How Pixies & Doolittle Launched The 90s

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Pixies started out as a joke. More specifically, a want-ad referencing the post-hardcore Hüsker Dü and light-weight 60s folk three-piece, Peter, Paul and Mary, with the additional condition that applicants have “no chops”. No musical experience required. Bassist Kim Deal took the bait, and unknowingly became essential to one of the most important American bands of the late 1980s.
Crafting uniquely odd, mutilated pop songs about death, sex, environmental collapse and eyeball-trauma, by their second album Pixies built the template for alternative rock’s assault on the mainstream. Whispering and roaring in equal measure, this is the story of how Pixies and Doolittle launched the 90s.
#pixies #whereismymind #musicdocumentary
Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn & Chad Van Wagner.
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Previously on... Pixies
07:06 I am un chien andalusia: Recording Doolittle
14:54 "Monkey Gone to Heaven" & "Here Comes Your Man"
21:12 The Death & Enduring Legacy of Pixies
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Fool The World: The Oral History of A Band Called Pixies: An Oral History of The Pixies by Caryn Ganz, 2005, Virgin Books
Doolittle 33 1/3 by Ben Sisario, 2006, Bloomsbury Continuum
Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston, 2013, The Friday Project
Pixies - On The Road (1989) pro. Myles Mangino
Gouge - Documentary (2001) dir. Matt Quinn
"The Pixies: Speaking In Tongues" Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, Mar 1988
"The Pixies: Bone Idols" Robin Gibson, Sounds, Apr 1988
"Pixies" uncredited, Joy Press, Jul/Aug 1988
"The Pixies' Charles Francis" Martin Aston, The Catalogue, 1989
"The Pixies: Doolittle" Edwin Pouncey, NME, Apr 1989
"The Pixies: Talking With The Animals" Helen Mead, NME, Apr 1989
"The Pixies: Animal Crackers" Keith Cameron, Sounds, May 1989
"Here and There and Everywhere" Marlne Goldman, Alternative Press, Sep 1989
"The Pixies: Ditties Of Pixilated Reasoning" Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 1990
"The Pixies: Tyranny And Mutation" Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, Aug 1990
"The Pixies: No Time-Wasters!" Andy Gill, Q Magazine, Sep 1990
"The Pixies: Road To Gnomewhere" Bruce Dessau, Vox, Jul 1991
"Kurt Cobain: Success Doesn’t Suck" David Fricke, Rolling Stone, Jan 1994
"Kim Deal: The Breeders Leader Gets P..." by Charles Aaron, Spin Magazine, July 1995
"Pixies: Pixies" Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, Jul 2002
"The Pixies Reunite for Tour" Andrew Dansby, Rolling Stone, Feb 2004
"Life to the Pixies" Marc Spitz, Spin Magazine, Sep 2004
"The Rebirth of the Pixies" Keith Cameron, Mojo, Jan 2005
"Classic Tracks: The Pixies 'Monkey Gone To Heaven'" Richard Buskin, Sound on Sound, Dec 2005
"Pixies Catalogue Review" Mike Powell, Pitchfork, Apr 2014
"The Pixies: Looking back on Doolittle and the making of a classic" Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, May 2014
"'Debaser'" Mark Stingley, Esquire, Dec 2014
"Pixies’ Doolittle at 30: How songs about suicide, psychopaths and mutilated eyeballs sparked a new rock generation" Mark Beaumont, Independent, Apr 2019
"‘Doolittle’ at 30 - enjoy these 30 vital pieces of information about the game-changing Pixies album" Tom Howard, NME, Apr 2019
"10 Stories Behind the Pixies’ Doolittle" Adam Kivel & Zach Schonfeld, Consequence, Apr 2019
"Pixies: how we made Where Is My Mind?" Daniel Dylan Wray, The Guardian, Nov 2020
"Pixies’ Black Francis: ‘I subscribe to the belief that men are f***ing everything up’" Mark Beaumont, Independent, Oct 2021
"Joey Santiago on his top 5 Pixies guitar performances" Danny Scott, Musicradar, Oct 2022
Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
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@ThreadBomb Год назад

I think the title "Here comes your man" was a play on the Velvet Underground song "I'm waiting for my man".

@1183newman Год назад

Would love to see a Trash Theory on Johnny Thunders and his career with the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers, both bands were hugely influencial on the uk punk scene.

@TrggrWarning Год назад

It’s so great as a safe base… so far to go

@nickstadler1906 Год назад

Pixies were often said to be The Velvet Underground of the 80s: They didn't necessarily sell a lot of albums, but everyone who bought their albums started a band.

@SG_909 Год назад

Damn, well stated !_!

