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Would love to see a Trash Theory on Johnny Thunders and his career with the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers, both bands were hugely influencial on the uk punk scene.
Pixies were often said to be The Velvet Underground of the 80s: They didn't necessarily sell a lot of albums, but everyone who bought their albums started a band.
Yeah that's just it... They weren't the pistols, but same idea- the spark that ignited the 90s scene and anthems you can never hear too many times, all the way to the end of the B-side, again and again.
The whole "everyone who bought their album started a band" cliché is simply a load of nonsense. I know several people who own both Pixies and VU albums who aren't even musicians. I for one have bought albums from both bands and have never started a band despite being a musician.
I wasn't around for the Velvet Underground so I can't speak to that comparison, but I can say that I find it surprising considering that I was around in the late 80s and Pixies were everywhere. They were all over college/independent radio, MTV, and it seemed like everyone was talking about them. I always got the impression that VU were an obscure underground band in their time... Pixies were certainly not that.
Your favorite band's favorite band, highly regarded and severely underrated at the same time, never mainstream but always a staple. Very unique sound, almost impossible to be replicated "correctly". Someone said Pixies songs are easy to play but hard to come up with, and I find that extremely accurate.
"Here comes your man" was pretty mainstream. I don't agree that they're underrated. Nirvana (not exactly an unknown band) has raved about them in multiple interviews
@@jotade2098 now there's a couple of names that truly ARE underrated. Especially Morphine. 👍👍 Anyone who enjoys those two artists you mentioned I recommend checking out Soul Coughing and Nick Cave as well if you haven't already.
I feel the same way about Built to Spill. Always incredible live, songs nearly impossible to formulate, but - also hard to play. , And still, even since the early 90s, only have an undercurrent of core fans...
I had a "Death to the Pixies" t-shirt I used to wear all the time in high school and other kids would always ask me "who are the Pixies and why do you want them to die?" I was 14 years old in 1989, a metalhead who had also grown up with a liking for 80s postpunk and indie bands like Psychedelic Furs, the Cure and the Smiths, purchased a cassette of Doolittle based on a description in the pamphlet I regularly received through the Columbia Record & Tape Club, put it in and heard Debaser and never was the same since. I played the shit out of that tape for years, later blasting it in my car with the windows down through the streets of Houston and Austin. That, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and the Gang of Four compilation A Brief History of the Twentieth Century that I later discovered were probably my most played albums through high school and early college. Bossanova and Surfer Rosa were also great albums, and I liked Trompe Le Monde too. The first Breeder's album Pod was also a favorite of mine, and of course they became huge with the 2nd one. I saw the Pixies live after Trompe Le Monde, at a club in Houston called the Vatican where I saw a lot of great shows, junior year of high school I believe. Kim Deal appeared to be tripping balls and had tears running down her face the entire show. Pere Ubu opened, a classic old postpunk band I had not heard of before that. That was where I bought the t-shirt that so puzzled my peers. Black Francis was such a good rhythm guitarist and song-writer in those days, his rhythm part for Hey is probably my favorite, and the lyrics too - best love song ever (maybe Anthrax by Gang of Four is a distant 2nd). Joey Santiago is without a doubt one of the greatest lead guitarists in history and the most unsung guitar hero. He influenced me so much - his use of feedback, his off-the-cuff, edgy vibe and his perfect melodic lines that don't ever come across as too schooled or practiced so that there is still life in them. That drummer really propelled them and of course Kim's basslines held it all together, and then she later revealed her own ability to lead a great band.
I love (or la la love) the Pixies so very much! But I always wonder about the alternate reality where Kim Deal was allowed to have more of a presence in the band. As much as I adore their first 4 albums I can't help but think how the inclusion of more Kim Deal songs (even if only 3 or 4 per album) would have really made them even that much more special. I also thought the interplay of Kim and Black Francis vocals where so nice and would have liked hearing a song where they traded verses or had a bit more back and forth happening. Anytime there's multiple singer/songwriters in a band that type of collaboration is always the most exciting thing to me.
@@ThreadBomb Well they wouldn’t have necessarily been the Kim songs we know from her work in the breeders but songs the whole band collaborated on to make them sound in line with the rest of the album. Gigantic is an early example but I’m sure her writing within the band would have shaped it in a way that wouldn’t have been the case with a band where she was the only singer/songwriter.
I always thought their best stuff was when there was that interplay between Frank and Kim. I loved the balance of haunting and ferocious. I used to play tracks from Surfer Rosa to bandmates to prove that you didn't need effects to be trippy.
Taking my 15 year old daughter to see them in May. She discovered them on her own to my great surprise. I have been talking them up big time to her since and we are insanely excited for the show. They have truly transcended the generations. She can't believe I have been listening to them since 1988. LOL.
Is Kim playing with them again? I got to see the original lineup do a tour for 'Doolittle' back in 2011. They were fucking amazing! I hope y'all have a wonderful time!! 💓😊
This is hands down the best music channel on UA-cam. The amount of time invested in research and fact checking, interview digging, man I love you so much.
Pixies deserve more mainstream love and attention. Their first four albums are legendary, alternative rock music was forever altered thanks to them. Pixies forever ✊✊✊
@ghost mall true, WWIM was my entry point from there I just grew to obsess and love the band. I wish that they get more love and respect from the mainstream the same way band like Nirvana & R.E.M. do
@@puncturedbicycle7264 it drove me nuts in the Nevermind days when everyone was suddenly "into punk." I was that guy asking "have you even HEARD of the Pixies?!"
My one friend and I always like saying that about Nine Inch Nails too. "Pretty Hate Machine is the best 80s album." Always gets the reaction "That wasn't from The 90s??"
The chorus from Gouge Away is what I imagine I would sing aloud when I “reminisce” about being bullied by the popular girls in high school. Oh the trauma! Coping strategies are so important. 🤟🏻
The first song I heard from them was "Debaser", and it took me ages to find the title. It was late '89 and I was totally hooked (no one else knew them at all). Glad they are finally getting the love they deserve. Last note: one British critic in Melody Maker saw them '91 and said, "The Pixies played the greatest show I have ever seen".
First pixies I ever heard was also debaser. It was played on a college radio station in the town I grew up in..it was called KTECH They played every other song In a row from the Doolittle album and I was blown the hell away and still am when I listen to that album. I feel 14 again when everything was like a different world.
