Pixies - Debaser (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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Kim's smile is a fundamental part of the Pixies
indeed
Funny, CAN’T hear the smile.
I caught to OG 4 at the Louisville Palace some time ago .. She Stopped everything to ask the crowd, "Do you guys realize how beautiful this place is?" I paraphrase, she knew ~~>
@@kenjones6441 probably because you've got piles or live with a witch of a wife. If you can't hear her smile in the music or in her playing you reconnect with your life to find your groove and smile again.
@kenjones6441 please god go listen to the breeders kim deals band you can very clearly hear them smiling in a ton of their songs dude... like their cover of driving on 9? You can just hear their happiness
The ending portion with Kim Deal’s voice over that guitar riff is one of the most heavenly pieces of music I have ever heard.
Me too. I have a crush on her. Like probably a bunch o' dudes...and chicks....do :)
@@deansacca781 don't
For me, it is when the drums stop in the middle and we hear the crushing gravely tone of 'ahh ho ho ho'. That is something else
Not sure where it comes from but i love where it sends me
just listened to that part, and have to agree!
It's beautiful. like her
They were legit alternative when no one respected alternative, later everyone agreed they were the best.
New wave blues
true
Pixies is one of those bands you don't get tired of
@Hunter Vonnegut it isn't
So true ! Never...
Monkey gone to heaven
I had Come on Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa and Doolittle all on vinyl.
I threw them all away.
Yes you can get tired of The Pixies.
Because quality is timeless... that's why I still listen to J.S.Bach also.
It often comes to my mind that this may be the best punk rock song ever.
It always gives me goosebumps when Francis replaces second verse with just "ahahaha!". There's so much energy throughout the song which is doubled up by the lyrics that doesn't even make sense. The riff is great too, which sounds like a spaceship travelling through a blackhole. Genius.
Punk? I thought this was GarageBand sounding
@@santanam5830 Really? These are all live recorded parts. It's magic that they managed got it so 'clean' sounding. Love it. : )
Flipper’s “Ha Ha Ha” also has demented, slightly evolving laughter in a noisy grunge song’s chorus. It’s no surprise that Kurt Cobain used to wear a homemade Flipper shirt, and of course proclaimed his debt to Pixies as well. I wonder if this song was Frank Black’s own homage to Flipper.
@@sealife12 Post-punk then, pedantic pete you pitiful prick. 😁
The pixies are not punk
36 years later and the perfection still gives me goosebumps.
I love how the vocals get progressively screamier. Definitely my favorite Pixies song
Mine as well (even though I can hardly think of a Pixies song I don't like)
I had a DREAM about just last night and how Black Francis wasn't afraid to take chances then.
This is in my top 3. Not my fav tho. "Where is my mind" is no 1
It's a toss up between this and Hey
Pixies are an excellent alternative music band that influenced many bands that were commercially successful from late 1991 onwards. Kurt Cobain confessed that he was inspired by this cult alternative rock band for some hits from some of his grunge group Nirvana. My great admiration for Pixies and their alternative rock music, and their influence on other artists in the nineties to the present day, leaves me speechless because they are not enough to praise a great band like them. Congratulations on your excellent record work and your concerts! I have the Doolittle album in CD format with great pride! You guys are true pioneers of alternative music!
If you sing the ‘teen spirit’ lyrics to this then it all makes sense 🤘🖤
Doolittle is definitely one of my all time favs
The original alternative band in my mind!
One of the best songs in Skate 3. Love it
Along wit q lazzurus GoodBye Horses
bro i was like i hope i wasnt the only one that knew this song from skate 3
I like that their voices are so different, his screamy and out of control and hers so serene and calm. All about deeper symbolics. That's why i love the Pixies. Songs are full of double meanings and you are really never done listening to their records, and that is what makes a band in my eyes "time-less"..
Great comment. Perfectly stated. 👍
Gawd yes!! Best post-punk/ alt rock EVER.