@sleamsleamvideos7857 Год назад

Yeah that's just it... They weren't the pistols, but same idea- the spark that ignited the 90s scene and anthems you can never hear too many times, all the way to the end of the B-side, again and again.

@melchior2678 Год назад

The whole "everyone who bought their album started a band" cliché is simply a load of nonsense. I know several people who own both Pixies and VU albums who aren't even musicians. I for one have bought albums from both bands and have never started a band despite being a musician.

@tangledandfar Год назад

I wasn't around for the Velvet Underground so I can't speak to that comparison, but I can say that I find it surprising considering that I was around in the late 80s and Pixies were everywhere. They were all over college/independent radio, MTV, and it seemed like everyone was talking about them. I always got the impression that VU were an obscure underground band in their time... Pixies were certainly not that.

@simplenough Год назад

That applies to Sonic Youth as well

@Apethantos Год назад

Your favorite band's favorite band, highly regarded and severely underrated at the same time, never mainstream but always a staple. Very unique sound, almost impossible to be replicated "correctly". Someone said Pixies songs are easy to play but hard to come up with, and I find that extremely accurate.

@melchior2678 Год назад

"Here comes your man" was pretty mainstream. I don't agree that they're underrated. Nirvana (not exactly an unknown band) has raved about them in multiple interviews

@jotade2098 Год назад

Morphine and Tom Waits say hi

@melchior2678 Год назад

@@jotade2098 now there's a couple of names that truly ARE underrated. Especially Morphine. 👍👍 Anyone who enjoys those two artists you mentioned I recommend checking out Soul Coughing and Nick Cave as well if you haven't already.

@stirgy4312 Год назад

I feel the same way about Built to Spill. Always incredible live, songs nearly impossible to formulate, but - also hard to play. , And still, even since the early 90s, only have an undercurrent of core fans...

@fungus_am0nguz644 Год назад

I remember seeing them Pixies right after a Fugazi show. Both were epic show. Pixies are legends.

@christiandolz6272 Год назад

This is hands down the best music channel on RU-vid. The amount of time invested in research and fact checking, interview digging, man I love you so much.

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@yvettedouglass4642 Год назад

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@gezi0752 Год назад

Where is my mind is the most timeless song I’ve ever heard, it could be released today and fit right in

@PizzaBreakfast Год назад

I love (or la la love) the Pixies so very much! But I always wonder about the alternate reality where Kim Deal was allowed to have more of a presence in the band. As much as I adore their first 4 albums I can't help but think how the inclusion of more Kim Deal songs (even if only 3 or 4 per album) would have really made them even that much more special. I also thought the interplay of Kim and Black Francis vocals where so nice and would have liked hearing a song where they traded verses or had a bit more back and forth happening. Anytime there's multiple singer/songwriters in a band that type of collaboration is always the most exciting thing to me.

@SaintJermania Год назад

I just made a similar comment, a lot of Breeders songs would have worked well for the Pixies.

@psychedalek Год назад

A very interesting idea... but, we got The Breeders!

@ThreadBomb Год назад

No. Kim's songs don't sound like Pixies songs to me.

@PizzaBreakfast Год назад

@@ThreadBomb Well they wouldn’t have necessarily been the Kim songs we know from her work in the breeders but songs the whole band collaborated on to make them sound in line with the rest of the album. Gigantic is an early example but I’m sure her writing within the band would have shaped it in a way that wouldn’t have been the case with a band where she was the only singer/songwriter.

@coryphillips7945 Год назад

I always thought their best stuff was when there was that interplay between Frank and Kim. I loved the balance of haunting and ferocious. I used to play tracks from Surfer Rosa to bandmates to prove that you didn't need effects to be trippy.

@shocken90 Год назад

I was honestly just listening to the pixies and thinking of how essential they were and literally a day later you come out with this video. This channel is beginning to read my mind

@MrUndersolo Год назад

The first song I heard from them was "Debaser", and it took me ages to find the title. It was late '89 and I was totally hooked (no one else knew them at all). Glad they are finally getting the love they deserve. Last note: one British critic in Melody Maker saw them '91 and said, "The Pixies played the greatest show I have ever seen".

@leeannasloan2292 Год назад

First pixies I ever heard was also debaser. It was played on a college radio station in the town I grew up in..it was called KTECH They played every other song In a row from the Doolittle album and I was blown the hell away and still am when I listen to that album. I feel 14 again when everything was like a different world.

@LaurenLawDawg Год назад

@@leeannasloan2292 SAME ❤️

@LaurenLawDawg Год назад

That 91 tour was AMAZIN' ...THEY OPENED UP W UK SURF MIX WaveofMutilation from the PUMP UP the VoLUMe soundtrack! I cried... #RockyPointPalladium Quahog, RI ⚓

@MrUndersolo Год назад

@@leeannasloan2292 It was a different world...and I am praying for a time machine and a multiverse!

@derekhuntingtonmarti Год назад

I had a "Death to the Pixies" t-shirt I used to wear all the time in high school and other kids would always ask me "who are the Pixies and why do you want them to die?" I was 14 years old in 1989, a metalhead who had also grown up with a liking for 80s postpunk and indie bands like Psychedelic Furs, the Cure and the Smiths, purchased a cassette of Doolittle based on a description in the pamphlet I regularly received through the Columbia Record & Tape Club, put it in and heard Debaser and never was the same since. I played the shit out of that tape for years, later blasting it in my car with the windows down through the streets of Houston and Austin. That, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and the Gang of Four compilation A Brief History of the Twentieth Century that I later discovered were probably my most played albums through high school and early college. Bossanova and Surfer Rosa were also great albums, and I liked Trompe Le Monde too. The first Breeder's album Pod was also a favorite of mine, and of course they became huge with the 2nd one. I saw the Pixies live after Trompe Le Monde, at a club in Houston called the Vatican where I saw a lot of great shows, junior year of high school I believe. Kim Deal appeared to be tripping balls and had tears running down her face the entire show. Pere Ubu opened, a classic old postpunk band I had not heard of before that. That was where I bought the t-shirt that so puzzled my peers. Black Francis was such a good rhythm guitarist and song-writer in those days, his rhythm part for Hey is probably my favorite, and the lyrics too - best love song ever (maybe Anthrax by Gang of Four is a distant 2nd). Joey Santiago is without a doubt one of the greatest lead guitarists in history and the most unsung guitar hero. He influenced me so much - his use of feedback, his off-the-cuff, edgy vibe and his perfect melodic lines that don't ever come across as too schooled or practiced so that there is still life in them. That drummer really propelled them and of course Kim's basslines held it all together, and then she later revealed her own ability to lead a great band.

@dazross8729 Месяц назад

Epic story👍🏻😁

@jessemcdonald5124 Год назад

I still remember listening to Doolittle for the first time. That is not only one of the best albums of the 80s but of all time

@robt4390 Год назад

The chorus from Gouge Away is what I imagine I would sing aloud when I “reminisce” about being bullied by the popular girls in high school. Oh the trauma! Coping strategies are so important. 🤟🏻

@puncturedbicycle7264 Год назад

Pixies deserve more mainstream love and attention. Their first four albums are legendary, alternative rock music was forever altered thanks to them. Pixies forever ✊✊✊

@GrievousAngelo Год назад

People don't even know

@puncturedbicycle7264 Год назад

@ghost mall true, WWIM was my entry point from there I just grew to obsess and love the band. I wish that they get more love and respect from the mainstream the same way band like Nirvana & R.E.M. do

@coryphillips7945 Год назад

@ghost mall when I heard that I remember looking around the room to see if anybody else realized what was playing.

@mr.pavone9719 Год назад

@@puncturedbicycle7264 it drove me nuts in the Nevermind days when everyone was suddenly "into punk." I was that guy asking "have you even HEARD of the Pixies?!"

@gregbors8364 Год назад

@@mr.pavone9719 Kurt Cobain was concerned that Nirvana would be considered “a Pixies ripoff.”

@tzt1182 Год назад

Taking my 15 year old daughter to see them in May. She discovered them on her own to my great surprise. I have been talking them up big time to her since and we are insanely excited for the show. They have truly transcended the generations. She can't believe I have been listening to them since 1988. LOL.

@futuristic.handgun Год назад

Is Kim playing with them again? I got to see the original lineup do a tour for 'Doolittle' back in 2011. They were fucking amazing! I hope y'all have a wonderful time!! 💓😊

@Falxifer95 Год назад

@@futuristic.handgun sadly no, but Paz Lechantin is great in her own right.

@Thrashman-ye4cf 10 месяцев назад

Awesome man! I just had my first daughter a couple months ago and I already can’t wait to introduce them to her lol

@shiftybat7318 Год назад

Also! The Japanese band Pillows known mostly in the US for the soundtrack to Fooly Cooly has a song called Kim Deal, and in the fade out to their track Backseat Dog you can hear Sawao repeating, "Here comes your man." It's so sweet, I love it.

@TectonicImprov Год назад

I remember hearing a story once about how the pillows declined a chance to open for Oasis on the basis that "it'd be an interesting story to tell"

@GAMES.IDEAS.FUN123 Год назад

I saw them open for REM in high school in the 80’s and new I would follow them for as long I could. Just saw them in London in 2022! Thank God they are still creating great music.

@robswystun2766 Год назад

I'll always have great respect for The Pixies. While a lot of bands simply skip over Saskatchewan altogether, on their reunion tour, they played both Saskatoon and Regina.

@daviddalrymple2284 Год назад

When they came to Halifax for the first time during their reunion tour, they played a fairly small venue and the show was really hard to get tickets for. So when they came again a few years later (during the "All of Doolittle" tour) they played at the 10,000 seat arena to make sure everyone could come.

@AC-hj9tv Год назад

Is Canada real

@mordaciousfilms Год назад

They do really sound ahead of their own time by a bit - as did Blake Babies (early Juliana Hatfield) and Violent Femmes - stuff from the 80s that sounds like it could've come out in the mid-90s alternative scene... I think luckily PIXIES are getting a decent amount of attention, they seem to be fairly well-known at least by people I've talked to about "favorite bands".

@alienvomitsex Год назад

Growing up with the Internet was a blessing in that it exposed later generations (like mine) to more underground music

@michaelmalone7231 Год назад

When I discovered college radio in 1985, it opened up a world of music for me. There were tons of bands that people today would say, "Oh, they were so ahead of their time" and some that had already flirted with the mainstream. Like R.E.M., U2, The Cure or whatever band made it to a John Hughes film soundtrack. And you would hear deep cuts, as well. but the ongoing narrative still is that the 80s was nothing but "hair metal" Huey Lewis and Michael Jackson. And Nirvana was the salvation from it. No, a hype machine was created by the people running Sub-Pop Records in Seattle. They figured out that their brand of Seattle mainstream hard rock with a hint of that "indie" sound would go over well with the teenagers of early 90s America. Just replace the verses about UFOs and bible stories with teenage angst. And who knows what would have happened if Black Flag, The Replacements, Husker Du, and Smiths hadn't broken up. Would they have been the leaders of a rock revolution. Like the one bestowed on anybody connected with Seattle. Or "grunge", they called it. What killed them is what killed Pixies. Infighting, alcohol or drug abuse, or whatever. The fact that Pixies broke up when they were being ripped off in real time sucked even more.

@Chief_Brody Год назад

Whenever I hear 'Debaser' I'm transported back 30+ years to a 17 year old me dancing around in indie clubs. Great, great times.

@ytubeanon Год назад

10:30 slight mixing of facts, yes Black Francis was inspired by the Cars, but what he said he borrowed from them was their 'chugging guitar' sound (not quiet loud quiet dynamic) Doolittle is still my favorite album... I think t's pretty crazy how much they were able to improve the album songs from their demo versions

@AbbeyRoadkill1 Год назад

I think the Pixies get a bit too much credit for inventing loud/quiet dynamics. Plenty of other bands did it before them. Led Zeppelin comes to mind.

@ThreadBomb Год назад

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 I think the difference is the Pixies made the loud part much more extreme.

@danielhathaway43 Год назад

This is correct.. Fast/Slow was influenced by the Gun Club's, For The Love of Ivy

@alcyonemusic Год назад

Never knew about the purple rain reference, fantastic bit of trivia! Also I was at that Glastonbury 89 show, I had no idea they played the songs alphabetically FFS!!! :) Amazing to learn new things about your fav bands with every video. This channel is an essential.

@Kyle-mw3bo Год назад

New Trash Theory! And about the Pixies? My day is made

@Kyle-mw3bo Год назад

@ghost mall I feel like the Pixies were just mentioned so often that it feels like there was already a video about them.

@frocat5163 Год назад

"Bone Machine" remains one of my absolute favorite Pixies tunes, partly because of the weird rhythm.

@greatheightsu Год назад

This band was my everything in high school. Love them so much.

@conceptualmessiah01 Год назад

It's just my favorite band of all time. In my humble opinion some bands came close but no one surpassed the pure delivery, intensity, and interesting lyrics of the Pixies. Unfortunately the egos destroyed it and even though they are still around, they are not the same but what they made were masterpieces. All band members were just perfectly assimilated in a symphony of mindless perfection.

@r.l.5812 Год назад

I think I got into this band through Radiohead. They were super popular with the British kids I was friends with at the time. There's definitely something very raw about them that you just vibe with (or don't). I love them, and had the pleasure of seeing them live after they reformed and it was wonderful. My brother was astonished I knew all the words. Good times.

@TheKatraponga Год назад

I loved Pixies from the start! You cannot imagine though how I struggled to understand the lyrics back then, without internet to get a deeper understanding of it 😅 Nonetheless it was worth the laughs that, many years later, it brought when we finally realized what the songs were about. A really creative band with legendary albums that kicked-off a new sound and opened doors to upcoming bands in so many different genres that followed their example and made their own way. One of my favorite bands ever, hands down!

