PIXIES - Gouge Away (Exceptional performance) 

this bass line could go on forever and i wouldnt be mad.

I am 63 and will NEVER get sick of this

Crazy to think this song was written about the biblical tale of Samson: he was betrayed by his love (Delilah) and his eyes were gouged out by his enemies. He was chained to the pillars of a temple and ridiculed. Meanwhile, his hair (the source of his strength that Delilah had cut off while he slept) grew back. Over time his renewed strength allowed him to pull the temple down on those that had injured him. This song builds and builds, the baseline steady, till the crescendo of the story comes to the end, in a freakishly powerful way. I first heard this song back in 89' and was gobsmacked, "WHO ARE THE PIXIES?!" This live version might be their best version.

This version just feels so raw and aggressive and very emotionally charged like he's remembering why he wrote the song and the rest of the band is matching his intensity and the audience is feeling the electricity in the air and don't care and want to scream along, and do, and it's perfect. I can't even listen to the regular version anymore.

1989, I'm 18 years old, seeing my first live band. Newport, South Wales, The Pixies.

Any song that starts with a lot of bass you know is gonna be good

It's hard not to get goosebumps while listening to this

THE best version of Gouge Away out there. Makes my soul smile and my eyes almost tear.. Brutal. Beautiful.

And that's how it's done. One of the greatest records from one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

When even the legendary Bowie marveled at your band, you know you're good.

Sometimes less is more. Just love the simple rawness of their music. I thought I would outgrow them, but here I am, 30 years later.

bro when i was 9 my dad offered to take me to this. I said no because i wanted to stay homea and play minecraft. biggest mistake i have ever made.

You big beautiful bald crazy man, thank you for the music

Theres not many bands that have fans ranging from teenagers to old dudes that look like they escaped the nursing home to rock the fuck out.

The very last band of my bucket list to see live. For some reason, at 45 years old, I've continually missed them since being a fan since 1989 when I discovered them in the 6th grade. I'll finally be seeing The Pixies in Los Angeles this October, 2022!

Those two guitar notes and then the bend...proof of how minimal but perfect music ideas can be so powerful

The song is great already, I mean it IS Pixies. But kudos to whoever mixed this live recording. This is fantastic.

This band gets better as the members age... I'm speechless. Definitely one of their best performances ever.

where would music be without the PIXIES

I miss the 90's. Best music ever!

Go on Frank, you awesome screamy bastard

Bass guitar is bad ass. :D

Hell yeah! This my new favorite song! ❤😢

Don't care what "purists" say, Paz is immense and I've been listening to this band longer than most! Not a boast, just a fact as I'm now rather a fuddy duddy!

Makes me so happy to see young people vibrating with the Pixies... There is hope!

I was there. They were exceptional all night long. They barely paused between songs. Just a wall of sound for two hours

Oh, My brother, my dear brother, he left this world yesterday & this was his favourite song. Still remember when you were 14, I was 10 and you showed me this song. I was fascinated! You took me down the Rock N 'Roll path and thanks to you I developed my own musical tastes. Today, I discover that you left this world of your own free will, taking an overdose of pills until you were sound asleep. Dear brother, when I found out about that, coming to listen to this song was the only thing that occurred to me at the time, and here I am! listening Dark Necessities at 3 in the morning, while singing loudly and enjoying the music as if you are still with me to listen to it together. Brother, when you first showed me this song, you told me that we all had Dark Necessities hidden within us, but we weren't brave enough to show them to everyone. Now I understand it and I am sorry I understood it too late. I love you, brother, and I will always love you. Thank you for showing me these musical wonders. I will miss you today, tomorrow and always. Dark necessities will always be part of our designs, dear brother.

This is an amazing clip. Paz belting it out the end was haunting, and the best last verse of Gouge away I’ve ever seen. The whole damn band got ahold of that one. Wow. My wife got me tickets a few years back, wanted to see them ever since I was a kid. I am pretty quiet socially, and even I screamed this song with the crowd.

From that point at 3:30 when the guitar riff starts to taste metallic, you suddenly grow aware that there's no turning back to that lingering, and the orgasmic explosion is about to burst out.

The simplest bass line in the world, yet the most effective one! Love this song!

"Rubbing a bad charm with holy fingers". Fuck, what a lyric. Don't know why, slaps hard. Legendary song.

They could run that bass for 47 minutes & I'd be happy.

If you ask the influence of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Radiohead, Blur, The Strokes, The Killers, My Chemical Romance, and many many others, this band is the answer.

Not sure what’s wrong with me today, but for some reason the crowd singing along at 2:26 brought me to tears. I will forever love this band.

My favorite version of this song. I watch it pretty regularly. my favorite detail is the cable for Frank's in-ear monitor is taped to the back of his neck.

Sometimes music takes on a spiritual brilliance, this is one of those times.

Their concert could just be 1 hour of that bassline + drums and I'd be happy.

My favorite band of all time since I first heard in college in the 80's. I drove 14 hours to see them. And saw Frank a million times solo. Never a single regret.

Can't help myself but listen to PIXIES everytime I get drunk.

Haunting back up vocals make this song work, incredible

Dont think just English native speakers love this! Regards from Mexico. we also can recognize a master piece liket this one.

That dude at 4:04 had no idea that one day he'd be the thumbnail for this song.

This song gives me the chills! Love the pixies.

Absolutely badass. Will be badass through all time. Timeless. Fat, juicy, Bass. I will never get tired of the Pixies.

You have entered a superior level of music when you start messing with the pixies.

Gouge away, you can gouge away Stay all day if you want to Missy aggravation Some sacred questions, you stroke my locks Some marijuana if you got some Gouge away, you can gouge away Stay all day if you want to Sleeping on your belly You break my arms, you spoon my eyes Been rubbing a bad charm with holy fingers Gouge away, you can gouge away Stay all day if you want to Chained to the pillars A 3 day party, I break the walls And kill us all with holy fingers Gouge away, you can gouge away Stay all day if you want to.

Best version of this song I've ever heard!!!

Imagine what life would be like without The Pixies ☹️

"Been rubbing a bad charm with holy fingers" is one of the best lyrics ever written.

4:04 Older punk rocker feeling the same energy he felt with The Pixies in the 80's. That's beautiful to me

Damn. Listened to it a hundred times or more. So good.

I loved this band when I was young, 30+ years ago. Can't believe how much time has passed. I used to bounce off the walls to their records. Incredible stuff.

I was there with all the other ageing surfers reliving their dirty youth. It was awesome.

Lucky to see them in New Zealand in March , just before the Pandemic hit. Epic gig.

IMO one of the best songs ever written, flawless. Stay all day if you want to.

Orgasmically Brilliant. If you don't feel that, you've nothing in you.

The best vocal version ever ever

We should probably go ahead and blast this bass line out across time and space as humanities swan song.

I can’t remember how many times I’ve watched this video. It’s perfection.

That bassline hypnotized my brain. I fckin love it.

One of the few live songs that i’ll listen to repetitively, just the delivery of the line “chained to the pillars, a three day party, i’ll break the walls, and kill us all” wow, wonder is that’s a delilah and samson reference?

There will never be a better version of this song, because you can’t be better than perfect.

His voice is so frickin powerful

Frank Black hasn't age. He already look like he was 50 years old 30 years ago.

Love me some Paz Lenchantin. Her bass work in A Perfect Circle is legendary.

That bass is insane. Her tempo is soothing and chill.

50 Years old. Listening to music for atleast 40 years. How could I have missed this? But I did. Shame on me. What a bloody great song!

this track hasn't aged a bit ! 🙌👏🖤

Seeing the Pixies in 87 at TT the Bears in Cambridge was a rite of passage in my youth. Seeing them today Post Covid Lockdown would make my death. Tour Please!

The face and body movements of the woman at 3'24" totally encapsulates the unique euphoria of being at a Pixies gig. I went to my first in 1990 and the euphoria, emotion and ecstasy has never waned at the next 4 times I saw them since.

Maybe the most explosive song never written... Powerful but on the reserve... I listened to it again and again, years after years since more than 25 years and it continues to give me thrills! I would like to thank the pixies for all they give me.

반갑습니다 답방 왓어요 손 꼭잡고 함게합니다 신나는 리듬에 기분좋은시간 입니다 굿 👍 음악 잘듣고 큰 박수로 응원 합니다 ❤❤❤

So far, I've watched it about 100 times. I mean it serious.

Will always be one of the best songs penned, rehearsed, and played.............Pixies live..... forever.

Kim Deal said she wished she was a more accomplished player. She already was. She had it all. Style, attitude and her bass lines were so influential and spot on.

one of the greatest songs from one of the greatest albums

Seeing this band live is truly a highlight in my life I’m forever grateful they toured Australia

I feel like Santiago is bending space and time.

One of the greatest performances of all time.

I've been watching this a few times a day for like a month now.

"I love the sound of bass in the morning!"

best alternative rock band ever, period!

Cobain once told one of his bandmates, "We can't put this out, everyone will think we're just ripping off the Pixies." That little ditty was called Smells like teen spirit. No bullshit, true story.

un groupe que tous devrait écouter. un son qui vous décoiffe.

The woman on shoulders near the end helps it build up the crescendo,with her look of absolute awe and anticipation,great editing,helps it too.

I've watched a few videos of this song and it's genuinely awe inspiring to see it being performed so long after its initial release with this much power and energy. Still sounds so fresh. Gives me goosebumps it's so good.

Best performance of the song without doubt

My Pixies. My youth. My everything.

Saw them at the Hammersmith Apollo in London about 8 years ago. One of the best gigs I've ever been to. Dancing like a man possessed & had to wring out the T-shirt I'd been wearing when I got outside into the cold air & buy a new one from a vendor.

Francis Blacks' Voice will stay with me in all eternity... i'll never forget what he did for me then, now and forever

I love seeing all these dads dusting off their bangers and still getting the chills, I'm with my dad now in the kitchen and we're pumping it together at full blast, There aren't many songs that still make him jump around the room like this and i can see he steel feels young while earing this. Love from the new generation of rockers

I get goosebumps everytime I hear this song whether the studio version or live....

La magia de la canción esta en la tensión que se genera entre el verso y el estribillo y va aumentando hasta llegar al ultimo estribillo donde explota todo, en esta versión se aprecia perfectamente eso, una genialidad

I have been a Pixies fan since 1989, and that performance was very very good.

Паз Леншантин очень недооценённая как бассист! Одно её участие в a perfect circle чего стоит😮!

Aie aie aie fin des années 80 ça déchirait tout et c'est toujours avec un grand plaisir de les écouter, encore maintenant...

Feels like there's something left, like this still isn't the top of the mountain.

So far the best performance of this song, better than the album version... This is what I call a 'POWER SONG'.

Quelle Basse ! ces changements (presque imperceptibles) de rythme (surtout dans l'intro) ! Wahou !

This song refers to the biblical story of Samson, who had his eyes gouged out by his enemies and eventually killed them all when he was chained to two pillars in their stronghold. He pulled the pillars down, bringing the building down and killing himself and his enemies.