These guys were apart of the 80s underground movement that nirvana brought to the mainstream in 1991. Note that nirvana was around in 1987 and knew all of these guys personally
+Kip Watts Yeah, we called it "college radio" in those days. And some acts were already becoming famous, like R.E.M. Some never broke through and were forgotten. Others reinvented themselves, like The Goo Goo Dolls, and went mainstream.
+ocalaballa Dinosaur Jr, Meatpuppets, Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth, Beat Happening, Modest Mouse, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Butthole Surfers, soooooooooo many great underground bands that paved the way. Indie/punk/metal 101 man...
***** I went to that tour. Saw them play in Dallas. I chose not to use my earbuds. The holocaust section at the end last about 20 minutes. It was like a rocket ship going off. Lust just got back together. And last year Ride and Slowdive as well. Swervedriver recently released a new album too!
***** awesome!!! Yeah it was sorta surreal seeing MBV live. Never would have thought that I'd get that chance. I wish I knew who the opening band was. The lead singer spoke with me a bit outside. He liked my Jesus and Mary Chain shirt I wore.
I love how Black Francis almost always looks like he was just coaching a little league team minutes before the concert. Like he just parked the minivan, took off the team hat, and picked up the guitar for the gig. No corporate influence here, just some of the best American alt rock of the late 80's.
@@FrankieSidewalks Maybe rock n roll as you know it, it is very much alive, but due to the internet gone are the days of 9 months touring dive bars to build you name, gone are the days of the main record labels deciding what music becomes popular, bands do what they want now. They combine genres, they make 20 minute songs, personally I like how it's become, great bands are easier to find now than ever.
@@Clemsonfan-z1v i agree with everything you said, people have to understand that rock is thriving but with streaming and no MTV, music won’t just be fed to them on a silver platter. they have to go find these great bands and there’s plenty of easy ways to discover them, spotify has suggested me amazing new bands that are genuinely the future.
Like the Velvet Underground, they never sold a shitload of records but everyone who listened to the Velvet Underground or the Pixies went out and started a Band of their own.
It's become a bit of an enduring myth about the Velvet Underground not selling many albums. Eno said 30,000 of the first record, but that's not a bad score for a first album and considering that the record company decided to make more albums with them the follow ups must have sold all right. Then again I shouldn't shatter the mystique making out that these bands where unsuccessful is a key part of the legend.
I've been listening to The Pixies all evening instead of going to bed. It takes me back. This band, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr invented their own genre. '90s music before the '90s.
Take something raw, talented, but not quite ready for mass consumption and slow it down, but make it loud once in a while. I feel you'll get your point across and it will be memorable. Be afraid of your perceptions, but never your enjoyment.
Jane’s Addiction, don’t forget about them. They were making this kind of noise well before Pixies or Nirvana. Jane’s in my opinion is the true “90’s before 90’s” band. Their debut “Nothing Shocking” came out in 1987 and it sounds like it could have easily come out in 1993.
And that's the song that started the 90's kids...in 1988. The soft seductive verses, massive monster chorus, and deliciously angular lead guitar throughout. The Pixies did it first and nobody did it better.
Can't really blame him. He started the band with Joey to sing HIS songs. Kim auditioned to do bass. No one could have predicted that she would be the breakout star that she was. I can imagine a little bit of envy or jealousy going on.
GrindstoneMusic I'd understand feeling a bit insecure and jealous, but to an extent. To completely reject the role of a potentially great vocalist/ songwriter in your band is fucking absurd. If the reason were creative differences, then maybe, but it would be like Lennon/ McCartney telling Gerorge to either quit wasting studio time with his early songs, or fuck off outta the band. Kim could've probably dished out the Pixies' equivalent to "Here Comes the Sun". Hell, they even let Ringo write/ sing a song or two.
@@GraffitiPops I think it is completely understandable and doesn't have to do at all with any jealousy. It is perfectly normal for you to get controlling about something you see as your project.
@@GraffitiPops the reason why the beatles work so well was because they were really close. But this is the pixies were talking about. Its diffent. Francis had a right to did what he did. It was his band after all. Thats why Kim left and made her own band. (Love both bands)
Bowie was right. Fantastic band and Joey is still a very underrated player. That vibrato and use of feedback sounds simple crude but it's hard to make it sound like he does.
