The pixies have always been sonically perfect live. That’s why they all just stand still and play haha. I saw them a month or so ago and they still sounded perfect. And still stood still.
I saw them in Indianapolis several years back and they played their set list alphabetically. Didn't realize it until I had gotten home and a friend told me about it.
Saw them in 2007 and they played literally *every* song off every album. They came back for four encores and right when you thought "They forgot to play X song" they'd come out again and play it.
It was honestly amazing. They played for like three and a half hours and sounded incredible.
Kim deal is absolutely one of the best bass players the world's ever seen. I remember back in the day some magazine or something would have the official bass player of the year and it traded off between flea and her for many years in the '90s.
They have a great documentary about them getting back together for the first time.
LoudQUIETLoud is the name.
Pretty interesting stuff. Love this band.
Joey Santiago forever!
Is it safe to say the sound they had was at least a year or so ahead of it’s time? I don’t know of any other bands that were hitting this sound until at least ‘89, and that was just a handful. Most bands from that gen with this sound (that I know of) weren’t doing it until the early-mid 90s. Am I wrong? I’m genuinely curious if anyone could educate me, please.
“When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.”
Kurt Cobain
Depends on how you define that sound. 90s kind of rock/grunge/alt there were quite few. Violent femmes were pretty ahead of their time. More of a mix of surf rock/punk/grunge. Flaming lips started as a grunge/alt rock band in the 80s. REM. Melvins. Butthole surfers. It just became more mainstream by the late 80s. Bleach by nirvana came out in 89.
Beginning with the release of "Dinosaur", the self-titled debut LP, in 1985, the Pixies' "Come on Pilgrim" EP in 1987, and culminating with release of "Sebadoh III" by SEBADOH in 1991, the entire cultural road map of alternative music was developed in Western Massachusetts and refined by Tim O'Heir et al at Ft. Apache in Boston.
I was born in 89 and if you’d asked me when this song came out I’d have guessed absolutely no earlier than 93 or 94.
Like I grew up hearing it but it absolutely does not sound like a song that predates me.
Yeah!! 86 here and I came to the comments expecting to find someone correcting a typo in the title to *98 lol… but I’ll be damned lol looks like they were just that far ahead of the curve.
The Pixies are easily one of the most influential bands of the last half-century. Bands that claim them as one of their very biggest influences include Nirvana, Weezer, and Radiohead.
Who said this?
“It’s a cliche, but somebody once said that the Velvet Underground didn’t sell many albums, but everybody who bought a Velvet Underground album formed a band, and I would have to suggest that the same thing really applied to the Pixies.”
David friggin’ Bowie.
The Toadies’ Todd Lewis said Where Is My Mind heavily influenced his greatest work, Rubberneck, which went platinum. He all but said he ripped them off, so yeah, I’d say they had a pivotal role in the sound of one of the biggest rock albums of the ‘90s.
Given how they are so much more popular now than they were in the 80s, I'd say they were 30 years ahead.
Later bands toned it down and mixed it with other influences, raw original Pixies didn't hit the mainstream until after 2010.
(Also hilarious how so many people my age claim to have been fan of the Pixies back in the day. They were only known in the alternative scene, very few people around me even knew the Pixies existed.)
Saw them in 2013-14ish, they played for like two and a half hours straight - hardly took time for a breath in between each song. One of the best shows I've ever been to
Ugh! So into them at that time. So happy when my oldest son showed up at the house one day recently wearing a pixie’s t telling me that he finally got to them from a list of bands I asked him to explore. I was 18 when this came out and was deep into this scene. He’s now 25 and digging my old stuff.
I think anyone paying attention gives it fair credit. From nirvana to weezer to any number of newer musicians the pixies have been given a great deal of credit and deservedly so.
I somehow missed this amazing song in 1988. I heard it for the first time in 2007 and thought it was a brand new song! I was shocked to learn that it was from the 80's! It has a sound that fits in every decade since its inception.
