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The concert is from the 1988 show at the Town and Country in London. A short show, and it fails to span the Pixies whole catalog. However this 47 minute show is top quality from a young group of Pixies.

The music video's are all of the bands official releases. "Debaser", "Dig For Fire/Allison", "Here Comes Your Man", "Head On", "Monkey Gone To Heaven", and "Velouria".

There is also the inclusion of "Gouge" a 30 minute documentry about the Pixies. It includes interviews from the band members themselves and other musicians such as Thom Yorke, David Bowie, and Bono.

All that is left is "unreleased" backstage footage. Expect some crazy stuff.

All in all this DVD will be great. I already have my pre-order in.

One of the greatest music DVD's I've ever seen
This DVD is splitted in 4 sections and all of them rock. First, the concert (Sex and Death Tour) is composed of songs mainly of Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa (when Pixies were at the peak in Europe). This is the best part of the DVD. Second, the "On The Road" short is pretty funny and Kim Deal is there most of the time. Third, "Gouge" is an awsome detail-oriented documentary with interviews with the band members and with other well respected musicians such as David Bowie and Thom Yorke. And finally fourth, the videos. This part offers 7 Pixies videos.
Overall this DVD is great! The sound and video quality is amazing. A very good release from 4AD.

For those of us who couldn't be there
There is a lot that isn't needed here. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle say most of what I need to know about the Pixies, and I have little use for the music videos or the "On The Road" documentary. The latter is like a bad home movie, with glimpses of our heroes, but virtually no content. It was hard to force my way through it. Unlike some below, it didn't strike me as the "Kim Deal cam", though Kim was more talkative than the others when on camera. Similarly, the "Gouge" documentary, though far superior to the "On the Road" piece, is dispensable. There are famous British musicians making insightful comments about the music we loved 15 years ago, but this is vital music to listen to, not to analyze to death. David Bowie is remarkably articulate, PJ Harvey always good to hear from, but they, the rest of the musician/fans in this piece, and the Pixies themselves fail to say much you probably haven't already thought about the music.

It's the music itself, in the "Live" piece from 1988 that makes this DVD a good buy for the price. The Pixies are caught at their youthful peak in performances I'm glad to have on DVD, never having had the chance to see them back then, and fairly certain the reunion tour won't recapture the magic. Buy this if you want to see a great Pixies concert from their early days, and consider the rest icing.