That 91 tour was AMAZIN' ...THEY OPENED UP W UK SURF MIX WaveofMutilation from the PUMP UP the VoLUMe soundtrack! I cried... #RockyPointPalladium Quahog, RI ⚓
I was honestly just listening to the pixies and thinking of how essential they were and literally a day later you come out with this video. This channel is beginning to read my mind
I'll always have great respect for The Pixies. While a lot of bands simply skip over Saskatchewan altogether, on their reunion tour, they played both Saskatoon and Regina.
When they came to Halifax for the first time during their reunion tour, they played a fairly small venue and the show was really hard to get tickets for. So when they came again a few years later (during the "All of Doolittle" tour) they played at the 10,000 seat arena to make sure everyone could come.
Also! The Japanese band Pillows known mostly in the US for the soundtrack to Fooly Cooly has a song called Kim Deal, and in the fade out to their track Backseat Dog you can hear Sawao repeating, "Here comes your man." It's so sweet, I love it.
10:30 slight mixing of facts, yes Black Francis was inspired by the Cars, but what he said he borrowed from them was their 'chugging guitar' sound (not quiet loud quiet dynamic) Doolittle is still my favorite album... I think t's pretty crazy how much they were able to improve the album songs from their demo versions
It's just my favorite band of all time. In my humble opinion some bands came close but no one surpassed the pure delivery, intensity, and interesting lyrics of the Pixies. Unfortunately the egos destroyed it and even though they are still around, they are not the same but what they made were masterpieces. All band members were just perfectly assimilated in a symphony of mindless perfection.
They do really sound ahead of their own time by a bit - as did Blake Babies (early Juliana Hatfield) and Violent Femmes - stuff from the 80s that sounds like it could've come out in the mid-90s alternative scene... I think luckily PIXIES are getting a decent amount of attention, they seem to be fairly well-known at least by people I've talked to about "favorite bands".
When I discovered college radio in 1985, it opened up a world of music for me. There were tons of bands that people today would say, "Oh, they were so ahead of their time" and some that had already flirted with the mainstream. Like R.E.M., U2, The Cure or whatever band made it to a John Hughes film soundtrack. And you would hear deep cuts, as well. but the ongoing narrative still is that the 80s was nothing but "hair metal" Huey Lewis and Michael Jackson. And Nirvana was the salvation from it. No, a hype machine was created by the people running Sub-Pop Records in Seattle. They figured out that their brand of Seattle mainstream hard rock with a hint of that "indie" sound would go over well with the teenagers of early 90s America. Just replace the verses about UFOs and bible stories with teenage angst. And who knows what would have happened if Black Flag, The Replacements, Husker Du, and Smiths hadn't broken up. Would they have been the leaders of a rock revolution. Like the one bestowed on anybody connected with Seattle. Or "grunge", they called it. What killed them is what killed Pixies. Infighting, alcohol or drug abuse, or whatever. The fact that Pixies broke up when they were being ripped off in real time sucked even more.
I saw them open for REM in high school in the 80’s and new I would follow them for as long I could. Just saw them in London in 2022! Thank God they are still creating great music.
I saw them about four months ago in Auckland. Obviously not the same without Kim, but her replacement did a fantastic job filling those very big shoes. Best gig I've been to in a very long time. Just magical.
I think I got into this band through Radiohead. They were super popular with the British kids I was friends with at the time. There's definitely something very raw about them that you just vibe with (or don't). I love them, and had the pleasure of seeing them live after they reformed and it was wonderful. My brother was astonished I knew all the words. Good times.
Being a rocker from Ohio, Kim Deal has always seemed like royalty. Kelly Deal is also pretty badass too. The Deal brand of cool is so zero effort, but slick at the same time. The bit about no one owning a fax machine is priceless. Long live the Queen!!
I was a huge Punk Fan in the mid 80's in my mid teens when I started playing drums which I still play to this day 40 years later. The Pixies were the soundtrack to my college years in the late 80's and the beginning of the 90's. I know every inch of every song. They are in my top 5 bands of all time and in my humble opinion one of the most groups from the late 80's on influencing every rock, pop, alternative and punk band that came after them.
I loved Pixies from the start! You cannot imagine though how I struggled to understand the lyrics back then, without internet to get a deeper understanding of it 😅 Nonetheless it was worth the laughs that, many years later, it brought when we finally realized what the songs were about. A really creative band with legendary albums that kicked-off a new sound and opened doors to upcoming bands in so many different genres that followed their example and made their own way. One of my favorite bands ever, hands down!
@@coryphillips7945 I knew the song was about the short film and still didn't know that was the lyric. 😂 I'm too embarrassed to even share what I thought it was.
One of the best concert I've ever attended was the Pixies on their Trompe le Monde tour in Chicago. The energy of the music and the audience was insane.
I was at that show too. It was crazy!!! I took a girl there I really liked and she ended up breaking a couple ribs during the show. It didn’t work out between us, but it was an incredible show.
Totally did! I recall driving home (maybe a bit dunk) in the middle of a Saskatchewan winter from a party when I was in Grade 12, in 1989 (graduated in 90), in my orange 1970 VW "Super Beetle," and the host on CBC's Brave New Waves (Patti Smith, I want to say) said, in her sexy voice, "Now, from the Boston band that everybody loves" and it was the Pixies (Here Comes Your Man). Changed my life.
At the end, Paz was unceremoniously jettisoned from the band. What a thankless exit for the only bassist that could hold her own in that space. She was supposedly just as surprised to hear she left the band as everyone else.
Saw ‘em at Malibu on Long Island in ‘89. Free tix thru a WLIR radio promotion, maybe a dozen people showed up, I remember clinging to the speaker cabinet as their music powered through me. They delivered. Saw ‘em again 15 years later at Bumbershoot in Seattle, the tension was palpable but they played well, like a really competent Pixies cover band. You can’t go home again.
I know I'm in the minority here, but Trompe Le Monde is my favorite Pixies album. A friend of mine was introducing me to them c.1998 and I was blown away the instant I hit PLAY
Never knew about the purple rain reference, fantastic bit of trivia! Also I was at that Glastonbury 89 show, I had no idea they played the songs alphabetically FFS!!! :) Amazing to learn new things about your fav bands with every video. This channel is an essential.
I caught them on their Doolittle tour. The first time I ever heard 'Where Is My Mind?' was live. Kim Deal started wailing and it still gives me the chills writing about it now. They were awesome and this video was awesome.