@coryphillips7945 Год назад

I never realized they were saying "Chein andalusia" until now and of course it only adds a layer of appreciation for me.

@brentb5303 Год назад

@@coryphillips7945 I knew the song was about the short film and still didn't know that was the lyric. 😂 I'm too embarrassed to even share what I thought it was.

@MrRyan-wu4jx Год назад

Don’t look at it as a struggle. Lyrics can be whatever you feel they should mean quite often.

@dylanadams1455 Год назад

I saw them about four months ago in Auckland. Obviously not the same without Kim, but her replacement did a fantastic job filling those very big shoes. Best gig I've been to in a very long time. Just magical.

@illinoisroy6325 Год назад

One of the best concert I've ever attended was the Pixies on their Trompe le Monde tour in Chicago. The energy of the music and the audience was insane.

@sabertoothrobot Год назад

I was there too - The Riviera! Absolutely amazing high-energy show and we bopped up and down like maniacs to every song.

@christopherpeterson7212 Год назад

I was at that show too. It was crazy!!! I took a girl there I really liked and she ended up breaking a couple ribs during the show. It didn’t work out between us, but it was an incredible show.

@hagen4264 Год назад

@@christopherpeterson7212 thats a very cool memory you have there

@jasonpeters9716 Год назад

I seen Pixies 2005 Chicago. 2010, Kansas City

@jasonpeters9716 Год назад

I seen Kraftwerk 2014 at The Riv. I ripped off a piece of wood wall. Took back home. Still have lil chunk wood with ticket

@death265 Год назад

The Pixies will always be my favorite band! So glad I got to see them live once for their Death To The Pixies Tour.

@zzanz4520 Год назад

It's almost impossible to distill Pixies into a half hour video, but you did a damn good job with this one. Thank you!

@lema1337 Год назад

aww was looking forward to seeing at least Paz getting a mention, i love her

@fuzzydunlop7928 5 месяцев назад

At the end, Paz was unceremoniously jettisoned from the band. What a thankless exit for the only bassist that could hold her own in that space. She was supposedly just as surprised to hear she left the band as everyone else.

@Joker-ig8im Год назад

I was a huge Punk Fan in the mid 80's in my mid teens when I started playing drums which I still play to this day 40 years later. The Pixies were the soundtrack to my college years in the late 80's and the beginning of the 90's. I know every inch of every song. They are in my top 5 bands of all time and in my humble opinion one of the most groups from the late 80's on influencing every rock, pop, alternative and punk band that came after them.

@durivian Год назад

The best video I could have asked for right now! I've been listening to Pixies all day :)

@hornyconvict Год назад

Surfer rosa and Doolittle two of the greatest albums of the 80s

@bronzeager1298 Год назад

It's weird to even think of them as 80s albums. They seem to come from some alternate timeline

@5ch3nk Год назад

My one friend and I always like saying that about Nine Inch Nails too. "Pretty Hate Machine is the best 80s album." Always gets the reaction "That wasn't from The 90s??"

@honestreviewer3283 Год назад

Totally did! I recall driving home (maybe a bit dunk) in the middle of a Saskatchewan winter from a party when I was in Grade 12, in 1989 (graduated in 90), in my orange 1970 VW "Super Beetle," and the host on CBC's Brave New Waves (Patti Smith, I want to say) said, in her sexy voice, "Now, from the Boston band that everybody loves" and it was the Pixies (Here Comes Your Man). Changed my life.

@supercanardo 8 месяцев назад

Great video as always. Though I was a bit surprised to see no mention of the Pixies still touring (and making albums) with Paz at the bass. Unless you don't consider them as Pixies anymore - which I could agree with...

@ClaireMonica-Art Год назад

I love The Pixies so much that they still move me in many ways decades after I first heard them! Thank you for this awesome video and honouring their incredible influence in the past, present and no doubt into the future!

@gfx4u1716 Год назад

I loved all their songs and never once thought they had such creative suppression, the way the collaboration were amazingly interwoven, complimentary into beautiful music of its time. And even today those albums are timeless. True Classics

@mattwales2734 Год назад

I caught them on their Doolittle tour. The first time I ever heard 'Where Is My Mind?' was live. Kim Deal started wailing and it still gives me the chills writing about it now. They were awesome and this video was awesome.

@barilochebarracuda846 Год назад

I loved the Pixies! that was my highschool years soundtrack! thanks!

@itmanager1449 7 месяцев назад

Beautiful piece about the Pixies!! Thank you! ' every little thing they did was magic...' Every song was good... So rare in a band for all the songs on every album to be Soooo good!