1. Not much of a lead guitar for a guitar solo near 2/3 of the song. 2. I would rather have Bob Rock produce the song. Although he produced Metallica, Bob Rock describes himself as a lover of punk more than metal.
I love how her voice sounds somewhat small, but husky and very powerful. It’s beautiful. Leaving Pixies and starting her own band was a good call. Too bad they didn’t get nearly as much recognition as they deserved
It just didn’t get much air time. I was a young teen, so if it wasn’t on the radio or MTV I wasn’t hearing about it. Glad I got into them as an adult though.
Because Joey did some of the most simple shit as a lead guitarist, that single note of manic vibrato is something alot of lead guitar players would think is “too simple”
[Verse 1] And this I know, his teeth as white as snow What a gas it was to see him Walk her every day into a shady place With her lips she said She said [Pre-Chorus] Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball [Chorus] Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big, big love Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big, big love [Verse 2] Lovely legs, they're a... What a big black mess, what a hunk of love He'd walk her every day into a shady place He's like the dark, but I'd want him [Pre-Chorus] Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball [Chorus] Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big, big love Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big, big love [Chorus] Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big, big love Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic A big, big love [Outro] A big, big love A big, big love A big, big love A big, big love A big, big love A big, big love A big, big love A big, big love
I am 58 and have been listening to this song since I was 21, first listen I thought it was 100% ultimate genius, a gift from the Gods, must of listened to it a million times since and every play I like it a million times more. Personally not into selecting Deal, or Frances B, Santiago,David L as favourites they are all geniuses and I think the best thing of all is we are lucky enough to have been alive when they played in the best band ever, so sublime, did you know when the Pixies go out in the rain they don't get wet? Wet gets the Pixies😂 same as anyone with 2 ears and an IQ over 0.
In the annals of music history, with progression to grunge and alternative, the Pixies and Gigantic stand above all. Legendary. And Joey’s vibro intro is 🔥🔥🔥
What an atmosphere they created, with the TV'S, themselves, their performance, and the music they played. God, I missed out on so much being either a child or nonexistent in the 80's.
Gawd they are sharp! They sound like a massive guitar army. How did these band member not get along when pretty much everyone one on the planet loves all of them.
That's how it always is. Artists are always like that. I think Van Gogh lived with Paul Gaugin and pulled a knife on him at some point and never had another friend.
What makes this even more impressive is that they're not thrown off by having cameras shoved so close in their faces. I've filmed a lot of bands and always try to give them space and not distract them. Kim's a champ at 1:15 and look how close the one is at 1:26 to the guitarist. Seriously guys, consider a zoom or longer lens. I get the wide lens aesthetic of the era but shit.
I was first introduced to Pixies by a French girl at University, who I was desperately in love with, but she was in love with a guy from Galicia. At least I have Pixies to remember her by. She was so special.
Such a great song by an amazing band. One of my fave groups even today. I saw them a few times in the late 90s, a couple of times more recently. Kim Deal is insanely badass.
Yup. Not everyone saw it that way in the beginning though (*cough*, *cough*, Boston..where they formed). Dumbasses. One listen to their demo "The Purple Tape" and if you couldn't hear it, you shouldn't be in music.
i saw them in 1987-88at a free concert somewhere in downtown boston.. i think it may have been on the common.. i was only 9 at the time.. but i remember it vividly.
Kurt Cobain said after he created Nevermind (and it blew the f#$k up)he wishes Kim Deal could write more songs for The Pixies because he loved this song Gigantic & he said & Kim wrote it!💝 And after he finished "Nevermind" & he was being interviewed he said...."And all I was trying to do is make an album that sounded like The Pixies!" And Ladies & Gents if that isn't one of the biggest forms of flattery than I don't know what is then.🤷🏼♀️
Fantastic, can you imagine what it was being 15 years old and seeing this on Firma Onrust on television? it changed at least my life and love for music! Love the Pixies and Kim Deal
Biggest Pixies hit, one of the few they let Kim take the front on, awesome and influential band. Frank is amazing but science shows the bass is what gets us going 😘
i saw them live two days a row, Civic Auditorium and the Fillmore.... San Francisco, and yes they sound like their recording.. amazing, true musicians who can play it every time.. possibly a couple of the best days in my life... to see them back to back.. i have been spoiled for concerts ever since ... i just had to stop
I wish I could go back to the early 80's and just spend the next 15 or so years going around to live music shows of all the great bands of those days. I was a little too young when it came and went unfortunately.
Fuck yea!! i've been learning to play music on the guitar and the keyboards, but after listening to the pixies bass, I've learned so much how the bass can impact the music. Kim Deal plays this simple mysterious bassline that sounds weirdly odd, but when the other instruments kick in, I'm like "Oooh Fucking Shit!!" I get it now!" Its fucking genius, the Pixies were an magical band. Like so many disco funk Bassists in the 70s and 80s.
My favorite Pixies song. Cobain’s favorite Pixies song. They should have let Kim write more. Probably should have pushed the bass up on the master recording. I can never get the volume out of it that I want.
@@charlesmendonca7540 Curt Cobain and Nirvana didn't plagiarize anything. He himself recognized to be a great fan of them and with "smells like teen spirit" he said he tried to sound like the pixies. Everything was agreed, and if there was any kind of plagiarism, it would have been reported. But the pixies were the biggest influence for all the late 80s and 90s alt rock bands, like Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and all the grunge genre.
Personally this song stands out most for me opening the door to pixies. I never had the pleasure of getting deep in my teens, now I’m 37 experiencing them for the last decade or so feels like listening to them for the first time all over. This song hits different in 2024z
People dont really realize what bands like this did for rock. The music coming from the northeast really was so new shit no one else was doing. Great stuff.
What a great live version! I’ve read many comments on other live videos that say “better than the record,” but those are usually people that are high on arsenic. This one is actually better than the record.
Eeeew... I don't think we should put Pixies in the "grunge camp". They were well ahead all that. The term only came into existence a couple after their global impact. It's like calling The Beatles a "metal band" after they wrote Helter Skelter.
The first time I saw the Pixies was Coachella 2004. Two friends and I flew fromNYC to California. They played Saturday night. It's was Pixies then Radiohead. What a moment. They blew me away even more than I had expected. Best Band ever hands down.
my god I haven't listened to this is forever......and I don't know why....I miss the original pixies. I saw them in spokane wa and they were so awesome.......
I'm an older millennial who remembers listening to them in 1999. Fight Club got me hooked on them. I bought their greatest hits tribute CD in early 2000s. I don't think they even make CDs anymore. Crazy ain't it, how time flies? I'm 37 years old now, and my most precious memories are of the mid to late 90s when I didn't worry about bills, jobs, and current cultural matters like today. It was truly the last great American decade.
The Pixies and The Stone Roses in 1988-89 pretty much laid the blue print for music in the 90s... So much that followed had roots in either band. (In the UK anyhow).
Kurt was a cynical asshole who thought he knew better than others, its even in his writings that he went over to kris Novasellic's house and smashed his eagles albums, and he acted so proud about it, not only that but he was suxh a fucking asshole to pearl jam like yeah, i get it, you dont like their music but that doesn't mean that you should act like they should stop playing music and just give up on life. oh yeah and hes a sham of a songwriter he even admits to it he says that music theory is retarded and useless then writes these songs that are DUN, DUN, DUN, correct in music theory. Kurts overrated, Layne Staley, Eddie Vedder, and Chris Cornell will always be 10x the man that kurt was.
You can always judge how good a band is, by how closely live renditions of a song compare to the recorded version. Case in point: the Pixies. One of the best bands of their generation.
don't agree with that at all. What's the point of going to see a band if they play it exactly the same as the record? For me the great bands play songs differently, often every night. Check out Zeppelin, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Hendrix, Pearl Jam, Nick Cave and loads more. It's much more exciting for the artist and the audience.
By the looks of the audience, they just witnessed one of the biggest changes in rock music and just didn't realise it... What I wouldn't give to be there 😱
Just the fact that this song is over 25 years old now but it's being used in a commercial today just further proves what Pixies fans already knew, One, that they were way ahead of the their time! And two that they made great music that has been often imitated but never duplicated!!!