I first saw The Pixies when they were touring Bossanova, it's still one of the best gigs I've ever been to..been a fan since I first heard them on the John Peel show around the time when Surfer Rosa came out, he played Bone Machine and I'm Amazed, I was instantly hooked.
I loved all their songs and never once thought they had such creative suppression, the way the collaboration were amazingly interwoven, complimentary into beautiful music of its time. And even today those albums are timeless. True Classics
It's an unfortunate fact that the days of obsessing over albums is gone, now it's been reduced to single tracks you can stream. I'm grateful for being there during the 90s when a full album really meant something and was an experience, and the Pixies were definitely a big part of that. Yes I'm the old man reminiscing but idgaf, those were some good times to be alive🤌🤌🤌
I still remember that summer when I heard Debaser on the radio (on JJJ). That mix of pop and extreme rock was unique. Amazing how a spoonful of musical sugar (poppy hooks and structures) helps the screaming, distortion and wild psychological dysfunction go down. They kicked open the door so that Nirvana could go through it to the mainstream.
If it hasn't been mentioned before, check the band The Pillows in Japan. They have massive influences from The Pixies. In their "Happy Bivouac" album, Track 7's "Back Seat Dog" ends with the chorus from "Here Comes Your Man", and Track 8 is called "Kim Deal". It's such a love story.
My friend in high school was learning guitar and really wanted to do a Pixies song in the talent show, but lamented that he didn't know anyone who could sing like Black Francis. A bunch of people had told me that my speaking voice sounded like Kim Deal, so we put together a band and did "Gigantic". I can't sing, and I'm so tone deaf I had to have the other band members tell me when I was on key and could only tell by remembering what the feeling of the vibration in my throat was when I was on key, but it worked because it was The Pixies.
Beautiful piece about the Pixies!! Thank you! ' every little thing they did was magic...' Every song was good... So rare in a band for all the songs on every album to be Soooo good!
I love The Pixies so much that they still move me in many ways decades after I first heard them! Thank you for this awesome video and honouring their incredible influence in the past, present and no doubt into the future!
Just on sings about Kim Deal, there is The Pillows song "Kim Deal" from 1999's "Happy Bivouac" which you can catch the back vocals exclaiming "Please sing for me".
Pixies will always remind me of my late friend, we both used heroin, we both listened to Surfer Rosa and Doolitle stoned, but I managed to quit. Tomek overdosed on June 2, 2018. Rest in peace, maybe now you know where your mind is.
The Pixies are one of my favourite bands, but for me it's very hit or miss. I either absolutely love a song or really dislike it. So much in this I didn't know. Thanks for making this. Love it! ❤️❤️❤️
I feel the same way about the Pixies. Their best stuff is absolutely epic, but every one of their LPs has some amount of filler on it (even Doolittle.) And while I appreciate the brevity of writing short, "to the point" songs, it sometimes leaves me wishing they'd fleshed out their ideas a little more.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 I can't disagree with you on that album. It's just odd how hit and miss they are for me. No middle ground for me. I probably still listen to a song or album at least every days. It's probably why they're so big though, their reach is very big for many different types of people.
I received Tromp le Monde from a cd club as a freshman in college and was like...what a sec...I have heard songs like this before?! Immediately starting buying back catalogue; legends and did set the tone for the 90s and arguably a pillar of today's indie rock.
Fun with lots of great info but important to note that it wasn't Doolittle, but Caribou and Surfer Rosa that launched the real indie and alternative scene's of the 90's. These are the records that blew people's minds because there was nothing like it and everyone in a cool band wanted to sound that way. Though loved by many Doolittle was a mainstream cross-over for those late to the party that stunted their growth. Sadly they never recovered from crossing that line and continued to chase the sonic and creative glory of those first recordings with the world still catching up all the while!
You could say that about a lot of bands… for example: why don’t most people in the US know who X is (or XTC, for that matter?) Why didn’t The Kinks make it as big in the US as they did in the UK? Etc., etc.
Amazing video. Have seen the pixies live six times and been, what i think others had considered "a huge fan" since High School, yet I didn't know half the quotes, facts, trivia and happenings revealed in this video. Sharing for sure. Thank you so much, got my favorite band ever to feel just a little fonder now. Just a little bit closer now, 🎵 thanks to you and Hanks Saloon
These guys were the soundtrack of the late 80s for me when I lived in downtown Portland. Kurt a I win actually lived in my building although he wasn’t famous yet. I didn’t even know he was in a band
I saw Pixies in Toronto in 2017 where they played most of their songs but left out Gigantic, imagine my surprise and delight when the Breeders came in the following year and the bassline to Gigantic began and Kim started to sing that intro!
Graduating HS in 1985... The Pixies were to my early 90's, as the Violent Femmes were to my late 80's (mostly, screaming their songs in my car, after a breakup).
Most pixies songs weren't specifically about anything. It was cool music with Frank throwing in lines about this and that, sometimes totally unrelated.
The Pixies are a prime example of the disparity between music artists and the music industry. The industry hasn't got a clue about what is good art, but they are great at marketing junk. The Pixies were therefore not turned into the success they should have been, despite being f**king phenomenal in Surfa Rosa.
Id say the industry did try to make them big but they self sabotaged a lot. Other than the Here Comes Your Man videoclip, there was the Velouria videoclip which is notoriously bad too, look up the story about it. They were talented, but they werent rockstars and didnt wanted to play the music industry game.
@@TheAndradeCS That's true, but the 'game' is to do what the industry says, which makes the music more mainstream, and focuses on image and marketing. If the band refuses that, then the industry rejects them. Surfa Rosa is far better than any Madonna or Michael Jackson album, but it wasn't marketed the same.
Yep, the first band that looked like, us. No high end fashion, no trendy hair cuts or sunglasses, no video's with sports cars and supermodels. Music that sounded nothing like the indie kids of the 80's and a million miles away from the mainstream. Hope you cover 'The Breeders next.
@@remmidemmi496 Joy Division dressed like supply teachers. The Smiths, hipsters. I love both, as much as the Pixies. But in the late 80’s. The Pixies stood out. Had you said Faith no More, you would have been closer. I came from the metal scene to alternative, in those days.
@@Severinate Most people who slobbered over Nirvana came from the metal scene. They didn't know bands like Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. OR PIXIES!!!!!!!
The first few times I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit” I assumed it was Pixies until the vocals kicked in. And that was the song that really changed the musical landscape. (For some reason ).
Another fantastic music documentary that made my day! So much intriguing information I did not know yet I considered myself a Pixies fan... OMG. Excellent work! Cheers from Berlin.
Finally, a new awesome vidoe I actually wanted to watch, but I bit too late. The only concert I went last year was The Pixies for the first time in a solo show in my country. I really can say now I appreciate the band and sound with arguments.. Thanx!!!
Another that helped Launch the 1990's was the Folk Punk band also making fun of country with a punk mix but helping launch Country Punk, Violent Femmes from 1983--1996 with them having first major album being bigger in 1984 since it was released so late in 1983. They helped launch the alternative rock songs with the one song in 1990 American Music being the bands biggest hit. Also, Violent Femmes is the highest charting and album selling rock band to ever come from Wisconsin.
They also did independently the same thing soft to loud on songs or loud to soft as well like on Blister in the Sun from the 1984 self-titled album Violent Femmes. Violent Femmes might be a bit more overlooked in the UK and independent Ireland but in the USA they had an impact on pop punk for sure with Green Days Time of Your Life in 1994 or 1995 having a less Punk-Fok more Folk-Rock style of a Violent Femmes song. They also bridged the gap between classic punk/earlty pop punk like the Buzzcocks or the later punk of The Clash London Calling and later but before they went full on early Proto Ska and keeping the more traditional parts of punk alive so bands like Green Day and The Offspring before the moved to Butt Punk Rock as a joke in 2000's could develop Punk Rock.
Most likely the band that brought me into indie rock when I first heard them in 1986--Violent Femmes, 'Violent Femmes'. Still one of my favorite records ever made.
Cool video, and I really like the fact that it ends where it does. I saw Pixies at a secret, 'warm-up' show in Melbourne in 2004 at a small club in front of 800 people - I'd been too young to see them the first time around- and they were so great. I don't mind their later records with Paz, who really rocks, but there was something really special about the four original members- a bond that can never be recreated.
3:59 The lyrics are and have always been, "Bumped into me, I swear he was trying to talk to me, he said, "wait, wait". Listen to any live video from 1988 through 2023, Charles says, "wait, wait" or "wait, wait, wait". There was never a lyrics sheet for Surfer Rosa, so people made lyrics up. And when lyric sites started to pop up in the early 2000's people put what they thought they heard on these websits. Somehow more versions of coy or koi were used. The thing about the early 2000's is, we didn't have hundreds of live versions of the song to figure out the lyrics to a song. Sure, bands mix up and forget lyrics, but listen to it live, he always says, "wait".
Not only is this channel a great hidden gem of UA-cam, but it's also featuring one of the greatest bands to ever exist in music history. Can't get any better than this.
Great video as always. Though I was a bit surprised to see no mention of the Pixies still touring (and making albums) with Paz at the bass. Unless you don't consider them as Pixies anymore - which I could agree with...
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I think the title "Here comes your man" was a play on the Velvet Underground song "I'm waiting for my man".
Would love to see a Trash Theory on Johnny Thunders and his career with the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers, both bands were hugely influencial on the uk punk scene.
It’s so great as a safe base… so far to go
Pixies were often said to be The Velvet Underground of the 80s: They didn't necessarily sell a lot of albums, but everyone who bought their albums started a band.
Damn, well stated !_!
Yeah that's just it... They weren't the pistols, but same idea- the spark that ignited the 90s scene and anthems you can never hear too many times, all the way to the end of the B-side, again and again.
The whole "everyone who bought their album started a band" cliché is simply a load of nonsense.
I know several people who own both Pixies and VU albums who aren't even musicians. I for one have bought albums from both bands and have never started a band despite being a musician.
I wasn't around for the Velvet Underground so I can't speak to that comparison, but I can say that I find it surprising considering that I was around in the late 80s and Pixies were everywhere. They were all over college/independent radio, MTV, and it seemed like everyone was talking about them. I always got the impression that VU were an obscure underground band in their time... Pixies were certainly not that.
That applies to Sonic Youth as well
Your favorite band's favorite band, highly regarded and severely underrated at the same time, never mainstream but always a staple. Very unique sound, almost impossible to be replicated "correctly". Someone said Pixies songs are easy to play but hard to come up with, and I find that extremely accurate.
"Here comes your man" was pretty mainstream. I don't agree that they're underrated. Nirvana (not exactly an unknown band) has raved about them in multiple interviews
Morphine and Tom Waits say hi
@@jotade2098 now there's a couple of names that truly ARE underrated. Especially Morphine. 👍👍
Anyone who enjoys those two artists you mentioned I recommend checking out Soul Coughing and Nick Cave as well if you haven't already.
I feel the same way about Built to Spill. Always incredible live, songs nearly impossible to formulate, but - also hard to play. , And still, even since the early 90s, only have an undercurrent of core fans...
I remember seeing them Pixies right after a Fugazi show. Both were epic show. Pixies are legends.
I had a "Death to the Pixies" t-shirt I used to wear all the time in high school and other kids would always ask me "who are the Pixies and why do you want them to die?"
I was 14 years old in 1989, a metalhead who had also grown up with a liking for 80s postpunk and indie bands like Psychedelic Furs, the Cure and the Smiths, purchased a cassette of Doolittle based on a description in the pamphlet I regularly received through the Columbia Record & Tape Club, put it in and heard Debaser and never was the same since. I played the shit out of that tape for years, later blasting it in my car with the windows down through the streets of Houston and Austin. That, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and the Gang of Four compilation A Brief History of the Twentieth Century that I later discovered were probably my most played albums through high school and early college. Bossanova and Surfer Rosa were also great albums, and I liked Trompe Le Monde too. The first Breeder's album Pod was also a favorite of mine, and of course they became huge with the 2nd one.
I saw the Pixies live after Trompe Le Monde, at a club in Houston called the Vatican where I saw a lot of great shows, junior year of high school I believe. Kim Deal appeared to be tripping balls and had tears running down her face the entire show. Pere Ubu opened, a classic old postpunk band I had not heard of before that. That was where I bought the t-shirt that so puzzled my peers.
Black Francis was such a good rhythm guitarist and song-writer in those days, his rhythm part for Hey is probably my favorite, and the lyrics too - best love song ever (maybe Anthrax by Gang of Four is a distant 2nd). Joey Santiago is without a doubt one of the greatest lead guitarists in history and the most unsung guitar hero. He influenced me so much - his use of feedback, his off-the-cuff, edgy vibe and his perfect melodic lines that don't ever come across as too schooled or practiced so that there is still life in them. That drummer really propelled them and of course Kim's basslines held it all together, and then she later revealed her own ability to lead a great band.
Where is my mind is the most timeless song I’ve ever heard, it could be released today and fit right in
I love (or la la love) the Pixies so very much! But I always wonder about the alternate reality where Kim Deal was allowed to have more of a presence in the band. As much as I adore their first 4 albums I can't help but think how the inclusion of more Kim Deal songs (even if only 3 or 4 per album) would have really made them even that much more special.
I also thought the interplay of Kim and Black Francis vocals where so nice and would have liked hearing a song where they traded verses or had a bit more back and forth happening. Anytime there's multiple singer/songwriters in a band that type of collaboration is always the most exciting thing to me.
I just made a similar comment, a lot of Breeders songs would have worked well for the Pixies.
A very interesting idea... but, we got The Breeders!
No. Kim's songs don't sound like Pixies songs to me.
@@ThreadBomb Well they wouldn’t have necessarily been the Kim songs we know from her work in the breeders but songs the whole band collaborated on to make them sound in line with the rest of the album. Gigantic is an early example but I’m sure her writing within the band would have shaped it in a way that wouldn’t have been the case with a band where she was the only singer/songwriter.
I always thought their best stuff was when there was that interplay between Frank and Kim. I loved the balance of haunting and ferocious. I used to play tracks from Surfer Rosa to bandmates to prove that you didn't need effects to be trippy.
Taking my 15 year old daughter to see them in May. She discovered them on her own to my great surprise. I have been talking them up big time to her since and we are insanely excited for the show. They have truly transcended the generations. She can't believe I have been listening to them since 1988. LOL.
Is Kim playing with them again? I got to see the original lineup do a tour for 'Doolittle' back in 2011. They were fucking amazing! I hope y'all have a wonderful time!! 💓😊
@@futuristic.handgun sadly no, but Paz Lechantin is great in her own right.
Awesome man! I just had my first daughter a couple months ago and I already can’t wait to introduce them to her lol
This is hands down the best music channel on UA-cam. The amount of time invested in research and fact checking, interview digging, man I love you so much.
Agreed, 100%
If you like hip hop try Digging The Greats. Also Professor Of Rock makes good videos
agreed these are amazing mini documentaries
I agree completely!
@@benfrank1564 I’m always looking for new music channels. Dead end hip hop is my go to for rap. I’ll check out the one you recommended.
New Trash Theory! And about the Pixies? My day is made
@ghost mall I feel like the Pixies were just mentioned so often that it feels like there was already a video about them.
Pixies deserve more mainstream love and attention. Their first four albums are legendary, alternative rock music was forever altered thanks to them. Pixies forever ✊✊✊
People don't even know
@ghost mall true, WWIM was my entry point from there I just grew to obsess and love the band. I wish that they get more love and respect from the mainstream the same way band like Nirvana & R.E.M. do
@ghost mall when I heard that I remember looking around the room to see if anybody else realized what was playing.
@@puncturedbicycle7264 it drove me nuts in the Nevermind days when everyone was suddenly "into punk."
I was that guy asking "have you even HEARD of the Pixies?!"
@@mr.pavone9719 Kurt Cobain was concerned that Nirvana would be considered “a Pixies ripoff.”
I still remember listening to Doolittle for the first time. That is not only one of the best albums of the 80s but of all time
Surfer rosa and Doolittle two of the greatest albums of the 80s
It's weird to even think of them as 80s albums. They seem to come from some alternate timeline
My one friend and I always like saying that about Nine Inch Nails too. "Pretty Hate Machine is the best 80s album." Always gets the reaction "That wasn't from The 90s??"
The chorus from Gouge Away is what I imagine I would sing aloud when I “reminisce” about being bullied by the popular girls in high school.
Oh the trauma! Coping strategies are so important. 🤟🏻
The first song I heard from them was "Debaser", and it took me ages to find the title. It was late '89 and I was totally hooked (no one else knew them at all). Glad they are finally getting the love they deserve.
Last note: one British critic in Melody Maker saw them '91 and said, "The Pixies played the greatest show I have ever seen".
First pixies I ever heard was also debaser. It was played on a college radio station in the town I grew up in..it was called KTECH
They played every other song In a row from the Doolittle album and I was blown the hell away and still am when I listen to that album.
I feel 14 again when everything was like a different world.
@@leeannasloan2292 SAME ❤️
That 91 tour was AMAZIN' ...THEY OPENED UP W UK SURF MIX WaveofMutilation from the PUMP UP the VoLUMe soundtrack!
I cried...
#RockyPointPalladium Quahog, RI ⚓
@@leeannasloan2292 It was a different world...and I am praying for a time machine and a multiverse!
I was honestly just listening to the pixies and thinking of how essential they were and literally a day later you come out with this video. This channel is beginning to read my mind
I'll always have great respect for The Pixies. While a lot of bands simply skip over Saskatchewan altogether, on their reunion tour, they played both Saskatoon and Regina.
When they came to Halifax for the first time during their reunion tour, they played a fairly small venue and the show was really hard to get tickets for. So when they came again a few years later (during the "All of Doolittle" tour) they played at the 10,000 seat arena to make sure everyone could come.
Is Canada real
"Bone Machine" remains one of my absolute favorite Pixies tunes, partly because of the weird rhythm.
Whenever I hear 'Debaser' I'm transported back 30+ years to a 17 year old me dancing around in indie clubs. Great, great times.
Also! The Japanese band Pillows known mostly in the US for the soundtrack to Fooly Cooly has a song called Kim Deal, and in the fade out to their track Backseat Dog you can hear Sawao repeating, "Here comes your man." It's so sweet, I love it.
I remember hearing a story once about how the pillows declined a chance to open for Oasis on the basis that "it'd be an interesting story to tell"
10:30 slight mixing of facts, yes Black Francis was inspired by the Cars, but what he said he borrowed from them was their 'chugging guitar' sound (not quiet loud quiet dynamic)
Doolittle is still my favorite album... I think t's pretty crazy how much they were able to improve the album songs from their demo versions
I think the Pixies get a bit too much credit for inventing loud/quiet dynamics. Plenty of other bands did it before them. Led Zeppelin comes to mind.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 I think the difference is the Pixies made the loud part much more extreme.
