The Pixies roared back into record shops this spring with Indie Cindy, their first album in more than two decades, and now, thanks to the fine folks at PIAS America, we’ve got copies of the limited-edition, hardbound 2CD release of the album — featuring a 13-track bonus live album on the second disc — to give away to three lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.
The deluxe edition features the full 12-track Indie Cindy album on one disc, and the aforementioned live album, recorded during the band’s U.S. tour this past spring, on the other (see full tracklist below). Plus, it’s packaged in a 40-page book with gold foiling and a slipcase, artwork all designed by longtime band associate and 4AD designer Vaughan Oliver.
TO ENTER: In the comments section below, please name your absolute favorite Pixies song — and, if you’re feeling so inclined, offer up a few words as to just what it is about that song that you think makes it so great. If you’re using the Slicing Up Eyeballs app, please email your entry to info@slicingupeyeballs.com with the subject line “Gimme, gimme, gimme some Indie Cindy.”
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RULES: Contest is open worldwide. We’ll take entries until 5 p.m. EDT Friday, June 20. After that point, we’ll select three winners at random and contact them via their provided e-mail addresses. One entry per person. Good luck, and godspeed.
UPDATE: All right, contest is now closed. Thank you all for entering and sharing your favorite Pixies’ songs. Winners have been notified via email.
Tracklist: Pixies, Indie Cindy: Deluxe Edition
CD 1
1. “What Goes Boom”
2. “Greens And Blues”
3. “Indie Cindy”
4. “Bagboy”
5. “Magdalena 318”
6. “Silver Snail”
7. “Blue Eyed Hexe”
8. “Ring The Bell”
9. “Another Toe In The Ocean”
10. “Andro Queen”
11. “Snakes”
12. “Jaime Bravo”
CD 2
1. “Bone Machine” (Live in the USA 2014)
2. “Hey” (Live in the USA 2014)
3. “Ana” (Live in the USA 2014)
4. “Magdalena 318” (Live in the USA 2014)
5. “Snakes” (Live in the USA 2014)
6. “Indie Cindy” (Live in the USA 2014)
7. “I’ve Been Tired” (Live in the USA 2014)
8. “Head On” (Live in the USA 2014)
9. “The Sad Punk” (Live in the USA 2014)
10. “Distance Equals Rate Times Time” (Live in the USA 2014)
11. “Something Against You” (Live in the USA 2014)
12. “Isla De Encanta” (Live in the USA 2014)
13. “Planet Of Sound” (Live in the USA 2014)
Gouge Away!!!
Just love it, everything about it.
“Gouge Away” is for me the ultimate Pixies song. It has that “loud/quiet/loud” touch along with a fantastic melody. And when it kicks… it’s just a wow moment to me.
“Gouge Away”: The tale of Samson and Delilah if they were two stoner psychotics
Hey. The slow burn, Joey’s sublime guitar solo and Kim Deals backing vocals all add up to make it fantastic.
Where Is My Mind?
“Here Comes Your Man”. Just a nice fun song that brings me back.
“where is my mind” cause I’m still looking after all these years
For this contest:
Cactus
Bowie covered it.
’nuff said.
“River Euphrates”. As with many songs of the Pixies, I like how melodic it sounds, how smooth, and then how suddenly this changes into a really energetic and screaming chorus :D
But what makes it different is the “ride, ride” part… I totally love it!
That’s a tough one. I love all of them! How about Bird Dream of Olympus Mons?
Brick is red…..great guitar sounds
Hang Wire
I could listen to it “every morning and every day, I’ll bossanova with ya!”
Too difficult, but for the sake of the contest, Alec Eifell
“Dancing The Manta Ray”!
This often overlooked gem just gets my blood flowing and my ear fluids moving every time.
“Your head can go real screw
with saucers chasing you”
Favorite song: Caribou- always loved it and was happily surprised to hear it the last time we saw them live at the FOX in ATL.
Where is my Mind? “With your feet in the air and your head on the ground” says it all with that driving guitar is just fitting.
“Gouge Away”
Not necessarily because it is the best, but because it represents terrific memories from that time period for me.
Where is my Mind? Or Gouge Away. Or Debaser. Or La la love you…..or Velouria.
I don’t know, that seems to be an impossible question for me. I love every Pixies song, and it’s impossible to just pick one as a favorite!
Alec Eiffel
‘Dead’
Possibly the Pixies at their rawest, and with awesome lyrics!
My absolute favorite…Gigantic.
Bone Machine – It was the first song from the first album I’d heard. The drums in the intro drew me in and I never escaped.
“Here Comes Your Man” – Love the guitar sound most of all.
Bone Machine. For the bass, for the screaming, for that combination of Black Francis’ and Kim Deal’s voices, for that millisecond after the chorus before the guitars kick back in.
Debaser
What an opening to an album! Mind you, picking a favourite Pixies track is even harder than naming my favourite beer…
Alec Eiffel… mixes all the elements that make The Pixies great… loud, quiet, hooky… a virtually perfect song!
Debaser!
I was 15 and my family made me go with them to a ranch. I refused to get out of the full-sized SUV, so I spent about 4 or 5 long hours listening to Doolittle, the only cassette in it. Every time Debaser began, I counted one more cycle of the tape. After that heavy session and all of these years, I haven’t got a little bored with the album, and that Debaser intro keeps alerting me for an energy boost and joyful rock and roll state of mind. Slicing up eyeballs, OH-OH-OH-OH!
Doolittle was my point of entry with the Pixies… on cassette! The whole album is amazing, but “Monkey Gone to Heaven” is probably my favorite. “If man is five…”
Debaser. No one I knew had even heard of Un Chien Andalou, then here’s one of my favourite bands writing a song about it!
“River Euphrates”
Should only be played loud, where anyone (literally anyone) can sing along. A listener can distinctly hear each member’s part, a reflection of each individuals place in the band.
“Motorway to Roswell”
Is this their best song? No. But it’s the one that – albeit with some tardiness – convinced me of the Pixies’ greatness.
Debaser
Bre
Debaser. The first song my son learned to sign along to in the car. Two years old and screaming ‘DEBASER’ from the back seat in perfect time.
Sure, there are obvious choices like Debaser, Gouge Away, Hey, Gigantic, Bone Machine, Monkey Gone to Heaven, et cetera. But I think one of their most under-appreciated moments is “Letter to Memphis.” A lot more sweet and wistful than what their audience had grown to expect from them, but still draped in that unmistakable sonic aesthetic of the band and still bearing a skewed lyrical perspective. I also love the way it almost seems of a piece with Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons.
“River Euphrates”
This is my favorite Pixies song, because it gets me moving like nothing else. I have to be careful listening to this track while I’m driving.
Something against you, this is the rawest the Pixies have ever sounded.
‘Dig For Fire’ because it’s really sunny, for lack of a better word.
A lot of their music is pretty dark and chaotic, which I’ve kind of outgrown over the years. But songs like this one, ‘Manta Ray,’ ‘Greens and Blues’ and ‘Jaime Bravo’ on the new record (even given the subject matter), are just kind of cheery and fun, make me smile and keep coming back to the well for more.
So yeah, ‘Dig For Fire.’
“Letter to Memphis,” either the vocal or instrumental version. Brilliant guitar sound. I particularly like that little noodling bit at 1:30 after Chuck sings “I’m sending a letter.”
That track is, “Everything I needed and I wanted. Used to be that my head was haunted.”
Bone Machine. The layers of how the song begins with drums, bass, guitar and then vocals, makes for a pretty fantastic song.
Debaser, needs no explanation.
i’ve always loved “gouge away”. it is ferocious. it is relentless. as the last song on doolittle, it was a culmination of everything the previous 14 songs had built up to. it is the final tier of a genre defining album. when the album finished, it was the song that made you play the whole thing over again.
Dig for fire:
’cause i’m digging for fire [2400x] since i heard it…
(and ‘Debaser’ had been too obvious as the anthem that actually is… slicing-up-eye-balls-oh-oh-oh!)
“Where Is My Mind” — because of its haunting/dreamlike layers.
I’ve had many favourites over the years but “Gouge Away” seems to have edged into the lead over the past coupla years.
Debaser. I knew a few hits back in the day but have a newfound appreciation for them now. I was pleasantly surprised to hear “slicin up eyeballs” on this Doolittle opener.
“I Bleed” is my favorite today.
Without a doubt-Bone Machine. But, ask me next week and it would probably be something different. Love them all!
Wave Of Mutilation. Doolittle was a big record for me and it’s hard to pick a favorite, but I remember feeling especially elated when that track would come on.
Gigantic
Everything about it is perfect.
Debaser ……awesomeness!
Wave of Mutilation!!!
2 minutes and 4 seconds of pure pop bliss. Timeless to this day!
“Gigantic”. Kim and I could have had a ball.
Can’t pick one. We used Here Comes Your Man in our wedding and I screamed when I saw Fight Club and Where Is My Mind? Started playing at the end and Gigantic is in regular rotation in my head.
Bone Machine!!! Because it’s the best.
Wave of Mutilation. Cuz it’s sad, happy, angry and beautiful. And all of these in less than 3 minutes. It wasn’t the first song that I’ve heard (Bone Machine) and not the reason that I fell in love with them (Surfer Rosa), but it’s the one that even after 25 years still gives me the chills.
Isla del Encanto. Because i love the song and I’m from PR. The ” Isla del Encanto”
It has to be Isla de Encanta for me, but so many others that could have been chosen!
Gouge Away.
Like many others here it’s energy is irresistible and an obvious influence on so many bands, from Nirvana to Radiohead and countless others.
“This Monkey Goes to Heaven”.
It was the first song I heard by them.
Super cool.
Crackity Jones !!!!
Wave of Mutilation – sent shivers down my spine at Field Day last night; one of earliest Pixies’ song I heard and the first I fell in love with.
“U-Mass” is my favorite. The song just rocks from beginning to end! Great guitar riff. The definitive rock song!!
River Euphrates because it reminds me of my life dealing with a son with autism. love everything about this song especially the way he screams ride at the end
La La Love You! Because it is simply, beautiful.
“Is She Weird?”. Terrific.
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons off the top of my head, but my faves to Rock out to in the car are Debaser and Head On (though not technically a Pixies song, still better than the original)
Debaser
Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf). Love both versions but this was my first favorite Pixies song and listening to it really reminds me of a fun time in my childhood.
If someone had a gun to my head, and I absolutely HAD to choose just one song, then it’d be “No. 13 Baby”. One of the best examples of their LOUD/quiet/LOUD style and a truly beautiful sounding song. Couple that with the vicious imagery – the tattooed tit… lighting a pig… black tears… the ripped chinos shirt – it’s just awesome to behold. And more recently I loved the fact Deerhunter played a pretty obvious tribute to the tune with their song “Desire Lines”. Yessir – “No. 13 Baby” all the way.
Alec Eiffel
Digging for Fire
Debaser
Debaser, simply a masterpiece
Crackity Jones
My favorite song is “Hey” from Doolittle. The lyrics are filthy and I cannot help but sing at the top of my lungs every time I play it!
The happening: They’ve come so far i’ve lived this long at least i must just go and say
hello
U Mass. Bah ba da bah ba! Bah ba da bah da!
Wave of Mutilation because it’s the first song of theirs I heard.
dig for fire
Make Believe, just because it’s the token David Lovering on lead vocals track.
Nimrod’s Son
The first time I heard the guitar it just melted my face.
The 1st Pixies song that I ever heard “Hey.”
Into the White. one of the best b-sides ever and Kim Deal on vocals
Allison…. Hearing it blasting over a telephone line started a 20+ year obsession!
Tame!
make believe, the token david lovering on vocals track.
U-Mass
Raw power track, Pixies rock!!
“I Bleed” was always my favorite. Love Kim’s backing vocal on that one, very haunting and makes for a beautiful song.
Monkey gone to heaven. Because every monkey gone to heaven. There’s no hell for monkeys! 567
“Gigantic” cos Kim Deal rules!
Monkey gone to Heaven.
All the pixies trademarks, Frank screams, Kims backing vocals, shimmering production, biblical references, fire, death, the devil and Armageddon.
“Debaser.” First Pixies song I ever heard… I remember the time and thought to myself, I love this! It’s been that way since 1989.
Gigantic – Kim Deal vocals
“Levitate Me”
I bought the Pixies box set when it first came out when I was around 16 (I didn’t know what made a good box set at the time, I just wanted whatever looked cool). Anyway, I started with the first album, Come on Pilgrim, and did not realize that I had put the tracks in reverse order (I wasn’t a smart kid). It was the first song I heard out of that box set , and for some reason it has always stuck with me.
It’s gotta be Caribou… Give dirt to me
Monkey gone to heaven. My first Pixies experience.
Favourite song? Like so many others, ‘Gouger Away’-it’s the air of menace…
U-Mass
“Ana” for the boss “SURFER” anagram plus the weirdest/coolest chord progression and key changes I’ve ever heard.
Tame, when the chorus hits it still shocks me!
“Where is My Mind?” – Great vocals, Great lyrics, Great song to see played live…A classic Pixies track!
Wave Of Mutilation
as much as I love black francis, I just LOVE “into the white” with vocals by kim deal!
monkey gone too heaven
batshit brilliant!!!!!
‘La La Love You’
Been hooked since seeing them open for
Love and Rockets in Kansas City 1989!
depends on my mood but I’ll say ‘Motorway to Roswell’ because that’s where I’m from.
Wave of Mutilation …. Cant help but to sing along with it!
So hard to choose… Where is my mind?
Used to be “Cactus,” but now it’s “Where is my mind” because my band does a fun piano-driven version (and I’m the pianist).
Valouria
U Mass….always loved that song….everytime I hear it I go back in time.
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons.
Because it’s dreamy.
‘I’ve been tired’
Found myself singing it in my head on a regular basis so figured this must be my new favourite Pixies song, it’s taken over from ‘Hey’
“La La Love You” has the perfect mix of surfy guitars and Kim Deal coos
Tony’s Theme because “This is a song about a superhero named Tony … It’s called TONY’S THEME” is the best intro to a no holds barred alt song ever …
Crackity Jones
Monkey Gone to Heaven, because its comforting to know that monkeys go to heaven. Hopefully, they don’t fling dung like they do in the zoo.
Monkey Gone To Heaven – it was my intro to the Pixies and still an all-time favorite.
“Motorway to Roswell”
This song is like a segue way to “The Happening”. Playing the two songs one after another tells a story. The aliens are coming down to the Vegas strip and everybody is rushing down to the strip to greet them. Unfortunately this song in my opinion, is about the aliens trying to land on the Vegas strip, but crash landed before they could set foot. Also the guitars make a screaming sound at the end sounding like the aliens are suffering before they go down.
The first Pixies song I ever heard was Debaser and it’s still my favorite. It starts out lake a normal song and it just gets weirder as it goes along.
This Monkey’s Gone To Heaven – because, it’s brilliant !!
Monkey Gone To Heaven; Dancing to this song in alcohol-fueled ecstasy in a smoky goth club in New York City, and kept bumping into a hot girl with half her head shaved, seemingly in the same state as me. We’ve been married 17 years and have two children now.
Cactus… I used to love to make mixed tapes and put Cactus followed up with Skinny Puppy’s Tin Omen… like birds of a feather flocking together.
It’s a tough decision to make, but I’m going to go with Cactus for the completely unexpected lyrics.
Monkey Gone To Heaven – amazing song
Hey! Been trying to reach you…. although through the years you’d -yes you- be hard press to find one of their singles – albums even – which didn’t push fantasticness…..
Down to the Well, especially off live bootlegs or the Purple Tape version. No hate for the Bossanova version, I just love the rawness and intensity of the early recordings a bit more.
Where is my Mind?
La La Love You.
Love expressed in its basic state.
Honest and sweet.
Easy. Tony’s Theme.
Reasons? Duh.
Next!
No. 13 Baby
because… well… what IS this song about anyway????
“Here Comes Your Man.” One of the first songs I learned on guitar.
Caribou.
Beautiful vocal… perfect guitar… everything a song should be.
For me, Monkey gone to heaven is the quintessential Pixies song. Not a second is wasted, brilliant from beginning to end.
Isla De Encanta: from the awesome count-in, the breakdown and the way it revs up again, nothing better.
Dead. When Black Francis starts screaming all my hair stands up.
None other than Debaser. Drives my wife insane when I scream along to it on Wii Rock Band.
“Planet Of Sound”.
Best track live for the encore at the Rocket Club in year 2000, plus “Tame”.
Amazing small venue, $10 admission. ;-)
Debaser for me although many songs come close. A really ‘dirty’ sound for a dirty sounding song
I think it’s gonna be ALL OVER THE WORLD. The quiet, melancholic tone is unbeatable and still you feel all the agressiveness and power leaking through. ALL OVER THE WORLD forever!
It’s got to be Debaser, in the top three singles of all time.
“monkey gone to heaven”
Not necessarily the best Pixies song for me but the most important. Was the first Pixies song I heard (the late 80s I think, I was 14 or 15 years old) and influenced me a lot.When I hear it now, it makes me remember those days…
Cactus, unbelievable song, guitar riff, vocals, Lyrics just wow :)
DEAD.
That guitar. Those vocals. Quirky. Unconventional. The band is sharp, tight and to the point. A dagger. A clenched fist… Dead.
I love SO many,and ometimes there are certain songs for certain times. If I have to pick a single fave,I’ll go with “Wave of Mutilation” As far as I can remember,it was the first song I ever heard where the subject dies in the first line…and continues to tell the tale. That song invokes images of both serene seaside sunsets AND horrid undead oceanic zombieism. It’s just a perfectly warped little Summer rocker that never fails to make me smile.
Dig for Fire
The opening riff of this gem is one of my favourite of all time, and gets me rocking every time without fail. I’m looking for the mother lode…
Debaser
Monkey Gone To Heaven. Its as relevant today as it was 25 years ago.
I’m gonna go with “Velouria”. I think that the Bossanova album never gets enough love from the Pixies faithful.
Tame. It just screams Pixies!
Subbacultcha…because it shakes and it moves me or something. It’s like jellyroll like sculpture!
Gouge Away, thank you very much. :)
River Euphrates
calm verses then BOOM the chorus hits u,and u cant help but go nuts to this song.
pure genius.
cactus
Hard to pick one, but by a nose it’s “Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)” because they have the courage to bring it down and do a softQUIETsoft version which holds its own against the original
Hey is my favorite song, hands-down. When I went to college (oh so many years ago) I didn’t know many people. One of the first times I felt like I belonged was when a new friend played this song and we both sang along. Now, every time I hear it, I remember how it felt to be at home away from home.
No. 13 Baby… or anything from Doolittle!
Monkey Gone To Heaven,…nothing but college memories, how sweet.
Bone Machine because it is the Pixies.
Gouge Away, Where Is My Mind, Gigantic, and UMass all come to mind first, but for some reason the song that gets repeated a lot are the 2 versions (one instrumental on the b-side album) of Letter to Memphis. Just something about it that fires me up!
Crackity Jones, the live version at Netherlands was amazing and I knew I had to hear more from them after I heard it!
Monkey Gone To Heaven. I usually try avoid listening to a song multiple times in a row, but I can’t help myself when I listen to this song. I HAVE to listen to it twice in one sitting.
Down to the Well. First heard it, and Pixies, on a 7″ given away free with Sounds magazine. It changed my musical taste in one listen, Still play that 7″ occasionally, still a song that makes me want to listen to more Pixies.
Hey — My wife and I say “hey” all the time to each other and most of the time it turns into one of us reciting the next lyrics and then singing, “if you go, I will surely die!”
Where is my mind?
Isla De Encanta
“Hey” is my absolute favorite song by Pixies. I think it is perfect. It is gritty and dark, yet beautiful. It is loud yet gentle. It is somewhat cold but emotionally warm. It also features a beautiful combination of vocals by Black Francis and Kim Deal.
La La Love You (lately)
“Here Comes Your Man”… No, “Monkey Gone to Heaven”… No,… “Gigantic.” I mean “La La Love You.”… Argh! I can’t decide!
Hey
cactus
don’t know why, but I love the song
Letter to Memphis…Velvety…The Happening…Into the White…I’ve Been Tired…Motorway to Roswell
The Holiday Song. Where it all started, brother.
Debaser!!
(And I promise I’m not pandering to you guys!)
Monkey Gone to Heaven. I’m sure there are 100 runner-ups however.
“Monkey gone to Heaven”, “Where is my mind?” “Here comes your man”, “Wave of Mutilation” ? Really hard to pin down!
Debaser
“Wave of Mutilation”
Tough to name a favorite Pixies song… Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf), Where is My Mind or Into The White. Or do I choose from Caribou, Velouria or Planet of Sound? I honestly couldn’t name a favorite. There are just too many songs that capture their wonderfully, beautifully classic aural potion of melody, emotion and madness to pick a single track. Can’t do it. Won’t do it.
Alec Eiffel
“Into the White”. For it’s simplicity, Kim’s whispery voice and David’s straight up rockin’ beat.
Distance Equals Rate Times Time. Pure melodic punk. Pixies songs simply refuse to suck. I had me a vision, indeed.
I Bleed! (from the album Doolittle)
A friend of mine gave a cassette of this album in 1992 and it was my first cassette ever! I remember asking my mother if I could listen to it in the car radio. She agreed, but only for a few seconds, because it was “too much noise”… Oh well…
Monkey gone to heaven !
No way to say why !
My absolute favorite Pixie’s song is Hey.
I’m a young fan of this amazing band, which is now my favorite, and this happens to be the first song I listened to. I find it so fun yet meaningful (and extremely catchy). Whenever I hear someone say “hey” I can’t help but finish reciting the whole song. I simply love it!
Wave Of Mutilation, without doubt. The UK Surf version, preferably.
All of their songs! But if I had to choose one, it would probably be Vamos. The lead guitar is just so awesome. I actually did a pixies tribute show at Chop Suey on May 31, and I played guitar on Nimrods Son, Mr. Grieves, Into The White, Something Against You, and Crackity Jones. And then I did vocals on TAAAMMEE!!! But yea, Vamos would probably be my favorite because of the lead guitar.
Debaser ….. Gets me rockin’ from the opening chords, and not even sure what a Debaser is.
Gouge Away
One of the first basslines i learned to play!
Another vote for Debaser… of course!
Caribou! Too many college memories with that one.
Cactus… A million times Cactus
Debaser. First song I ever heard by the band ion late 80’s and had me hooked immediately. I thought lyrics might even inspire a cool name for a college alternative rock website someday.
Here comes you man, so groovy !!
Debaser!
Vamos – Joey’s guitar work is quite phenominal…!!!
I’ve Been Tired. Blazes across my thoughts. The music pulses along, the story weaves in between. Brick is red. So simple. Lyrical economy. A rare quiet moment. No. 13 Baby. At the end they play themselves into another dimension. Rock Music. Extreme phonetics convey everything. The Sad Punk. 3.5 billion years of evolution summed up in 3 minutes. “I want to feel the road of tar beneath the wheel named extinction.” Ladies and gentlemen, the amazing Pixies!
Brick is red.
The Holiday Song!
Alec Eiffel. The riffs are pure speed and just one of the greatest driving songs ever. Especially if you’re a bit tired.
Down To the Well or Subbacultcha. Two very cool songs that went through a few takes until we got the album versions.
bone machine!!
No 13 Baby…Love Black’s vocals on the crazy lyrics..”black tear falling on my lazy queen, got a tattooed tit say number 13…”
GIGANTIC
I love Kim’s voice
Hey
cuz it aint getting any love…
All Over the World – because of the extended coda, just sublime and beautiful. The producer Gil Norton didn’t like the idea, but the band fought for it and it became his favorite track. I have fond memories of the band (um, was actually watching Kim) wrapped in dry ice at First Avenue in the 90s doing this song.
Jaime Bravo!
“Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons” – according to my iPod, which is a bit of a surprise, to be honest. Apparently I’ve listened to it 18 times, the same number as I have “Human Fly” (The Cramps), “Love Parasite” (Fad Gadget), “Thirst” (Inca Babies) and “Coal Mind” (Siouxsie & the Banshees).
Gouge Away – because it’s what I like to do to my enemies.
Caribou, it’s the most intriguing debut song ever!
velouria
it’s beautiful,longing and heavy all at once.
Velouria. Love the theremin.
As a longtime Pixies fan – it has to be Gigantic.
Because no matter what, it’s really about Kim.
And amazing bass lines.
Gouge Away!
La La Love You.
SHAKE YOUR BUTT!
Something about River Euphrates has always struck a chord with my I could listen to that song on a loop for the rest of my life
Gigantic. Because Kim is DEAD SEXY on that track, and she still makes me swoon. And I would sung it to my gigantic boyfriend, Paul.
Wave of Mutilation introduced me to The Pixies from the Pump Up The Volume soundtrack and it’s still one of my favorite songs they’ve done, both the fast and UK Surf version!
Motorway to Roswell. College-era favorite.
Bone Machine
GIGANTIC
Kim’s voice makes it feel thrilling, filthy & romantic
Debaser!
“Monkey Gone To Heaven” since it makes me think of one of my best friends.
Is she weird, is she white, is she promised to the night? [my head has no room]
yes.yes.yes.
Something Against You!!! Love it
Gigantic! Just love the way it sounds….
Debaser is my favourite because it’s so gleefully strange and energetic. I can’t help getting charged up when I listen to it, even when I’m tired. For a 15-year-old in a bible town without a college radio station, this song was about as wonderfully weird as it got, and yet even now it has an immediately catchy tune.
Gigantic. Best bass line evar.
Debaser
Is She Weird – porque podria estar cantando ese coro por horas!
Monkey Gone To Heaven. I love the tension between the verse/choruses and Frank’s voice on the bridge vocal.
Velouria has always stuck with me throughout the years. That opening riffage was, to my unsuspecting ears, the very epitome of cool when I first heard it.
“Debaser”
it’s both fun and visceral.
My fave is was and still is Here Comes Your Man. The tune is melodic and catchy, the lyrics are wistful gibberish. Perfect Pixies.
Tame…because of one line: Hips like Cinderella…
“Planet of sound”
The pure sound of THE PIXIES!!
My favorite is “Letter to Memphis” – but specifically in the context of the two-song arc of “Palace of the Brine/Letter to Memphis” – the way the former drops out, and then the opening of LtM blasts in and drives forward. Gets me every time!
I think “Cactus” is the best love song ever
“Bone Machine”
I bought the Surfer Rosa album (on vinyl) when I was 17. I needed no further encouragement beyond the beautiful, bare-breasted woman on the cover, and had no idea what the band sounded like (this was in 1988, well before the age of the internet). I took it home and listened to it, and the first track “Bone Machine” instantly blew my mind. I have been a fan ever since.
Hey!
Because it’s the best!
Wave of Mutilation
“Hey” because of everything about it, but especially for the line “…the sound that the mother makes when the baby breaks.” Few lyrics equal it.
Hard to name one song! The entire Doolittle album! Takes me back to a time when things were a little easier and happier!
Tame…It has all the Black Francis vocal tricks all in one song.
Velouria! Because it reminds me of my youth, however cliche that may sound. Still can almost bring tears to my eyes.
While I love the whole catalog, there is something about “Dig For Fire” from Bossanova that hits me in the gut. Frank Black always said it was a bad impression of a Talking Heads song (another fave band) – but the sound of the guitars on that record, along with Black’s story-telling / singing and Kim’s backing vocal just epitomizes what I love about the band.
Subbacultcha – harmonious, dissonant,shining, solid
It’s hard to choose but I’m going to have to say Dig For Fire. I love when Pixies rock out, but they have such a knack for glorious pop songs, and Dig For Fire is their most glorious pop moment as far as I’m concerned.
“Bone Machine” – killer bass line!
I love ‘Manta Ray’ more than I can even explain. So I won’t and will just hope that it’s enough. x
Where Is My Mind?
No. 13 Baby
Caribou. Simply because it was the first song I heard from them when Come On Pilgrim came out. Haven’t been the same since…
IS SHE WEIRD?
I Bleed. From the opening amazing bass lines to the drums, then the haunting guitar. Love it. It’s my ring tone
So hard to choose, but maybe Debaser, if for no other reason than it reminds me of the time I was walking home from a bar with some friends (perhaps just the teeniest bit drunk), saw some graffiti, and started singing, “Want to grow / up to be / be a defacer…”
Cecilia Ann + Rock Music (perfect intro of my fav pixes album)
Debaser! It gives this book nerd more energy than two cups of coffee!
Bone Machine.
Yep, yep yep yep!
“Debaser”, that was the song that drew me into Pixies universe, and I have never left since.
To say that is an awesome song is a understatement,this song has one of the greatest screams in Rock & Roll history
I love Isla De Encanta, i am fascinated by the Spanish language and the meaning of the lyrics as they are magical and happy about the island, which can be interpreted differently
“Wave of Mutilation”
I always thought “Debaser” would’ve been my favourite Pixies’ song ever because “Un Chien Andalou” is one of my favourite films, but “Wave of Mutilation” is what Pixies are all about: surrealistic pills in the shape of catchy-pop songs, whether quiet or LOUD, distorted or clean.
I love the lyrics, they always make me cry.
“Cease to resist, giving my goodbye
drive my car into the ocean
you’ll think i’m dead, but I sail away
on a wave of mutilation”
Long live to the Pixies.
Purple Tape version of SUBBACULTCHA
Sexy, dangerous and oddly goofy, good use of the entire band pulling together; made me feel like there was a bigger world of cool people out there. I got into the Pixies with Doolittle from the Columbia House CD club (lol) and was looking forward to college.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSbI-90kUvk
“Caribou”
it just transcends everything!
Letter to Memphis. Because it’s a perfect pop song buried in layers of distortion.
Tough question. Doolittle was released during my college radio daze and I nearly wore out that vinyl. Loved that Kim Deal was nearly a local (I’m from Cincinnati, south of Dayton). “Monkey Gone to Heaven” will have to suffice as an example of all they can do. Just love it all. Who they covered, played with, etc. Seeing them live a definite concert highlight in a lifetime of shows.