I also that the dissonant ‘out-of-tune’ chords...
when you're 50 and finally understand the song you loved at 21 and realise it is about a surrealist Spanish movie you saw when you were 15
The clues were there all along!
the andolusian dawg!!
Jeez dude you nailed it
And the eyeball was actually a cow's eye!
Buñuel rocks!
I was thirteen when this album was released. It completely changed the trajectory of my musical tastes. A truly iconic and legendary band.
Pixies are like the perfect midpoint between Smiths-era alternative rock and the Grunge era.
Best comment I've ever read!
Saw em in 1991 at Manchester GMex, up there with Nirvana and Sigur Ros for best live performances.
Wow great way of putting it . I love the pixies but can’t stand the smiths or the doors. Give me nirvana or Alice In Chains though
Spot on 🤞 The Smiths are my favourite band and I adore grunge and Pixies are the perfect mix of the melodic elements of The Smiths mixed with the abrasiveness of grunge.
True. Add a bit of The Fall...
1990: Friend made me a cassette of dolittle. Listened to this song. Rewound it and listened again about twenty times. I was 14. Had no idea anyone anywhere made music like this.
yeah, I knew Pixies but first heard this three years ago randomly through headphones, using my friend/roomie's MP3 player biking home from work & was FUCK.. what?.. did my ears just come? I had thought I couldn't feel that with music again. replayed & replayed
I turned up for the 1st week at univeristy in leicester in late 1989 and the asian indie kid across the corridor in my hall of residence played this to me and my life has been changed ever since.
no, here to see real music
You friend should have shown you the movie...
👍🙏
Best opening song to an album, best album ever. It pressed I’d have to say Doolittle is their best. Best band ever. Their music is from another world
I can never decide if it's Doolittle or Surfer Rosa. My choice usually depends on which one I listened to most recently.
Wow... This song is a masterpiece.
+lucia salazar You are a masterpiece!
you are a masterpiece
Look at those chiens
+lucia salazar must be ace to be young and suddenly find the Pixies exist.
+lucia salazar its a good song, but I feel like where is my mind and hey is better
This song transcends the possibility of ever getting boring
perfect summary
12 years later for me and it’s still not boring.
omg well said - the ultimate stranded on an island song to have!
This song will always mean a lot to me. Was my anthem during a drunken summer in my early twenties. Good times
One of the most energetic recordings in pop music history.
WTF
Boring AF
@@iNDeX_TM shut up
You trippin
your mum is pop
@@IvanIvanov-us1fb Ivan Ivanov, your mum was very original
I bought this album exactly 30 years ago through one of those mail order deals, like RCA, (10 compact discs for $1.00, or something)- and my life has never been the same. Great, great album.
My son, who is 20, loves The Pixies, The Smiths, Nirvana, etc. he has very awesome taste in music.
Good son 👍
good boy
You've raised him well 🎉
My little girl is only 5, she loves pop music really but does love the beatles. Hopefully the other bands you mentioned will come in time 😂
you can step down in peace;-)
Pixies are one of those bands that are called "They are your favorite band's favorite band"
Nirvana
that's the beatles or velvet underground
@@dimashadiwardaninumber 9 number 9 number 9 number 9
@@dimashadiwardanibeatles fucking suck, never say that again
Placebo!
People think Alternative and Grunge music started in Seattle but it really started in Amherst Massachusetts with The Pixies and Dinosaur Jr.
Well if you ask me, Sonic Youth or Gang of Four were formed some years before them.
Sonic Youth and Husker Du and REM
The U-men and The Melvins existed in Seattle before the Pixies. Pixies owes a lot to Hüsker Dü
Alternative started before that
REM was playing "alternative rock" in the early 1980s. But the Pixies influenced the Seattle scene, especially Nirvana.
Why do I still love this after hearing it 10,000 times?. Never gets old.
Pixies forever!!! I don't know any band that made people want to start bands as much as the pixies. All these songs still slap!
After velvet underground. With respect
Absolutely fantastic. Kim Deal on bass and muttered backing vocals...so good.