I saw this performance on Dutch TV when it was first broadcast (I was 16 at the time) & I became an instant fan! :-) Hard to believe that it's almost 30(!) years ago when this show was taped...time flies!
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I can't get over her voice, I can't stop hearing this, as much as I love Pixes, I wish she did more vocals.
She made albums after the Pixies...
The Breeders were a great group with Kim and her sister.
No Aloha........Love that song.
@@ashleyember6822 The Amps album was pretty good too, albeit a little rough around the edges.
Go listen to the breeders !
I wish Kim was still in the band!!
You should check her out in the Breeders she's fucking fabulous 😍💗
Best band in the world looks like they work in call center. Awesome.
Someone else said they looked like 4 customers randomly picked out of a Waffle House
These guys were so 90’s in the 80’s.
The 90s were so 80s.
and 2000's
I think the band was so 40s
Check Dinosaur Jr 1987
These guys were apart of the 80s underground movement that nirvana brought to the mainstream in 1991. Note that nirvana was around in 1987 and knew all of these guys personally
That late 80s early 90s indie rock scene was fucking phenomenal
+Kip Watts Yeah, we called it "college radio" in those days. And some acts were already becoming famous, like R.E.M. Some never broke through and were forgotten. Others reinvented themselves, like The Goo Goo Dolls, and went mainstream.
+ocalaballa Dinosaur Jr, Meatpuppets, Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth, Beat Happening, Modest Mouse, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Butthole Surfers, soooooooooo many great underground bands that paved the way. Indie/punk/metal 101 man...
***** I went to that tour. Saw them play in Dallas. I chose not to use my earbuds. The holocaust section at the end last about 20 minutes. It was like a rocket ship going off.
Lust just got back together. And last year Ride and Slowdive as well. Swervedriver recently released a new album too!
+creekandseminole
Primal Scream
***** awesome!!! Yeah it was sorta surreal seeing MBV live. Never would have thought that I'd get that chance. I wish I knew who the opening band was. The lead singer spoke with me a bit outside. He liked my Jesus and Mary Chain shirt I wore.
The rare era when all the Pixies had hair.
Frank Black started balding in high school
Best era ever
Y cuando Frank Black no era un cretino.
Hahahaha
But Kim went the other way around: Pixies=short hair, Breeders=long hair.
I love how Black Francis almost always looks like he was just coaching a little league team minutes before the concert. Like he just parked the minivan, took off the team hat, and picked up the guitar for the gig. No corporate influence here, just some of the best American alt rock of the late 80's.
Oh.my.word...😆 🤣 you are so right I'll never see him the same
LOL. Yep, Pixies are definitely not manufactured by some focus group.
I tried to sell him a car warranty on the phone. He seemed like a good guy, he didn't tell me to go F myself like most people, LOL.
"A rock genius in the body of an appliance repairman," as I heard someone put it.
You must be the coolest lawyer.
Band is a one-off. Nobody can imitate them. Their material is absolutely mind-blowing. Rock n roll will never die.
Rock n roll died August 15th, 2007…
@@FrankieSidewalks Maybe rock n roll as you know it, it is very much alive, but due to the internet gone are the days of 9 months touring dive bars to build you name, gone are the days of the main record labels deciding what music becomes popular, bands do what they want now. They combine genres, they make 20 minute songs, personally I like how it's become, great bands are easier to find now than ever.
@@FrankieSidewalks FINE we’ll make a new rock and roll
@@Clemsonfan-z1v i agree with everything you said, people have to understand that rock is thriving but with streaming and no MTV, music won’t just be fed to them on a silver platter. they have to go find these great bands and there’s plenty of easy ways to discover them, spotify has suggested me amazing new bands that are genuinely the future.
Kurt Cobain said when he started nirvana he was just trying to rip off Pixies.
Possibly the most 90s sounding 80s song I've ever heard. And it's awesome.
I guess it’s cause pixies helped create that 90s rock sound, it must’ve been so weird to hear this when glam rock and metal was the big thing
They were way ahead of their time
That’s because the pixies invented the 90s. Nirvana was inspired by the pixies. They were kurt cobains favourite band.
