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Complete 'B' Sides

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic89/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic3.5/5 stars[2]
Blender3/5 stars[3]
Drowned in Sound10/10[4]
NME7/10[5]
Pitchfork Media9.6/10[6]

Complete 'B' Sides is a compilation record by the Pixies. It features the B-sides for seven out of eight of their UK singles from the 1980s and 1990s and one U.S. single. 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" (U.S.) (1991)

The album's booklet also features commentaries for each song by Pixies frontman Frank Black. 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 Schmidt) – 1:48
  17. "Build High" – 1:42
  18. "Evil Hearted You" (The Yardbirds) – 2:37
  19. "Letter to Memphis" (Instrumental) – 2:43

References

  1. ^ "Complete B-sides review". Metacritic. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Dolan, Jon. "Complete 'B' Sides — Blender". Blender. Archived from the original on 2009-04-23. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  4. ^ Extance, Andy (4 May 2001). "Pixies: Complete 'B' Sides". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  5. ^ NME review
  6. ^ Pitchfork Media review

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