Pixies started with their first album in 1986. And I was only 14 years old. But those unbeat beat, harmoni in the unharmoni. And I started to learn my self to play both guitar and bass. Absolutely the most influnce
One of my favorite Pixies songs. I saw Pixies live back in February, waited outside the venue and managed to get the very front middle, right in front of Charles! There's just something about the Pixies that makes me love them so damn much.
One of the most influential bands ever.
Yes Sir.
one of the most influential albums ever...
the Pixies released music before most listening to it were born and it never got big until later.... could a band even do that today!? probably not because there are too many choices
Interesting fact, Kurt Cobain said when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit he was trying to copy the Pixies.
@Lanzy Fabian
Well given where we are with modern music I guess that means the Pixies are responsible for Justin Bieber... Bastards.
@Ketan Sajwan Why? "If the Pixies were the step that broke the gravel which released the boulder... which started the Grunge avalanche which changed the course of modern music." and modern music has lead to Justin Beiber then ipso facto the Pixies lead to Justin Beiber. I mean I don't like it any more than you do but unless Lanzy is full of shit then the facts would seem to stand.
I still shiver and shake when I hear the basline of the intro....this song is awesome
So perfect, you hear all the instruments for exactly as long as you need to
To my knowledge the single version (this video) was remixed. For example, I don't remember the tambourine being as prominent as it is here compared to the original album version. Not like it's bad, I love all the screeching guitars at the end are turned up to 11!
the PERFECT album opener for a PERFECT album
Most underrated band ever, imo. And I know they are loved and highly respected--still underrated, imo.
There's more invention and originality in this one song than in 99% of rock bands out since.
I think, when it comes down to it, its the music of the Pixies that makes me feel most free and happy and wild
I LOVE Kim Deal. I want her to sing the background track to my daily life. She was the straw that stirred the madness of Black.
Agree. I like their solo work but the Pixies doesn't work when the two are out of balance.
I was raised on this band, my dad had me listen to them for almost as long as I can remember, and I almost forgot about this song until I picked up Skate 3 and instantly fell back in love with the Pixies. Great song, great band.
Still gives chills after all these years, the immortal Pixies.
This is a song to put in a time capsule to play hundreds of years from now to hear what the late 1980s to early 1990s felt like
i'm here cuz my mom and her college days. she's played doolittle around the house since i was born (2005) and i love pixies, i thank them so much for changing my outlook on life. i saw them live about a year ago and they were fantastic. love you pixies!
Same dude. Same
The Pixies Brilliant! I used to play their stuff in the 6th form late 80s and on my way to Manchester every weekend. They inspired so many bands, e.g. Nirvana, its the up and down of a rollercoaster, like a raw, shaking one. Its a thrill! Still listening to them and still see their influence
I heard this song in the alternative clubs in Manchester, very late 80s/early 90s. Never really knew the lyrics just shouted along with it and went bouncing around the dancefloor like a loon - along with everyone else in the club. One of those songs that always filled the dancefloor!
God I can never get over how good these drums are
Frank took it all and crammed it into one song. This is 80s indie jammed into one song. Masterpiece
I was at a party at my brother's house and he put this song on, with the stereo turned up just below the threshold at which the volume would cause distortion in the eardrum. The sound was loud and clean and I think nothing I've ever heard has hit me quite like that "ah ha ha ho" did. I don't know what the first time you heard the Pixies was like, but that was mine, and I don't think I could ask for a better introduction.
It's shocking to me that this song is 34 years old. It sounds like it was recorded next week.
My dissection & analysis of Surrealism, including Un Chien Andalou, rewarded me with an A grade in History of Art, which preceded the release of The Pixies Debaser by approximately 2 years.
So when Doolittle’s Debaser hit the airwaves in ‘89 it made perfect sense to me.
A Dali aficionado from the age of 15, I’d studied his art & read all of Dali’s written works by the age of 16 & saved up to buy my first Dali lithograph series, Saint George & His Dragon, which I bought when I was 18.
