To appease the pixies, Guernsey folk would leave a bowl of porridge out at night.
Elvis Costello and the Pixies canceled performances, as did the British dance band Klaxon and the Gorillaz Sound System.
He admitted he had been trying to split the Pixies up much earlier.
Gil Norton, who has worked with bands like the Pixies, Counting Crows and the Foo Fighters, was brought in to whip the band into shape.
At various times The Pixies have been credited with inventing grunge.
Pop nostalgia is certainly not just a Mancunian phenomenon - everybody from The Police to The Pixies have jumped on the reunion bandwagon over the past decade.
Black has expanded his band from a four to a six-piece for this all-but live recording, while former Pixies cohort Joey Santiago adds his skewed guitar lines to two of the 12 songs.
While its first long-form studio album, Loon, showed influences of Pavement, Spoon, and the Pixies, Walk It Off showcases more personal flair, as inspired by producer David Fridmann ( The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Weezer).
Pixies frontman Frank Black has been known to cover Norman's "Six, Sixty, Six" in concert, and it's jarring to hear Black snarl, "In the midst of the war, he offered us peace" over raucous guitars.
The sweeping melodrama of The Swimmer and St Francis Dam Disaster provide the album's most emotionally-charged moments, while Robert Onion and Blast Off carry the kind of brooding, sinister undertone which used to make the Pixies so compelling.
In addition to Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, other artists appearing on Dark Night of the Soul include The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and Admiral Radley, Frank Black of Pixies, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Gerbils.
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