Where is My Mind really fits my current state of existence, but I’ve got to throw in La La Love You….because it says it all!
“I bleed”, though it’s really hard to choose just one. It sounds really harmless at the beginning, with childish Kim’s vocals and Frank’s softly spoken words, but at the end of the song they both go mental, psyco. I LOVE this contrast in their songs.
“GIGANTIC”
best played VERY LOUDLY!
Gouge Away
Isla de Encanta To say that is an awesome song is a understatement this song has one of the greatest screams in Rock & Roll history
Where Is My Mind? First song I ever heard from the Pixies.
Is She Weird but really hard to pick just one
La la love you, first holiday without my parents and took Doolittle with me for my cassette Walkman! Sang it to a gorgeous girl lol great times :-)
Velouria
Atmospherics, pain, passion, catchy hook and the weirdest coolest video. Nothing more need be said
U-Mass. I think this song really held together the underrated Trompe Le Monde and “kiss me cunt…kiss me cock”….please….awesome.
I love “Hey” It is sexy and brings back memories of High school and Seeing the Show at the Crest Theater in Sacramento hen I was 16.
Tame
I remember during a live in 1991, I physically lost contact with the ground, because the crowd was so dense and so passionately in trance, that some of us were lifted without any help from hands. Plus it was pouring. And then TAAAAAME. What a sensation …
1991. I was in High School. She was in college. Trompe Le Monde tour. She lost her shoe crowdsurfing. I found it. Instant connection. Shared two amazing years together! She would always sing “Space (I Believe In)” to me and insist I only use one F in my name. She’s gone now but those fantastic memories are forever!
I really like Isla de Encanta…it`s complete fun.
Cactus!
Ana. she’s my fave…
If I have to choose – River Euphrates. I used to cycle in to Belfast Art College in the 90’s, smoking a cigarette and listening to this on my Walkman before a hard day’s sculpting. It really is a wonder I’m still alive.
wave of mutilation. the only thing the got me thru moving from one end of the nation to the other between the grades of 6 and 7 was listening to this song.
I think “Into the White” ! The Doolittle 2009 tour with Kim in the fog was amazing . It’s very hard to pick one but wow that was so good ! YouTube it :)
HEY! It’s got everything Pixies: soft at times, then some screaming!
“Debaser” because that means I am listening to Doolittle and I love every song on that album.
U-mass!!!!
Digging For Fire. Love it.
Debaser
First track on Doolittle
Makes me wanna slice up some eyeballs
Because girl you so groovin
Hey or Monkey Gone to Heaven, or Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf) Gigantic, Where is My Mind? Why are you making me decide?
Here comes your man – first and favorite song of theirs.
Too many to choose from, but I’d have to say “Caribou” because I sing it out loud in the car with the windows rolled down.
Agree with others – how can you pick 1 pixies song! I’ve always been a huge fan of
DEAD
2:22 of build up and a happy chorus melody with the weirdest lyrics!
Caribou
Broken Face
“Velouria” because it brings me back to when I was 15,getting away from mainstream rock and completely changing the way I listened to music
This is practically impossible to answer. I’ll say “Motorway to Roswell”
“Gouge Away” it’s just very amazing. I absolutely love everything about it.
Hard to choose, but I’ll say “Where is My Mind”.
It’s hard to choose just one favorite Pixies song. When listing albums, of course each has it’s own epitome of greatness which are paragon to one another. I will say that so far, the most preponderant song from the soundtrack of my life would have to be, “Hey”. Whenever I hear that particular song, I’m taken back to an arduous, yet sine qua non point within my timeline. I suppose that each album chronologically corresponds with many other milestones, and memories over the years. For me, Doolittle alleviated me to do big. I would frequently listen to “Hey” on repeat. Tears of determination would fall around a smile of hope, keeping my heart anchored, and afloat. Chained.
Cactus
No. 13 Baby.
The outro is incredible. If I could produce an action film, it would be the music behind the final conflict resolution.
“Monkey Gone To Heaven”!
Dead
Beautiful dissonance plus loud quiet loud.
Hey. I love the sexy, dirty sound.
“No. 13 Baby” is my fav Pixies song. Not really because it’s the best Pixie’s song ever written, but because of the memories surrounding it. Picture the hot, humid summer of 1989. I was 21 years old and had my first apartment. My friend and coworker Kim listened to Doolittle on a loop that entire summer at work. Every night after work, we’d get an oil can of Foster’s, some cheap, greasy Chinese take-out and sit in my non-air conditioned apartment and listen to The Pixies over and over and smoke cigarettes. Kim would always flash me her boobs when “gotta tattooed tit, no 13” was sung. It became our “thing”, and even at work, when no one was looking, she’d sing the song and flash her tits! I wish I could find my friend Kim. It’s been a long time, but that song takes me right back to that fun time.
“Santo”.
The b-side of Dig for Fire.
Broken Face
Because my kid loved it when she was about 4 years old and would sing “I gotta broken fiiiiist, uh huh, uh huh uh huh uh huh!”
No. 13, Baby! The rhythm is just infectious. It’s my jam from one of my all time favorite bands!!!
‘Hey’ off of ‘Doolittle’
Just something about it. Always had me stuck.
My favourite varies from day to day, mood to mood. Just heard from my mate Paul who I’m heading to Dublin with to see the group in action and Gigantic was song of choice because of lyrics pre chorus! Yesterday was no. 13 baby which helped me through a bad day (now my ringtone) every days a pixies day, every song has it’s place :-)
There are SO many good songs by the Pixies, that it’s difficult to pick. I absolutely adore “Hey” for everything it has to offer: that slinky bass line, the slick guitar playfulness, the solid backbone rhythm, the storyline lyrics, the killer vocals…it’s just a great groove.
Favorites change almost daily, but I always have a powerful weakness for both versions of “Wave of Mutilation.”
Bone machine. Simple, sexy.
Debaser!! Great guitars got me to listen to it the first time, and the lyrics for the second, third, fourth … millionth time.
Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf).
An amazingly eerie vibe.
“Hey” I was looking into music from that time period and it just blew me away. I loved the moaning quality of the vocals. I love the insistence behind the yells. The simple yet complex way everything fell together. The lyrics. It was just a really good song to be my Herald into that scene. I wanted more instantly and it is one of my all time favorites across all generations and genres
Planet Of Sound is my current fave – this one is manic and I remember this one setting the indie club crowds into a frenzy back in the day.
“River Euphrates” is probably my favorite. It has gotten me through many a long road trip and makes me smile every time I hear it.
Tough choice…I’ve always loved “Dig For Fire”…just totally different than anything else in their catalog.
Gouge Away. I saw Pixies play at Hammersmith Apollo back in November last year and Gouge Away completely took me to a different place- Joey Santiago rocks!
Has to be “Wave of Mutilation”. It all started with a childhood crush on Christian Slater and the use of that song in Pump Up the Volume. Plus, seeing it live 3 times has concreted that for me!
Allison. My middle name.
Debaser
Hey
“Gigantic”
A Big big love!
Broken Face. It is fun as hell to sing.
It’s hard to name only one but I think it’s Here Comes Your Man.
Hey! Because……HEY!
Vamos (Surfer Rosa)
The ‘vamos a jugar por la playa’ line with Kim is great and the drumming is fantastic
Monkey gone to heaven
Debaser: mad dancing on a Saturday night in the early nineties in Ritzy’s nightclub
Debaser.
Because who doesn’t want to debase themselves?
Wave Of Mutilation, such a classic song, it has 2 great versions too :D, the surf version is just as good in my opinion :)
Wave of mutilation. It’s the song that sounds like the most like the pixies to me, sparse, quick and violent lyrics that make you think and a great beat. Lead guitars that add texture that are not there to show off but just to add to the whole that is the sound of the band.
Hey.
It used to be me and an ex’s song but I managed to claw it back for myself. Listening to it live at Field Day was the most amazing thing.
Cactus.
Thanks of this songs i knew the existence of Pixies. There´s a lot of songs of them i love, but this this plus that makes it my favourite.
Debaser is my favorite. It always pumps me up and I love to sing it really loud.
Ed is Dead! I had never heard of the Pixies and I came across the CO this song is on by browsing through clearance bins at SAM goody when I was in 9th grade. I had just broken up with a lower named Ed and decided to buy this CA solely on that reason. I took it home, listened on repeat for days and finally went out and bought more Pixies albums! Thus began my love affair ;)
My absolute favourite Pixies song would have to be “Tame”, because it’s anything but. It has a wild energy and manic lyrics. Definitely one to get the blood pumping.
“River Euphrates” because it creates happiness through personality
My absolute favourite is the BBC sessions version of Subbacultcha. It’s a short sharp blast of noisy rock and roll, with a dark yet funny lyric, and thus it encapsulates all that the Pixies are about in 2 minutes and 9 seconds.
La La Love You – the intro, the whistling, Kim saying I love you…
I absolutely fell in love when I heard ‘Indie Cindy’ It makes me smile every time I hear it and is like the soundtrack of the best moments in my life. Including when I saw Pixies at the Festival Estéreo Picnic in Bogotá, Colombia. That was sooo fucking EPIC!!!
“River Euphrates”
Because…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB8jB6kh3CE
hey
uh said the man to the lady
uh said the lady to the man she adored
…we’re chained… love it :)
Bone machine.. :)
Gigantic
Bone machine. Bone machine. Bone machine.
Where is my mind – my go-to after bar, dancing song.
Gigantic sexy simple most sexy song ever recorded
Sorry for the typos- new phone!
“Is she weird” is one of my favorites. The drums, rhythm and those ironic vocals, sooo good.
“Vamos” pumps me up! I listen to it on my way to work in the morning. it gives me the strength to deal with all the d bags :)
Hey!
Monkey’s Gone to Heaven.
I love the parts that sound like their spoken and the chorus.
Here Comes Your Man. I love the merge of old rock n roll and Pixie flair!
Where is my mind because it’s a great song that we can relate to. Also love Caribou.
Covered it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-aWPL4cmY
WOW!! So difficult!
Monkey’s gone to heaven! I just love the flow of this song!!
All are so good though!!
“Hey”
I just love the lyrics, especially at the beginning
‘ Blue Eyed Hexe ‘ – so powerful
I bleed.
Pop perfection from Deal & Francis
I could write a lot of titles, but I’ll go with Wave of Mutilation.
I’ve Been Tired!
T.I.R.E.D.
Hey.
Makes a lot of sense to me.
The Happening
La La Love You.
Absolute song!!
Its hard to pick just one, but “What Goes Boom” is my favorite of the new songs. It rocks and I love the way Joey’s guitar feedback sounds like he’s wielding lightning. Also the video has an unexpected explosive ending.
GI-GAN-TIC!
“Debaser,” because I still wanna grow up to be one.
Definitely “Hey” :) Amazing happy/sad sounds of Joey’s guitar and Kim’s bass. And her look, when he starts playing the solo (@ Live Electric) – she loves it, too… :)
U-mass. Pixies music was, is, and will be, fucking educational!
Where is my mind? Simple riffs are the best.
The Happening ( posted twice, wrong email address the first time )
“Break My Body” I felt that the lyrics on the song did represent my life at the time i’ve heard that song for the first time and then became my favorite pixies song.
Debaser simply the coolest song ever heard
Hey!
I’ve heard it a million times and each time I like more and more
‘Where is my mind?’. I suffer from Bipolar and I have to ask ‘where is my mind’ every day!
Monkey gone to heaven
Way to hard to name the absolute favourite….but it’s probably Debaser – a brilliant combination of melody, rant and guitar. Plus it’s a brilliant singstar song, especially after a truck load of ale at 3am.
Havalina. I’ve been through lots of stuff while listening to Havalina and everytime it gets into my ears i have this mixed feeling which consists of pure bliss and sadness at the same time. It’s amazing.
“River Euphrates”
Because…
VPRO studios 1988
Hey
My favorite song of all times
Whores in my head !
Pfffff… Too hard to choose…
Debaser or Gigantic or Bone Machine or Caribou…
And many others !
Gouge away. Because of the bassline and because my husband sang it to me during our weddingparty. (He hates the pixies).
Such sexy lyrics
Debaser
Fantastic song to jump around to.
Where is my mind, coz i’m still looking for it…
Sad Punk!!!!!!!! I love the intensity of the first minute followed by a chilled out amazing beat. It’s like great love makin’!!!!!!
Vamos! The simple acoustic intro lulls you into a false sense of security, before the heavy beat drums come in and Joey’s insane guitar work and Francis’ mad screams. It’s a crazed, messed up work of art.
“Hey”, but it’s not really the best song of the Pixies, it’s just that I have so many memories about a girl related to that song… I love what the song makes me remember everytime.
Where Is My Mind? Love to run to this song!
It’s difficult to pick just one.. but I’ll name a classic one that’s always been my favorite. Hey. Thats the one.
Dig For Fire
It just grabbed me the first time I heard it and it has never let me go
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind – an old and new favorite and a queston I ask myelf just about everyday. This song has so many memories for me and brings on a sense of euphoria.
‘Here Comes Your Man’ … my friend Ben played it at his wedding (with his bride on bass) …. not gonna ever forget that!
Havalina is a favorite.
I live in AZ and see javelina walking in the breeze…simple song…simple creatures…catchy tune.
My favorite song is “hey”, we’re chained for 25 years …
“Here comes your man”. It makes me feel so good…!
Motorway To Roswell cos it’s really proper bo
“Where is my mind”. First pixies song I ever heard and it lead me to discovering so much more of their awesome catalogue…for that reason, I am indebted to it. Plus, it’s a one-of-a-kind track.
Planet of Sound. If I ever have a band, that’s the name.
Monkey Gone To Heaven
When Frank just loses it and starts screaming like a lunatic “then God is seven!!”, fucking goosebumps.
HEY.
HEY,HEY
No. 13 Baby
Because, tattooed tit… I’m in a state.
Planet of Sound.
Every time I hear that song, I feel like it’s the first time. Hard hitting, gritty power anthem.
Hey – because I’ve trying too
Alison – ’cause it makes me happy.
Hard choice but i’d have to say Debaser! The guitar riff coupled with frank and kim’s vocals makes the song infectious
velouria. a song about a flocked woman ….im always rubbing flocked things..i wish i was velouria..
“Where is my mind?”
Because it’s so refreshing to hear it. It always stands out from other songs. Since I first heard it I never found anything like it. I fits every mood. I love everything about it. And “Where is my mind?” was a perfect song to finish a great movie.
My all time favourite is “I Bleed”, freaking adore the atmosphere, and kims devilish vocals x
“Here Comes Your Man”. This song makes me happy!!! :)
Hey – bis – off course: because I’ve BEEN trying to – f*** me, u can tell I’m very tired
Where is my mind? I lost mine the first time I heard this track.
Where Is My Mind!
“Into the White”
Love Kim’s voice on that track.
Gigantic. The bass line….ohhh that glorious bass line.
Broken Face.
Frightfully evocative lyrics, powerful, incestuous, passionately grotesque; quintessentially Pixies.
My favourite song might be “Is She Weird”, it was like the first song I heard of Pixies. I just love it, because of screaming and the lyrics. Just amazing.
Hey. It takes me back to winter.
