More Pixies!!! To this day if anyone asks when I was a kid what did I want to be, the answer is always "A debaser" no one ever gets it, but that's their fault for not knowing great music.
“I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. 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. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.” -Kurt Cobain, Nirvana (Rollingstone Magazine) Pixies are without a doubt one of the most underappreciated (by too many people), but influential bands in alternative music. At a time when music was becoming so formulaic in the 80's, along came the Pixies, making music that eventually launched the rock revolution of the 90's. They were the soundtrack of my college years (85-89), along with Jane's Addiction, Bauhaus & The Pogues, just to name a few.
I always loved The Pixies. I've been listening to them for years (probably starting around 2008) and I finally saw them live this past year (with Modest Mouse co-headlining) and they sound great live too.
@@FFM0594 Of course you would, because you know nothing about film. And 'that' writer happens to be one of the most relevant painters/artists of the 20th century.
Pixies ❤ 🧚♀️. One of the best indie rock bands ever. Very influential for future alternative, indie bands. Pixies are college rock Gods in the 80s and 90s. Only hear them on college radio back then and their music videos on 120 Minutes, MTV alternative music on MTV segment at night time.. Check out more of their songs and The Breeders. The back up singer and bass guitarist is Kim Deal. After Pixies broke up in the 90s. She formed the band, Breeders, 90s, 00s alternative rock group. The Breeders have a lot of good videos too like "Canonball", "Safari", "Saints", "Divine Hammer", etc
Pixies picked up where Velvet Underground left off. So freakin original & influential. But Iike escargot, not for everyone's taste, for which I am very grateful
Absolutely thats what I thought at the time and still do, with Thier 1/3rd quite 2/3rds noise, btw as a side note the drums on Surferosa album to this day it's like your in the room as David lovering ( a jazz drummer) is beating hell out of those skins . Amazing .. sorry carry on 😂
scenes are from the 1929 French short silent film Un Chien Andalou directed by Luis Bunuel and written by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. Fun trivia fact the eyeball slicing scene came to Bunuel in a dream and the Hand with ants crawling all over it came from a dream of Salvador Dali.....they both mentioned the dreams they had to each other, and said "lets make a film, we already have the material for it"
The lyrics are based on a surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called Un Chien Andalou. The film includes a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor, which is referenced in the song lyric "Slicin' up eyeballs/I want you to know." The title "Debaser" references the fact that Un Chien Andalou debases morality and standards of art, according to the lead singer Black Francis.
this song references a surrealist film co-directed by saluador dali and lus bunuel, called 'the andalusian dog (puppy) which is un chien andalou in catalan, this film contains a shocking close up of mock eyeball being sliced with a razor, which is shot in 1930s. so basically frank black references dali as this great debaser of morality of those times and how the surreal art of dali inspired him in his music.
As a 59 year old metal/rock fan, I remember Pixies brought fresh burst of energy into music in the late eighties, a highly influential and important rock band, that on this reaction turned Lex into a statue! Love rock music.......love Pixies. Listen to their debut mini album "Come on Pilgrim", its 20 minutes of greatness.
My friend got us around to his house after school to listen to a CD he said we had to hear. We all sat around with a CD player on the floor and just listened to this song over and over again
Bought Dolittle album by Pixies on the day it came out in UK. Must have taken about 40 minutes just to get past debaser as I kept putting it back to start to re-listen. Still as raw now.
Ah the Pixies. One of my favorites. No one sounds quite like 3 expressos on an empty stomac like they do. And when its your time to clean the bathroom, they are your best friends.
Oh damn! I never would have guessed in a thousand years you would have reacted to Debaser. Monkey Gone to Heaven, Motorway to Roswell, There Goes my Man, Where is My Mind…yes but not this song. I’m impressed. This is one of my fav Pixies’ song
A superb track, saw them recently and me & my mate rushed down to the front to dance wildly when this came up as the encore despite being well over 50. A slightly confused laugh is always a good reaction!
