkey Gone to Heaven
    "Monkey Gone to Heaven" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies and is the seventh track on their 1989 album Doolittle. The song was written and sung by frontman Black Francis and was produced by Gil Norton. Referencing environmentalism and biblical numerology, the song's lyrics...
    
    " – 2:57
14. "Hey" – 3:17
15. "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
    In Heaven
    "In Heaven" is a song originally part of the soundtrack to the David Lynch film Eraserhead, where it is sung by the Lady in the Radiator...
    
    " (P. Ivers
    Peter Ivers
    Peter Scott Ivers was an American musician, best known as the host of New Wave Theatre.Ivers was born in Illinois, but raised in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and then Harvard University, majoring in classical languages, but chose a career in...
    
     & D. Lynch
    David Lynch
    David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
    
    ) – 1:51

Recording and transmission dates

• Tracks 1, 11, 12, 14 & 15 - Recorded for the John Peel
  John Peel
  John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
  
   show, May 3, 1988, first transmitted May 16, 1988.
• Tracks 2, 3, & 5 - Recorded for the John Peel show, October 9, 1988, first transmitted October 18, 1988.
• Tracks 4 & 10 - Recorded for the John Peel show, June 23, 1991, first transmitted August 4, 1991.
• Track 6 - Recorded for the John Peel show, June 11, 1990, first transmitted August 10, 1990.
• Tracks 7 & 13 - Recorded for the Mark Goodier
  Mark Goodier
  -Early career:Mark Goodier was born in Rhodesia . His family moved to the UK when he was a child, eventually settling in Scotland. He was educated at George Heriot's School, in Edinburgh. He became a mobile DJ in Edinburgh and then joined local station Radio Forth at the age of 19...
  
   show, August 18, 1990, first transmitted August 20, 1990.
• Tracks 8 & 9 - Recorded for the John Peel show, April 16, 1989, first transmitted May 2, 1989.

External links

• Pixies at the BBC at Last.fm
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• Pixies at the BBC at Google Music