Wave of mutilation – easily one of the best songs ever written… and one of the first songs I played on my guitar when I was young(er).
Hey.
Gorgeous, sexy song. Reminds me of good times with my fella and finally seeing Pixies live..
Hey! Totally got to me when I heard a live version.
“Vamos” from “Come On Pilgrim”. I love the tightness of the rhythm, mental guitar sounds, bits of Spanish – just the whole fucking song. I wish I had a sister in NJ…
where is my mind? it is just timeless … one of the best songs ever
“Hey” is my favorite.
The slow, pleading melody, Kim’s backing, and the way Frank’s voice cracks- it just tears me into pieces to hear it.
Gigantic!
Debaser
Velouria, it was the anthem of my teens many many years ago and remains one of their best songs.
Where is my mind
Planet of sound has to be one of the greatest!! Or anything on trompe le monde basically it is so overlooked as an album, I think it’s faultless!!
Wave of mutilation.
It was at the peak of the 80’s scene featured off the sound track pump up the volume staring Christian slater.
Solidifying The Pixies as one if the greatest band from there on in especially with Trumpe la monde.
Velouria!
Hey, started my love affair with Pixies. Nuff said.
Debaser…just magique !
“Hey”…the song that was playing when I met the girl who would be my future wife.
Bone Machine
Because you’re the bone machine, aaaaaoooohhh!
Santo. How could such an awesome song be hidden away on a b-side?
Caribou
debaser because i have a dog from andalusia! ;)
probably hey.. it manages to be amazingly melodic but still have signature pixies ballz.
Hey!
Makes me happysad.
Monkey Gone To Heaven. The song that introduced me to the Pixies.
spell check just had me add Debaser to my dictionary!
“Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons” – loaded with meaning, starts off slow and steady then ends with a triumphant roar. I made a rule with myself since the first time I heard it: Never interrupt the song when it plays, no matter what.
Gouge away – an invitation to get away from it all with alternating mellow/nightmarish visions out of Francis’ head.
Crackity Jones is the best!
Good god, so many to pick from but I’ll go with “Caribou”. There’s something about the howling and tone that just give me goosebumps everytime I hear it.
Planet of Sound.
Perfect combo of lyric and riff. Just kicks ass.
Monkey gone to heaven.
If the devil is six, if the devil is six, if the devil is six, if the devil is six, then god is seven, then god is seven, then god is seven. This monkeys gone to heaven. This monkeys gone …. To heaven ….
Vamos
Caribou. It’s a get-you-through-a-long-night song.
Where is my mind
Riff, lyrics, Stop!
Debaser. Because I want to grow. Up to be. Be a debaser.
Where is my mind?
Why? One word. Catharsis.
“Ain’t That Pretty At All”. My favorite band covers one of my most favorite song writers. Nuff said.
This is like asking which of my pets would I save if my house was on fire:/ probably Hey just because it is the sexiest song I know, the bassline and how it builds just makes you swivel your hips and no matter how crappy I’m feeling, when this song comes on I feel hot – hot stripper hot!
Hey! Been Try’in to meet you! Classic is an understatement when it comes to this song. I could listen to this song a million times and never get tired of it.
Vamos. It’s rhythm is undeniable and it has a certain hysteria to it
Tame. After screaming it out to this song I feel refreshed.
There are so many ! I’ll go with “Hey !” :-)
‘Where Is My Mind’ – it always fills me with nostalgia. When I was a very little girl, I stayed up late one summer night at my window, listening to the song play out from a gig near my house. That was the beginning of my love for the Pixies, and every time I hear the song it takes me back to that moment, with the slow melody somehow travelling on the wind. Hauntingly beautiful.
Wave of mutilation(UK Surf)one of the greatest songs ever made!
GOUGE AWAY. the lyrics. the base. the screams. Kim luring in the background.
No. 13 Baby
Wave of Mutilation because i fallen in love for the first time with this song…
Monkey Gone To Heaven
I love the sound and story in this song, one of my favourite songs of all time
“Gouge Away”
It has that kick-in-the-teeth passive aggression.
I’ve Been Tired.
One two three
She’s a real left winger….
Great song, it just has it all.
Where is my mind?
The titel say it all :-)!
“Hey”. Just love the ‘ooooh’ bit!
— “Dead” : a gateway drug for anyone with the potential to love the Pixies; there’s enough whimsy and clunking around and sass that anyone who could love them will have no choice at this point.
Is she weird
Bone machine because it kicks gigantic ass all over the shop… Gets me bouncing from the first few seconds ;) x
Subbacultcha!
Where is my mind. I like it because it is a simple yet interesting song.
Caribou. From a melody to a scream.
Hey
Because I think that “Uh! Said the man to the lady” is the greatest line ever written, it says so much more about human interaction than a more complex sentence ever could!
Debaser
HEY!
That’s gotta be my favorite song by the Pixies!!!
Have fond memories of singing/screaming/yelling/animal noises it word by word with my Mum in her car.
I Bleed.
Magdalena 318 – because it shows that Pixies has the courage to do whatever they wish, in spite of having a weighty band legacy.
Hypnotic sound, simple and effective lyrics and an absolutely stunning video…
Subbacultcha. Just because…
Wave of Mutilation.
Love the ‘Surf Mix’ as featured in the movie ‘Pump up the Volume’, but after seeing them open with this at Field Day – it doesn’t get much better than that!
I Bleed.
Quintessential Pixies in one song.
Wave of Mutilation
La La Love You
It’s a perfect blend of surf punk with grungy rock and sounds like California to me.
Blown Away. Never heard another song like it.
“Hey”. Because we are chained.
Hey. Always been my fav. The simple but enticing bass line. The groovy rhythm guitar. The screeching guitar solo. The tortured vocals. It all comes together perfectly in a song that is sad and painful and sexy….I’m chained.
“No. 13 Baby”
This sexy, dangerous and grooving song is unmatched in its ability to get me a dirty mood.
The Thing!
Must I choose? How horrible! But okay then…Bone Machine. It’s got this thrusting hypnotysing thingy about it!
Favorite song: “Debaser”
Why: because I love this song and it reminds me of the times I live now, just imagine in 1997 jammin this thinking the same thing, it’s just an awesome song.
Debaser.
Doolittle is a masterpiece.
Where is my mind 👍
Debaser – cause it was their first song I’ve heard and it made me fall in love with Pixies.
I have so many favs that is hard, but i will say Ana is one of the hiden gems.
Andro queen’s up there with the best of the old stuff! Same feel as wave of mutilation all those years ago.
“Where Is My Mind”, the sublime song that only listening the intro of it, you can imagine all the money and bureaucracy world collapsing (Fight Club’s fans will understand me).
Alec Eiffel. Perfect piece of pop punk portion served in under 3 minutes. Period.
Isla De Encarta, because that song makes me lose my shit every time. Hard to pick just one though.
Where is My Mind…although that could change tomorrow. There are just so many great Pixies songs.
Probably: Monkey Gone to Heaven, it soundsso great, it so punk and at the same time its message is so criptic playing with numbers religion and philosophy..it is so awesome!!
Hey, been trying to meet you
Hey, must be a devil between us
Or whores in my head
Whores at my door, whore in my bed
But hey where have you been?
If you go I will surely die
Subbacultcha… Cuz I was wearing eyeliner, he was wearing eyeliner.
“Tame” is the dirtiest, sexiest, most addictive tune around. Frank has the slyest, coolest way about him, and his unique mindset really shines through here. The song is heavy, it’s short enough to leave you wanting more, and it never, ever gets old. The vocals are just badass and it’s all amazing.
Velouria.
Hard to pick one. First one I learned on guitar
Alec Eiffel
It was the first Pixies song I ever heard, and I fell in love with them that day.
Here Comes Your Man
Where is my mind?
Word on the street was that The Pixies were a brilliant new band. Listening to Surfer Rosa for the first time, I started with the B side (tradition). This song got me hooked on The Pixies straight away forever.
“The holiday song”: my first favourite Pixies’ song.
I bought “Surfer Rosa” in 1998 or so, never heard anything like that before (i live in Italy).
Love to all of you, guys!
There’s something about Alec Eiffel, the radio just seems turn itself to 11… Either the radio, or my brain :)
Or Monkey Gone to Heaven, be cause ‘ if man is 5, and the devil is 6, then god is 7’ .. Not super religious, but it seems about right :)
Gauge Away – Cactus is pretty great too. Saw Bowie cover that song 10 years ago.
Hey.
Its a song I can relate to.
Wave of mutilation
My intro song to the pixies and still a favourite
My favorite Pixies song – hands down – is Hey. The way Frank Black’s (Black Francis’s? Charles Thompson’s?) voice sounds when he shouts out that first “Hey” is so chilling. Plus, it’s fun to sing in the car.
HEY
This. Is. The. Sound.
Wave of Mutilation is my pick, I love the slowed version. Absolutely amazing.
I like Tony’s Theme – I also like Ponies
velouria!!! Saw them perform at red rocks and it blew my mind!!
It’s gotta be “Hey” for me. You’re making me choose one Pixies song which is next to impossible as am grateful this band has been my own personal soundtrack for over 20 years of the 38 I’ve been on this planet…I’m sure my life would not be the same without the Pixies:)
Where is my mind? Was one of my cousin (who left Us way 2 soon)’s favourite and became mine cause short but SO powerful, breathtaking over and over again …
If you asked me today, I’d say The Happening. The rush of emotions and scenery, goosebumps every time it plays.
Santo! One of their most overlooked B-sides, but I can’t get it out of my head. Possibly the quirkiest song the Pixies ever made.
Letter to Memphis!
Seein the pixies in Dublin at the end of the month and I’m ‘just dying to get to you’!
Levitate Me. I was in J-High when I first heard this. On tape!!! And the lyrics weren’t all clear to me at first. But I recall identifying with the song as I began finding myself so easily aroused by the mere presence of girls around me. There you have it.
Monkey gone to heaven – at a time of mental unbalance this song really spoke to me. Pixies always good at expressing through their music a madness that is understandable
“I’ve been tired” was my first introductory to the Pixies and to this day it’s still my favorite song as I love the beat and how can not love the line, losing my penis to a whore with disease? I
I still think “I’ve Been Tired” truly captures the energy and oddity off the early Pixies. Listening to the live version from ’88 is almost better. Francis’ lyrics are genius, the guitar groove is infectious, and it has the quintessential loud-quiet-loud dynamic. With protagonist afraid of “losing his penis to a whore with disease” and a love interest with “a voice like milk and breasts like a cluster of grapes,” what about that song isn’t brilliant?
Hey …. The lyrics are pure poetry & the guitar solo is just amazing!
Caribou
“Bone Machine.” I love the way it opens the “Surfer Rosa” album with those raw drums (Steve Albini’s signature production touch) and off kilter rhythm. It’s always difficult to remember where beat one is. Then the screaming guitars come in, followed by those great spoken words, sounding like Francis is singing them from down a well. Then when Kim joins in for the chorus, it’s bliss…especially when everything drops out except for their two voices and Kim’s bass. Dark, mysterious, menacing and challenging, this is the ultimate Pixies song for me.
Wave of Mutilation. Like most Pixies songs, it just makes me feel alive, and free, and young (even though I no longer am that last one).
I Bleed. For me it’s the song of opposites, actually no, it’s the poem of opposites.
Ed is dead.
Just incredible. Loud quiet loud
Where is my mind?. Dudes may the rock be with you.
That’s the tune I wanna have blasting away at my funeral
Debaser, just love the lyrics, my happy song
Where is my Mind is my favorite song of all time and I can’t see that changing for the rest of my life. The first time I heard it I got shivers and just thinking of it now makes hairs stand on end!
Honorable mentions to Hey, Bird Dreams of the Olympus Mons and In Heaven.
Can’t just pick among so many diamonds, but to name one – “Hey”. We’re chaa-a-a-ained.
Today, The Happening, but it varies, they randomly crash about and I’ll end up belting out the tracks on repeat and sometimes it’s a never ending amalgamation of them. That voice(s) that band, timeless.
So many to choose…but no song gets me psyched up like “Rock Music,” especially before playing a show!
It’s so hard to pick one! But I think I have to go with Gigantic because KIM FUCKING DEAL!
Monkey gone to heaven – thrashing vocals!
No. 13 Baby
The vocals are awesome and the music is powerful…I love all of their music though ; )
Wave of Mutilation. I started listening to the Pixies non stop during a time of great love in my late teen years. He and I would carve “Wave of Mutilation” into the sandstone at the beach and watch the waves wash it away
Letter to Memphis and Make Believe are way under-appreciated and their cover of Head On is genius, but my favorite is Wave of Mutilation. It gets me every time- so real and felt
Wave of Mutilation – the water, the crustaceans, every time I hear it, I feel like a teenager again! Thanks
Bird Dream of The Olympus Mons
For the ambient, for the feeling of freedom/escapade ‘into the sun’ or be it ‘into the mountain’, the mysterious and childish organ and the sheer simplicity of the bass…
Here Comes Your Man…. Reminds me of one of the first times I saw them live, headlining the Reading Festival many years ago…..
“Is She Weird”
My first exposure to the Pixies was Bossonova. I feel that Surfer Rosa was a better album now but I would not have been likely to hear it without my having been hooked by “Is She Weird.”
Levitate me…..brings me back to a time when i would drive 2hrs ,one way on a Tuesday Night,by myself, to see them at TT’s in Cambridge …with just a hand full of people
Debaser — This was the first song on the mixtape I made for when I first got my car and learned to drive. Whenever I was having a rough day, I’d take off for the back roads blaring this song.
“I bleed” has to be my number one. I love the harmony between the two vocalists, the lyrics are pleasing to the ear and it’s all around just a well put together piece. It’s also one of the few songs Iv’e heard that to this day I can not fully grasp the meaning in the lyrics. Love the pixies!
Always take me back to a simpler time.
Tony’s Theme screeches twangs and howls in a lively manner.
My names Tony
I have a bike too,
Velouria – love the raw guitar sound along to Black Francis song, ohh and lets not forget the fast talking by the end of the song, total mindfuck!
along to Black Francis voice*
My favorite songs are Gigantic, where is my mind and caribou . The songs mean a lot to me because pixies was a band I listen a lot to when my grandmother was going through chemotherapy, it helped me cope to have music that helped me release emotionally from what was happening while we took care of her.
Monkey Gone to Heaven. Because of course it is, how could it not be?
Where is my mind – almost rhyming swimming and caribbean
The Happening…. Ever since my abduction its been my favorite!
“Hey” from the acoustic live in newport album!!!
After I heard that song for the first time, I listened to it that often, that every time I called my girlfriend saying “Hey” in that sentence I said it exactly like on the recording…after a 2 months continuously saying “hey” all the time, it really made her crazy and she nearly split up, but i promised to stop saying “hey” to save my relationship. It was quiet hard, but somehow i made it, but still every time I start a sentence with “Hey…” i have to think of that song and you guys:) So thanks for that!!! ;)
River euphrates. Such enigmatic words -Stuck here out of gas.. beautiful kim whisper.
The Happening. It changes up and has a great dynamic to the song. The song always makes me so excited.
Ana!!
Bone Machine.