@pdzombie1906 Год назад

Finally, a new awesome vidoe I actually wanted to watch, but I bit too late. The only concert I went last year was The Pixies for the first time in a solo show in my country. I really can say now I appreciate the band and sound with arguments.. Thanx!!!

@roleplaydwarf8888 Год назад

Just going through a whole bunch of Pixies songs when this uploaded. Great video. Thank you

@LotusOverWater Год назад

I love this channel with all my heart

@robderiche Год назад

Saw ‘em at Malibu on Long Island in ‘89. Free tix thru a WLIR radio promotion, maybe a dozen people showed up, I remember clinging to the speaker cabinet as their music powered through me. They delivered. Saw ‘em again 15 years later at Bumbershoot in Seattle, the tension was palpable but they played well, like a really competent Pixies cover band. You can’t go home again.

@curtisbush5728 3 месяца назад

I was 10 years old when cannonball hit the radio, it was the greatest thing I heard since smells like teen Spirit. I became utterly obsessed with Kim deal and the two albums she released with the breeders and the album she released with her other band The amps. I had known who the pixies were and was very familiar with their music videos from watching 120 minutes and for years when people talked about how great the pixies were I would always tell them how they don't even compare to the breeders or amps! Now 20 years later I still feel that way, except I finally found the magic of Black Francis, and can understand why everyone loves him so much!

@danozism Год назад

Cool video, and I really like the fact that it ends where it does. I saw Pixies at a secret, 'warm-up' show in Melbourne in 2004 at a small club in front of 800 people - I'd been too young to see them the first time around- and they were so great. I don't mind their later records with Paz, who really rocks, but there was something really special about the four original members- a bond that can never be recreated.

@stephensams9784 Год назад

I first saw The Pixies when they were touring Bossanova, it's still one of the best gigs I've ever been to..been a fan since I first heard them on the John Peel show around the time when Surfer Rosa came out, he played Bone Machine and I'm Amazed, I was instantly hooked.

@ShalomMF Год назад

Barely a week has passed in the last 25 years when I haven't listened to a Pixies song. One of my five greatest bands of all time.

@cloudbloom Год назад

It's an unfortunate fact that the days of obsessing over albums is gone, now it's been reduced to single tracks you can stream. I'm grateful for being there during the 90s when a full album really meant something and was an experience, and the Pixies were definitely a big part of that. Yes I'm the old man reminiscing but idgaf, those were some good times to be alive🤌🤌🤌

@magnustherad3597 Год назад

I'm about to see them perform in Groningen in half an hour...

@Finn_Lawless Год назад

Of every video I've seen (or article I've read) on Pixies for about the last 30 years, this actually told me a few details that I didn't know.

@jeremyr4304 Год назад

Was lucky enough to see them play Doolittle straight through, my fav by far, about a decade ago.

@my-king Год назад

The Pixies are one of my favourite bands, but for me it's very hit or miss. I either absolutely love a song or really dislike it. So much in this I didn't know. Thanks for making this. Love it! ❤️❤️❤️

@AbbeyRoadkill1 Год назад

I feel the same way about the Pixies. Their best stuff is absolutely epic, but every one of their LPs has some amount of filler on it (even Doolittle.) And while I appreciate the brevity of writing short, "to the point" songs, it sometimes leaves me wishing they'd fleshed out their ideas a little more.

@screwtapee Год назад

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 surfer rosa has 0 filler

@AbbeyRoadkill1 Год назад

@Screwtape I just don't care much for the 2nd half of that album (once you get past "Where Is My Mind?")

@my-king Год назад

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 I can't disagree with you on that album. It's just odd how hit and miss they are for me. No middle ground for me. I probably still listen to a song or album at least every days. It's probably why they're so big though, their reach is very big for many different types of people.

@mj.l Год назад

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 what are you talking about? there is no 'filler' on doolittle lol

@gandolphgandolphini Год назад

Being a rocker from Ohio, Kim Deal has always seemed like royalty. Kelly Deal is also pretty badass too. The Deal brand of cool is so zero effort, but slick at the same time. The bit about no one owning a fax machine is priceless. Long live the Queen!!

@melchior2678 Год назад

It's a damn shame our tax money is being wasted on Ukraine and I$rael when it should be going to fix the ecological disaster that happened in Ohio.

@ThreadBomb Год назад

@@melchior2678 Thanks for bring up politics for no reason. I'm sure that's cheered everyone up.

@sofascialistadankulamegado1781 Год назад

Not only is this channel a great hidden gem of RU-vid, but it's also featuring one of the greatest bands to ever exist in music history. Can't get any better than this.