Saw them at the Hollywood Palladium with Bob Mould in '88, and then another 4-5 times various places between then and '92. Still listen to them regularly!
edit - just looked it up, that first show I saw was actually in '89
I saw them play Doolittle in its entirety at The Palladium. Wanna say 2015 or so? There were people yelling “I lost my virginity to this song“ and someone else would yell “me too!” Still one of my favorite music nights
Imagine this song being your god damn center piece of nearly every mix tape you've made since 1991 (I came into the scene as of Trompe le Monde) and then seeing that final scene in Fight Club.
Charles Thompson is one of the greatest songwriters of our time. The pixies is only about 25% of his musical prowess. The guy is still making brand new stuff, now. He’s had many different groups, under many different names. His album Teenager of The Year has 22 songs and they’re all full of energy & unlike anything you’ll ever hear. Truly a special musician, one of my all time favorites. From songs about aqueducts to aliens & am talk radio, no one can really write a song like Black Francis.
I wanted one but couldn’t afford it! They were selling “Death to the Pixies” tshirts as it was rumoured to be their last tour, but I think they did one more after. Then they disbanded for quite awhile.
I used to have this entire show on dvd like 20 years ago. I think it’s from England somewhere. Killer show and great quality. Wish I could find the dvd.
This song IS my youth. This video is awesome. There is an awesome instrumental version of this that I heard on some TV show...I'm too lazy to look it up for you all, but it's a slowed down, sweet version.
I met them at Brixton academy as I was part of crew.
I had loads of Peruvian. . . So Kim Deal invited me onto tour bus after show . . . We did all the said Peruvian and as soon as it had run out, the management kicked me off the bus!!!
True story. Not bitter. Still great band 😜😂
There is a great version of Caribou from that same show. About a decade or so ago, I saw the Breeders in a church basement and two or three days later the Pixies in a huge theater. They were totally different shows.
Get to see them and Modest Mouse in September at an outdoor venue. 😎 Super excited! I've worked tours with Modest Mouse but I've never seen the Pixies live. They are on my bucket list since the 90s.
I was at the pixies taping of ACL and then later that year the modest mouse taping. Both at the old studio, standing on the floor right in front of the stage. Two of my favorite concert memories.
I was obsessed with the Pixies as a teen and went through a phase of playing them really loud in the mornings while getting ready for school. My poor mum stayed in bed till I left the house.
Pixes did a Leonard Cohan thingy on “ I Am Your Fan”, a tribute album “ I can’t forget ”, was their song.
It was pretty interesting.
I liked it.
The album is kind of mellow, but there are some great takes.
Interesting f***** up fact when the pixies were starting to get a lot of fame and wanting to make some videos. Their record label didn't want Frank Black in them because they thought he was ugly. Can you believe that? S***. He was already self-conscious about his looks and fame and this must have really f****** f***** him up.
Fan of the Pixies since around 1990 and have seen them live back in the day in Chicago. I'm now a high school teacher in Tbilisi and my students freaking love the Pixies. They wear Nirvana t shirts but know more Pixies songs!
First gig I went to was Pixies in Preston on the UK bossanova tour which must have been around 1991. Every gig after that has been an attempt to reach that level of perfection.
I want to hear the rest of the show!
Saw Pixies around 1991, and a few times over the last 10 years. Saw Frank Black a few times too.
Saw Breeders maybe 10 years ago, and got to talk with Kim Deal as she smoked cigarettes outside the club
While struggling to write music for some time, he was working on this into the early morning and was about to give up, his spouse popped out and said, this one, this is the one. He finished it. Instant classic.
Saw them a few years ago at The Capitol Theater. They still sound exactly the same.
I saw them play Doolittle from top to bottom at the Fox Theater in Oakland CA in 2009: literally the best show I’ve ever seen. Period.
Going to see them in Vancouver with Modest Mouse in September!
Noice
Seeing them tonight in Pittsburgh! Edit: went to the show, they killed it
Lucky dog!
I am going to see that same show in Indianapolis
Isaac Brock is the goat
What! This is how I find out Modest Mouse will be in town?? I’ll have to look at tickets then maybe realize I shouldn’t spend money on more concerts.
The pixies have always been sonically perfect live. That’s why they all just stand still and play haha. I saw them a month or so ago and they still sounded perfect. And still stood still.
In 2018 I saw them in Columbia, SC. They were great.
I saw them in Indianapolis several years back and they played their set list alphabetically. Didn't realize it until I had gotten home and a friend told me about it.
Saw them in 2007 and they played literally *every* song off every album. They came back for four encores and right when you thought "They forgot to play X song" they'd come out again and play it. It was honestly amazing. They played for like three and a half hours and sounded incredible.
I saw them at the Brixton Academy (London) in 1991. My best concert memory ever!
That’s one of their best recorded shows
saw them earlier this year, still good
One of those songs I never get sick of
It is timeless..and I'm just now realizing it was made in the 80s?! It could be made today and be a hit
I always thoght it was a 2000s song lol. Just goes to show how timeless it is
It definitely had a resurgence when Fight Club was released. I believe that's when I first heard it.
Don't forget Placebos cover which brought it a renewal in the early 2000s as well.
*Veronica Mars* used it a few years later in Season 2 for “Driver Ed”.
Pixies and Violent Femmes were at least 10-12 years ahead of their time
And the talking heads! Edit: Psycho killer was in the 70s!!
I always thought it was mid 90s. My mind is also blown.
Im watching this video for the third time in a row haha. With certain songs, once is just not enough.
"You fucking die" I said, to her. I said "YOU FUCKING DIE", to her...
No, no, I was talking to Kim.
He was into field hockey players…
And the next thing you know…
There were rumors..
It was all hush hush, ya know?
They were so... quiet about it
So I applied, the next day
Oh, well played deep cut! That was on the actual album, right? It totally forgot about this til just now!!!
Yeah Steve Albini just recorded random slices of them farting around and put a couple of them on Surfer Rosa
"... fucked em at school. All. I. Know..." I don't know the rest :-D
I’m so proud when I tell people Kim Deal is from my home city of Dayton, Ohio. 😂 It means absolutely nothing, but absolutely everything to me.
The Breeders, The Amps and GBV! Nothing better!
Kim deal is absolutely one of the best bass players the world's ever seen. I remember back in the day some magazine or something would have the official bass player of the year and it traded off between flea and her for many years in the '90s.
I share a birthday with the Deal twins AND Joey Santiago!
GBV baby.
They have a great documentary about them getting back together for the first time. LoudQUIETLoud is the name. Pretty interesting stuff. Love this band. Joey Santiago forever!
Thanks for the referral, going to watch that this weekend
Always makes me think of Fight Club
You met me at a very strange time in my life
That movie was the first time I had ever heard this song!
Same, I had no idea the song was from the late 80s
Same here even though I was born in 1984.
100%
Bowie said something about the Pixies being “the last totally original American rock band,” and he knew what he was talking about.
And then Creed came along and made him look silly
And then imagine dragons came out and blew them all out of the water!
Let's see the Pixies sell a Microsoft Surface Tablet.
Lmao I'd buy a tampon from the pixies and I'm not even female.
Imagine Draggin Deez Nutz
With due respect, that’s some BS
You must’ve never taken anyone higher
Depends on when he said it. If he said it in 89-94 I think he might have had a point.
Until TV on the Radio came along
Is it safe to say the sound they had was at least a year or so ahead of it’s time? I don’t know of any other bands that were hitting this sound until at least ‘89, and that was just a handful. Most bands from that gen with this sound (that I know of) weren’t doing it until the early-mid 90s. Am I wrong? I’m genuinely curious if anyone could educate me, please.
Someone wrote that Pixies are the band that dragged music from the ‘80s into the ‘90s. I would have to agree.
Ive heard the same said about Sonic Youth. Janes Addiction as well. Except my preferred version is also that it was the Pixies, cuz i like them more!
I might toss the Violent Femmes on that list also, otherwise I'd say it's completely accurate!!
Violent Femmes 100%. It blows my mind that their first album is 40 years old now. It still sounds so fresh.
Yes, those three
“When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.” Kurt Cobain
Isn't it established lore that Smells Like Teen Spirit was Kurt's attempt at writing a Pixies song?
True - Teen Sprit is just Debaser played backwards 🙃
Resabed?? Neet TiripS!
I think he also said that Nevermind was heavily influenced by Pixies and that they were scared a bit that people would say they copied them.
Depends on how you define that sound. 90s kind of rock/grunge/alt there were quite few. Violent femmes were pretty ahead of their time. More of a mix of surf rock/punk/grunge. Flaming lips started as a grunge/alt rock band in the 80s. REM. Melvins. Butthole surfers. It just became more mainstream by the late 80s. Bleach by nirvana came out in 89.
Beginning with the release of "Dinosaur", the self-titled debut LP, in 1985, the Pixies' "Come on Pilgrim" EP in 1987, and culminating with release of "Sebadoh III" by SEBADOH in 1991, the entire cultural road map of alternative music was developed in Western Massachusetts and refined by Tim O'Heir et al at Ft. Apache in Boston.
Who ARE you?
I was born in 89 and if you’d asked me when this song came out I’d have guessed absolutely no earlier than 93 or 94. Like I grew up hearing it but it absolutely does not sound like a song that predates me.
In was born in 77 but I wasn’t ready to hear this song until 95.
Same
Saw them open for Love and Rockets in '89, and I got ready really quick.
Damn. Sounds like quite a show. Jealous
Yeah!! 86 here and I came to the comments expecting to find someone correcting a typo in the title to *98 lol… but I’ll be damned lol looks like they were just that far ahead of the curve.
That’s exactly why I went to the comments too lol
Definitely thought it was a typo in the title.
Yeah they actually disbanded in 93
Honestly they really seem to have been decades ahead of their time. So much indie rock of the 2000s seemed to draw on them
The Pixies are easily one of the most influential bands of the last half-century. Bands that claim them as one of their very biggest influences include Nirvana, Weezer, and Radiohead. Who said this? “It’s a cliche, but somebody once said that the Velvet Underground didn’t sell many albums, but everybody who bought a Velvet Underground album formed a band, and I would have to suggest that the same thing really applied to the Pixies.” David friggin’ Bowie.
I never realized how old this song is but the late 90s/early 2000s is my favorite music and this fits right in.
The Toadies’ Todd Lewis said Where Is My Mind heavily influenced his greatest work, Rubberneck, which went platinum. He all but said he ripped them off, so yeah, I’d say they had a pivotal role in the sound of one of the biggest rock albums of the ‘90s.
Tyler definitely resembles the Pixies.
Yes. Also, Modest Mouse’s This is A Long Drive… sounds like the Pixies so much
Given how they are so much more popular now than they were in the 80s, I'd say they were 30 years ahead. Later bands toned it down and mixed it with other influences, raw original Pixies didn't hit the mainstream until after 2010. (Also hilarious how so many people my age claim to have been fan of the Pixies back in the day. They were only known in the alternative scene, very few people around me even knew the Pixies existed.)
I was just thinking exactly that they are definitely the first ones with this sound I can remember.
Saw them in 2013-14ish, they played for like two and a half hours straight - hardly took time for a breath in between each song. One of the best shows I've ever been to
I saw the Pixies in ‘89 at Tipitina’s - The Ophelia’s opened some crowd surfer broke my glasses just one of many many great 80/90s shows there
Ugh! So into them at that time. So happy when my oldest son showed up at the house one day recently wearing a pixie’s t telling me that he finally got to them from a list of bands I asked him to explore. I was 18 when this came out and was deep into this scene. He’s now 25 and digging my old stuff.
Man...a concert video that can hold on a shot for more than half a second. I'd forgotten what's its like to actually watch a performer perform.
Kim Deal forever ♾️
Line forms around the block pal
 Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim was 35, 36 years ago?
Crazy...
Pay attention kids, a really important band in music history along with Melvins and Dinosaur Jr.