I just love the lyrical concent, its dynamic flow, the harmony between Black Francis’ and Deal’s voices – everything about it!
(this is a Message for Frank and Joe, because they understand spanish)…Indie Cyndi es excelente, en primer lugar. Claro que me hubiese gustado que Kim estuviera también, PERO, las canciones suenan a PIXIES por el trabajo increíble de Joe Santiago!…yo personalmente me quedo con JAIME BRAVO es absolutamente Pixies. GRACIAS
So many great songs, but my favourite is probably Debaser.
Such a great opener to Doolittle and is great live. Black Francis sounds almost possessed and Kim Deal’s backing vocals are sweet. The riffs are great and the overall theme of the song sounds almost manic.
Isla de encanta : 56 seconds pure craziness!!!
I feel super cliche, but Where is My Mind has gotta be the one
Monkey Gone To Heaven. It’s shiny.
Very hard to isolate one song from your vastness of great that is your catalogue but sabbaculture is one of my faves. Has the sleeziest feel ever, and where else could you put a lyric like “erotic vulture “. Genius
Debaser and Gigantic are the songs who I’ve fallen most in love with. Love the vocals in both these songs. If I have to choose I’d say Debaser it’s just too good.
La La Love You
The greatest love song of all time period. Plus come on David Lovering singing. It doesn’t get better than that
River Euphrates – non LP version
Features the world’s dirtiest guitar solo ever.
Kim never sounded so angelic.
Gives My Bloody Valentine a run for their money in the brutal stakes
Is She Weird. …it resonates with me, every little piece of it. Gets me dancing, anywhere, anytime, with or without company. Good way to freak out normal people. I’ve got to say though…every pixies song stimulates my inner being in some way…
Wave of mutilation!!!!!
Into the White.
Nimrod’s Son because I can relate to it, as my dad truly was a mutherfugger.
Velouria. It’s a perfect combination of Black Francis vocals, Joey’s guitar, Kim’s backing vocals, Dave’s drumming… it’s just the perfect song. I waited almost 20 years to hear it live, and finally my dream came true in 2010. Love it love it love it
“The Sad Punk”
Great music with great lyrics to match.
Tame. just because of the power of the song, starts off funky, then power and it gives you a breather in the middle then finishes you off at the end,
Just one Pixies song? Nearly impossible! I’ll go with Debaser since it is currently stuck in my head.
Veloria
It makes me cry
Bone Machine.
Here comes your man!!!!! :)
A million comments, will this get read?
All those great songs but for me it had to be BAGBOY. The reason being that not only is it a great tune but because of the times. It stands out for me and added a punch in the music face that I desperately needed. Big much about that really excites me right now. Also, what a bunch of songs to come back with after all this time! Brilliant stuff. Keep it coming.
“Planet of Sound”
Sounds like there are about 100 guitars on that recording. Just such a massive, ‘torch the earth’ track. One of the most appropriately titled songs of all time.
Where is my mind?
Hey.
Bone Machine
Superb riff and the pixies at their best :)
Where is my mind
La la love you
Gouge Away
“La la la…”
Debaser! This was the sound that defined the Pixes for me back in the days. Fantastic bass line and guitar work, sounds fresh every time and Frank’s singing is awesome as always. Just saw them live and this was still one of the highlights..
Where is My Mind
The song has an astounding essence of quality and a relatable feeling of confusion about the surrounding world
Gigantic.
for kim
Debaser, because when the careers officer asked me what I wanted to be when I was older, “a debaser” was my reply
“Debaser” – I honestly can’t think of a better start to any album
So many to choose from but Where Is My Mind is my favourite. Just love that guitar
Cactus. Because I was a teenager then. Discovering all those weird excesses. It has desert heat. It made sense, it was cool.
Rock Music
Amazing song when you’re on a heavy period :-)
Bone machine, ironically I lost my virginity to that song, I could say the entire Surfer Rosa lp but hey, I was a virgin and it was track one, do the math…
Where is my mind! Absolute classic
Hey.
Gigantic…cos it is fucking brilliant.
“Monkey’s Gone To Heaven”
if man is 5
then the devil is 6
then god is 7
No13baby – not just my favorite Pixies song, but my favorite song in general. Just pure bliss!
Where is my mind!
Gouge Away
Where is my mind? I want to swim in the caribbean with the little fish, oh yes i want my mind swimming and refreshing :)
Interlude or Studio Interlude from the Surfer Rosa / Come on Pilgrim combined album. Everything about this song is perfect: the catchy bassline, the crazy guitar solos, the emotionally stirring lyrics… I first heard this track when I was four and my parents died, and it changed my life and has helped me cope with every trauma since.
“Broken Face”. The sheer rawness always gets me. Pure energy.
Bone Machine. Because rock n’ roll.
isla de encanta
La la love you or Monkey goes to heaven.
These always make me happy :)
Levitate me
It feels like luminous darkness.
Bone Machine
Its just the perfect song.
Debaser
Whenever I imagine I am in a band, this is always on my set list.
Wave of mutulion,just brings back so many memories ,good and bad.
gouge away/hey
why i like them? just because they are amazing!!!! plain simple!!
Wave of mutalation,just brings back so many memories ,good and bad.
Hey! Been trying to meet you! Hmmmmmm
17, learning to skateboard, driving around in my friends car in the summer. Legendary track.
now I’m 30 and it still sounds fresh
I’ve always had a soft spot for Caribou…it’s haunting chorus indicating an introduction to loud-quiet-loud rolling from the tortured “caribouuuuuuu” to the unsettling shriek of “REPENT! REPENT!” still chills my marrow. Not to mention my interpretation of the tragedy befallen a man who realizes he was born into suffering after being reincarnated from a simple and majestic life as a wild beast. Splendidly miserable and beautifully melancholic!
Debaser!
Perfect opening track for a classic flawless record!
Caribou
Debaser – because it reminds me of Luis Buñuel.
geeeezz….favorite pixies song??? Its like sophies choice. I’m gonna go with Tame because theres so much energy and push in it. It makes me want to be that chick. Its dirty and sexy and I love it.
No. 13. This ditty has a groove that takes me places way out of my body!
Debaser – no more to be said.
Here Comes Your Man…it’s the song I walked out to at my wedding.
Gouge Away, because it has the perfect quiet/loud dynamic and, since it was the first song I heard from the Pixies, it was specially marking to me.
Motorway
It ‘s so SAD!
Here Comes Your Man
Well this is a hard one.
But since I must pick I’m going to say “Monkey gone to heaven”. Whenever I hear it, my lips start moving and I begin to sing along unintended.
Hey!
The perfect lead in to Doolittle’s mind blowing final 3
Wave of Mutilation is my fav, great lyrics and great sound!
Alec Eiffel
Why?
Because of the ending chorus that goes:
“Oh Alexander I See You Beneath the Archway of Aerodynamics”
It’s sounds so magical. It’s Magic
Wave of Mutilation for its dreaminess. It takes me back to my early 20’s around 1998 when I sat on the edge of the stage right next to Black Francis, practically on his feet, at the Thekla club in Olympia, WA. He told me to sit on the stage with him and it was AWESOME!
Hey- that first yell and then the bass walking up with that guitar walking down
Cactus
What Goes Boom.
They’ve still got it.
Wave Of Mutilation !
I saw Pixies live in Warsaw, Poland last week ! Looking forward for your comeback !
Gotta say “Where Is My Mind?” as it’s from Fight Club, my favourite movie. Fucking masterpiece.
“The Holiday Song”
Velouria – There is something about this song that captivates me every time I hear it. Frank Black recorded a version here in Minneapolis for a local radio station that is so strikingly beautiful in it’s simple elegance. Never has there been a song that so wonderfully hides the spelling of the name in the background of it’s own music. You don’t even notice Kim Deal’s voice almost ghostly singing it. Just grand.
Gigantic is my personal favorite. It’s a great vibe and funky love song.
Here Comes your Man is a close second, and it was the first song my hubs and I danced to at our wedding. :)
Allison. We had twins 4 years ago. Two girls, and named one Allison after the song. She is obsessed with the song today and begs to hear it all of the time. A friend of ours made her a onesie when she was born that had the album cover and her name underneath it. Will keep it forever :)
Rock Music is my absolute favourite because of the pure aggression in the track, completely contrasting the surf rock style song Cecilia Ann, summing up the Pixies perfectly!
Debaser. My first foray into wonderful pixies weirdness :)
U-Mass. The guitar riff is awesome and I like the hooky chorus. Plus, it is on my favorite Pixies album.
Tame. So rugged, so dirty, so twisted. A metaphor for what Pixies are. Sometimes a little more downbeat like in Wave Of Mutilation. Sometimes a little more shakey like Levitate Me. Sometimes a little more groovy like in La La Love You. But they are never, and will never be *snare snare* TAAAAAAAAAME!
Monkey Gone to Heaven and Where is My Mind are my absolute favourite Pixies Songs.
Wow so hard to pick one favorite, but I can pare it down to either “Monkey Gone to Heaven” or “Where is My Mind” – just depends on my mood and how recently I watched Fight Club.
Gouge Away
Velouria…kim’s backing vocals towards the end. Dreamy!
Where Is My Mind
Hey
Favourite song : Monkey Gone to Heaven
Because the Man is 5 !
I’ve Been Tired….Losing My Penis To A Whore With Disease? Please!
Isla de encanta
Where is my mind. Mainly because I ask myself the question every single day. La La La Love you !
Wave of Mutilation – John Peel Sessions version. I mean the Pixies and John Peel, that’s a win!
Hey!
Because you make me do bad things.
“Here Comes Your Man” has just always clicked for me!
Hey
Every time I sing along to it, it has a way of embodying any emotion I’m feeling at the time
Down to the Well
It has this fluid back drop which reassures you and then you’re rocked out of it by the unbridled fury that is the lead vocals !
Nimrod Son – The first Pixies song I ever heard…it launched a life long admiration for the band.
“Where is My Mind”…hands down. Gave me chills the first time I heard it around age 17 & still has that same effect 20 years later. La la love you pixies!
Something Against You. It gets my husband “all fired up”.
“River Euphrates.”
The great juxtaposition of Black Francis and Kim Deal’s voices in the chorus really makes this one for me. When I first got “Surfer Rosa” when I was 14 this one was one of the first to be stuck in my head.
HEY
“Hey”
Almost as many guttural sounds as lyrics. This song will transport you. Its one and only drawback: it doesn’t last an hour.
Grateful for every second.
Also, everything on Trompe Le Monde.
“Wave of Mutilation” because it was the first Pixies song i ever heard, on the soundtrack of “Pump up the Volume” when I was in high school. I then drove to the nearest mall record shop to special order any Pixies material they could get their hands on…the rest is history.
Wave of Mutilation.
Levitate Me.
First and only song dedicated to me on the radio, 20+ years ago (yikes!)
very hard to pick just one so:
“Where is my mind”
Seems about right ;)
Cecelia Ann – start of the album I always used to put on to get ready to go out. It means something good is about to happen! (But really hard to choose from such a great list)
changes all the time, but my favourite song at the moment is “I’m amazed”, I love the vocals and the catchy riffs, and how it all combines together!
No 13 Baby
Just because the end of the song always makes mefeel ike I was born again. I don’t know, maybe it’s human confusion’s beauty represented in the song that talks to me.
Isla de Encanta! One of the first Pixies songs that I heard in high school. Sold!
This was so hard to decide but
‘Hey’ because that bass runs so deep you can feel it in your soul and the lyrics are so fucking poetic and I can weirdly relate to them, everything about this song is strange and beautiful.
Alternatively,
‘Where is my mind?’ simply because it was the first pixies song I heard and is what made me fall in love with them, I could relate so much and the sound just got to me straight away, I could feel it immediately. Not to mention the fact it features in the end scene of my most favourite film.
I surely like the song ”Isla De Encanta” .
It is the very first song i heard from the pixies, but
” Hey ” is the song i feel in love with the Pixies for so many reason. Once again i knew i was born in the wrong generation…
just one? no way!
wave of mutilation
debaser
velouria
all over the world
dead
gigantic
V-E-L-O-U
R-I-A
It reminds me of a girl
La La Love You.
I love it, I love it, I love it, I do!
Here comes your man. Every time I hear it, I’m brought right back to my 20’s and all the craziness, energy, and excitement that came with it!
Debaser
A Song that changed my life forever, it inspired me to write music about anything i felt passionate about, including movies.
So hard to choose – but I’ll go with Debaser
Is She Weird – Reminds me of the person who introduced me to a band that confused me at first but turned into what may have been the biggest musical influence on me to date. the fricken PIXIES!
So tough, just one? Crackity jones, and I can charge against the world! :D
Debaser! It’s a toss up. I definitely love this song and the fact that it’s about the movie, among other things. My favorite Deal song is “Gigantic,” but if I had to pick one, it’s “Debaser.”
Chained. It reminds me of the 10 minutes my first marriage didn’t suck.
Come on… this is torture! I’ve been listening songs for the past half hour trying to decide which I like the most. It’s useless, just pleaaseee send me the new album, or anything with an autograph, I’ll be happy. I’m from Portugal by the way but I don’t mind paying for the shipping :)
If I have to pick one I’d say subacultcha, it was the first one I heard that make me buy the first album which I still love.
“Ana”
Short and sweet.
Vamos. Traditional Pixies with a spicy twist. Makes me feel alive.
It’s gotta be ‘ where is my mind’ so many memories. I listened to this when I first travelled alone, and swam not in the Crimean but in the Red Sea… This sing blasted out on someone’s stereo and I had one of those moments where you truly feel here and now. Saw pixies for the first time last week after being a fan for thirty odd years. they did not disappoint. One of the best gigs of my life :)
“Brick is Red”
My fav Pixies song! So much in fact my lovely wife had the lyrics etched into a red pair of drum sticks as a gift for me.
the happening. i love how it starts very muscular and transitions to dreaminess.
“Dig for fire”
Those lyrics bring memories back from my hometown… Salinas, Ecuador.
Where Is My Mind?
always in the setlist
Cecilia Ann.
A cool name and an epic-herosavingthegirl-cowboyscrossingthedesert feeling. Awesome bass as always.
Thats hard.
“Cecilia Ann” makes me wonder about all members of the Pixies just going driving on the Interstate, running into other cars and watching them explode just nearby the cactus =)
Wave of mutilation. Cause of the ocean images and freakin awesome start to that song. And my number 2 would be debaser :p
“Where is my mind?” is my favorite Pixies song just because I adored it since the first time I listened to it (when I was a child and I didn’t know who the Pixies were).
Velouria. It send me back to the early 90’s, my teenage years in Brazil, when we used to share cassete tapes recorded from somebody who paid lots of money from importing stores. But sing My Velouriaaaaaaaaaaaaa out loud with your friends fearless. Golden days.
Havalina – Will be my wedding song someday. Cannot be beat.
Space (I Believe In)
No doubt I’m in the minority here, but this song represents THE moment I was awakened to the world of GOOD music. Growing up in a small town where your three choices of music are classic rock, top 40, and classic rock, popping in the strange, new mixtape from your older sister with the underground connections as a fresh-faced freshman lost in the big city can be a transformative experience. Did I say awakened? Smacked upside the head is more accurate. This song slinks inside your brain and methodically, sonically bludgeons every last opinion of what you thought you knew about quality music until by song’s termination at 4:19, you’re left jaw agape, bleeding from the ears, wondering what you’d been listening to your whole life. A second later, I needed a joint and I don’t even smoke! Even Pixies themselves have never released anything like it before or since.
HE’S SO!… spaaaaacious…
Debaser! My all time favorite line ‘Slicing up eyeballs’ is incidentally how I found this site a few years back.
I also love their cover of ‘Winterlong’, they smashed it and it’s equal if not better than the original (which says something about their talent!)
Gigantic. I love the bass line & Kim Deal’s breathy vocals.
No. 13 Baby….great song, great bass line!!
Rock Music…..sooo good.
Hey
Because it´s about the purest Pixies touching my soul since the first moment I heard it years ago. Every time! Above all the others.
Hey, Pixies, been trying to meet you…
Tony’s theme
for every Tony and every thing tony a song about a super hero named Tony called Tony’s theme
Where Is My Mind
I have a few favourites but from the new album Magdalena 318 is something! When I first listened to it, it hit me like lightning. Then, when I paid attention to the lyrics “Magdalena you’re the meanest” it hit me twice…
Gouge Away, because I heard it in my youth at parties and with friends. Good memories !!!
Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf) reminds me of being driven home in the very early morning hours and gazing out at the stars.
For me the choice to pick one tune is pretty damn hard, considering the following highlight the bands greatness; Digging For Fire, Gigantic, Here Comes Your Man, Debaser, U-Mass, The Holiday Song, Caribou, Bone machine…Christ I could go on! Alas I’ll have to pick “Planet Of Sound” based purely on the fact that is was the first Pixies song I ever heard (track 1 on Death To The Pixies which was released when I was 14/15), and as a result led me to gobble up all things Pixies! They were feckin class in the Sydney Opera house recently too, which outshone their Doolittle tour in Dublin’s Olympia!
Hey
Love the bass and the funky guitar. Just makes me wanna bite my lower lip and groove, mutha fucka!
Here comes your man – just a really awesome song, love it
Digging for fire and Gigantic. Love so many. I could go on and on, but I will commit!
Cactus
This was the first Pixies tune I ever heard live. I saw Black Francis play a solo show in 2009 before the Pixies started their Doolittle tour and I was immediately captured by the simplicity and rawness of the song. Since that show I’ve seen the Pixies 8 times and have had the opportunity to meet them all, but I will never forget the time I saw Black Francis play before a time when I thought I missed my chance to ever see a Pixies show. Although I hold every Pixies song close to my heart, Cactus will always be that song for me that reminds me of the first time I saw one of the Pixies play live!!!!!!!!!
Gouge Away!
“I Bleed” I interpret it as being about the demons you face and the outside people in your life who create/feed them
Gigantic, because the whole band is at the top of their game in that song.
La la love you…the jazzy guitar and if I were a woman I’d melt evertime David sang “pretty lady”
”this monkey’s gone to heaven”
This Music just ”get’s” me with it’s feeling
Gigantic- I always picture Truman Capote walking dogs (answered prayers) in this song
Alec Eiffel
Hangwire-got to love a sing that is also an amazing haiku!
Velouria…………..Just absolute Quality,and also What goes Boom……PURE QUALITY…more please 8)
Here comes your Man
Reminds me of my time at college radio…
‘Where Is My Mind?’ is a perfect song. What more needs be said.
Cactus.
The song itself is recorded very low so when you turn the volume up and the bass drum starts to get louder and louder it really pulls you in and takes control of the song. A+
Where Is My Mind?…seriously though.
“Hey”. There are odd reflections of light in the mind, waves of thought that each carry different and myriad weight, frequency, and burdens of circumstance. This song commands a course through so many that I never had access to before or after, but only during. I go here only sometimes.
Where is My Mind? A perfect melody whenever I have my mind.. ; )
Where Is My Mind? It was my first introduction to the pixies and its still my favourite.
I love a lot of songs by the pixies but, “Velouria” always stuck with me. It’s just such a magical song. As is the band.
Hey!
perfect song!
From the new songs…”Indie Cindy,” I think.
Absolute favorite? Ugh, don’t make me choose!
Okay, “Debaser.” That just popped into my head. It rocks. Also, it’s cool that it references the Buñel film, Un Chien Andalou.
Cactus..
i was just getting into the pixies when i saw bowie play it live… it was a surreal and fantastic moment…
Alec Eiffel !!!! Gotta love how people can be oh so dense ;)
Nimrods Son
Monkey Gone To Heaven
It is such a good song with great guitar and vocals
Hey
Where is my mind, forever
i think it identifies me as most of the time i’m confused, and always daydreaming
So many favorites but I guess if I had to choose one it would be “Dig for Fire”. Just a great feel good song to get you going :)
“Nº 13 Baby”
I wish the last part went on for, like, 10 minutes or more. I would enter into a de facto trance state during that.
Where Is My Mind is my favourite song. The melody is just so enveloping.
Tony’s theme…. Makes me feel super happy every time I listen to it….
Hay una excelente canción para cada estado de ánimo, Here comes your men, veluría,Evil Hearted You, Santo, ahora What Goes Boom…uff sus discos han sido todo un soundtrack en mi vida, mi madre siempre que llega a mi casa me silba la tonada de Lala loves you y el trompee le monde fue mi tabla salva vidas durante muchos años, imposible tener una favorita… Vengan a Méxicooooo!!!!
Hey.
There is just something about it
“Debaser”. Dali. Groovy. Birth of alt.
Subbacultcha.
Caribou
UMass. Because I’ve never been there, know nothing of the University and the song makes me want to throw my 40+ body around like it did when I was 20 something. It just kills and I don’t care to analyze why.
“Debaser”.
Dali. Groovy. Birth of alt.
Where is my mind. It got me into the pixies and I’ve been hooked ever since. I just zone out in a good way when that song comes on especial the 2004 greatest hits version. Relaxes me and levels me out when I’m Stressed.
Vamos. JAS’s guitar solo is immaculately dynamic.
HEY
So hard to pick just one but I’ll throw out Hey
Levitate Me.
it’s an misunderstood song…just like me. I love it, and I have fond memories of turning up the volume and dance alone in my house :)
Gotta be “Monkey Gone to Heaven”. It was that song that, when I heard it, made me realize that I loved the Pixies.
“HEY” That song has always “been trying to reach you”. The groove, angry twang of Francis’s rhythm, and the Chained chorus are fierce. It’s good for driving when in a junker car, the bass and lead guitar blast out at stoplights to other drivers.
Holiday Song – to be honest it’s hard to choose, but I sing this song loud, in the car, alone! F know what that says about me
This monkey’s gone to heaven. Just love the dynamics of this song.
Soooooo hard to choose ONE song…
But, i guess i’ll have to go with one of the first songs i heard from them. And still is one of my very favourites: “Hey”.
Allison !
So short, so live, so full of passion
For some reason, this song always comforts me and brings me happiness
Tony’s Theme
Totally not sucking up, but Debaser! It’s the single most quintessential summary of the Pixies sound and Frank’s writing. He is the Dali/Bunuel of the new age and no record in the world starts with such a thrill as Doolittle.
Every song on Trompe le Monde.
U-mass & planet of sound.
Into the White. Because there is no right answer to this question, and the only point of any art form is to create an experience. The experience and meaning changes through time and the infinite perceptions of individual experience. The right answer is whatever makes you feel something you never felt before that moment and that was what experiencing this song performed live did for me at that moment in time.
Debaser
This song rocks and clearly influenced Nirvana.
Where is my mind.
Perfect song from a perfect album. Amazing riff.
“Where is My Mind” is my answer… I know it’s typical, and I could give so many reasons that I love so many other Pixie songs, but that one just reaches down through the top of my head, grabs ahold of my heart, releases some kind of magic that pulses through the rest of my body, and makes me feel like it’s alright that I feel so crazy. Going to go listen to it right now. Can’t wait to hear the new stuff!
Alec Eiffel! Is the first pixies song i’ve ever heard. So many memories… i was very young, and it opened my mind completely.
I Bleed is my favorite Pixies song because I of the flow of the song and the lyrics. I don’t quite understand it but I still can play over and over and never get bored of it.
U-Mass
Because it’s educational!
Magdalena 318
…because I like the flow of it…*
Where is my mind
Wave of mutilation and Where is my mind best of the best…
I’ve Been Tired – the first Pixies song I ever heard and the one that introduced me to a whole new world of music.
Monkey Gone to Heaven. Dig it.
Something Against You
just superb!!
Where is My Mind
Really tough to name just one. Current favorite is Magdalena 318. Old favorite is Gouge Away.
“The happening” something about the melody in that chorus takes me somewhere and keeps my head-a-bobbin’
Velouria – love that infectious harmonic style that made most if bossinova’s offerings so catchy… Can’t get this one out if my head – so it’s my first daughter’s middle name. Thank’s for the many years of inspiration guys!
So many great Singstar! If I have to decide on a singel song it has to be Gouge away:
Hard question, but first one to come to my mind is Caribou (though Hey, Holiday Song and Down to the Well shouldn’t go unmentioned)
Umass
Veramente difficile scegliere. Ok, diciamo Alec Eiffel
If I had to choose one song, I think it would be Cactus. Why? Because it embodies everything the Pixies are. It’s simple and short but yet so heavy at the same time, the lyrics evoke powerful images, Dave’s drums pounding in the backround, Kim’s bass and vocals keeping everything in check, Joey’s chords and plucking refreshing the song constantly and of course Francis’ voice on top of everything talking about bloody dresses and cement floors. Spell pixies in the middle of the tune and you’re all set.
Cactus: The perfect presentation card for Pixies
“Cactus” most definitely.
Into the white, kim deal:)
Cactus!!
This song just oozes sexy!!
Wave of mutilation. I loved this song so much. This is the first song I learned to play on my bass. The song sounds so punk and amazing and tough with such lovely lyrics in the verses. I get more out of the song each time I hear it.
Too hard – no such thing as one favorite. But I want to win, so….
Bone Machine – there’s nothing like that chorus – even 20+ years later, I’m still walking around singing it, and I still don’t think I understand it but I think I get it…
Indie Cindy
“Hey”
Such a beautiful love song full of grit.
The Happening.
The final Frank Black slow rap….
Velouria. One word, theramins
Mi favourite song is Havalina.
The song make me travel to another state of body and mind. Because of Pixies i decided to start playing bass when i first hear them, and now i play guitar too.
They are just my big inspiration in music and life.
Gigantic
How can you even pick one??!
While I’m typing this right NOW… it’s Wave of Mutilation. I can think of nothing better than driving in my car aimlessly, windows down, and playing any of the Pixies albums that I have. But I always go one louder for Wave of Mutilation.
If I MUST choose just 1…Where is my mind
Because it is so dreamy and the kind of song you can get absolutely lost in and wouldn’t mind at all if it played forever!
River Euphrates : The perfect example of the “Quiet/Loud/Quiet” style of the Pixies in a pure aesthetic
Where is my mind? I think God wrote this song, I will always measure every song to this one. The simplicity is what makes it so wonderful. It’s probably the most commercial song, but there is a reason for that.
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Because I still can’t and will never be able to figure out what 8 is.
Or 9.
… or 10…
Here Comes Your Man. Opening guitar riff gives me goosebumps!
Hey
It’s a blast for me..
one word “Hey”
Bone Machine! This was the song that flipped the switch from pop music to underground rock for me. I was in high school when Surferosa came out, and an “older” friend in college made me a mix tape with Bone Machine as the first track. And the rest, as they say, is history!
‘Gigantic’ hands down!
Hey. It is an anthem of the realities of love. Plus that first word on the track made so many people turn towards my car and say “what?”
“Cactus” I put it on when I grow lonely.
Debaser-
My sister used to listen to this song and it used to piss me off. I liked gangster rap back then. So one day when she was gone, I took this album from her. I then listened to it, and I haven’t cared for rap since. I went on to listen to many other bands, but I still HATE Bush!!
Here comes your man.
Because my daughter sings it to me in the car.
“Where is My Mind”
˝With your feet on the air and your head on the ground…˝
Is there anything else to say??
Where is my mind?
Swimming, way out, water. Awesome.
Bone Machine
Isla de Encanta
it is f…… beautiful
I Bleed!
Has everything, awesome basslines, sliding guitars, the pixes voices, the best drums! and btw, Indy cindy is crazy good!
Cactus.
It’s hard to pick a song out of the Pixies experience, but the intense lyrics of this love song sliding over that rumbling baseline bring an obsessive edge that takes it up there with Celine Dion and Whitney Houston ;)
Debaser. Always and forever.
Caribou. Tough decision though.
Pour mémoire à des soirées inoubliables et aux personnes qui y ont participé, je dirais “hey”.
Pixiesement votre !
Where is my mind ?
Sorry this is obvious but I can not get rid of it after all these years
Hey! This song has the best beginnig of any song I know. The song is slow and vivacious; there is no way to deny the fact you just HAVE to sing and cry along with this song. Then comes that beautifull solo where your face will stretch in all directions, and off cours Kims voice echoing along. It;s a brilliant song and I can burst out singing it at any time of the day!
Ana, because listening to those guitars with my eyes closed makes me feel like I’m out at the beach no matter where I actually am.
Where is my mind?
Gigantic – & this I know his teeth is white as snow.
letter to memphis!!!!
It’s got to be hey. Just such a sexy slow deep angry song and Kim’s vocals are amazing.
Amongst tons of favorites : Gigantic ’cause it’s gigantic too…
I just love the lyrics from “Cactus” so I’m going with this one !
Isla De Encanta
Here Comes Your Man
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Like environmental theme associated with the numerological mysticism …
;-)
My favourite Pixies album is “Surfer Rosa” and my favourite track is “Monkey gone to heaven”. It reminds me when I saw them in a small club in Thessaloniki-Greece called “Oniro”. This must have been 1990-91. The club was tiny and there wasn’t even a stage to speak of. It was a great time!!
I bleed
cos of the dreamlike ballad narrative and the voice reversal at the end *sniff* pretty
“Broken Face” , So dynamic
“Where Is My Mind”
…extremely hard to pick just one. But I choose this song because my son loves it and because it makes me think of someone very special.
no. 13 baby
This Pixies song puts me in a state, and I gotta have more!!
<3
It’s really difficult to choose just one song by a band that wrote such gems as Hey, Debaser, Gigantic, Alec Eiffel, I’ve Been Tired, Levitate Me, Wave Of Mutilation, Monkey Gone To Heaven or Gouge Away.
I’ll chose La La Love You, because who else could write a song whose verse features only whistling and the word “yeahhh”, ending with all the band members saying “I love you”? It’s sooo simple no one’s ever done it. And sung by the drummer… Nice!
“Subbacultcha,” because there’s no better love song than one about two people, wearing black and eyeliner… Looking “at the sky in a poetic kind of way…”
Monkey Gone To Heaven – a song that truly is sad and inspiring at the same time
“Here Comes Your Man”. Just a perfect pop song
So many easy choices: “Gouge Away”, “wave of mutilation”, “monkey gone to heaven”, “where is my mind”, “debaser”… But I’d have to go for “Cactus” as my ultimate favourite. So dark and obsessively in love with its subject.