@Vonzil1 Год назад

Thank you for this documentary! You are amazing!

@Mykekelli Год назад

This is so fire. Amazing depth and detail for one of the most elusive bands of all time.

@HB-zi3og Год назад

Your videos are really good. Thank you. How about doing one about Wire? No one ever REALLY talks about them.

@billramsay7351 Год назад

Using the clip of the Wedding Present for the indie chart combines my 2 favourite bands in one video

@WuweiTranslations Год назад

Another fantastic music documentary that made my day! So much intriguing information I did not know yet I considered myself a Pixies fan... OMG. Excellent work! Cheers from Berlin.

@thiscompilation 11 месяцев назад

This video is as accurate as an academic article. It was prepared so carefully and with time that it is impossible not to admire it. We thank you.

@MsAngrybutterfly Год назад

My friend in high school was learning guitar and really wanted to do a Pixies song in the talent show, but lamented that he didn't know anyone who could sing like Black Francis. A bunch of people had told me that my speaking voice sounded like Kim Deal, so we put together a band and did "Gigantic". I can't sing, and I'm so tone deaf I had to have the other band members tell me when I was on key and could only tell by remembering what the feeling of the vibration in my throat was when I was on key, but it worked because it was The Pixies.

@ThreadBomb Год назад

I still remember that summer when I heard Debaser on the radio (on JJJ). That mix of pop and extreme rock was unique. Amazing how a spoonful of musical sugar (poppy hooks and structures) helps the screaming, distortion and wild psychological dysfunction go down. They kicked open the door so that Nirvana could go through it to the mainstream.

@danielbestpower Год назад

I remember seeing the Pixies at Reading Festival. Had no idea about the whole backstory and everything, though. Cheers, this was awesome!

@mattosborne1366 Год назад

Great doc! Thanks. Tbh I didn't expect much with the channel name but nicely done. subbed.

@bocswu Год назад

3:59 The lyrics are and have always been, "Bumped into me, I swear he was trying to talk to me, he said, "wait, wait". Listen to any live video from 1988 through 2023, Charles says, "wait, wait" or "wait, wait, wait". There was never a lyrics sheet for Surfer Rosa, so people made lyrics up. And when lyric sites started to pop up in the early 2000's people put what they thought they heard on these websits. Somehow more versions of coy or koi were used. The thing about the early 2000's is, we didn't have hundreds of live versions of the song to figure out the lyrics to a song. Sure, bands mix up and forget lyrics, but listen to it live, he always says, "wait".

@bocswu Год назад

1988 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I_aBmrYChfQ.html 2022 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3sD5DJzN1VU.html

@false_binary Год назад

I received Tromp le Monde from a cd club as a freshman in college and was like...what a sec...I have heard songs like this before?! Immediately starting buying back catalogue; legends and did set the tone for the 90s and arguably a pillar of today's indie rock.

@jaysharpESQ Год назад

Amazing video. Have seen the pixies live six times and been, what i think others had considered "a huge fan" since High School, yet I didn't know half the quotes, facts, trivia and happenings revealed in this video. Sharing for sure. Thank you so much, got my favorite band ever to feel just a little fonder now. Just a little bit closer now, 🎵 thanks to you and Hanks Saloon

@skatealex1 Год назад

Nice video. In addition to Pixies and Breeders, I think Frank Black has some cool albums too that seem to be underrated for whatever reasons.

@bluegregory6239 Год назад

Frank Black's best solo work ranks with some of Pixies' best work, especially his eponymous debut album, but also 'Bluefinger', and a lot of the songs he recorded with the Catholics, notably 'St. Francis Dam Disaster'.

@martinreed1401 Год назад

Because they were not very good - just dull strum along C&W

@LaurenLawDawg Год назад

I have a lil compact mirror which says HANG ON TO YOUR EGO from that 1st tour....

@LaurenLawDawg Год назад

Los Angeles is a banger!

@marleyfrost1 Год назад

Just on sings about Kim Deal, there is The Pillows song "Kim Deal" from 1999's "Happy Bivouac" which you can catch the back vocals exclaiming "Please sing for me".

@peterpetrov6522 Год назад

"Pixiesque darkness!" Ahahaahhaaa! This entire video had such a cereal vibe. It felt like a documentary on the first contact with the Neptune people. What I love most about the Pixies is that they got no filter and they just kinda recorded their parties--so there ya go! That's the album. The other bands do it backwards. They bend over backwards to the producers and they take themselves way too seriously as artists/musicians. End up sounding like a well rehearsed pick up line.