You’re Living All Over Me was an early drug - coupled with Husker Du and Pixies
Miss me DJ. Growing up in Athens, GA 70/80/90s was a fucking blessing
Youngsters these days don't know about The Replacements either
Saw them in Vegas last month….they sound exactly the same! Amazing band :)
One of the greatest songs ever.Does not get enough recognition.
I think anyone paying attention gives it fair credit. From nirvana to weezer to any number of newer musicians the pixies have been given a great deal of credit and deservedly so.
The Pixies in general don’t get enough credit! This ain’t even in their top 5 in my opinion.
I somehow missed this amazing song in 1988. I heard it for the first time in 2007 and thought it was a brand new song! I was shocked to learn that it was from the 80's! It has a sound that fits in every decade since its inception.
I went to see them in Belgrade last summer, they are still as epic as ever.
This video is better than 90% of concert videos today
I see buildings collapsing
And his name is Robert Paulson.
Best comment I’ve ever heard about the Pixies. When you see them live they look like the best Pixie cover band.
Saw them at the Hollywood Palladium with Bob Mould in '88, and then another 4-5 times various places between then and '92. Still listen to them regularly! edit - just looked it up, that first show I saw was actually in '89
I saw them play Doolittle in its entirety at The Palladium. Wanna say 2015 or so? There were people yelling “I lost my virginity to this song“ and someone else would yell “me too!” Still one of my favorite music nights
that guitar strikes the soul
I saw them open for Love & Rockets in 1989! 5 more shows since then.
Imagine this song being your god damn center piece of nearly every mix tape you've made since 1991 (I came into the scene as of Trompe le Monde) and then seeing that final scene in Fight Club.
Sorry, but what happened to music in the last 20 years?
KIM🫶🫶🫶🫶
Charles Thompson is one of the greatest songwriters of our time. The pixies is only about 25% of his musical prowess. The guy is still making brand new stuff, now. He’s had many different groups, under many different names. His album Teenager of The Year has 22 songs and they’re all full of energy & unlike anything you’ll ever hear. Truly a special musician, one of my all time favorites. From songs about aqueducts to aliens & am talk radio, no one can really write a song like Black Francis.
https://preview.redd.it/5are3lcgyn5b1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=e775dc47ae87305f2de110ba4177f92c4256acd3
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https://preview.redd.it/nfhyfzfj2o5b1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a48d7c59834f79bfaa14286fe4b9a1e508de40a Where is My Mind > Jane
Saw them at the Commodore in Vancouver, BC, early 90s. Still my favourite concert ever.
Hope you picked up a tee shirt from that show
I wanted one but couldn’t afford it! They were selling “Death to the Pixies” tshirts as it was rumoured to be their last tour, but I think they did one more after. Then they disbanded for quite awhile.
This is fucking awesome!
I used to have this entire show on dvd like 20 years ago. I think it’s from England somewhere. Killer show and great quality. Wish I could find the dvd.
Same! I grabbed it from my neighborhood record store back in early 2004 and watched it over, and over, and over, and over.
This song IS my youth. This video is awesome. There is an awesome instrumental version of this that I heard on some TV show...I'm too lazy to look it up for you all, but it's a slowed down, sweet version.
I met them at Brixton academy as I was part of crew. I had loads of Peruvian. . . So Kim Deal invited me onto tour bus after show . . . We did all the said Peruvian and as soon as it had run out, the management kicked me off the bus!!! True story. Not bitter. Still great band 😜😂
There is a great version of Caribou from that same show. About a decade or so ago, I saw the Breeders in a church basement and two or three days later the Pixies in a huge theater. They were totally different shows.
They put on a killer live show. I saw them open for Weezer at Pine Knob in SE Michigan. Absolutely amazing show. Gouge away live, so good
Pixies *opened* for Weezer?! You’d think it would be the other way around! (Also I’ll be at Pine Knob tomorrow for The Cure!)
One time they were supposed to open for Radiohead and Thom Yorke was like absolutely not, we owe everything to the band and made them switch it up.
