Pixies - Pixies at the BBC - 3 LPs

The Pixies 
Pixies at the BBC
4AD 0635 - 3 LP set 

Pixies at the BBC has been released for the first time on triple black vinyl. Between 1988 and 1991 - during the band’s 4AD years – Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC, five for John Peel and one for Mark Goodier. Catching the raw energy of the band’s live performances, these sessions felt immediately noteworthy, time-stamping a moment when Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering were motoring out front.
Among the twenty-four tracks they recorded in this time period (inc. two doubles - ‘Allison’ and ‘Wave of Mutilation’) are favorites from mini-album Come on Pilgrim and three of their four 4AD studio albums. Also recorded were three covers; reworks of The Beatles’ ‘Wild Honey Pie’, Eraserhead’s ‘(In Heaven) Lady in the Radiator Song’ and The Beach Boys’ ‘Hang On To Your Ego’, a track Black Francis covered a few years later on his debut Frank Black solo album.
Differing from the original 1998 compilation, this reboot sees all tracks from the six sessions now included and presented in chronological order. Something fans have been asking for. The sleeve is also new with a wonderful black and gold design by Chris Bigg now adorning it. A design that really stands out, Chris pays loving tribute here to the band’s late-visual director Vaughan Oliver, using unseen archival Pixies imagery
by long-time collaborator Simon Larbalestier.

     Contains; 
Levitete Me 
Hey 
In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) 
Wild Honey Pie 
Caribou 
Dead Tame 
There Goes My Gun 
Manta Ray 
Down to the Well
Into the White 
Wave of Mutilation 
Allison 
Velouria 
Hang on to Your Ego 
Is She Weird 
Monkey Gone to Heaven 
Ana 
Allison 
Wave of Mytilation 
Palace of the Brine 
Letter to Memphis 
Motorway to Roswell 
Subbachitcha