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The Pixies 1988 album Surfer Rosa was ranked #58 in Entainment Weekly magazine's 100 Best Albums of the Last 25 Years.
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If they all had to agree on which movie is the best it would be "The Dark Knight".
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Every member in the band is a hardcore "Batman" fan.
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The most known song by The Pixies is "Where Is My Mind".
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Black Francis was the one who brought this band together.
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When they were young their favorite show to watch was "Looney Tunes".
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The Beatles and David Bowie were both huge influences on this band.
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Radiohead, Blur and Weezer are often called followers of this band.
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Vocalist Kim Deal once worked with the band Sonic Youth.
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A sport that the band enjoys to play during their spare time is soccer.
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Their album "Doolittle" was ranked number one on RYM's best albums of the 80's.
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Their song "Where Is My Mind" was played during the ending of the movie "Fight Club".
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Nirvana were heavily influenced by the Pixies. In an MTV interview, Kurt Cobain had described studio sessions for the song "Lounge Act" as sounding like "just a giant Pixies ripoff."
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The Pixies's two albums Surfer Rosa was ranked #315 and Doolittle was ranked #226 on Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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Pixies were #81 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock.