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Black Francis
real name Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
US singer, songwriter & guitarist
United States · b. 1965-04-06
Black Francis is credited on 823 releases across 191 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1987–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
823
Credits
191
Albums
5
Decades active
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American singer, songwriter and guitarist, born April 6, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
823 releases · 191 albums · active 1987–2026
- Performance · 1,826
- Other credits · 28
- Production · 6
Studios: Downtown Recorders · Carriage House Studios · Master Control, Burbank · Blackwing Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Doolittle
1989
Surfer Rosa
1988
Last Splash
1993
Bossanova
1990
Trompe Le Monde
1991
Heathen
2002
Come On Pilgrim
1987
Sleeping With Ghosts
2003
Best Of Pixies (Wave Of Mutilation)
2004
A Reality Tour
2004
Complete 'B' Sides
2001
Dark Night Of The Soul
2010
Back To Bedlam
2004
Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
1988
At The BBC
1998
Live From Coachella 2004
2022
Indie Cindy
2014
Death To The Pixies
1997
Head Carrier
2016
Eudora
2001
Pump Up The Volume (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1990
The Night The Zombies Came
2024
Doggerel
2022
Come On Pilgrim... It's Surfer Rosa
2018
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