I pursued surrealism with vigour experimenting extensively with LSD during the so-called British Second Summer of Love, days & nights melding into One.
Unshackled from The Great Cosmic Looking Glass of The Internet we were as free as the Romantic poets & writers, to live every minute of our lives like it was our last, without the compulsion to impress or influence anyone.
Good times.
Indeed....the under-documented acid boom of the late eighties to mid 90s, the best years
Probably the best song of the 90s, and still rocking the shit out of my mind. Black Francis is a genius, yep.
Well... technically... 1989.
I bought Doolittle at a flea market in Santa Cruz, CA in 1996. I had never listened to the Pixies before, but I loved Frank Black from his solo work. I connected with the first few notes like a lock with a key. I experienced pure yes.
The perfect mixture of bright delightful tunes and debased brutal words
Heard this on the John Peel show and it Changed my life and still sounds Ace!❤
Also - just one of those gem of an albums that you can listen to on repeat and never get sick of- yessssssssssss
These guys were a huge influence on many big bands - Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Weezer, Kings of Leon, Radiohead & many others
and number girl in japan
Yeah, I remember Kurt Cobain always cited the pixies as an influence. 😊
And even David Bowie.....
@@danielg.w5733 speaking of japan, they also heavily influenced The Pillows
Indeed Pixies were pioneers of grunge 🤟🤟
this song is literally perfect in every way this is like one of the best songs ever made
I agree
No
I am un CHIEN andalusia!!
The brilliance of the pixies and Black Francis’s solo albums are pretty much unmatched in the rock world . I’m almost glad that so,sooo many people have no idea of their musical brilliance . Kinda makes me feel that those of us that are well versed with them have an exclusive sort of connection with them. The Pixie’s want to be your friends.
gotta love the pixies for dragging music away from 1980's and towards that claasic 1990's sound (that they basically invented)
+Josh Brown The Gun Club
+Josh Brown They invented nothing. Sonic Youth, Dino Jr, Mission of Burma, etc. were doing song like this before Pixies.
+Aiko Kawanaka
Can't speak for the others, but let's be honest. As awesome as Sonic Youth are, they tried hard, and succeeded, at being the VU of the '80s. Nirvana, on the other hand, tried to be the Pixies of the early '90s, and Smashing Pumpkins tried to be the Pixies of the mid-to-late '90s. Push to shove, Pixies was a much larger influence in the alt-rock scene than sonic youth ever were. That said, that doesn't mean any of the bands I mentioned sucked, they're all pretty stellar in my opinion - and it is just that.
Erectoralporicy honestly I think sonic youth is way more influential. Also the VU of the 80s is the jesus and mary chain
Aiko Kawanaka I have to disagree, but I do respect your opinions and good taste in music :)
Something magical about Kim's angelic harmonies, especially that final "debaser."
Bought one Pixies cd back in the day and put it away after a couple of listens. Coming back to them a long time later and surprise! They are good.
still sounds ahead of its time, 30 years on
I see the pixys at v fest 2004. My friend that I went with never heard them before. 2 songs into the set he was moshing out, saying these are wicked. One of best live bands I seen and I've seen alot. Way ahead of the game, they were doing in 80s what bands in 90s and 00s were doing. Still sounding good in 2020 baby. Rock and Roll x
i CAN'T tell you how much I think of you. I think very highly of you. Thank you the Pixies, I think you are Brilliant, and I've been thinking that since Monkey Gone To Heaven came out in the UK in about 1987. I only got to see you once at the 'V Festival' in Chelmsford in about 1996'ish. I loved seeing you on that summers day. Thanks
Another song where Kim burns her one word chorus into your brain.
Yes!!
into the white
Kim is God.