This is correct.. Fast/Slow was influenced by the Gun Club's, For The Love of Ivy
It's just my favorite band of all time.
In my humble opinion some bands came close but no one surpassed the pure delivery, intensity, and interesting lyrics of the Pixies. Unfortunately the egos destroyed it and even though they are still around, they are not the same but what they made were masterpieces. All band members were just perfectly assimilated in a symphony of mindless perfection.
They do really sound ahead of their own time by a bit - as did Blake Babies (early Juliana Hatfield) and Violent Femmes - stuff from the 80s that sounds like it could've come out in the mid-90s alternative scene... I think luckily PIXIES are getting a decent amount of attention, they seem to be fairly well-known at least by people I've talked to about "favorite bands".
Growing up with the Internet was a blessing in that it exposed later generations (like mine) to more underground music
When I discovered college radio in 1985, it opened up a world of music for me. There were tons of bands that people today would say, "Oh, they were so ahead of their time" and some that had already flirted with the mainstream. Like R.E.M., U2, The Cure or whatever band made it to a John Hughes film soundtrack. And you would hear deep cuts, as well. but the ongoing narrative still is that the 80s was nothing but "hair metal" Huey Lewis and Michael Jackson. And Nirvana was the salvation from it. No, a hype machine was created by the people running Sub-Pop Records in Seattle. They figured out that their brand of Seattle mainstream hard rock with a hint of that "indie" sound would go over well with the teenagers of early 90s America. Just replace the verses about UFOs and bible stories with teenage angst. And who knows what would have happened if Black Flag, The Replacements, Husker Du, and Smiths hadn't broken up. Would they have been the leaders of a rock revolution. Like the one bestowed on anybody connected with Seattle. Or "grunge", they called it. What killed them is what killed Pixies. Infighting, alcohol or drug abuse, or whatever. The fact that Pixies broke up when they were being ripped off in real time sucked even more.
I'm about to see them perform in Groningen in half an hour...
This band was my everything in high school. Love them so much.
I saw them open for REM in high school in the 80’s and new I would follow them for as long I could. Just saw them in London in 2022! Thank God they are still creating great music.
I saw them about four months ago in Auckland. Obviously not the same without Kim, but her replacement did a fantastic job filling those very big shoes. Best gig I've been to in a very long time. Just magical.
I think I got into this band through Radiohead. They were super popular with the British kids I was friends with at the time. There's definitely something very raw about them that you just vibe with (or don't). I love them, and had the pleasure of seeing them live after they reformed and it was wonderful. My brother was astonished I knew all the words. Good times.
Being a rocker from Ohio, Kim Deal has always seemed like royalty. Kelly Deal is also pretty badass too. The Deal brand of cool is so zero effort, but slick at the same time. The bit about no one owning a fax machine is priceless. Long live the Queen!!
It's a damn shame our tax money is being wasted on Ukraine and I$rael when it should be going to fix the ecological disaster that happened in Ohio.
@@melchior2678 Thanks for bring up politics for no reason. I'm sure that's cheered everyone up.
I was a huge Punk Fan in the mid 80's in my mid teens when I started playing drums which I still play to this day 40 years later. The Pixies were the soundtrack to my college years in the late 80's and the beginning of the 90's. I know every inch of every song. They are in my top 5 bands of all time and in my humble opinion one of the most groups from the late 80's on influencing every rock, pop, alternative and punk band that came after them.
I loved Pixies from the start! You cannot imagine though how I struggled to understand the lyrics back then, without internet to get a deeper understanding of it 😅 Nonetheless it was worth the laughs that, many years later, it brought when we finally realized what the songs were about. A really creative band with legendary albums that kicked-off a new sound and opened doors to upcoming bands in so many different genres that followed their example and made their own way. One of my favorite bands ever, hands down!
I never realized they were saying "Chein andalusia" until now and of course it only adds a layer of appreciation for me.
@@coryphillips7945 I knew the song was about the short film and still didn't know that was the lyric. 😂 I'm too embarrassed to even share what I thought it was.
Don’t look at it as a struggle. Lyrics can be whatever you feel they should mean quite often.
One of the best concert I've ever attended was the Pixies on their Trompe le Monde tour in Chicago. The energy of the music and the audience was insane.
I was there too - The Riviera! Absolutely amazing high-energy show and we bopped up and down like maniacs to every song.
I was at that show too. It was crazy!!! I took a girl there I really liked and she ended up breaking a couple ribs during the show. It didn’t work out between us, but it was an incredible show.
@@christopherpeterson7212 thats a very cool memory you have there
I seen Pixies 2005 Chicago.
2010, Kansas City
I seen Kraftwerk 2014 at The Riv.
I ripped off a piece of wood wall.
Took back home.
Still have lil chunk wood with ticket
Totally did! I recall driving home (maybe a bit dunk) in the middle of a Saskatchewan winter from a party when I was in Grade 12, in 1989 (graduated in 90), in my orange 1970 VW "Super Beetle," and the host on CBC's Brave New Waves (Patti Smith, I want to say) said, in her sexy voice, "Now, from the Boston band that everybody loves" and it was the Pixies (Here Comes Your Man). Changed my life.
The Pixies will always be my favorite band! So glad I got to see them live once for their Death To The Pixies Tour.
aww was looking forward to seeing at least Paz getting a mention, i love her
At the end, Paz was unceremoniously jettisoned from the band. What a thankless exit for the only bassist that could hold her own in that space. She was supposedly just as surprised to hear she left the band as everyone else.
Saw ‘em at Malibu on Long Island in ‘89. Free tix thru a WLIR radio promotion, maybe a dozen people showed up, I remember clinging to the speaker cabinet as their music powered through me. They delivered. Saw ‘em again 15 years later at Bumbershoot in Seattle, the tension was palpable but they played well, like a really competent Pixies cover band. You can’t go home again.
Barely a week has passed in the last 25 years when I haven't listened to a Pixies song. One of my five greatest bands of all time.
I know I'm in the minority here, but Trompe Le Monde is my favorite Pixies album. A friend of mine was introducing me to them c.1998 and I was blown away the instant I hit PLAY
It's almost impossible to distill Pixies into a half hour video, but you did a damn good job with this one. Thank you!
