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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.