Collaborations
Pierson has collaborated with the following bands and singers:
- Bill Withers with Cindy Wilson and Debbie Harry on the 1978 album 'Bout Love.
- The Ramones, in the early 1980s on the song, "Chop Suey", with Cindy Wilson and Debbie Harry, the title is available as bonus track on The Ramones' re-release CD "Pleasant Dreams".
- Cindy, Kate and Keith were part of the group "Melon" and recorded 2 songs ("I Will Call You" and "Honeydew") for a Japanese TV show titled "Snakeman Show". The soundtrack LP from 1980 or CD from 1988 was only released in Japan.
- Fred Schneider, on his Fred Schneider & the Shake Society solo album from 1984 on songs "Monster", "Summer in Hell", "I'm Gonna Haunt You" and "Boonga (The New Jersey Caveman)".
- Iggy Pop, on the 1990 Top-20 song "Candy".
- R.E.M., on the songs "Shiny Happy People", "Country Feedback" and "Me in Honey" from the 1991 album Out of Time, and "Fretless" from the 1991 soundtrack Until the End of the World.
- Matthew Sweet, on the 1989 album Earth.
- With Cindy Wilson on their common cover of the McFadden & Whitehead's song "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now", recorded for the soundtrack The Associate in 1996
- The soundtrack for The Rugrats Movie, released in 1998 contains the track "The World Is Something New To Me" and features, Kate, Fred and Cindy along with other artists.
- "We Are Family", a single released to collect money for the victims of the September 11 attacks features Kate and Fred in the chorus and on the DVD documentation.
- Jay Ungar & Molly Mason have Kate singing on their 2003 album Relax Your Mind, on the track "Bad Attitude"
- Junior Senior, on the song "Take My Time" from the 2005 album Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (with Cindy Wilson)
- Peter Jöback, duet on the song "Sing" from the 2009 album East Side Stories
- David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, on the song "The Whole Man" from the 2010 album Here Lies Love.
- She was also a member of the Japanese group NiNa with Yuki Isoya and co-wrote and performed the opening theme song to the anime Arc the Lad.
- Appeared in Blondie's music video for "Mother".
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