The Pixies Said Goodbye 👋 to the 80's & Hello 🙋♂️ 🙋♀️ to the 90's 🎸
I love this channel with all my heart
I loved the Pixies! that was my highschool years soundtrack! thanks!
I would also add Janes Addiction’s ‘Nothing Shocking’ from 1988 as having helped launched the alternative scene of the 90s.
Never knew about the purple rain reference, fantastic bit of trivia! Also I was at that Glastonbury 89 show, I had no idea they played the songs alphabetically FFS!!! :) Amazing to learn new things about your fav bands with every video. This channel is an essential.
Doolittle, along with The Sugarcubes’ Life’s Too Good and Scar by Lush kickstarted my university life in 1989.
I caught them on their Doolittle tour. The first time I ever heard 'Where Is My Mind?' was live. Kim Deal started wailing and it still gives me the chills writing about it now. They were awesome and this video was awesome.
I first saw The Pixies when they were touring Bossanova, it's still one of the best gigs I've ever been to..been a fan since I first heard them on the John Peel show around the time when Surfer Rosa came out, he played Bone Machine and I'm Amazed, I was instantly hooked.
I loved all their songs and never once thought they had such creative suppression, the way the collaboration were amazingly interwoven, complimentary into beautiful music of its time. And even today those albums are timeless. True Classics
A Pixies Video?!!!! Trash Theory you just made my month thx so much!!!!!!
It's an unfortunate fact that the days of obsessing over albums is gone, now it's been reduced to single tracks you can stream. I'm grateful for being there during the 90s when a full album really meant something and was an experience, and the Pixies were definitely a big part of that. Yes I'm the old man reminiscing but idgaf, those were some good times to be alive🤌🤌🤌
I still remember that summer when I heard Debaser on the radio (on JJJ). That mix of pop and extreme rock was unique. Amazing how a spoonful of musical sugar (poppy hooks and structures) helps the screaming, distortion and wild psychological dysfunction go down. They kicked open the door so that Nirvana could go through it to the mainstream.
If it hasn't been mentioned before, check the band The Pillows in Japan. They have massive influences from The Pixies. In their "Happy Bivouac" album, Track 7's "Back Seat Dog" ends with the chorus from "Here Comes Your Man", and Track 8 is called "Kim Deal". It's such a love story.
The best video I could have asked for right now! I've been listening to Pixies all day :)
My friend in high school was learning guitar and really wanted to do a Pixies song in the talent show, but lamented that he didn't know anyone who could sing like Black Francis. A bunch of people had told me that my speaking voice sounded like Kim Deal, so we put together a band and did "Gigantic". I can't sing, and I'm so tone deaf I had to have the other band members tell me when I was on key and could only tell by remembering what the feeling of the vibration in my throat was when I was on key, but it worked because it was The Pixies.
Beautiful piece about the Pixies!! Thank you! ' every little thing they did was magic...' Every song was good... So rare in a band for all the songs on every album to be Soooo good!
I love The Pixies so much that they still move me in many ways decades after I first heard them! Thank you for this awesome video and honouring their incredible influence in the past, present and no doubt into the future!
I can see the concept of the Pixies as important to what came next, but as a band, they are just not my cuppa
But then, they don't have to be
Insane to think of Doolittle without Debaser
Just going through a whole bunch of Pixies songs when this uploaded. Great video. Thank you
Just on sings about Kim Deal, there is The Pillows song "Kim Deal" from 1999's "Happy Bivouac" which you can catch the back vocals exclaiming "Please sing for me".
Pixies will always remind me of my late friend, we both used heroin, we both listened to Surfer Rosa and Doolitle stoned, but I managed to quit. Tomek overdosed on June 2, 2018. Rest in peace, maybe now you know where your mind is.
This video is as accurate as an academic article. It was prepared so carefully and with time that it is impossible not to admire it. We thank you.
Was lucky enough to see them play Doolittle straight through, my fav by far, about a decade ago.
The Pixies are one of my favourite bands, but for me it's very hit or miss. I either absolutely love a song or really dislike it.
So much in this I didn't know. Thanks for making this. Love it! ❤️❤️❤️
I feel the same way about the Pixies. Their best stuff is absolutely epic, but every one of their LPs has some amount of filler on it (even Doolittle.) And while I appreciate the brevity of writing short, "to the point" songs, it sometimes leaves me wishing they'd fleshed out their ideas a little more.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 surfer rosa has 0 filler
@Screwtape I just don't care much for the 2nd half of that album (once you get past "Where Is My Mind?")
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 I can't disagree with you on that album. It's just odd how hit and miss they are for me. No middle ground for me. I probably still listen to a song or album at least every days. It's probably why they're so big though, their reach is very big for many different types of people.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 what are you talking about?
there is no 'filler' on doolittle lol
I received Tromp le Monde from a cd club as a freshman in college and was like...what a sec...I have heard songs like this before?! Immediately starting buying back catalogue; legends and did set the tone for the 90s and arguably a pillar of today's indie rock.
Fun with lots of great info but important to note that it wasn't Doolittle, but Caribou and Surfer Rosa that launched the real indie and alternative scene's of the 90's. These are the records that blew people's minds because there was nothing like it and everyone in a cool band wanted to sound that way. Though loved by many Doolittle was a mainstream cross-over for those late to the party that stunted their growth. Sadly they never recovered from crossing that line and continued to chase the sonic and creative glory of those first recordings with the world still catching up all the while!
Hank Schrader: D.E.A. legend. Rock music legend. Rock collector.
Thank you for this documentary! You are amazing!
Pixies are legendary but are still somehow underrated
Underrated by the industry, but not the fans. 😉
Kind of soiling their legacy with their come-back albums.
You could say that about a lot of bands… for example: why don’t most people in the US know who X is (or XTC, for that matter?) Why didn’t The Kinks make it as big in the US as they did in the UK? Etc., etc.
@@gregbors8364 I don't know XTC, and I lived through the 80s. Are they any good?
Amazing video. Have seen the pixies live six times and been, what i think others had considered "a huge fan" since High School, yet I didn't know half the quotes, facts, trivia and happenings revealed in this video. Sharing for sure.
Thank you so much, got my favorite band ever to feel just a little fonder now. Just a little bit closer now, 🎵 thanks to you and Hanks Saloon
it's actually amazing how many great songs are on Doolittle. Pretty close to a perfect album.