I always loved The Pixies. I've been listening to them for years (probably starting around 2008) and I finally saw them live this past year and they sound great live too.
Was addicted to them back then. Every song different but you knew it was the Pixies. They could be energetic or very dreamy or both in one song. Still love them. Highly influential to many other artists.
Kim was the most beautiful woman in the 90s rock scene...and Frank is one of the best and most powerful voices in rock... I've never seen him fail live
one of the most influential bands in history. there is not a band that came up in the 90s and 2000's that wasn't HEAVILY influenced by the pixies and why so much modern music has so much of their elements in it. its kind of what the beatles did to all music from 60s to 80s.
Cant tell you guys how happy i am you chose to react to this ome. Debaser is a favorittw and rarley reacted to. Would you xomsider lisrwning to the pixies no 13 baby
I must have been 18 or 19 when I first heard this in the late 80's (ish?). It totally blew my young Aussie country boy mind. Felt so lucky to be in my 20s in the 90s
When our son was 2 years old he was starting to love the Pixies (my son!) and was laughing and playing wild. I think they sound wild but not aggressive. Yeah it can be provocative but in a funny and ironic way
The lyrics are (mostly) referring to a French surrealist art film from the 1920s called Un Chien Andalou. The film featured animal eyeballs being sliced with a razor, and other wacky stuff. Like most Pixies songs, though, they're also just having fun with the lyrics.
Kim Deal, Pixies bassist and background singer, left the Pixies to return to her hometown of the Dayton, Ohio area and started the Breeders along with Jim Mcpherson of Centerville (Dayton burb), Josephine Wiggs, of England & twin sister Kelly Deal, having MTV airplay in 1993-94: Cannonball, Divine Hammer, and No Aloha their biggest hits.
Does he mean that slicing the woman's eyeball in the film is debasing? I remember this song from when I was in junior high, but I never thought much about what it means until like 10 minutes ago lol.
Funnily enough, when my kiddo was a tiny Jack-sized bub, playing Pixies was a guaranteed path to rest and sleep. Three songs into their Bossanova album, and out like a light!
What a great album. As someone mentioned the Luis Bunuel short film on which this song is at least partially based is a surrealistic trip co-written by Dali, who but Pixies would do this justice. By the way, the next song "Tame", I think would be an even better song to have pissed off the parents.
Thank you for sharing that yes I was trying to tell him that I forgot the name of the artist that did that film I watch that way back in 1972 before I graduate high school but it was made I believe in the 1930s turn the dada movement
Favorite band of all time! They hated making videos for MTV (obviously), so usually if watching them on TH-cam it's from any number of great live shows they have played over the decades.
First time i see this Brad dude actually reacting to a song 😄 and Lex usually moves around like a crackhead but here she's so chill and still .. only the Pixies
This is where some cultural knowledge is required. The song is referencing a famous surrealist movie called Un Chien Andalou. The movie infamously includes a scene of an eyeball being sliced open.
One of the first albums I ever bought. Brilliant. An old friend of mine got me a gift just two weeks ago. "You're going to like it" she said. And hell yeah; a Pixies tshirt (the last one was worn to shreds in college). Saw them live aeons ago in Belgium or Netherlands (could even be in Germany (you know college days, touring from festival to concert to festival). Such a wicked band.
Gen X alt rock. We need another '80s/'90s alt/indie rock stream soon! Been awhile. Bands like Smithereens, Husker Du, My Bloody Valentine, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pixies, Janes Addiction/P For pyros, Joy Division/New Order, Gang of Four, The Psychedelic Furs, The Chameleons, Love and Rockets, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Jesus and the Mary Chain, RHCP, Plimsouls, Lene Lovich, Pavement, Dinosaur JR, Meat Puppets, Stone Roses, Lemonheads, Sonic Youth, and many others get better chances there.
This song is about about the surrealist 1929 film un chien andalusia made by Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, the film contains a graphic scene where a woman’s eyeball is sliced with a razor blade and it haunted me as a child.