@@diamonddoggo1999 yep, established fact. Good stuff.
Kings X was really good at that also.
I just love the interaction between Joey Santiago and the cameraman
He's funny in the Here Comes Your Man video
Like the Velvet Underground, they never sold a shitload of records but everyone who listened to the Velvet Underground or the Pixies went out and started a Band of their own.
Whoa mind fuck 🖤
And I second that^^
I pretty much prefer EVERY band inspired by the Pixies to the actual Pixies. They are just a bit too esoteric for me.
Jay Bee I think he got it from Brian Eno
The Pixies sold a shitload of records.
It's become a bit of an enduring myth about the Velvet Underground not selling many albums. Eno said 30,000 of the first record, but that's not a bad score for a first album and considering that the record company decided to make more albums with them the follow ups must have sold all right. Then again I shouldn't shatter the mystique making out that these bands where unsuccessful is a key part of the legend.
These guys were light years ahead of their time.....man I miss this time in music
John Vigent hey fucktard, light years is a measurement of distance, not time.
+CGC 007 & +credence7777777
What a happy group of fellas! :D
Yup, they already talking about BBC in the 80's
@@okirrama3587Which BBC? The British television channel 🤷🏻♀️?
I've been listening to The Pixies all evening instead of going to bed. It takes me back. This band, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr invented their own genre. '90s music before the '90s.
Take something raw, talented, but not quite ready for mass consumption and slow it down, but make it loud once in a while. I feel you'll get your point across and it will be memorable. Be afraid of your perceptions, but never your enjoyment.
Fu ck sonic youth.
90s before the 90s. That’s the perfect description.
Jane’s Addiction, don’t forget about them. They were making this kind of noise well before Pixies or Nirvana. Jane’s in my opinion is the true “90’s before 90’s” band. Their debut “Nothing Shocking” came out in 1987 and it sounds like it could have easily come out in 1993.
@@vidgamarr5126I've never listened to Jane's addiction but now I gotta check that out
And that's the song that started the 90's kids...in 1988. The soft seductive verses, massive monster chorus, and deliciously angular lead guitar throughout. The Pixies did it first and nobody did it better.
John Boland simply not true unfortunately as much as I’d like it to be, Kurt cobain wrote “spank thru” in 1985
@@123joelad456 There were these types of songs of course but pixies made it what it is in the end.Kurt himself says he was infulenced by Pixies
VideoPrens influenced... exactly doesn’t mean they created grunge
@@123joelad456 calm down you are being a bit defensive nirvana had some great songs but pixies had more great songs that were greater
ray croal not true, Nirvana was hands down better
There is a reason why both David Bowie and Kurt Cobain loved these guys.
And Thom Yorke.
And Dave Grohl
and other people with great taste
and me !!!!!!
HawkeyeNation19 Who doesn't love these guys!? They're amazing
I can't believe this is 32 years old. And it still sounds as fresh and amazing as it did when it was released.
If you still can read this, it’s absolutely mind blowing to performance was in 88 of last century!
Wow actually 35
Take it from a guy it just heard this for the first time... Not fresh
That bass intro....shivers up the spine.
Guess you don't know Stanley Clark
I see more women killing it at bass per capita. Kim and Tina Weymouth are anchors for their band
Just today, this is the first song I ever listen to from Pixies.
Loved it (actualy: "a big big love"!).
Kim Deal's voice... I could listen to her singing all day
It's a shame black francis didn't let kim sing more songs. She was great. Pure class.
Can't really blame him. He started the band with Joey to sing HIS songs. Kim auditioned to do bass. No one could have predicted that she would be the breakout star that she was. I can imagine a little bit of envy or jealousy going on.
GrindstoneMusic
I'd understand feeling a bit insecure and jealous, but to an extent. To completely reject the role of a potentially great vocalist/ songwriter in your band is fucking absurd. If the reason were creative differences, then maybe, but it would be like Lennon/ McCartney telling Gerorge to either quit wasting studio time with his early songs, or fuck off outta the band. Kim could've probably dished out the Pixies' equivalent to "Here Comes the Sun". Hell, they even let Ringo write/ sing a song or two.
Listen to The Breeders
@@GraffitiPops I think it is completely understandable and doesn't have to do at all with any jealousy. It is perfectly normal for you to get controlling about something you see as your project.
@@GraffitiPops the reason why the beatles work so well was because they were really close. But this is the pixies were talking about. Its diffent. Francis had a right to did what he did. It was his band after all. Thats why Kim left and made her own band. (Love both bands)
"Yo guys I need some backup guitar for my Bass song."
Weedz420 and what a great fit it was!
Cue Joey doing that jizzy vibrato at the beggining
come to think of it most the songs were
Stupid !!!
YES but ... NO!!! funny tho! :-)
Can I give a very belated hats off and thank you to the sound engineers of VPRO television for this immaculate recording? This is perfection, folks.
The bass gives me fucking goose bumps. I love Kim sm she's such a bad ass
She's dangerous. The good way.
I miss hearing her play. When they broke up and she went to the Breeders I loved them too. Just not as much as the Pixies.
Same here... I'm in love, lol
@@pstewart5443 agreed the pixies will never be the same in my eyes
Fucking love KIM!!!!!!!
Bowie was right. Fantastic band and Joey is still a very underrated player. That vibrato and use of feedback sounds simple crude but it's hard to make it sound like he does.
Every time I listen to a Pixies song now I find more of his excellent playing I hadn't noticed before.
He's expressive and exciting
yeah, and it sounda almost exactly like it does on the album, so it's clearly a very controlled, deliberate sound and not just random feedback.
Dude's a genius.
He's one of rocks all time greats!
One of the best American bands. Period. Punk rock with pop sensibilities. Crazy and well çrafted lyrics.
You can lose American, because they’re just one of the best on the planet
I'm 60 years old and I'm still in love with Kim Deal.
Mr John Murhpy?
Me too ❤❤
That doesnt end
I'm 60 years old now. It is not he same deal without Kim.
@@marquee-moon😅
Why is this song so underplayed even when I overplay it.
Arthur Frentzel are they from MASS , boston
Because of the lyrics maybe?
1. Not much of a lead guitar for a guitar solo near 2/3 of the song. 2. I would rather have Bob Rock produce the song. Although he produced Metallica, Bob Rock describes himself as a lover of punk more than metal.
I feel this way about so many Pixie’s songs! :)
Its awesome
Ian Curtis
You make me cry
Love you
This is perfection
Wish you where here now and know what influence you had on music 🎶
I love how her voice sounds somewhat small, but husky and very powerful. It’s beautiful. Leaving Pixies and starting her own band was a good call. Too bad they didn’t get nearly as much recognition as they deserved
It just didn’t get much air time. I was a young teen, so if it wasn’t on the radio or MTV I wasn’t hearing about it. Glad I got into them as an adult though.
What an incredible band, you rarely get so much coolness in the same room
Why is Joey Santiago so much more original than other guitarists? This band was so tight.
Because Joey did some of the most simple shit as a lead guitarist, that single note of manic vibrato is something alot of lead guitar players would think is “too simple”
he was alwas fantastic
[Verse 1]
And this I know, his teeth as white as snow
What a gas it was to see him
Walk her every day into a shady place
With her lips she said
She said
[Pre-Chorus]
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball
[Chorus]
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
[Verse 2]
Lovely legs, they're a...
What a big black mess, what a hunk of love
He'd walk her every day into a shady place
He's like the dark, but I'd want him
[Pre-Chorus]
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball
[Chorus]
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
[Chorus]
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
[Outro]
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
I thought it was “a big big load”
I thought it was the car the car the car is out back
Haha, I speak Spanish and that's why when reading these comments I found it funny. English can be confusing sometimes.
So its about a guy walking his big dog?
Seeing this back remembers us why we all were collectively in love with Kim Deal back in the 90's. What a fantastic band!
First time hearing this song and The Pixies both are amazing.
