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Pixies (Music)
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Pixies are a highly influential 1980s Alternative Rock band that reached a moderate level of popularity but enjoyed widespread critical acclaim. Famous fans include: Isaac Brock, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Weezer, Bono, and Billy Corgan, among others.The band's original members were guitarist/vocalist Black Francis, bassist/vocalist Kim Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering. Their musical style is distinguished by its fusion of Surf Rock melodies with Punk Rock aesthetics and (later on) Psychedelic Rock influences, being capable of both earworminess and brutal aggression.Pixies' recording career started in 1987 with the release of the Come on Pilgrim EP on British label 4AD Records. They released four more albums on the same label (with Elektra Records handling them in the US, starting with Doolittle) until officially disbanding in 1993 due to exhaustion after supporting U2 on the Zoo TV tour and intra-band tension, mostly over Francis marginalizing the others' contributions (especially Deal's). Francis changed his name to Frank Black and started a solo career, Deal found success with The Breeders, Santiago worked in soundtracks and his band The Martinis and Lovering alternated drumming with a hobby as a magician. The band reunited in 2004, took a hiatus in 2007, re-reunited in 2009 and is still touring today. In 2013, the group (with the exception of Kim, who officially left halfway through the year) released their first new material in over 20 years: the single Bagboy and the EP aptly titled EP1. An EP2 and EP3 followed in 2014, and the three EPs were compiled into the band's first album in 23 years: Indie Cindy. The band's current bassist is former A Perfect Circle member Paz Lenchantin, who joined the group in 2014.Despite the name, there is no Manic Pixie Dream Girl in the band, though Kim Deal's fans may beg to differ. Joey found the word in a dictionary, and they liked it enough to use it as a band name.Kim Deal also sang the duet, a cover of Chris Bell's "You And Your Sister" with Tanya Donelly (The Breeders) on the album Blood (1991) by This Mortal Coil.Their discography's length is inversely proportional to its influence: Come on Pilgrim EP (1987): A sort of "teaser" for their actual career, produced by Gary Smith. One of its tunes, the Spanish-language-wrecking "Vamos", was re-recorded for the next album. Surfer Rosa (1988): Their raw Grunge album, produced by Steve Albini, with probably the largest predominance of more "comedic"/light-hearted tunes in their catalogue, like the goofy "Tony's Theme", the Bilingual Bonus "Oh My Golly!" (which contains the Title Drop) or the comic malevolence of "Something Against You". Source of the band's first single, "Gigantic", notable for being written and sung mainly by Kim Deal (before Francis' ego kicked in), and the word salady meditation on fish behaviour "Where Is My Mind?", which somehow became very popular for movie soundtracks (most notably playing at the end of Fight Club). More recently, All Elite Wrestling bought the rights to the latter song for use as Orange Cassidy's entrance music. Doolittle (1989): Where they hooked up with Gil Norton, who stuck with them for the remainder of their career. Has a more polished production, slightly more nightmarish in spots especially when Francis showcases his awesome lungpower ("Tame"), contains their Black Sheep Hit "Here Comes Your Man" and the offbeat ballad about pollution "Monkey Gone to Heaven", which provides the page quote. This was their first album after a deal with signed with Elektra Records, who would distribute their albums in the USA while 4AD handled the UK. Deal doesn't get a tune for herself, but she sings lead alongside Francis on "I Bleed" and "Silver", and provides plenty of backing vocals ("There Goes My Gun", "Monkey Gone to Heaven", "Hey"). Also, Lovering got prodded into singing "La La Love You". Bossanova (1990): Recorded after the band and Norton moved to Los Angeles, this is the album where Francis took complete control of the band and marginalised Deal (no cowrites or lead vocals; she's largely relegated to backing vocals on the choruses of "Is She Weird", "Ana" and "Havalina"). A much shinier, heavily Surf Rock-influenced effort ("Cecilia Ann") whose lyrical obsession with space and UFOs complements its Psychedelic Rock sound. Contains the successful single "Dig for Fire", "Velouria" (famous for its slapdash, slow-motion abusing video) and some of their mellower material ("Ana", "Havalina"). It got their best chart performance in the UK (#3), while Elektra's resources meant that they started getting extra attention back home. Trompe le Monde (1991): Maintaining the shiny spacey sound of the previous effort but much more Heavy Metal-influenced (Francis attributed this to recording next door to Ozzy Osbourne), showcases the band at their most badass (the furiously fast "Planet of Sound", "Head On" cover, the cowbell-fortified Take That! "U-Mass"), while making enough room for melodic ("Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons") and mellow material ("The Navajo Know"). Former Pere Ubu keyboardist Eric Drew Feldman contributes keyboards and went on to collaborate with Francis and PJ Harvey. Complete 'B' Sides (2001): Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Well, almost: it's missing two live performances. EP1 (2013): First major release in over twenty years and the first of multiple other planned EPs, following the departure of Deal and the release of single Bagboy earlier in the year. Despite mixed reviews from critics, it was largely embraced by the fanbase. EP2 (2014): They weren't lying when they said there'd be multiple EPs. Worth noting that where Pitchfork gave 1 a 1.0, 2 got a 2.0. EP3 (2014): It keeps happening. Includes Bagboy, because for some reason neither of the last two EPs did. Indie Cindy (2014): The first real, full album by the band since ''Trompe Le Monde'. Collects all twelve tracks from the previous three EPs into one convenient, 12-song package. Head Carrier (2016): Previously a tour-only bassist, Paz Lenchantin joins the band in studio for a full album. Beneath the Eyrie (2019): Same line-up as the last record, but this time there are three songs co-written by Lenchantin as opposed to just one on Carrier. Many of the songs have a gothic feel, inspired by the former church where they recorded the album. Doggerel (2022) | |
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Gratuitous Spanish | |
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Gratuitous Spanish: Plenty, and sometimes often clumsy. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Every album up to Trompe Le Monde was titled after a random line from one of the songs. Come On Pilgrim — "Come on pilgrim, you know he loves you" in "Levitate Me". Surfer Rosa — "Besando chichando con Surfer Rosa" in "Oh My Golly". Doolittle — "Pray for the man in the middle, one who talks like Doolittle" in "Mr. Grieves". Bossanova — "Every morning and every day, I bossanova with you" in "Hang Wire". | |
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Theremin | |
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Theremin: Used in "Velouria", "The Happening" and the B-side "The Thing" (which is a preliminary sketch of "The Happening"). | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: Black Francis loves allusions to the Old Testament. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: The lyrics of "Oh My Golly!" | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: Black Francis gleefully sings about molestation, Eye Scream and violent Old Testament stories, among other things, though he toned it down on later albums. | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: A lot of their songs are under two minutes long - just between the first four albums, Complete 'B' Sides, and Come On Pilgrim, you have nineteen examples. "Allison", at 1:18, takes the cake, though. | |
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Boléro Effect | |
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Boléro Effect: Despite the self-deprecating page quote above, they have a few songs with crescendi. "River Euphrates" and "No. 13 Baby" are probably the most noteworthy. "Gouge Away" also employs crescendi before each verse. | |
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Money Song | |
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Money Song: Although Francis dismissed the lyrics as nonsense, "Dig for Fire" can be interpreted as an explicit inversion of this trope, as both the destitute old woman in the first verse and the Rip Van Winkle archetype in the second explicitly reject the pursuit of "the mother lode" (i.e., material wealth) in favour of "digging for fire" (i.e., pursuing their own passions). | |
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This Is a Song | |
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This Is a Song about a superhero named Tony! It's called "Tony's Theme!" *rocking ensues* | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: Several songs, such as "River Euphrates", "No. 13 Baby", "There Goes My Gun", and "Velouria", make copious use of 7/4 or 14/4. "Brick Is Red" has an opening with 10/4 (4+4+2) and 14/4 (4+4+4+2), and "Oh My Golly" and "Alec Eiffel" use 11/4 at various points. "Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons" is almost entirely in 9/4. This is undoubtedly nowhere near a complete list; this trope could almost be considered part of the band's Signature Style, though it doesn't appear in every song. Black Francis has noted that he listened to a lot of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Captain Beefheart growing up; this may be part of the explanation for his frequent use of this trope. | |
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Pop Punk | |
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Pop Punk: An Ur-Example with their melodic songs cranked up to eleven. | |
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Looped Lyrics | |
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Looped Lyrics: Used to awesome effect in "Stormy Weather." And to badass effect in the chorus of "Planet of Sound". | |
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Strictly Formula | |
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Strictly Formula: A quiet verse, A LOUD CHORUS, then another quiet verse. The formula is inverted by "Bone Machine", which has loud verses and a quiet chorus. "Gouge Away" also inverts it. | |
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The Eleven O'Clock Number | |
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The Eleven O'Clock Number: Utilized very well to serve as the climax of several albums. The haunting, quiet "Silver" builds up a 'calm-before-the-storm' feeling before the final track on Doolittle, "Gouge Away." "Stormy Weather," the penultimate track on Bossanova, builds up into a massive climax before dissolving into the quiet "Havalina." The epic "Motorway to Roswell" is the penultimate track on Trompe le Monde. | |
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Spelling Song | |
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Spelling Song: The band spells out "P-I-X-I-E-S" in the bridge of "Cactus". Look at the lyrics to "Ana", look at the first letter in each line of "Ana", what does it spell? S-U-R-F-E-R "I've Been Tired" ends with them spelling out the word "tired." Kim Deal spells out "Velouria" in background of the song of the same name towards its end. | |
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Compilation Re-release | |
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Compilation Rerelease: The first CD releases of Surfer Rosa included Come On Pilgrim. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: "Broken Face," though it's far from the only example. | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: "Gigantic," "Into the White," and the cover of "I've Been Waiting For You" have lead vocals by Kim Deal (and she does backing vocals on quite a few tunes), while "La La Love You" and the B-side "Make Believe" are sung by David Lovering (who also adds backing vocals to the previously-mentioned "I've Been Waiting for You"). And from 2004 up until the point she officially left the band, they tended to have Kim sing "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)" live instead of Francis. "All I Think About Now" features Paz Lenchantin on lead vocals. Black Francis asked her to sing it, and she agreed to it so long as he wrote the lyrics and the song was a "thank you letter" to Kim Deal. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Doolittle begins and ends with a song about Eye Scream. | |
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Three Chords and the Truth | |
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Three Chords and the Truth: Kind of zigzagged, since they usually have fairly simple chorus/verse/bridge structure without all that many chords, but they often use unusual chord progressions and rhythms (see Uncommon Time below), and some of their songs ("No. 13 Baby", "All Over the World", "The Happening", etc.) use highly unusual song structures as well. ("No. 13 Baby" is practically a proto-Post-Rock song.) | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly Shouting: As mentioned under Strictly Formula, this band has a lot of quiet verses that lead suddenly and jarringly into a Careful with That Axe chorus. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Kim Deal. | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: There's a video on YouTube of the audience shouting the lyrics to "Stormy Weather" during (appropriately enough) a performance hit by thunderstorm. When they perform "Break My Body," the audience sometimes overpowers the band during the chorus. "Dig for Fire" can be an example with its call-and-response chorus. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Gary Smith, Steve Albini and Gil Norton. | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: "Gigantic". Black Is Bigger in Bed: Also "Gigantic". | |
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Pedophile Priest | |
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Pedophile Priest: In "Bone Machine". | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: Black Francis likes writing about: The Bible, science-fiction, and surrealism, not necessarily in that order. With frequent references to squicky behaviour (mutilation, Eye Scream, incest, the works), and just plain non-sequitur lines. | |
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Lead Bassist | |
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Lead Bassist: Kim Deal's bass playing and backing vocals were a crucial element of the band's classic-era albums. She also had her fair share of Step Up to the Microphone songs. | |
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Where da White Women At? | |
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Where da White Women At?: The subject of "Gigantic" is an interracial couple. The lyrics were inspired by a movie with this subject named Crimes Of The Heart. | |
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Changed for the Video | |
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Changed for the Video: Rather than miming to the studio recording, the official music video for "Head On" consists of the band actually playing the song live on a sound stage. | |
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The Cover Changes the Gender | |
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The Cover Changes the Gender: Averted with their cover of Neil Young's "I've Been Waiting for You." | |
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The Maiden Name Debate | |
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For Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa, Deal was credited as "Mrs. John Murphy" as a feminist joke at the expense of a woman who told her she wanted to be known as "Mrs. <her husband's name>" note John Murphy was Deal's husband at the time. | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_6f2fe973 | comment |
Epic Instrumental Opener: The first 1:13 of "Brick Is Red" are instrumental. That might not seem like all that long by the standards of this trope, but the song itself only runs for 2:02. | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_6f77ef8e | comment |
Anti-Love Song: "La La Love You" is as a parody, "Hey" is weird enough, and "U-Mass" is a takedown of pretentious student types. | |
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Surreal Horror | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_72d31973 | comment |