@@rachelcoisnacoillte6023 I think I was probably younger than eleven. My mums worked so I’d spend summers at my Granny’s in Nidd in North Yorkshire. I had a little black & white tv in my room and happen upon it late one evening. I didn’t realise what it was until decades later when we covered it in film school. When Frank Black sing “un chien andalusia and I am moved” I completely relate as it left a strong impression on me. I’m really sensitive about my eyes and refuses to wear contacts, possibly because of that exposure at a young age.
@@bobbygoromajima Gosh I'm not surprised it had a lasting effect on you. I first heard of that film through the Pixies song. I remember being at school passing notes to my friend about the lyrics of Pixies and Joy Division and Nick Cave songs (we were about 11/12) and the teacher intercepted our notes, read them with horror and disbelief and there was a big fuss over it.... actually I still don't know what a 'Spanish fly' is or why Nick Cave's love interest was doing with it 😂
@@rachelcoisnacoillte6023 wow, you were a lot cooler than I was at that age, I reckon I was probably still listening to Madonna and the bangles at 11 or 12. I remember buying the Pixies album Doolittle on vinyl but I must of been 15 or 16, it was later when I got into Joy Division also although I grew up with New Order. I’m not that aufait with Nick Cave apart from his Murder Ballards but you’ve inspired me to check out this Spanish Fly tune, I’ll have a look once I’ve finished watching the film I’ve put on. I think it’s so cool that a song can point you in the direction of a piece of art like in chien andalusia.
@@bobbygoromajimaThe title of the film is “Un Chien Andalou” and the lyrics of song do not say “I am moved.” He is saying: But I am un chien andalusia I am un chien andalusia I am un chien andalusia I am un chien andalusia Wanna grow up to be Be a debaser
As mentioned this is an ode to a film by Luis Brunel and the surrealistic artist Salvador Dali. The slicing up eyeballs comes from the film and the mention "I am un chien" which translates to "I am a dog" - Andalusia (Andalusian is a breed of dog). There is so much more meaning to the lyrics then just taking them literally or at face value. It is also an awesome dance song. I feel like doing some research prior to actually reacting to the song and video and giving that information doesn't take away from a first reaction, but gives you a clearer perspective on the ideas and can help others who are unfamiliar with the Pixies or the imagery of the lyrics. It gives much more depth then just playing it, guessing and then having no real understanding or making a deeper connection to the band or song. And it's over. I have found a few reactors that take the time to do this and it is nice. Otherwise it just feels like you do it because of requests and take 3 minutes to leave people frustrated, who know the song and then depending on us to educate you and others, when that makes it seem like you don't care much. Just my opinion about most reactors and I am sure it isn't a popular thought but it makes me less inclined to watch but people do especially if they already know how good a song is and hope you will get it.
Pixies are the quiet 🤫 quiet 🤫 loud 🔊🔊🔊🔊. From were 90’s America music spawned. Wave of mutation, where’s my head, monkey gone to heaven, all are pivotal tracks in the development of a decade. They might not have been stadium fillers, but pixies in a club when the sweat is dripping off the ceiling is is where it’s at.
This is the best argument that you can have a great song even without comprehensible lyrics. This was on the soundtrack to Forza Horizon 3, driving around virtual Oz with Debaser blaring in my 49 Mercury lead sled...
I saw them a few times including back in their Heyday and wow, not only one of my favorite bands of all time but they were so good live. Just endlessly creative and they openly named The Beatles as one of their influences. Kurt Cobain in turn rn identified the Pixies as a big influence on Nirvana.
