Pixies (The Purple Tape) (compilation album) by Pixies
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Pixies (The Purple Tape) is ranked 15th best out of 26 albums by Pixies on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Pixies is Doolittle which is ranked number 18 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 36,948.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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All 10 charts that this album appears in:
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 201-300 | 22/100 | - |
| 2024 |  Wasinski | Top 75 Music Albums of 2002 | 32/75 | 3 |
| 2024 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 28/100 | 15 |
| 2023 | cicadelic | Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2002 | 79/90 | - |
| 2023 | Purplepash | Top 66 Music Albums of 2002 | 4/66 | 5 |
| 2021 | lwarner | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 74/100 | 20 |
| 2021 | lwarner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 10/100 | 18 |
| 2019 | Johnnyo | The band of band of band of bands chart | 45/59 | - |
| 2018 | GeorgeW49 | Pixies | 6/6 | - |
| 2017 |  PatrickD | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 20/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 10 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 64 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 04/21/2024 07:34 | Tuur | | 67/100 |
80/100 | 12/31/2023 16:10 | pago82 | | 71/100 |
100/100 | 05/01/2023 20:04 | SpaceMonkey | | 98/100 |
75/100 | 01/13/2023 12:53 |  Tengachaya | | 89/100 |
50/100 | 07/05/2022 03:37 |  MadhattanJack | | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.6/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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Brad1770 12/26/2017 05:11
Super interesting to hear these tracks in their most basic form , this ones only for the mega fans though
In 1987 the band sent out a 17 track tape to various record companies including 4AD who picked them up. This tape became known as 'The Purple Tape' of which 8 of the songs would make up their debut album 'Come On Pilgrim'. The remaining 9 tracks were officially released in 2002 on this album. Several of the tracks were later re-recorded for Surfer Rosa and you also get a very early version of 'Here Comes Your Man' which finally appeared on Doolittle.
The original 17 track listing was as follows:
1. Levitate Me
2. The Holiday Song
3. I've Been Tired
4. Break My Body
5. Down To The Well
6. Rock A My Soul
7. I'm Amazed
8. Build High
9. In Heaven
10. Caribou
11. Here Comes Your Man
12. Subbacultcha
13. Vamos
14. Broken Face
15. Nimrod's Son
16. Isla De Encanta
17. Ed Is Dead
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