Where Is My Mind? …makes me dream
Hey.
It reminds me so well of 1989, leaving a club with friends and singing it over and over all the way home. good times.
Gigantic
Gigantic.
Caribou.
Don´t tell me why but each time I listen to it, it gives me goosebumps.
Hey!
Been trying to meet you!
MmmMmmMmmMMmm
Hey
Must be
A Devil
Between us
Or whores in my head
Whores at the door
Whores in my bed
But hey
Where?
Have you?
Been?
If you go –
I will surely die…
We’re chained…
the absolute best pixies track will always be gigantic. I lost the love of my life in 1979 and every time I hear this song it brings him back. thankyou pixies
There are so many however Here Comes Your Man never ceases to change my mood regardless of how bad a day I’m having. Just hearing the opening of the song perks up my ears and makes me believe I’m 18 again.
Debaser, because it rocks.
Here Comes Your Man. Brings back a lot of memories :D
“Hey”
It is hard to select just one… May be this one just of the moments I lived listening to this song…
Break My Body
Because after many many years, this song still hasn’t bored the crap out of me.
“Hey” Because I love the lyrics and the vocal melody, it is just awesome. It’s my one hundred songs playlist. I listen to it very often. One of the many reasons I love the Pixies.
Hang Wire
The line Every morning and every day
I’ll bossanova with ya used to be changed by friends to Bossanova Widger and Widger was my surname. Still makes me chuckle when I hear it!
Caribou – amazingly original track, sooooo good live.
Where Is My Mind is my favourite. Joey’s guitar intro and Kim’s “ooh’s” make it a crowd singalong classic.
TAME
Tout simplement énorme!!!!
Wheres is my mind ? I always search…
“HEY” Sums up my teen years as a Grunge / goth, in a town of pop song listening label bashers. Just trying to meet the one but finding others in my bed.
Here comes your man. Cool, groovy, moody and awesome!
U-Mass
How can you not LOVE that guitar part. So hooky and summative of what the Pixies have done for alternative rock. And of course Frank’s screams in the chorus.
Monkeys gone to heaven
It’s difficult to choose only one favourite song. Maybe I’d say “Debaser”. I love the sound of the bass at the beginning and then the guitar… It gives me a sense of strength!!!
Gouge Away… It’s musical perfection
Hey!
Simple, effective, great lyrics
Debaser. I choose one because I have to, I would put 20 songs, but maybe Debaser bring me the best regards of the London – Brixton concert.
Today my favourite song is “Vamos” because it’s just so happily unhinged. It’s better live though. Tomorrow my favourite song will probably be “Tame” or something…
Wave of Mutilation. It’s a trip, an absolute epic trip trough the unbelievable worlds of the Pixies. It’s a fairytale.
Beak my body ! It’s shit hot
Debaser is my fave. I just like the way it winds up and expands and becomes louder and stronger until the very end.
Something Against You – 20 some odd years ago, this track was my morning motivation to get shit done. Still gets this 44 year old body of mine ready to go. Death to the Pixies!!!
my favourite Pixies song is most definitely Silver, this song hypnotize me it’s so calm, and man I can’t explain why but this one is just different than the others for me, even if I think every Pixies song is great, it’s sentimental guys !
Mi canción favorita de los Pixies es Hey. la atmosfera que crea con esa lenta cadencia, ese bajo poderoso, las guitarras,…en fin, la canción que me encadenó a The Pixies.
Alec Eiffel
The best pixies song;-)
Mr. Grieves
“Monkey gone to heaven” , but it’s really hard to choose because I love so many
Debaser !…. Its gleeful evil incarnate!
Hey!
I recall a time sitting on a second storey window ledge wanting to jump and this was playing the background.
Planet of Sound
Perfect track to kick off an album.
“Where Is My Mind” … It is “the only thing in the world” that makes sense when nothing does!!!
‘Where is my mind’
Velouria – it’s just so intense yet relaxed. I remember I heard it for the first time on a John Peel show and just sitting there, mouth agape, wondering how, why and WOW!
“Isla de encanta”.
I like it from the beginning: HERMANITA, VEN CONMIGO!!!
Has to be Debaser for me.
Most of Doolittle. Predictable but nonetheless true. If you twisted my arm and I had to choose just one it would probably be Debaser for the intro into sheer brilliance. LOVE YOU!!!
Tame! Welk that’s a proper punkrocksong!
“Monkey Gone to Heaven” naturally…
Monkey Gone To Heaven; a great story that’s seemingly clear but cryptically mysterious. And those harmonies! What’s more fun than that?
Wave of Mutilation UK surf version – was introduced by Doolittle so loved HCYM and MGTH but bought Pump Up the Volume OST and was hooked on the quiet cool version on Wave
Tame. It reminds me of weekends spent with my Dad when I was little. xx
Debaser ,, out of many I had to select this song. When I had my first son I was listening to you a lot and Debaser was ONE of the first words he spoke.
I’ve Been Tired, sooooo damn Funky! Fave song by my Fave band
Mr Grieves. it’s a brilliant energetic short but sweet weird song that gets me so excited everytime it starts. :)
U-mass!
U-mass. I remember walking to Uni having Tromp Le Monde loud in my ears and where the drums kick in… Sublime…
Isla de Encanta
Too many great songs to choose from but if I have to choose one I’ll say ‘Here comes your man’ It’s just a great upbeat tune that I enjoy singing along to.
Where is my mind?
Haunting and beautiful….oooooooooo. STOP!
My favorite song is Hey. The atmosphere that is created with the slow cadence, that powerful bass, guitars, … well, the song that chained me to The Pixies.
Impossible to name but one song, but if I have to: Debaser
“Gigantic”. Nary a compilation tape was made, and I’m that old that it was tapes, that didn’t include this song. Ah my knees may be a bit gone now, but this song still gets me talking my toes a-tapping. The pixies openned the door for me into a world of great, great music.
Velouria, honestly one of my favourite songs of all time. My dad gave it to me on a ‘Happy Daze’ compilation album which sparked my love for Pixies and continues to be such an amazing track for me.
Dig for Fire from Bossnova
Indie Cindy!
The Happening
Because it is different and yet has the quintessential Pixies structure and sound, and because of the superb vocal interaction between kim and Frank in the second part.
My favourite song changes all the time because they’re so damn good, but at the moment it’s Gigantic! Going to see them live for the first time ever in two weeks so this prize would be an added bonus to a monumental June!
my favorite is a b-side, “into the white.” i love how the rhythm guitar (charles) riff joins joey’s electric guitar riff and i love, love, love kim’s sultry vocals. every band member shines in this song.
Caribou. Eerily perfect, very loud QUIET loud, definitively Pixies
Hang Wire. Bossanova was the 1st Pixies album that I got to hear & it destroyed me. I was divorced, all my married friends divorced me, I had very little money, but I had the Pixies to listen to. Even when you’re in a bad way, you can hopefully find something good to have & enjoy. I thank the Pixies for that & I’m glad they finally got the recognition they deserved !
Nimrod’s Son – first thing I heard back in around 88
Debaser. Remember the first time I put the record on, my first Pixies LP, I was hooked imediately, just after hearing the opening riffs! Been a big fan since :)
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this answer, shortlisting all my favourite songs. I think I’ve finally concluded that my favourite ever is Hey, although I’m struggling for reasoning. I think it might be the bass line, all my favourite songs have the most awesome bass line, regardless, there’s something about that song just makes me feel so great
Head On. It’s been my anthem through life! Great song!!
“Monkey Gone to Heaven”
Because if man is 5, then the devil is 6, and therefore, God is 7!!!!
And I love to hear Black Francis scream it.
#pixies #doolittle
Trompe Le Monde
Totally underrated introduction to a phenomenal album.
My wife Anna and I danced to B-sides “Wave of Mutilation” for our wedding song. It’s beautiful. Since high school (when we first met) we always joked that it sounds like Black Francis is saying “Marry Anna” instead of marina. We’ve been married 15 years now and still in love. That’s my favorite song, period.
Where is my mind…
Cactus! Crazy lyrics (as usual…) with a bit of threatening guitar makes it just perfect!
I’ve been tired – It’s the song I sing to myself that makes my girlfriend give me the strangest look.
The holiday song!! :D
Hey. Because of the atmosphere and BF’s tortured wails.
Magdalena 318 FTW!
Can’t choose only one! But for this comtest I choose Debaser, I love Kim’s bass!!!
Where Is My Mind?
la la love you – the most romantic Pixies song… And the live version I just witnessed was amazing.
I have a big big love for Gigantic – because I love any songs that are about genitals..hey paul hey paul hey paul let’s have a ball…
Here comes your man – perfect pop song
Debaser. It was the first Pixies song I ever heard. I checked it out after reading the lyrics with illustrations drawn by Norwegian comic artist Ronja. I love the song! It’s both sweet, raw and sore, like a Pixies song should be.
I love most of your songs, but my favourite is Where is my mind. love the lyrics, the feel, the sound. its just the pixies sound for me.
Alec Eiffel: rythm, lyrics, the historical background… it is just perfect
“Where Is My Mind” — because it’s so catchy and calls back the great memories. It’s got haunting/dreamlike layers.
Velouria!!!
Just love it, everything about it.
Where is my mind?
Remember first hearing it first on Fight Club and then getting into the Pixies. :)
Planet Of Sound – The just F’n rocks!!
Rock Music – from Bossanova. What’s not to love about it?
Hard to choose one among so many… But i would say:
“Caribou” as it’s the first one i’ve heard from Pixies.
I like almost all the pixies’s songs, but “Gouge away”, I think, is one of may favorites. The power and the explotion in the chorus is amazing, in contrast with that beautiful melody on the verse.
‘HEY’ – absolutely love the bass line, the lyrics, the slow build… everything about this brilliant song!
“Hey”
I think it is one of the most outstanding romantic songs ever written. It differs from all the other songs because it does not use the standard phrases like “baby, I love you” or other banal phrases and says “Been trying to meet you, must be a devil between us”. Musically, it’s simplicity is very soothing. Kim Deal’s bass part is so “easy” to follow yet it expresses the pain of longing, I think.
“Vamos” is the crazyest song I’ve ever listened in my life.
The Navajo Know
The last song from outer space hidden in the earth ground.
where is my mind?
La La love you coz i do.
“Monkey Gone To Heaven” is the perfection. Long live the Pixies!
Wave of Mutilation
It’s like a wave of sounds that just flows through me, the lyrics imagery that rocks my little part of the world.
One of my 50 favourites :
Nimrod’s son
The Happening…. so epic
Greens and Blues – cause its my 5 year olds fav, nearly 25 years after I heard La La love you for the first time and was hooked!!
where is my mind, because i just don’t know where is my mind
GIGANTIC A BIG BIG love!
It is damn near impossible to list my 20 favorite pixies songs, let alone just one. But, that said, I’ll go with Gouge Away.
Debaser! Because I grew up to be one!!
The spookiness of ‘ Is She Weird ‘ !
Here Comes Your Man! It reminds me of a girl I used to date.
Greens and Blues
Here Comes Your Man is my favourite. Fantastic!
Ana, the song that i would love to hear in my head when i go down tobthe well……
My favorite Pixies song — if forced at gunpoint to choose one and only one — will always be “Velouria,” because it was my intro to the band. More years ago than I care to remember, I’d stay up late Sunday nights to watch MTV’s 120 Minutes. After college this was the way I kept in touch with new music since it was hard to hear new sounds on the radio. Velouria made the top of my head want to blow off. Such a unique sound. Dynamic. Huge. At 53, I still get shivers when I hear the opening chords. You always remember your first, and this is it. Thanks, Pixies.
My all time favourite Pixies song, is probably Monkey’s gone to Heaven, which I probably heard for the first time on John Peel’s radio show which used to be a seemingly unending source of usually, wonderful music… No-one has replaced him, though many have tried. Six music’s ensemble have their moments but for sheer consistency, they can’t hold a candle to uncle John…
Where is my mind
Made me realize I’m not the only one wondering. But thanks for all of your songs!
Hey: Dark, cryptic lyrics and melancholy melodies with the added touch of an awesome, classic guitar solo. I just love it beyond words.
“Alec Eiffel” is my favorite one!!!
Pixies is an important part of my youth, it´s quite unfair to make me choose only one song… But “Alec Eiffel” sums up what Pixies’s songs are to me!
Silver Snail – after seeing them at Field Day in London, this one blew me away – it’s a creeper.
‘Hey’
The guitar riff is amazing, and I love that it keeps going as you play the chords progression. I love the sound of the hole song, that warm feeling the cadence gives against the coldness of the lyrics. I think the highest point of the song is when you get to the chorus, that tension and the way you sing it, like a crying, makes perfect sense and it is the best way to describe that feeling, like there could be a lot of circunstances that could trouble a relationship but he can’t help the fact that he is chained to that love. It’s the perfect unlove/love song. I know this way of seeing it might not be the correct one when you wrote it but it’s the feeling that I get and it rips my heart in a lovely and deathly way.
Alec Eiffel!
“HEY” it was first song I ever heard & instantly fell in love. All my friends & my brothers hanging, having great time, no worries,lots of laughs, all still friends & happy. It’s a great memory I always when I hear “HEY” & I love everything about the song.flawless & timeless.
Here Comes Your Man – makes me think of the love of my life and her impeccable taste in music
Motorway to Roswell. I first heard it at the age of 15 leaving on a jet plane on my first holiday without my parents. The lyrics were quite appropriate in some ways!
Probably Dig For Fire.
The song talks about the search for your life passions, for what drives one in life. The song is a testament to the worth of intangible emotions and well being as opposed to material possessions.
There is no other way to describe the essence of this song, which is, at the same time, the essence of my moral.
If I had to choose one song, it would probably be Bam Thwok, it’s been my feel good song for a couple of years now.
Btw. Thanks for an awesome concert in Reykjavík last week!
bone machine…
Crackity Jones! Pure energy, and the story behind it.
Hard to pick just one, but I’ll say ‘Alec Eiffel’.
Pure rock.
Gotta be ‘Letter to Memphis’ from Trompe Le Monde. Absolute anthem in every sense of the word!
Havalina. Gentle, reflective, autumnal — but with a dark descent (before and after the verse). Has many elements of a classic Pixies song — weird chord sequences, even weirder lead guitar, smooth, melodic bass, superficial-but-deep-lyrics — but is way more chilled. It reminds me of looking out the window on a December morning at the snow falling.
“Hey”
Features prominently in my daydreams.
Gigantic!
hey is one of my favs
Here Comes Your Man
becauseahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Rock Music
While it is hard to choose a favourite from the extensive catalogue, I always love this piece. The driving energy of the song, while maintaining something melodic, is almost without comparison in the musical landscape.
Crackity Jones – I’m in love with this song because it makes my body freak out in all sorts of directions, it’s like a weird dance thing…. It’s not me it’s the song…
“Where is my mind?”
I love it
(But not only me. Because of David Fincher nearly everybody knows and loves this song)
What Goes Boom Aunque me gustan casi todas.