This is a many level song. It's referencing an old silent movie called "Un Chien Andalou" (which translates into an Andalusian Dog) by a French filmmaker named Luis Bunuel and the artist Salvador Dali. The film is a random free-association that I am not inclined to explore in depth here except to say that a key image is of a young woman being held hostage as a razor approaches her eye, which cuts in such a way to make it seem her eye was quite literally cut open. The whole purpose of the movie was to be shocking and offend, not so much through violence or sexual imagery, but rather through the seemingly non-sensical ways the sexuality and violence is used. The brilliance of this song is that, as the first song of the Doolittle album, it is directly setting the stage for what is to come. Black Francis shouting "I want to grow up to be... to be a Debaser" is him saying that things are going to get weird from then on out, and in fact Doolittle then follows with songs filled with sexuality and violence in strangely non-linear and unpredictable ways. Songs like "Tame" and "Gouge Away" are very directly in the spirit of "Un Chien Andalou," but the entire Doolittle album is filled with the same sort of weird vibe.
When I was a teenager in the early nineties I was a big fan of MTV"s 120 minutes I remember the first Pixies songs I listened to was Debaser, Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone to heaven, Alec Effel, and Head On. In fact I was introduced to your channel last year by The Pixies community board. You did a reaction to their song Hey and they posted it to their community board for fans to comment on. So there are artists out there who do appreciate what you do. I'll miss seeing new posts on this channel for sure because I enjoy watching you two.
There’d be no Nirvana without the Pixies. They were also one of David Bowie’s favorite bands.
I really like Bowie's cover of Cactus
@@artofalmost9479 For sure! It’s got a dark celestial feel to it.
They are also for the whole gothic scene in the 80er idols
Try joy division love will tear us apart plz
What's more important is they are my favourite band.
Keep going down the Pixies rabbit hole. It won’t disappoint. Gigantic springs to mind
I love it when Paul Rudd in This is 40 is trying to tell his family in the car how great this song is. HAHA.
Mi got so hype on that scene lol
More Pixies!!! To this day if anyone asks when I was a kid what did I want to be, the answer is always "A debaser" no one ever gets it, but that's their fault for not knowing great music.
Slicing up eyeballs 😁
The “Slicing up eyeballs” is a reference to a scene in the Luis Buñuel film “Un Chien Andalou”, which they also mention repeatedly.
Oh God I think I've seen that at a museum presentation
“I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. 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. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.” -Kurt Cobain, Nirvana (Rollingstone Magazine)
Pixies are without a doubt one of the most underappreciated (by too many people), but influential bands in alternative music. At a time when music was becoming so formulaic in the 80's, along came the Pixies, making music that eventually launched the rock revolution of the 90's. They were the soundtrack of my college years (85-89), along with Jane's Addiction, Bauhaus & The Pogues, just to name a few.
I always loved The Pixies. I've been listening to them for years (probably starting around 2008) and I finally saw them live this past year (with Modest Mouse co-headlining) and they sound great live too.
This song is about Salvador Dali's avant garde film "Un Chien Andalou", which showed an eye being sliced open with a straight razor.
Bad info! It's Luis Bunuel.
Oops! Thanks,@@FFM0594.
@@FFM0594 Well, Dali was involved in the film as a script co-writer with Buñuel, so not wrong.
I'd still give the credit to Bunuel, the director, over a script-writer, no matter how prominent that writer is.
@@FFM0594 Of course you would, because you know nothing about film. And 'that' writer happens to be one of the most relevant painters/artists of the 20th century.
Pixies ❤ 🧚♀️. One of the best indie rock bands ever. Very influential for future alternative, indie bands. Pixies are college rock Gods in the 80s and 90s. Only hear them on college radio back then and their music videos on 120 Minutes, MTV alternative music on MTV segment at night time.. Check out more of their songs and The Breeders. The back up singer and bass guitarist is Kim Deal. After Pixies broke up in the 90s. She formed the band, Breeders, 90s, 00s alternative rock group. The Breeders have a lot of good videos too like "Canonball", "Safari", "Saints", "Divine Hammer", etc
One of my favorite songs ever. Great tune, fabulous band
I had a feeling he would.
If you're on board with this, you'd love deep dives into Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr.
Pixies picked up where Velvet Underground left off. So freakin original & influential. But Iike escargot, not for everyone's taste, for which I am very grateful
Absolutely thats what I thought at the time and still do, with Thier 1/3rd quite 2/3rds noise, btw as a side note the drums on Surferosa album to this day it's like your in the room as David lovering ( a jazz drummer) is beating hell out of those skins . Amazing .. sorry carry on 😂
Ha, yes! Was about to make a similar comment, it's that whole "everyone who heard them went out and started a band" energy (paraphrased, sorry)
scenes are from the 1929 French short silent film Un Chien Andalou directed by Luis Bunuel and written by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. Fun trivia fact the eyeball slicing scene came to Bunuel in a dream and the Hand with ants crawling all over it came from a dream of Salvador Dali.....they both mentioned the dreams they had to each other, and said "lets make a film, we already have the material for it"
More Pixies: "Gouge Away" 💚🤙
The lyrics are based on a surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called Un Chien Andalou. The film includes a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor, which is referenced in the song lyric "Slicin' up eyeballs/I want you to know."
The title "Debaser" references the fact that Un Chien Andalou debases morality and standards of art, according to the lead singer Black Francis.
I remember seeing the Pixies in a night club in 1986... Great show
this song references a surrealist film co-directed by saluador dali and lus bunuel, called 'the andalusian dog (puppy) which is un chien andalou in catalan, this film contains a shocking close up of mock eyeball being sliced with a razor, which is shot in 1930s. so basically frank black references dali as this great debaser of morality of those times and how the surreal art of dali inspired him in his music.
As a 59 year old metal/rock fan, I remember Pixies brought fresh burst of energy into music in the late eighties, a highly influential and important rock band, that on this reaction turned Lex into a statue! Love rock music.......love Pixies. Listen to their debut mini album "Come on Pilgrim", its 20 minutes of greatness.
My friend got us around to his house after school to listen to a CD he said we had to hear. We all sat around with a CD player on the floor and just listened to this song over and over again
Bought Dolittle album by Pixies on the day it came out in UK. Must have taken about 40 minutes just to get past debaser as I kept putting it back to start to re-listen. Still as raw now.
1st track on one of the all time best albums
Ah the Pixies. One of my favorites. No one sounds quite like 3 expressos on an empty stomac like they do. And when its your time to clean the bathroom, they are your best friends.
I always liked hearing Kim Deal's voice.
Oh damn! I never would have guessed in a thousand years you would have reacted to Debaser. Monkey Gone to Heaven, Motorway to Roswell, There Goes my Man, Where is My Mind…yes but not this song. I’m impressed. This is one of my fav Pixies’ song
I would love to see them do Caribou.
or diging for fire
There are so many great Pixies songs. I've always been a more progressive rock/metal guy but, I love the Pixies. I also love the early B-52's too.
The Pixies were the first concert I ever went to with friends in high school. Can I recommend "Silver"?!❤
A superb track, saw them recently and me & my mate rushed down to the front to dance wildly when this came up as the encore despite being well over 50. A slightly confused laugh is always a good reaction!
You guys are I'm playing all my favourite bands. Debaser is a criminally underrated song.
I always loved The Pixies. I've been listening to them for years (probably starting around 2008) and I finally saw them live this past year and they sound great live too.
I have loved the PIxies for years; Try- Where is my mind? or Gigantic and 100% I pissed my parents off with this song
Skate 3 introduced me this song
For me it was an NCAA Football game. Maybe 2000?
Was addicted to them back then. Every song different but you knew it was the Pixies. They could be energetic or very dreamy or both in one song. Still love them. Highly influential to many other artists.
Such a great song. One of those songs that I remember where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard this song. Good times!
Brad your best trait is that you love quirky songs and artists...saves from the charge that you're a robot lol!(though sometimes I wonder!)
The Pixies might be the most unique rock band of all time.
It's about Un Chien Andalou. It's a Salvador Dali film.
No it's a Luis Buñuel film.
@@Dytirambikit's both.
