The Band - Joey Santiago, Black Francis, David Lovering & Kim Deal
Most of the Pixies songs were composed and sung by Francis, whose songwriting style was characterized by a focus on Biblical violence (“Dead”, “Gouge Away”), and incest (“The Holiday Song”, “Nimrod’s Son”). He later commented on this in an interview to Melody Maker: “It’s all those characters in the Old Testament. I’m obsessed with them. Why it comes out so much I don’t know.”
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He also wrote about other offbeat subjects—such as Japanese salaryman suicides (“Wave of Mutilation”) and earthquakes (“Here Comes Your Man”), and in the band’s early works (the Come On Pilgrim era), he included references to Christian themes (“Levitate Me”). Later, as the band’s career progressed, he began to focus on sci-fi concepts and themes such as aliens (“Motorway to Roswell”) and unidentified flying objects (“The Happening”).
Deal sang lead vocals on “Gigantic” and the band’s latest composition, “Bam Thwok,” both of which she wrote, as well as on “Silver,” co-written with Francis; she also sang lead vocals on the Francis-written “Into the White” and the Neil Young cover “I’ve Been Waiting For You.” Lovering sang lead vocals on “La La Love You” and “Make Believe”; both songs were written by Francis.
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