Im a guy but i always try to sing along with her part of the chorus in her voice. Idk why but her voice is so captivating. Debaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaa
@@GetintheCAH we all try
This is timeless. If you told me this was released yesterday I would believe it
Can't we say that for most pixies songs?
saw these back in the late 80s. one of my fave songs of all time from one of my fave albums of all time - gotta give props to the vid too. fantastic!
un français pour témoigner ? le rock n'est pas mort et il ne le sera jamais. Bientôt 2024 et pourtant se son m'accompagne encore dans ma vie de tout les jours.
Hommes de gouts, laisser une trace de votre passage.
Hardcore jusqu'à la mort et le rock bien plus encore !!!
I'm not crying at how good this song is, you are
Hands down the best opener to any album, Doolittle just opens in such a godlike fashion.
Black wrote this song about the surrealist short film 'Un Chien Ansalou' created by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel. He sings "I wanna grow up to be a debaser" because the film debased the art community a the time and it made him want to do the same.
+Phoebe Dowling
+Phoebe Dowling You're good at Wikipedia.
VICTORdowns didn't use Wikipedia but I read about it a while ago when looking them up
+Phoebe Dowling What decade was this in Phoebe. One of my fav songs.
Michael Moss This song was released in 1989 and is on there album Doolittle. Just before the grunge scene broke out. They influenced many grunge bands, Kurt Cobain even said that they were one of his favourite bands and their album 'Surfer Rosa' really influenced Nirvana's final album 'In Utero' (My favourite Nirvana album lol)
Debaser is one my favourite pop songs ever. Hardly enough engraved in my heart, I can say
Not a pop song.
First got into The Pixies almost a full quarter decade ago and still remember the first time I heard this. Absolutely can picture pirating random songs on my friend's PC and falling completely in love.
The music video was made in 1997...I bet a million bucks that they could have shelved this song until then and pretended it was a new song and everybody would have believed it. My mind cannot reconcile that this is an 80s song. Everything about it screams late 90s-early 00s.
One of the best songs of all times. Just reminding beautiful memories from the past, even working in the Summer and listening to this song on the radio decades ago
I remember Debaser being my favorite song in Skate 3. It's very nostalgic hearing it again after all these years...
I know people have said this before but I love how normal-looking they are. No elaborate makeup or crazy fashion sense. It ties into their music really well.
yeah, Nowadays we have model types with stuffed lips that have no clue about music
@@rolandboerhof9391 ok i completely 100% agree with you! but... your reply wasnt very relavent and therefore didn't make much sence.
@@akuaku3496 how does it not relate? they talked about how musicians today are superficial in response to a comment talking about how Pixies weren't superficial. I don't 100% agree with them, but it was def relevant.
Guide how to be a popular band 2020 , tits and autotune
Y'all gonna pretend that superficial pop music "made" by models wasn't a thing in the 80s/90s?
This song reminds me of some really tough times in the late 1980 early 1990's when I really struggled. What a soundtrack!
Hearing this on NCAA 2006 changed my life as a 13 year old. I’m 32 today and this and the songs on that games soundtrack hold a sacred place in my heart.
My most played song of 2021 according to Spotify. Timeless music never dies.
@@SmeliiMelon L
Funny, it was my most played song of 2022 also according to Spotify
@@CptnWolfe same
Yet, oddly.. although I loved this song a LOT at the time (and still do) other songs of their's have grown on me more since then... like River Euphrates and Silver.
so,u are youngster,with taste of music.i've had this album on a tape in 1990...and i've buried some of my personal contacts just because they dispite it.shame of them.
Pixies are always. No genre can think about them. They're just fundamental
I own the pixies dvd and it has all their videos but I think I like this one the best.
The second verse lyrics /delivery are some of the greatest in rock history
The song is from the 1989 album "Doolittle", but the video is from 1997, because the song was only released as a single then. That's why it looks like a tribute.
The way the singer yells makes me overwhelmingly happy any time I hear it.
This is the album my mom listened to constantly when she was pregnant with me, and that I heard for the first few months of life. I credit it for being part of my development.