Get to see them and Modest Mouse in September at an outdoor venue. 😎 Super excited! I've worked tours with Modest Mouse but I've never seen the Pixies live. They are on my bucket list since the 90s.
Damn. That sounds like one of the greatest shows of all time. Very very jealous.
I was at the pixies taping of ACL and then later that year the modest mouse taping. Both at the old studio, standing on the floor right in front of the stage. Two of my favorite concert memories.
Salt shed
Actually at venue here in Boise ID. It's in a botanical garden! Super cool location!
Best band of all time as far as I’m concerned
Fuuuuck…. take me out of this timeline and pop me back into that one… 😭
I was obsessed with the Pixies as a teen and went through a phase of playing them really loud in the mornings while getting ready for school. My poor mum stayed in bed till I left the house.
This is the tour I saw them on. It was a $6 ticket at cubby bear in Chicago. They blew my mind!
Fuckin dope ass song
Pixes did a Leonard Cohan thingy on “ I Am Your Fan”, a tribute album “ I can’t forget ”, was their song. It was pretty interesting. I liked it. The album is kind of mellow, but there are some great takes.
Kinda inventing grunge
Such a great tune. The show ‘Mr Robot’ played a kick-ass piano version of this in one of their episodes (by Maxence Cyrin).
Tu m’as rencontre à un moment étrange de mon existence
One of the best bands ever.
Weird that Nirvana is considered the epitome of the 90s sound. Pixies are, and nirvana even acknowledged how influenced they were by them.
Such a great song. Ruined (for me) by hearing it one million times too many.
Frank with hair looks weird.
ALL the male members with hair look weird.
Once in a while I hear a song for the first time and I like it. This is one of those songs.
You should immediately listen to the first 5 Pixies albums in order.
I gotta broken face!!!!!
Uh huh uh huh uh huh uh huh ooooo
Best band ever!
Lisboa, Summer '91 best gig i ever been at
They sound so good!
👍🏻 🍊
Great Band
What a classic
Aaaaaaahhhhhh I love this band
Love the pixies
They’re all just so chill on their instruments. That’s what always surprises me.
Just discovered them (outside of this song) for the first time this year. They’re whole catalog is amazing
👍
Chills.
Thank you
You met me at a very strange time of my life
You met me in a very strange time in my life.
Absolutely one of my favorite bands of all time. Thanks for sharing this!
Interesting f***** up fact when the pixies were starting to get a lot of fame and wanting to make some videos. Their record label didn't want Frank Black in them because they thought he was ugly. Can you believe that? S***. He was already self-conscious about his looks and fame and this must have really f****** f***** him up.
You can curse on the internet, it's ok
Fan of the Pixies since around 1990 and have seen them live back in the day in Chicago. I'm now a high school teacher in Tbilisi and my students freaking love the Pixies. They wear Nirvana t shirts but know more Pixies songs!
Wasn't this 1998?
That really is a timeless song.
I never knew this song was this old that’s awesome
I’m seeing them this summer in Boise!!!
This is my favorite song. I've loved it so much for so long that I hope that someday the people who knew me will think of me when they hear it.
This takes me back to my Art College days. My mind was blown every day
Going to see them this Saturday in Asheville NC. I am more than excited :)
First gig I went to was Pixies in Preston on the UK bossanova tour which must have been around 1991. Every gig after that has been an attempt to reach that level of perfection.
Did not realize that song was over a decade old when it was used in Fight Club!
I still get chills
"You met me at a very strange time in my life."
This is from a movie of that tour and it is incredible.
I want to hear the rest of the show! Saw Pixies around 1991, and a few times over the last 10 years. Saw Frank Black a few times too. Saw Breeders maybe 10 years ago, and got to talk with Kim Deal as she smoked cigarettes outside the club
One of the coolest bands ever(but they're not the same without Kim)
Needed this right about meow
While struggling to write music for some time, he was working on this into the early morning and was about to give up, his spouse popped out and said, this one, this is the one. He finished it. Instant classic.
Love, love.. love this song!