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(Credits: Far Out \/ Discogs)<\/p>\n
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Looking back at the original run of the Pixies<\/a> requires sifting through a lot of baggage that came along later \u2013 including the posthumous contextualisation of the band as the single biggest influence on 1990s \u201calternative rock\u201d, as well as their various additional reunions and break-ups in the 21st century.<\/p>\n If frontman Black Francis, AKA Frank Black, had a playbook he was using for inspiration when it came to dissolving the Pixies in 1993, it would certainly have been the one David Byrne left behind when he unceremoniously imploded Talking Heads a few years earlier. No matter what level of status your band might have achieved, you didn\u2019t owe anybody a press conference or a farewell concert before pulling the plug. In fact, it wasn\u2019t even all that important that you discuss the matter with your bandmates ahead of time.<\/p>\n Instead, Black Francis \u2013 real name, Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV \u2013 decided to casually mention the situation to a reporter while out promoting his first solo album under the Frank Black name. Up to that point, most people thought his solo project and bassist Kim Deal\u2019s work with the Breeders were simply side projects, but alas, no, there were to be no more Pixies records.<\/p>\n Kim Deal, it\u2019s well worth noting, wasn\u2019t aware of this decision herself until receiving a fax about it, so one could certainly understand if she was more than a tad miffed. Fortunately, though, as she found herself in the midst of the surprising breakout success of the Breeders\u2019 second album, Last Splash<\/a>, Kim seemed quite low-key and content when asked to comment on Black Francis\u2019s executive decision later that year.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what kind of formalities would needed to have been done,\u201d Deal told the Toronto Star in November of \u201893, taking a drag on a cigarette while calmly collecting her thoughts. \u201cWhat was Charles supposed to do?\u201d she continued, referring to Black Francis by the decidedly less cool name he\u2019d been born with. \u201cI live in Ohio, somebody else lives on the East Coast, and two people live in Los Angeles. Were we all supposed to meet in the state of Oklahoma for a meeting?\u201d<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, Deal hadn\u2019t spoken to Black Francis since the Pixies had wrapped up a giant tour opening for U2 on their \u201cZoo TV\u201d stadium trek. For most bands, a slate of gigs like that would have been seen as the ultimate jumping-off point toward mainstream superstardom. For the Pixies, it was the end of the line, a potentially wise recognition that no good fate awaited them on a higher rung of the pop ladder.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Deal said when asked if she carried a grudge about the way the band ended<\/a>. \u201cI had a great time with the Pixies and it wasn\u2019t like we were in the middle of something. It didn\u2019t seem inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n Up to this point, a lot of people who\u2019d listened to Last Splash had assumed that Deal\u2019s song \u2018No Aloha\u2019 had been her true statement on the Pixies breakup: \u201cNo bye, no aloha,\u201d she sings on that track. \u201cGone with a rock promoter \/ A rock promoter \/ I know, I saw \/ And now may die.\u201d<\/p>\n But Kim denied this to the Toronto Star, saying she\u2019d written \u2018No Aloha\u2019 well before those events unfolded. <\/p>\n Interestingly, in a twist quite different from the David Byrne version, Frank Black Francis eventually reversed course on his decision after a decade, and the original Pixies line-up, including Deal, reformed for the typical belated cash-grab reunion tour in 2004. This time around, though, it was Deal who eventually felt like the thing had run its course, and when Francis decided to make new Pixies records, Kim jumped ship, officially exiting the band in 2013. She was replaced on the next three Pixies albums by Paz Lenchantin, but released her own long-awaited debut solo album in 2024, titled Nobody Loves You More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Discogs) Sun 28 December 2025 23:00, UK Looking back at the original run of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,203389,203390,136,203391,203392],"class_list":{"0":"post-377331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-frank-black","12":"tag-kim-deal","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-pixies","15":"tag-the-pixies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kim](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kim-Deal-1990s-Pixies-Far-Out-Magazine-02-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/a>Kim Deal performing live in the 1990s. (Credits: Far Out \/ Reddit)<\/p>\n