You lucky SOB. I would have killed to hear something as awesome as this in the womb!
one of the greatest album openers of all time
Requested this at our end of year dance in the 90s. It cleared the frickin floor leaving me and two friends to dance alone. Freaks and misfits 4 eva.
Favorite song ever - both the music and the lyrics. The lyrics have a lot of complicated references and the song has really deep meaning, something that most people would just write off as "a bunch of yelling". It's a mirror of my personality and life actually. Also, there's a great riff at 0:53, and they only play it once. That's pretty rare. Oh and I almost forgot, I'm in love with Paz Lenchantin -- lol.
Listening to it now in 2020, it's hard to imagine, this song was one of the most influential songs in music history. Don't agree? This song was literally the most influential songs of the grunge era.
yup this is THE alt rock song
I was a die hard Metal fan at 15. Then some dude moves from California and plays this tape for me and off on my musical landscape I went. Thanks Rob
Released in 1989, sounds like 2089.
sounds like 1979
I agree with that statement as well.
:)
Like ABBA?
This album is so avant-garde. That's a fact.
The thundering wonderful insanity of one of this planets finest beat combos.
We have these guys to thank for a whole decade of noisy pop songs.
This came out in 1989 and sounds like it was written yesterday.
Wow I love the Pixies so much, timeless!
Way ahead of their time! I could listen to Debaser for days and still be impressed.
"Doolittle" was my favorite Pixies album. The band, at this point in time, along with The Mekons and The Jazz Butcher, were making the best noise of the 80s. For me, anyway.
"Surfer Rosa" & "Doolittle." "Fishcoteque" & "Big Planet, Scary Planet" from The Butcher.
And finally "Honky Tonkin' ", "So Good It Hurts", and "The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll" all came out in the years of 1988 - 89 (except "Honky Tonkin' " came out in '87 - sue me.)
I could stretch it out to '90 -91 to include "Bossa Nova", "Condition Blue", "Curse of the Mekons", etc. But I just wanted to focus on the material immediately surrounding "Doolittle."
It was a a treasure trove of music that holds up, undated, against any band, any performer that I can think of. Well, except for some kind of Once In A Lifetime virtuosic genius shit like Jimi Hendrix or "Blood On the Tracks" or "London Calling" & "Sandinista!." Shit like that stands alone and you have to be reasonable & objective.
But this was a great time to be alive & witness & experience these bands as it happened. And now is a great time to be alive because people still have even more and easy access than ever to this music. It's available in more formats to be streamed, downloaded, or mailed straight to your mailbox. We NEVER had any shit like that when it came out. It's freaking awesome. So again - NOW is a fantastic time to be alive because the music hasn't changed - it's still as moving, funny, and powerful as ever and just waiting to be relived or discovered.
So if you're reliving The Pixies but you're not familiar with The Mekons or The Jazz Butcher or Jazz Butcher Conspiracy (the guy's name is Pat Fish & he's recorded under both) I urge you to check em out & discover!
Or turn someone who hasn't heard The Pixies on to them & let them discover!
Music is a wonderful gift. Share it. Especially share it with yourself. :)
Long, long-winded rant is FINALLY over. Sorry about that. Song got my blood up. 😬
How can anyone not like the Pixies. Strange.
Toby James Anything with style won't be everyone's cup of tea. I don't think you even *want* everyone to like the Pixies, because they'd be overrated.
Toby James Half there song are good. The other bad half.
Yer a lot of there latter stuff was a bit hit & miss. Come on pilgrim / surfer rosa & doolittle were there best albums, you have a point.
I thnk even those have bad song
+Toby James People just have different preferences and tastes, and you gotta be ok with that.
This is such a quintessentially 90's sound I can't believe this album its from 1989
Still listening to pixies.
To this day nothing
Beats it
The contrast between caos and harmony
These guys were way ahead of their time!
I was lucky enough to see them live this summer and man they killed it with this one ;)
After so many years still so fresh. it seems they wrote it yesterday. Young teenagers bands playing it like recent hits. Pixies were too far ahead of their time.