Surreal Horror: Francis loves this. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_74149c93 | comment |
Epic Rocking: "Motorway to Roswell", much more epic than any song about an alien's vacation gone wrong has the right to be. Shame it's not the last song on Trompe le Monde. "All Over the World", "The Happening", and "No. 13 Baby" also have elements of this, though it should be noted that none of these examples actually exceed six minutes. They could be considered somewhat to be condensed examples of this, since they abandon the band's traditional verse/chorus/bridge structure for much weirder song structures. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: "Where Is My Mind?" was inspired by Francis' experiences scuba diving in the Caribbean. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The first two verses of "Broken Face" are about incest and self-mutilation. The last is about the woman who does the narrator's laundry. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_82518cf7 | comment |
Motor Mouth: Several songs are examples of this. "Oh My Golly!" combines this with Spanish. | |
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I Am the Band | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_919c59b6 | comment |
I Am the Band: Black Francis wrote 99% of their pre-breakup material himself (excluding covers) and had enough creative control to have the only say on their initial split. Since Head Carrier, though, he has remained the principal songwriter but has allowed infrequent contributions from others as well. | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_92d6af50 | comment |
Truck Driver's Gear Change: Used to glorious effect in "Stormy Weather." | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_92d6af50 | |
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The "The" Title Confusion | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_93d99453 | comment |
The "The" Title Confusion: It's officially just "Pixies", but there's no law against adding a "The" at the start. | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_93d99453 | |
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Questioning Title? | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_99699561 | comment |
Questioning Title?: "Where Is My Mind?" | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_9b6acdb3 | comment |
Lyrical Cold Open: Used occasionally, such as on "Ed Is Dead", "Tony's Theme", "Distance Equals Rate Times Time", and "Hey". | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_9da3227a | comment |
While Careful with That Axe in general results in a lot of these, some other songs qualify as much due to the speed at which Francis sings them, such as "Oh My Golly!" and "Crackity Jones". Doubly so if they're in Spanish, as almost all of "Oh My Golly!" is (really, only the title is in English). | |
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One-Man Song | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | comment |
"Allison" seems like an example, but it's actually a One-Man Song about jazz/blues pianist Mose Allison. Though it's not like you could tell that from the abstract lyrics. | |
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Eye Scream | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: "Gouge Away", "Debaser". The latter song uses Francis' animalistic, yowling delivery. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: A lot of songs, especially given the band's signature quiet verse/loud chorus (or occasionally, loud verse/quiet chorus) contrast. Often, there'll also be mood whiplash between songs. The first three songs on Bossanova provide a particularly pertinent example. | |
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Stage Names | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_ae50ca8f | comment |
Stage Names: Francis' real name is Charles Thompson. Then when he went solo, he changed his name again to Frank Black. For Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa, Deal was credited as "Mrs. John Murphy" as a feminist joke at the expense of a woman who told her she wanted to be known as "Mrs. <her husband's name>" note John Murphy was Deal's husband at the time. | |
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Black Is Bigger in Bed | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_af8a9084 | comment |
Black Is Bigger in Bed: Also "Gigantic". | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_af8a9084 | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_b24ce4b2 | comment |
Rearrange the Song: The band began playing a drastically slower and creepier sounding version of "Wave of Mutilation" live, which proved very popular with the fans and was recorded in studio as the B-side "Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf Version)". Later on, they have been known to play both the fast and slow versions in the same set list. The single version of "Gigantic" was re-recorded with Gil Norton producing instead of Steve Albini as on the Surfer Rosa version (as was "River Euphrates" for the B-Side) - the former song had some minor changes like added backing vocals and an entirely different ending. Also notable as the first time they worked with Norton. | |
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| Pixies (Music) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: "U-Mass" is a slap at the University of Massachussetts, which Francis and Santiago dropped out of to form the band. "Subbacultcha" also arguably mocks the university-aged segment of their audience (with lines like I was wearing eyeliner / She was wearing eyeliner). | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_b53077b3 | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_bb225804 | comment |