Valouria
ANA. It has the best chorus change in music history
“Dig for Fire” Hard choice.
I know that Here Comes Your Man is considered the “breakthrough” song and I usually do not always go to the most played song. I love it. I am a teacher who has students who I teach to write and perform music and they help me run an online radio station (where we play the Pixies all the time). And Wow! Black Francis wrote this song when he was a teenager!
“Hey” tough to choose but this song just grooves. I had it for a ringtone for a while… it startled me every time I got a call.
Tame
Embodies everything about the pixies in one relatively short song! Sardonic, aggressive, passive… Beautiful!
Where is My Mind, it was the one on the radio that pulled me in!
I love, “Where is my mind?”. This song is the number one of my life. It’s a matter of affinity, I think is because I always ask myself this question. I identify with it, it’s surreal, I see it as an existentialist song.
Cactus
Now gimme the CD!
Monkey Gone To Heaven…rock me Joe.
Cactus
It’s a hard call, for sure, but something about this song resonates.
That probably means something…
My favorite song is “Where is my Mind?”. It makes me feel happy and melancholic in the same time, and the guitar sounds amazing! I absolutely adore it
“Cactus” off of SURFER ROSA… I was sitting in the Saudi Desert back in ’91 when I heard this song for the first time. My high school sweetheart had sent me a mixed tape and when “Cactus” played, the lyrics just fit everything my situation defined. I was missing her. She was back in Arizona. So lonely and unsure… Every time I hear this song, those memories return…
Gouge Away. Great memories from my youth ¡¡¡
Such a great band glad they’re back gigging!! Pixies performing perfectly!1
Bone machine – A darkly comic outlook on love and loss, produced at a time when The Pixies were at their creative height. The vocals from Black and Kim demonstrate the song’s intensity and power along with an awesome guitar rift. An amazing opening track for Surfa Rosa
Wave of Mutilation [UK surf version]; in a ‘Pixies’ mood or not, this song is just always a key to so many perspectives
Velouria. Beautiful melody.
I’ve been tired…from start to finish this song kicks arse fantastic lyrics from the brilliant come on pilgrim album ……
“Where is my Mind”
I was about 15 years old and it was the first time a song fully engulfed me. I was hypnotized.
Caribou – a perfect disrupter to drop into the middle of the playlist for your next polite social gathering.
Monkey Gone to Heaven, because I had a great time dancing around to it with my friend’s 3-year-old son.
“Hey” this is easily my favorite because it describes the past 11 years of my life to a T! I met a girl (we’ll call her Ann) when I was in my early twenties that made me think about life on a completely different level though I didn’t know it at the time. Unfortunately when I met Ann, I was dating another person and thought I was in love however after a couple of years I caught her cheating on me. At this point I had lost complete contact with Ann and so I moved on and started dating yet another girl, who in turn did the exact same thing as the last one. This process repeated itself for about 7-8 years during which I ran into Ann several times in passing. We would say hi to one another but I was always dating some else so neither of us pursued it any further. Finally one day after I had been dumped, I was sitting in a bar feeling down in the dumps and in walks Ann! I knew exactly what I had to do, after all it couldn’t be coincidence that we had continually run into each other all these years.so I got up off my bar stool, walked over to the juke box, and played “hey”. I walked over to her and sang “we’re chained”! I’m very happy to say I’ve been married to the love of my life now for two years and this song was our first dance at our wedding!
Caribou, I loved it from the moment I first heard it. It captures longing for something better perfectly.
Gouge Away
“Here comes your man”
Love it. Played it at my wedding!!
Such a fun song!
So hard to pick just one…but Break My Body was my introduction to the Pixies and I have been hooked ever since!
Indie Cindy…
It’s obvious.
No. 13 baby
Hard to pick just one. “Where is my mind?” Is a constantly great song to start a drive with. Haunting vocal, insanely head bopping rythum… Yeah that one.
Cactus – the most romantic song ever!!! but Monkey gone to heaven has been my ringtone ever since phones let us set our own options so…
Cactus, cactus, cactus … That is all.
River Euphrates
It’s the anthem to my soul.
My all time favourite Pixies song would have to be ‘Hey’. It gets me everytime I hear it :)
Hard to choose between so much classics so I go with the first song I head: Caribou
DEBASER!
Because I am a punk whose legs love to dance and I never won anything
So hard to chose only one but I haven’t seen “The Navajo Know” yet – so that will be my pick.
I have to say, nowadays, my favourite one is Bag Boy from the new album. From the first time I heard it, I loved it. Not only represents this time of music but also gathers different traits of many genres. It is just great and powerful.
The Happening. A whole story in one song.
Obviously unable to answer that question, but today I’ll go with “Hey”. Because we are indeed chained.
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
When I got hired onto overnight work I remember going into work around 11PM. Dark highway with my car lights reflecting yellow and white. The shadowy hill landscape of Western NY as backdrop. Windows down and then this song comes up after Letter to Memphis. What a mood setter! Simple yet perfect, into the mountains I will fall!
Hey! Last 2 concerts ive been to were PIXIES!Knoxville and Asheville, and will see them in socal in September!
I’ve always been afraid of this question because I am afraid of feeling guilty when listening later on all thw songs I haven’t mentioned, buuuuuut, the one that represents the best their freacky sounds, the screamy vocals, the weird lyrics is The Holiday Song from the very beginings.
And now I have to listen to the rest and apologize :)
Wave of Mutilation definitely. Great track, never get tired of hearing it.
Bone Machine is definitely my favorite Pixies track, although they are ALL spectacular. This song has a great beat to accompany some rather strange but memorable lyrics. Pixies is one of those bands I was proud to listen to as a child and am even more so to still love them as an adult.
WHERE IS MY MIND! Cause pixies KICK ASS that’s why!!!!!
Debaser. It’s so fun to sing along to and I just lose all inhibitions when I hear it. I don’t know. I just love it and it’s really awesome, especially at the ha ha ha ho part. It’s just great.
THROW ME A BONE AND PLEASE SEND ME A COPY? I’m the only one who’s gotta “BROKEN FACE!”
Wow, so many tunes??!!
Mine is probably tie between Wave of Mutilation & Monkey Gone to Heaven!!!
Best lyrics ever…
Man 5
Devil 6
God 7
Here Comes Your Man. Infectious guitar
Gouge Away. Simply epic… That is all…
Velouria.
Ana – beautiful, just beautiful…
Where Is My Mind – Reminds me of when I was 5 or 6, I was going through my moms CD collection and found a recorded version of one of their concerts. I played it, mom heard me listening to it, and told me her friend made it for her since she couldn’t attend the concert. Pixies were her favorite band. Where Is My Mind reminds me of my mother.
“Tame” never fails to hit that particular spot, striking at the core of any given mood
The sad punk. Just gets me all fired up. Saw them live a couple years ago with Kim deal. Was a dream come true.
Silver Snail,elle m’a vivement surprise,syrtout parce que elle m’a fait sentir..
j’adore.
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
“where is my mind”……simply because I want to try this trick and spin it..yeah.
Nimrod’s Son – just for the line : ” you are the son of incestuous union” that’s all :)
Oh my golly – reminds me of when I first heard them ad a teenager. Thought they were the best thing I’d ever heard. Now I know they’re the best thing I’ve ever heard :)
Mr. Grieves. Such a tune. Great change of tempo. Just epic.
(In heaven) Lady in the radiator song
Everything is fine…
Alec Eifell if i must choose! the lyricks and the music are great;)
This Monkey’s Gone To Heaven
all the best Pixies features here – the quiet/loud dynamics, the shouting from mr. Black, the out-of-this worold lyrics, Kim’s signature bassline simplicity, Joey’s crunchy lead parts – everything is top notch :)
Cactus.
Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing for a limited edition Pixies CD.
Velouria. The most perfect song, I named my dog Velouria in honor of it.
MONKEY GONE TO HEAVEN. DISCOVERED PIXIES WITH THIS SONG YEARS AGO, AND LISTENING TO IT ALWAYS GIVES ME A BOOST!
The Holiday Song because it inspired me to form my own band
HEY
just because !
“Tony’s Theme”, cuz its a song about a superhero named Tony. Duh
Silver.
Because it’s eerie and stands out like a sore fucking thumb.
But, lets face it Doolittle and Surfer Rosa are 100% pure brilliance.
“Hey”. I’ve loved this song since I was 15. It’s about the agony of relationships, the inaccurate ways we see ourselves and each other, the stupid things we do to mess up our relationships, but how addicted we are to love. Kim’s fantastic background vocals and Frank’s wailing get me every time. <3
Caribou
I loved it as soon as i listened to the vunyl i bought when i was a teenager
Gouge Away
Loved it!
Bone Machine, because it patiently distills juxtaposition, then throws the beaker in your face
“Cactus” – heavy & sexy
What Goes Boom is in heavy rotation at my place at the moment. the juxtaposition of heavy riffing in waltz tempo and the chords from 50’s rock and roll balladry works like a charm.
Monkey Gone To Heaven – The song that introduced me to the Pixies. Hooked by the guitar and lyrics.
My favorite Pixies song would be “Where is My Mind”. It’s a super fun track to dance to, has a great melody and the lyrics are great as well. Also, when I listen to it now, I picture the “romantic” part at the end of Fight Club now :)
“Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons”
It makes me feel like if I was a wave of distortion myself entering the skies of noise to transform myself into the one pure sound of life, the wings of a bird flying.
Debaser. Because it’s the one that got me into the Pixies first. Cheers.
Hearing River Euphrates in 1988 whilst still a school child on radio 1 by john peel. Indie music at the time was something truly intriguing; the evocative and haunting sound of this song heard for the first time on a tape recording by a band I had not heard before was truly amazing. It took me to new places in my imagination and this song has always felt special for this reason.
caribou! is one of the 100 best song ever….love it,lala love you too!!!!!!!!!
Debaser – Is hard to pick just one song!, but Debaser is awesome!; this song hooked me to Pixies, and definitely have all Pixies signature on it.
I can’t name an ultimate favourite Pixies tune, I like em all, but I’ve been listening to a lot of Trompe le Monde lately, Alec Eiffel and Space (I believe in) in particular, great songs.
Alec Eiffel is fantastic!
Gigantic…quite simply because it is my big, big love…
Wave of Mutilation for its dreaminess, I love that song! It takes me back to my early 20’s around 1998 when I sat on the edge of the stage right next to Black Francis, practically on his feet, at the Thekla Club in Olympia, WA. He told me to sit on the stage with him and it was AWESOME!
Where is my mind? My feet are in the air and my head is on the ground!
Velouria… this was the first song of the Pixies I’ve ever heard… I remember the feeling, it just felt right… it was like getting home or that place that you belong… it’s still the sound of that song that give me goosebumps. When they came to Mexico City, that song made me cry while jumping, it’s just too good to describe.
“River Euphrates” Complete ‘B’ Sides
For two minutes, this song gives the impression that it will fall apart at any time, and then, in the added outro, I like the way that it finally collapses epically
Dig for fire. Listen to the sentiment in that song. words to live by.
where is my mind
My favorite song is “No. 13 Baby”
I have the greatest memory of this song. My freshman year of college in 2011 I met with my dad in Bakersfield CA to see you on the “Lost Cities” tour. I had such a cathartic experience listening to that beautiful outtro on No. 13 Baby with my father. We are both big pixies fans from Boston, MA. That outtro is fantastic and I have to stop what I am doing to listen every time it comes on. Thanks!
‘Caribou’
The intro blows my mind every time – then the rest of the song sweeps in and brings you slowly back to earth.
“Hey”. It has a very raw sound. Its a little less noisy but that’s ok. The bass and guitar give a nice groove through the entire song and that little build about a minute in is just fantastic. My parents have listened to the pixies since they first came out and Hey has always been a prevalent part of my childhood. All around a great song.
My personnel fav is ‘Broken Face’
That driving guitar work grabbed me when I was 18 and never let go!
Dig for Fire
This contest is pretty rough. How can I choose just one??
Digging for Fire. Are you looking for the mother lode? Huh? No.
But there are so many more that I love…the Pixies helped shape my life. I wanted to play bass because of Kim. For the last twenty years my number one band hasn’t changed…it will always be Zepellin…I mean the Pixies!!! ;)
Number 13 baby
I’ve especially loved that song since I first heard it many years ago.
If upbeat, Break my body. But overall favorite….Wave of Mutilation (UK surf version).
Debaser. Because “I am un chien andalusia!”
“TAME” if you need your face removed in under 2 minutes, look no further.
I Bleed. It’s strange, even scary, yet somehow sexy.
Debaser …. Banger of a tune!
This is a hard call but I would have to say “Wave Of Mutilation” followed closely by “Into The White”. It just puts me in the zone as soon as I hear it kick in. Seeing you guys a couple of weeks ago at the Opera House in Sydney at Vivid Live gave me a very much needed “live” fix. Fantastic show and now I’m just waiting for you to come back again.
I’ve Been Tired – This song is musical perfection. Clever lyrics, mixed with an up beat beat guitar tune leading to Kim & Frank screaming “I’ve been tired” multiple times. What more could you want?! Also it features one of my all time favorite Pixies moments: Kim’s singing “and while we’re at it baby, why don’t you tell me one of your biggest fears”.
My favourite is “Motorway To Roswell” – me, my sister and my mother have a keen interest in space; my earliest memories being of the “X files” theme-tune. Anyway, my sister has a band called “KEEL HER” and wrote a song called “Roswell”, and this song reminded me of home when I was at my lowest moments during an admission to a psychiatric hospital… Still makes me smile to this day :-)
Weird At My School!
Caribou has always been my favourite song. The song oozes intensity and delivers the message that this World is distorted by the concept of living an externally created illusion of human living. All other reasons for liking this song (musically rather than lyrically) are obvious.
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons. Because it’s very different than the rest of the album. And calm, just like a dream in which you’re flying to Mars.
The Sad Punk.
raw Pixies songs are the true Pixies songs.
Difficult as it is to single out any one of their songs, I’m continually moved by “Break My Body”. It’s probably one of my favourite songs expressing “ache” or “angst” with a lyrical and musical twist that is probably Charles’ solely own; plus the chord progression and the vocals from him and Kim in the chorus and coda still send shivers down the spine even after all these years. All in all, a beautiful and gritty black flower with a dark humourous hue – one of many. Thanks, and a cheer for “Indie Cindy”.
“Hey”
Just makes me feel upside down every time I listen to it… And even when I don’t.
Debaser
the energy
Broken Face. Not because it is about molestation/incest but because of the immediate RNR freshness and drive. But mostly because I once told Dave it was my fav when I met him after a show – and I wouldn’t lie to the magician.
Into the White. Just the way it starts with bass and drum, adds vocals then acoustics then lead guitar building up to a rocking conclusion. Best B side by any band.
debaser…………to some this might sound like an uninspired choice but it just kicks the 4 legged fanny off my brains.
Diggin for fire
All right, contest is now closed. Thank you all for entering and sharing your favorite Pixies’ songs.
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Where Is My Mind.
Just a truly magnificent song!
Blue Eyed Hexe – The guitars just blow my mind. (also Monkey Gone To Heaven) HAD to put that in!