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Complete 'B' Sides

Complete 'B' Sides is a compilation album of songs by American alternative rock band Pixies. It features the B-sides for seven out of eight of their UK singles, as well as for one USA single, from the 1980s and 1990s. The eighth, "Letter to Memphis", had no B-sides. These singles are:"Gigantic" (1988) "Monkey Gone to Heaven" (1989) "Here Comes Your Man" (1989) "Velouria" (1990) "Dig for Fire" (1990) "Planet of Sound" (1991) "Alec Eiffel" (USA) (1991)

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Complete 'B' Sides
Compilation album by
Pixies
ReleasedMay 3, 2001 (2001-05-03)
Recorded1988–1991
StudioVarious studios
GenreAlternative rock
Length48:35
Label4AD
Producer
Pixies compilations chronology
Pixies at the BBC
(1998) 		Complete 'B' Sides
(2001) 		Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic89/1001
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarHalf star2
BlenderStarStarStar3
Drowned in Sound10/104
NME7/105
Pitchfork Media9.6/106

Complete 'B' Sides is a compilation album of songs by American alternative rock band Pixies. It features the B-sides for seven out of eight of their UK singles, as well as for one USA single, from the 1980s and 1990s. The eighth, "Letter to Memphis", had no B-sides. These singles are:

  1. "Gigantic" (1988)
  2. "Monkey Gone to Heaven" (1989)
  3. "Here Comes Your Man" (1989)
  4. "Velouria" (1990)
  5. "Dig for Fire" (1990)
  6. "Planet of Sound" (1991)
  7. "Alec Eiffel" (USA) (1991)

The album's booklet also features commentaries for each song by Pixies frontman Black Francis. Of "Velvety Instrumental Version", he writes, "The title implies that there was a version with lyrics, but there wasn't." A non-instrumental version, titled simply "Velvety", would later appear on Frank Black and the Catholics' 2002 album, Devil's Workshop.

Track listing

All songs written by Black Francis unless otherwise noted.

  1. "River Euphrates" – 3:23
  2. "Vamos" (Live) – 3:28
  3. "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)" (Live) (Peter Ivers, David Lynch) – 1:46
  4. "Manta Ray" – 2:39
  5. "Weird at My School" – 1:59
  6. "Dancing the Manta Ray" – 2:13
  7. "Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)" – 3:00
  8. "Into the White"  – 4:42
  9. "Bailey's Walk" – 2:23
  10. "Make Believe" – 1:54
  11. "I've Been Waiting for You" (Neil Young) – 2:45
  12. "The Thing" – 1:58
  13. "Velvety Instrumental Version" – 2:04
  14. "Winterlong" (Neil Young) – 3:07
  15. "Santo" – 2:16
  16. "Theme from Narc" (Brian L. Schmidt) – 1:48
  17. "Build High" – 1:42
  18. "Evil Hearted You" (Graham Gouldman) – 2:37
  19. "Letter to Memphis" (Instrumental) – 2:43
References

References

  1. "Complete B-sides review". Metacritic. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Dolan, Jon. "Complete 'B' Sides — Blender". Blender. Archived from the original on April 23, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2009.
  4. Extance, Andy (May 4, 2001). "Pixies: Complete 'B' Sides". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  5. NME review
  6. Pitchfork Media review
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