@@jasonremy1627 Dali is not a film director, he just co-wrote the screenplay, but it remains a Bunuel film.
Kim was the most beautiful woman in the 90s rock scene...and Frank is one of the best and most powerful voices in rock... I've never seen him fail live
Pixies is absolutely fantastic,pure entertainment.All the best from 🇬🇧 UK.
One of the greatest bands ever. So glad to hear someone reacting to this!
Watching Lex's blank face is hilarious lollll
Annoying ass music
one of the most influential bands in history. there is not a band that came up in the 90s and 2000's that wasn't HEAVILY influenced by the pixies and why so much modern music has so much of their elements in it. its kind of what the beatles did to all music from 60s to 80s.
Cant tell you guys how happy i am you chose to react to this ome. Debaser is a favorittw and rarley reacted to. Would you xomsider lisrwning to the pixies no 13 baby
I must have been 18 or 19 when I first heard this in the late 80's (ish?). It totally blew my young Aussie country boy mind. Felt so lucky to be in my 20s in the 90s
Pixies are considered to be a instrumental group to so many that followed, including - Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, and Nirvana to name a few.
Let's not forget that Radiohead simply gushes like little girls when they talked about The Pixies in an interview.
Soundgarden was around before the Pixies.
When our son was 2 years old he was starting to love the Pixies (my son!) and was laughing and playing wild. I think they sound wild but not aggressive. Yeah it can be provocative but in a funny and ironic way
The lyrics are (mostly) referring to a French surrealist art film from the 1920s called Un Chien Andalou. The film featured animal eyeballs being sliced with a razor, and other wacky stuff. Like most Pixies songs, though, they're also just having fun with the lyrics.
I love the music and I think the texts are not serious at all - just funny with a great groove.
Where is my mind , great song by the Pixes
Ah........The MIGHTY "Doolittle " album !
My favourite band of all time
Hell yeah! The Pixies are great.
My fav band of all times!
Brad has been debased! Now I've seen everything.
Love this band ,became a fan in 89.
getting a dictionary to keep nearby would be a good idea... at least for post song lookups.
Kim Deal, Pixies bassist and background singer, left the Pixies to return to her hometown of the Dayton, Ohio area and started the Breeders along with Jim Mcpherson of Centerville (Dayton burb), Josephine Wiggs, of England & twin sister Kelly Deal, having MTV airplay in 1993-94: Cannonball, Divine Hammer, and No Aloha their biggest hits.
Tanya Donelly, not Wiggs, who came later. Apologies.
@@mattthornton8474 Tanya Donely was also in Throwing Muses and Belly.
Throwing Muses - Counting Backwards 👌
Does he mean that slicing the woman's eyeball in the film is debasing? I remember this song from when I was in junior high, but I never thought much about what it means until like 10 minutes ago lol.
Pixies were pre grunge
Funnily enough, when my kiddo was a tiny Jack-sized bub, playing Pixies was a guaranteed path to rest and sleep. Three songs into their Bossanova album, and out like a light!
Chien is a dog and that guy is wearing a Collar a pet has to wear after being neutered 😮😅is Debaser a De-Baller😮
I am an Andalusian dog - a nod to Salvador Dali. Brilliant.
Please don't forgot Bunuel.
YOU ARE FORGETTING BUÑUEL, DUDE!
What a great album. As someone mentioned the Luis Bunuel short film on which this song is at least partially based is a surrealistic trip co-written by Dali, who but Pixies would do this justice. By the way, the next song "Tame", I think would be an even better song to have pissed off the parents.
Taaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmeeeee, 😮 Taaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmeeeee 😵💫😂
David Bowie opened up his 1976 tour with the sliced eyeball scene from that film.
Thank you for sharing that yes I was trying to tell him that I forgot the name of the artist that did that film I watch that way back in 1972 before I graduate high school but it was made I believe in the 1930s turn the dada movement
Also "Something Against You", which showed up in a Black Mirror episode
Favorite band of all time! They hated making videos for MTV (obviously), so usually if watching them on TH-cam it's from any number of great live shows they have played over the decades.