@peterhaslund Год назад

I distinctly remember putting the Rosa on my turntable up in my student loft and thinking where's that odd noise coming from? My windows were wide open on a warm summer afternoon and I remember looking down on the street below before I realized it was the band crosstalking and screaming

@michaelschweitzer6718 Год назад

I would also add Janes Addiction’s ‘Nothing Shocking’ from 1988 as having helped launched the alternative scene of the 90s.

@geoffreytebbetts4489 7 месяцев назад

If it hasn't been mentioned before, check the band The Pillows in Japan. They have massive influences from The Pixies. In their "Happy Bivouac" album, Track 7's "Back Seat Dog" ends with the chorus from "Here Comes Your Man", and Track 8 is called "Kim Deal". It's such a love story.

@secularZoo Год назад

I know I'm in the minority here, but Trompe Le Monde is my favorite Pixies album. A friend of mine was introducing me to them c.1998 and I was blown away the instant I hit PLAY

@chairforceoneYT Год назад

I saw Pixies in Toronto in 2017 where they played most of their songs but left out Gigantic, imagine my surprise and delight when the Breeders came in the following year and the bassline to Gigantic began and Kim started to sing that intro!

@opwave79 Год назад

Doolittle, along with The Sugarcubes’ Life’s Too Good and Scar by Lush kickstarted my university life in 1989.

@kevhead1525 Год назад

Most pixies songs weren't specifically about anything. It was cool music with Frank throwing in lines about this and that, sometimes totally unrelated.

@tombassman Год назад

The first few times I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit” I assumed it was Pixies until the vocals kicked in. And that was the song that really changed the musical landscape. (For some reason ).

@postpunk6947 Год назад

Pixies will always remind me of my late friend, we both used heroin, we both listened to Surfer Rosa and Doolitle stoned, but I managed to quit. Tomek overdosed on June 2, 2018. Rest in peace, maybe now you know where your mind is.

@blaczero Год назад

great job ending on a high note. thanks for putting this together

@martinbernier6083 Год назад

Always awesome when you cover an artist that is in my Mount Rushmore of music. Thanks!!!

@lisabeyer4712 Год назад

I bought a turntable recently and just ordered Doolittle while watching this vid. Brilliant. Can’t wait to play it.

@frocat5163 Год назад

I'm just a bit too young to have been able to see the Pixies live when they were first active (being born in 1980). Fortunately, I was able to see them in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in October 2017. One of my favorite concerts of all time.

@danielzorrilla7433 Год назад

Hey! New fan over here. Love your videos. Hope you can, some day, make a video about King Krule, it would be awesome. Keep the great work, you are amazing!

@theclassicmanila-style8435 Год назад

Great episode as always 🔥 please cover bands like fishbone, faith no more, quicksand and helmet, influential bands from the late 80s to the 90s.

@ricksgrandauditorium8790 2 месяца назад

Just found your first channel. Well done. Sub earned.

@nimhard Год назад

This is a band I love but I dont know enough of. I really need to listen to the records properly. I know several songs but I'm not a connoisseur. Great video.

@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer Год назад

This is definitely my favorite music related channel on RU-vid. Bravo to you, Trash Theory. Best wishes from Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts. 🍻💯

@j.gregmorrison1953 Год назад

This is really awesome! I love you your videos! Please note that Ivo Watts-Russell’s first name is pronounced EYE-voh.

@Ctworld15 Год назад

This is a great documentary but the thing that puts it above all other documentaries about music on RU-vid is they were able to use actual songs

@VaughnBrown1965 Год назад

These guys were the soundtrack of the late 80s for me when I lived in downtown Portland. Kurt a I win actually lived in my building although he wasn’t famous yet. I didn’t even know he was in a band

@coryshannon3815 Год назад

It's kind of cool that the "A Good Idea" by Sugar sounds like a Pixies song, in that it's like Bob Mould was influenced by a band he himself influenced. Another feather in the Pixies cap.

@Freekingparrot Год назад

Awesome work for an awesome band. They are clearly living legends made of a rare chemistry, thrived by suffering...

@davidellis5141 Год назад

The Pixies Said Goodbye 👋 to the 80's & Hello 🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️ to the 90's 🎸

@11KFORD Год назад

I don’t see ache Cars in Pixies, but this video truly dares to dive in one of my favourites achieving a serious analysis of this album. Thanks for this.

@KittiyKyat Год назад

On an unrelated note, I'd love to hear you speak on the SohoDolls for New British Canon. A great middle school staple that I've been revisiting lately.

@puncturedbicycle7264 Год назад

A Pixies Video?!!!! Trash Theory you just made my month thx so much!!!!!!

@CineSoar Год назад

Graduating HS in 1985... The Pixies were to my early 90's, as the Violent Femmes were to my late 80's (mostly, screaming their songs in my car, after a breakup).