Indecipherable Lyrics: "Rock Music". Don't even bother looking in the Bossanova booklet; that song wasn't included in the printed lyrics. "Something Against You" is another noteworthy example, since in addition to Francis' traditional Careful with That Axe, his vocals are also extremely distorted. Though downplayed, since most of the lyrics are just "I've got something against you". While Careful with That Axe in general results in a lot of these, some other songs qualify as much due to the speed at which Francis sings them, such as "Oh My Golly!" and "Crackity Jones". Doubly so if they're in Spanish, as almost all of "Oh My Golly!" is (really, only the title is in English). "I am un chien andalusia" (from "Debaser") might be one for listeners unfamiliar with the film Un Chien Andalou. | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_bb225804 | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: On Trompe le Monde, "Planet of Sound" has "THIS AIN'T NO FUCKING AROUND" (it sounds like that) and "U-Mass" has "Oh kiss me cunt / Oh kiss my cock / Oh kiss my ass / Oh let it rock". "Besando, chichando con Surfer Rosa" ("Oh My Golly!") translates as "kissing, fucking with Surfer Rosa". | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_bc00493f | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_bda474d2 | type |
Last Note Nightmare | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_bda474d2 | comment |
Last Note Nightmare: "Where Is My Mind?" suddenly cuts to almost nothing mid-riff, with nothing but very quiet vocals throughout the next several seconds. | |
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B-Side | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_c2c4e614 | comment |
The single version of "Gigantic" was re-recorded with Gil Norton producing instead of Steve Albini as on the Surfer Rosa version (as was "River Euphrates" for the B-Side) - the former song had some minor changes like added backing vocals and an entirely different ending. Also notable as the first time they worked with Norton. | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_c2c4e614 | |
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Academy of Adventure | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_c45beb12 | comment |
Academy of Adventure: Implied by "Weird at My School". | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_c45beb12 | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_c4b74656 | type |
One-Woman Song | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_c4b74656 | comment |
One-Woman Song: "Ana" and "Cecilia Ann". "Allison" seems like an example, but it's actually a One-Man Song about jazz/blues pianist Mose Allison. Though it's not like you could tell that from the abstract lyrics. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To Un Chien Andalou in "Debaser." The title of Come On Pilgrim is a lyric by Christian Rock pioneer Larry Norman, whose music Francis was a fan of. From "I've Been Tired": The spelling of P-I-X-I-E-S by the backing vocals on "Cactus" is a reference to a T. Rex song in which they do the same thing. | |
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The Band Minus the Face | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_cb44433f | comment |
The Band Minus the Face: Kim Deal officially left the band in 2013, to concentrate on The Breeders' anniversary tour for Last Splash. Notably, this time it was done with much less acrimony, with Lovering mentioning in an interview that the position is always open for her to return, and the band remained officially composed of Francis, Lovering and Santiago, with Kim Shattuck (of The Muffs) being only a touring bassist instead of an official member, with Paz Lenchantin has taken her place. Shattuck died in 2019 of complications of ALS. | |
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Perishing Alt-Rock Voice | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_cb9dc500 | comment |
Perishing Alt-Rock Voice: Kim mainly. Francis would count if he didn't do the epic Careful with That Axe so often. | |
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| Pixies (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 | type |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 | comment |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion; "Vamos" gives us this stanza: | |
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Genre Mashup | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_cd3703a2 | comment |
Genre Mashup: Talking Heads meets Velvet Underground infused with surf rock, punk, and a dash of vaguely Spanish guitar (topped off with a little something called the next twenty years of rock music). | |
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Pixies (Music) / int_cd3703a2 | |
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Cover Version | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_cff53786 | comment |
Cover Version: "Head On" by The Jesus and Mary Chain, "I've Been Waiting For You" and "Winterlong," both by Neil Young, "Evil Hearted You" by The Yardbirds (en Español!), "In Heaven" from the film Eraserhead, the theme from the videogame NARC. With the exception of "Head On", every other cover they did was a B-side. And "Cactus" was covered by David Bowie on his 2002 album Heathen. "Where Is My Mind?" has gathered a few covers too. Bossanova opens with a cover of "Cecilia Ann" by the Surftones (a one-off project by audio engineer Steve Hoffman). | |