First time i see this Brad dude actually reacting to a song 😄 and Lex usually moves around like a crackhead but here she's so chill and still .. only the Pixies
This is where some cultural knowledge is required. The song is referencing a famous surrealist movie called Un Chien Andalou. The movie infamously includes a scene of an eyeball being sliced open.
It is about a French film Un Chein Andelusia. Its creepy AF.
Unique creativity, this is 1989!
One of the first albums I ever bought. Brilliant. An old friend of mine got me a gift just two weeks ago. "You're going to like it" she said. And hell yeah; a Pixies tshirt (the last one was worn to shreds in college). Saw them live aeons ago in Belgium or Netherlands (could even be in Germany (you know college days, touring from festival to concert to festival). Such a wicked band.
DEBASER!!! This was my son first favorite song when he was 3 😂😂 love this song. Loved you guys reaction much love 💪🏾
Love the pixies. Unique and creative band.
It’s about a film Black Francis once saw.
Love The Pixies
Gen X alt rock. We need another '80s/'90s alt/indie rock stream soon! Been awhile.
Bands like Smithereens, Husker Du, My Bloody Valentine, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pixies, Janes Addiction/P For pyros, Joy Division/New Order, Gang of Four, The Psychedelic Furs, The Chameleons, Love and Rockets, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Jesus and the Mary Chain, RHCP, Plimsouls, Lene Lovich, Pavement, Dinosaur JR, Meat Puppets, Stone Roses, Lemonheads, Sonic Youth, and many others get better chances there.
This song is about about the surrealist 1929 film un chien andalusia made by Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, the film contains a graphic scene where a woman’s eyeball is sliced with a razor blade and it haunted me as a child.
How did you come to watch Un Chien Andalusia when you were 11?
@@rachelcoisnacoillte6023 I think I was probably younger than eleven.
My mums worked so I’d spend summers at my Granny’s in Nidd in North Yorkshire. I had a little black & white tv in my room and happen upon it late one evening.
I didn’t realise what it was until decades later when we covered it in film school.
When Frank Black sing “un chien andalusia and I am moved” I completely relate as it left a strong impression on me. I’m really sensitive about my eyes and refuses to wear contacts, possibly because of that exposure at a young age.
@@bobbygoromajima Gosh I'm not surprised it had a lasting effect on you. I first heard of that film through the Pixies song. I remember being at school passing notes to my friend about the lyrics of Pixies and Joy Division and Nick Cave songs (we were about 11/12) and the teacher intercepted our notes, read them with horror and disbelief and there was a big fuss over it.... actually I still don't know what a 'Spanish fly' is or why Nick Cave's love interest was doing with it 😂
@@rachelcoisnacoillte6023 wow, you were a lot cooler than I was at that age, I reckon I was probably still listening to Madonna and the bangles at 11 or 12. I remember buying the Pixies album Doolittle on vinyl but I must of been 15 or 16, it was later when I got into Joy Division also although I grew up with New Order.
I’m not that aufait with Nick Cave apart from his Murder Ballards but you’ve inspired me to check out this Spanish Fly tune, I’ll have a look once I’ve finished watching the film I’ve put on.
I think it’s so cool that a song can point you in the direction of a piece of art like in chien andalusia.
@@bobbygoromajimaThe title of the film is “Un Chien Andalou” and the lyrics of song do not say “I am moved.” He is saying:
But I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
Wanna grow up to be
Be a debaser
As mentioned this is an ode to a film by Luis Brunel and the surrealistic artist Salvador Dali.
The slicing up eyeballs comes from the film and the mention "I am un chien" which translates to "I am a dog" - Andalusia (Andalusian is a breed of dog).
There is so much more meaning to the lyrics then just taking them literally or at face value. It is also an awesome dance song.
