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The Pixies. The Pixies ?Where is my mind? Where is my mind ... the movie. That
is where I first heard of the band, The Pixies. Like many ...
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The Pixies
“Where is my mind? Where is my mind?” plays at the end of the movie “Fight Club”. I think to myself that this song is the perfect end to the movie. That is where I first heard of the band, The Pixies. Like many other bands I start to like, it was because of the movies that they had been put into. I did not actually start to really listening to them until a couple of years later when I watched the movie “Fight Club” again. I downloaded “Where is my mind?” and “Debaser” and listened to them all the time. I finally decided to buy one of their albums, Surfer Rosa and loved it. I quickly found out that the Pixies have been around for the past twenty years. The thing that initially drew me to the Pixies was the rhythm of “Where is my mind?”. It is one of those songs that you can just listen to over and over again without ever getting sick of it. Sometimes I would just sit on my computer playing poker and have that song repeat over and over again and wonder. Where do the Pixies come from? How did they start out?
The beginning of the Pixies can be traced back to their lead singer, Charles Thompson a.k.a. Black Francis a.k.a. Frank Black. He was born in 1965 in Long Beach, California. By 1983, Charles was majoring in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts according to the book, Gigantic: The Story of Frank Black and the Pixies, by John Mendelssohn. He eventually wanted to start a band in college, and thus became known as the Pixies. “ From the first moment, right after they admitted to each other that they’d come to college mostly in hopes of starting bands, it somehow seemed just right that they should be playing together” (Mendelssohn 17). Joey Santiago then became the first member of the band, playing guitar. Charles Thompson then changed his name to Black Francis because he needed a stage name and thought Charles Thompson was way to traditional. Soon Kim Deal joined the band, playing bass, by...
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