Pixies(2002)

In March 1987 Pixies recorded an 18 track demo which became known as The Purple Tape. Eight of the tracks from these sessions were released in 1987 as the band's debut, Come On Pilgrim , one (a cover of Larry Norman's Watch What You're Doing) remained unused, but the remaining nine were put together for this 2002 release. Some of the tracks had been re recorded and used in the interim.

The Breeders- Last Splash (1993)

The first incarnation of The Breeders was a folk rock group formed by twins Kim and Kelley Deal in the 1970’s.
In 1988 the name was revived for a project involving Kim and the Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly , spawned when the Pixies and Throwing Muses were touring Europe together.They were billed as a‘Boston girl super-group’.
By the time this, their second and most successful lp was recorded, Donelly had left to form Belly and the line up was as follows:

Kim Deal - guitar, vocals, moog, casiotone
Kelley Deal - guitar, Kenmore 12-stitch, vocals, (lead vocals on I Just Wanna Get Along)
Josephine Wiggs - bass, double bass, vocals, cello, (drums on Roi)
Jim MacPherson - drums

Pixies- Peel Session, May 16th 1988

Black Francis - guitar, vocals
David Lovering - drums
Mrs John Murphy (Kim Deal) - bass, vocals
Joey Santiago- guitar
Pixies were the alternative band of the late 80’s. This is their first session for John Peel.

Pixies- C'mon Pilgrim (1987)

Come on pilgrim, you know He loves you…Christian rock singer Larry Norman.
Come On Pilgrim was the Pixies’ debut, released on the 4AD label in September 1987.
In 1997 Gary Smith, who produced the EP commented on the band's influence on alternative rock and their legacy :
I've heard it said about The Velvet Underground that while not a lot of people bought their albums, everyone who did started a band. I think this is largely true about the Pixies as well. ... It became a kind of new pop formula and, within a short while, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was charging up the charts and even the members of Nirvana said later that it sounded for all the world like a Pixies song.
Kurt Cobain:
I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it ... 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. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.
The songs, with their dark references to incest, sex, religion and mutilation read like the footnotes to a David Lynch text. The music can be mellow at times but is threaded with seismic and breathtaking burts of spleen.
Line up:
• Black Francis – vocals, guitars
• David Lovering – drums
• Mrs. John Murphy* – bass, vocals
• Joey Santiago – lead guitars

*Mrs. John Murphy is Kim Deal