I feel like doing some research prior to actually reacting to the song and video and giving that information doesn't take away from a first reaction, but gives you a clearer perspective on the ideas and can help others who are unfamiliar with the Pixies or the imagery of the lyrics. It gives much more depth then just playing it, guessing and then having no real understanding or making a deeper connection to the band or song. And it's over. I have found a few reactors that take the time to do this and it is nice. Otherwise it just feels like you do it because of requests and take 3 minutes to leave people frustrated, who know the song and then depending on us to educate you and others, when that makes it seem like you don't care much. Just my opinion about most reactors and I am sure it isn't a popular thought but it makes me less inclined to watch but people do especially if they already know how good a song is and hope you will get it.
David Bowie opened up his 1976 tour with the sliced eyeball scene from that movie.
The Andalusia Dog is likely, also, a slight against Federico Garcia Lorca.
Pixies are the quiet 🤫 quiet 🤫 loud 🔊🔊🔊🔊. From were 90’s America music spawned. Wave of mutation, where’s my head, monkey gone to heaven, all are pivotal tracks in the development of a decade. They might not have been stadium fillers, but pixies in a club when the sweat is dripping off the ceiling is is where it’s at.
The Pixies knew the thing about making noise sound beautiful and melodic, I think.
Lex’s face says it all lol
This is the best argument that you can have a great song even without comprehensible lyrics. This was on the soundtrack to Forza Horizon 3, driving around virtual Oz with Debaser blaring in my 49 Mercury lead sled...
I saw them a few times including back in their Heyday and wow, not only one of my favorite bands of all time but they were so good live. Just endlessly creative and they openly named The Beatles as one of their influences. Kurt Cobain in turn rn identified the Pixies as a big influence on Nirvana.
Hoping one day you'll do Gigantic with vocals by the great Kim Deal!!!!
My favorite Pixies song!
Check out "I bleed" off the same album. Great stuff!
MOAR PIXIES!
this song is so damn iconic. Amazing vocal performance.
Un Perro Andaluz it's a movie created by Buñuel and Dalí...
“I’m just basin, woop de woop, I’m being debased!” LOLOLOL
Pixies!!!
They might be in my top 10.
great stuff,try these: " here comes your man" " head on" "monkey gone to heaven" " there goes my gun"
Have to watch the pixies live (in London)
80's/90's alt music at its best.
I loves the pixies too
David Lovering's drumming on this song is absolute fire.
This is a many level song. It's referencing an old silent movie called "Un Chien Andalou" (which translates into an Andalusian Dog) by a French filmmaker named Luis Bunuel and the artist Salvador Dali. The film is a random free-association that I am not inclined to explore in depth here except to say that a key image is of a young woman being held hostage as a razor approaches her eye, which cuts in such a way to make it seem her eye was quite literally cut open. The whole purpose of the movie was to be shocking and offend, not so much through violence or sexual imagery, but rather through the seemingly non-sensical ways the sexuality and violence is used.
The brilliance of this song is that, as the first song of the Doolittle album, it is directly setting the stage for what is to come. Black Francis shouting "I want to grow up to be... to be a Debaser" is him saying that things are going to get weird from then on out, and in fact Doolittle then follows with songs filled with sexuality and violence in strangely non-linear and unpredictable ways. Songs like "Tame" and "Gouge Away" are very directly in the spirit of "Un Chien Andalou," but the entire Doolittle album is filled with the same sort of weird vibe.
Lex’s best comment “ I am fully debased”. So great
Gen X is the best (yes, I’m gen x). We just didn’t, and don’t, care.
The Pixies are the shit
When I was a teenager in the early nineties I was a big fan of MTV"s 120 minutes I remember the first Pixies songs I listened to was Debaser, Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone to heaven, Alec Effel, and Head On. In fact I was introduced to your channel last year by The Pixies community board. You did a reaction to their song Hey and they posted it to their community board for fans to comment on. So there are artists out there who do appreciate what you do. I'll miss seeing new posts on this channel for sure because I enjoy watching you two.
"....just want a girl as cool as Kim Deal" -Courtney Taylor