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Title-Only Chorus | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_d40b9465 | comment |
Title-Only Chorus: "TAAAAAAME!". "Dig for Fire" almost qualifies for this since the chorus is just I'm digging for fire repeated until it's time for another verse. "Tony's Theme" has a chorus of "TO-NY!" repeated as long as it needs. And let's not forget "DE-BAAAA-SER!" "There Goes My Gun". "Crackity Jones". | |
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Limited Lyrics Song | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_db26451e | comment |
Limited Lyrics Song: Quite a few, though "Stormy Weather" has to take the cake ("It is time for stormy weather" are literally the only words in the song). | |
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Album Title Drop | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_dbc664dd | comment |
Album Title Drop: The EP Come On Pilgrim takes its name from a line in "Levitate Me." Similarly, Doolittle is mentioned in "Mr. Grieves." Surfer Rosa is said in "Oh My Golly!". Finally, Bossanova comes from its song "Hang Wire". Trompe le Monde doesn't have this, but it makes up for that by having a song called "Trompe le Monde", and Indie Cindy also has a title track. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_dbfd6b8 | comment |
Lyrical Dissonance: "Wave of Mutilation", "Gigantic", "Here Comes Your Man", "Debaser"... really, almost all their songs. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | comment |
Intercourse with You: "Gigantic", arguably "Hey" and "U-Mass". | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_dea5fe1 | comment |
Kubrick Stare: Santiago does this in the video for "Here Comes Your Man". | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_df7e9c0 | comment |
Obligatory Bondage Song: According to some interpretations, "Break My Body". | |
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In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_e06d3a98 | comment |
In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: "Monkey Gone to Heaven" can be interpreted as being about this tendency of the human race, given our apparent unwillingness to course-correct on climate change: Francis claims the symbolism was subconscious, but doesn't dispute this interpretation of the song. The next song, "Mr. Grieves", is about narrator's belief in the title character - i.e., death - because humanity's wars and environmental devastation make any other outcome unlikely. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_e18675e6 | comment |
Word Salad Lyrics: Often. Francis even admitted that when recording Bossanova, he'd "write lyrics on napkins 5 minutes before recording". | |
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Call-Forward | |
| Pixies (Music) / int_e3c36782 | comment |
Call-Forward: "Distance Equals Rate Times Time" is first mentioned two tracks earlier in "Space (I Believe In)." | |
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In the Style of: Francis admitted "Dig for Fire" was basically a tribute to Talking Heads. "Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons" is in the style of The Jesus and Mary Chain, whose "Head On" the band covered on the same album, Trompe Le Monde. | |
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The title of Come On Pilgrim is a lyric by Christian Rock pioneer Larry Norman, whose music Francis was a fan of. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: They're very good at this. "Bone Machine" has the line "He bought me a soda and tried to molest me in the parking lot, yep, yep, yep, yep!" (imagine those "yep!"s being barked out in the most disturbingly perky tone possible) before the second chorus. "Dead" towards the end has a verse that goes "Uriah hit the crapper / DEAD!". "Hey" starts off like a love song but gets derailed by the time Francis starts singing about the whores in his bed. "Cactus" is about a guy in prison desperately writing to his girlfriend, who quickly becomes paranoid that "the letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead". Initially, he just wants her to write letters back. By the end of the song, he's asking her to cut her hands on a cactus, wipe the blood on her dress and send it to him. | |
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Soprano and Gravel: Black Francis' alternately screaming and normal vocals, in contrast with Kim Deal's more girlish vocals. | |
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Dark Reprise: The quieter, slower, and much more sinister version of "Wave of Mutilation" that was released as a B-side under the title, "Wave of Mutilation (U.K. Surf)", and which the band later began to perform live in preference to the original. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Kim Shattuick and Paz Lechantin are both this to Kim Deal. The one song that Paz sings seems to be sung as close to Kim's voice as possible. | |
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Pater Familicide: "Wave of Mutilation" was inspired by reports of Japanese families committing suicide by driving into the ocean. | |
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Female Rockers Play Bass | |
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Female Rockers Play Bass: Kim Deal, their bassist, was the only female member during her tenure. After she left to focus her time on The Breedersnote an all-female group, they replaced her with another female bassist. | |
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