The one line that gets me is that you say, 'they became the biggest band inn the word, as they always should have been as it's so true
These guys were the soundtrack of the late 80s for me when I lived in downtown Portland. Kurt a I win actually lived in my building although he wasn’t famous yet. I didn’t even know he was in a band
I saw Pixies in Toronto in 2017 where they played most of their songs but left out Gigantic, imagine my surprise and delight when the Breeders came in the following year and the bassline to Gigantic began and Kim started to sing that intro!
Graduating HS in 1985... The Pixies were to my early 90's, as the Violent Femmes were to my late 80's (mostly, screaming their songs in my car, after a breakup).
Most pixies songs weren't specifically about anything. It was cool music with Frank throwing in lines about this and that, sometimes totally unrelated.
The Pixies are a prime example of the disparity between music artists and the music industry. The industry hasn't got a clue about what is good art, but they are great at marketing junk. The Pixies were therefore not turned into the success they should have been, despite being f**king phenomenal in Surfa Rosa.
Id say the industry did try to make them big but they self sabotaged a lot. Other than the Here Comes Your Man videoclip, there was the Velouria videoclip which is notoriously bad too, look up the story about it.
They were talented, but they werent rockstars and didnt wanted to play the music industry game.
@@TheAndradeCS That's true, but the 'game' is to do what the industry says, which makes the music more mainstream, and focuses on image and marketing. If the band refuses that, then the industry rejects them. Surfa Rosa is far better than any Madonna or Michael Jackson album, but it wasn't marketed the same.
Fantastic work as always. You're the BEST!!
Yep, the first band that looked like, us. No high end fashion, no trendy hair cuts or sunglasses, no video's with sports cars and supermodels. Music that sounded nothing like the indie kids of the 80's and a million miles away from the mainstream. Hope you cover 'The Breeders next.
Erm, The Smiths? Joy Division?
@@remmidemmi496 Joy Division dressed like supply teachers. The Smiths, hipsters. I love both, as much as the Pixies. But in the late 80’s. The Pixies stood out. Had you said Faith no More, you would have been closer. I came from the metal scene to alternative, in those days.
@@Severinate Most people who slobbered over Nirvana came from the metal scene. They didn't know bands like Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. OR PIXIES!!!!!!!
The first few times I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit” I assumed it was Pixies until the vocals kicked in. And that was the song that really changed the musical landscape. (For some reason ).
Another fantastic music documentary that made my day! So much intriguing information I did not know yet I considered myself a Pixies fan... OMG. Excellent work! Cheers from Berlin.
Finally, a new awesome vidoe I actually wanted to watch, but I bit too late. The only concert I went last year was The Pixies for the first time in a solo show in my country. I really can say now I appreciate the band and sound with arguments.. Thanx!!!
Great doc! Thanks. Tbh I didn't expect much with the channel name but nicely done. subbed.
Of every video I've seen (or article I've read) on Pixies for about the last 30 years, this actually told me a few details that I didn't know.
Great frickin episode. Nice work. Thanks, man.
Another that helped Launch the 1990's was the Folk Punk band also making fun of country with a punk mix but helping launch Country Punk, Violent Femmes from 1983--1996 with them having first major album being bigger in 1984 since it was released so late in 1983. They helped launch the alternative rock songs with the one song in 1990 American Music being the bands biggest hit. Also, Violent Femmes is the highest charting and album selling rock band to ever come from Wisconsin.
They also did independently the same thing soft to loud on songs or loud to soft as well like on Blister in the Sun from the 1984 self-titled album Violent Femmes. Violent Femmes might be a bit more overlooked in the UK and independent Ireland but in the USA they had an impact on pop punk for sure with Green Days Time of Your Life in 1994 or 1995 having a less Punk-Fok more Folk-Rock style of a Violent Femmes song. They also bridged the gap between classic punk/earlty pop punk like the Buzzcocks or the later punk of The Clash London Calling and later but before they went full on early Proto Ska and keeping the more traditional parts of punk alive so bands like Green Day and The Offspring before the moved to Butt Punk Rock as a joke in 2000's could develop Punk Rock.
Most likely the band that brought me into indie rock when I first heard them in 1986--Violent Femmes, 'Violent Femmes'. Still one of my favorite records ever made.
great job ending on a high note. thanks for putting this together
Cool video, and I really like the fact that it ends where it does.
I saw Pixies at a secret, 'warm-up' show in Melbourne in 2004 at a small club in front of 800 people - I'd been too young to see them the first time around- and they were so great.
I don't mind their later records with Paz, who really rocks, but there was something really special about the four original members- a bond that can never be recreated.
The 1990s were all about catching up with the most interesting parts of the 1980s. Death to the Pixies. ❤
this is too goooooodd. You are wonderful, thank you for making these videos
I’m rather sad about finding myself finally understanding lyrics from bloodhound gang songs now rather than earlier.
May I also add that Doolittle sounds INCREDIBLE
This is so fire. Amazing depth and detail for one of the most elusive bands of all time.
Surfer rosa is my favourite album of all time... i've listened to it thousands of times...
This is definitely my favorite music related channel on UA-cam. Bravo to you, Trash Theory. Best wishes from Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts. 🍻💯
3:59 The lyrics are and have always been, "Bumped into me, I swear he was trying to talk to me, he said, "wait, wait". Listen to any live video from 1988 through 2023, Charles says, "wait, wait" or "wait, wait, wait". There was never a lyrics sheet for Surfer Rosa, so people made lyrics up. And when lyric sites started to pop up in the early 2000's people put what they thought they heard on these websits. Somehow more versions of coy or koi were used. The thing about the early 2000's is, we didn't have hundreds of live versions of the song to figure out the lyrics to a song. Sure, bands mix up and forget lyrics, but listen to it live, he always says, "wait".
1988 ua-cam.com/video/I_aBmrYChfQ/v-deo.html
2022 ua-cam.com/video/3sD5DJzN1VU/v-deo.html
Great job. I appreciate the information provided! 🙏
Not only is this channel a great hidden gem of UA-cam, but it's also featuring one of the greatest bands to ever exist in music history. Can't get any better than this.
Having heard a lot of modern pop songs that overstay their welcome, I agree with Francis's sentiment.
I bought a turntable recently and just ordered Doolittle while watching this vid. Brilliant. Can’t wait to play it.
Great video as always. Though I was a bit surprised to see no mention of the Pixies still touring (and making albums) with Paz at the bass. Unless you don't consider them as Pixies anymore - which I could agree with...