I am 58 and have been listening to this song since I was 21, first listen I thought it was 100% ultimate genius, a gift from the Gods, must of listened to it a million times since and every play I like it a million times more. Personally not into selecting Deal, or Frances B, Santiago,David L as favourites they are all geniuses and I think the best thing of all is we are lucky enough to have been alive when they played in the best band ever, so sublime, did you know when the Pixies go out in the rain they don't get wet? Wet gets the Pixies😂 same as anyone with 2 ears and an IQ over 0.
17 years old and numbed by eighties bullshit and then that evening I switched on the TV and I lost my musical virginity. Life would never be the same.
that is a very nice way of putting it
Obviouslu you dont know shit about music.
lolol
oh! i hope gary glitter wasn't about
This is my neighbour's new favourite song whether he likes it or not.
Face it, you know you have good enough taste for both of you.
🤣🤣🤣
@J F lol
🤣🤣👌
Lmfao best comment ever !
I can't decide if this is my favourite Pixies song or not, I love all of them but this just keeps coming to mind when I think of them.
Listen to Silver...
In the annals of music history, with progression to grunge and alternative, the Pixies and Gigantic stand above all. Legendary.
And Joey’s vibro intro is 🔥🔥🔥
This was the gateway song into the world of the PIXIES!!!!! I've never looked back!!!! Literally LOVE THIS BAND!!!
Genuinely timeless alt rock song. It's quality never lessens no matter how many years go by.
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I watch this daily…Kim is awesome as always…just a great live tv spot
I'm now 50 and still love Pixies; i also have a lot of love for this guy.
Pure mad, mad musical genius...so rarely found. Glad to have grown up with the Pixies...
What an atmosphere they created, with the TV'S, themselves, their performance, and the music they played. God, I missed out on so much being either a child or nonexistent in the 80's.
Kim Deal has been giving me the chills for decades. Beyond special.
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Gawd they are sharp! They sound like a massive guitar army. How did these band member not get along when pretty much everyone one on the planet loves all of them.
That's how it always is. Artists are always like that. I think Van Gogh lived with Paul Gaugin and pulled a knife on him at some point and never had another friend.
Sweaty 1980s Kim Deal - ah, they don't make them like her any more.
Richard Luck at 1:11, Looks like Kim wearing a red Star Trek uni
right on man
Check out Wolf Alice!
something about 1980's sweaty Kim Deal.. it does things to me
Chris Bovee uh wtf
I'm in love with her
What makes this even more impressive is that they're not thrown off by having cameras shoved so close in their faces. I've filmed a lot of bands and always try to give them space and not distract them. Kim's a champ at 1:15 and look how close the one is at 1:26 to the guitarist. Seriously guys, consider a zoom or longer lens. I get the wide lens aesthetic of the era but shit.
I was first introduced to Pixies by a French girl at University, who I was desperately in love with, but she was in love with a guy from Galicia. At least I have Pixies to remember her by. She was so special.
Such a great song by an amazing band. One of my fave groups even today. I saw them a few times in the late 90s, a couple of times more recently. Kim Deal is insanely badass.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris. cheers.....
kim deal is a talentless hack with no ass
I'm gonna listen this song all my life, that's how great it is!
Forever an amazing band
Yup. Not everyone saw it that way in the beginning though (*cough*, *cough*, Boston..where they formed). Dumbasses. One listen to their demo "The Purple Tape" and if you couldn't hear it, you shouldn't be in music.
+Steve Idxp why are most of your comments in this video so condescending... they just said they liked the band lol
i saw them in 1987-88at a free concert somewhere in downtown boston.. i think it may have been on the common.. i was only 9 at the time.. but i remember it vividly.
God damn this band was ahead of their time.
Kim Deal has a drop dead killer voice. . That is all. bye.
100 % agreed
First time I heard the Pixies was when they opened up for U2 in Tacoma WA! Blown away and still jamming to them!
Kurt Cobain said after he created Nevermind (and it blew the f#$k up)he wishes Kim Deal could write more songs for The Pixies because he loved this song Gigantic & he said & Kim wrote it!💝
And after he finished "Nevermind" & he was being interviewed he said...."And all I was trying to do is make an album that sounded like The Pixies!"
And Ladies & Gents if that isn't one of the biggest forms of flattery than I don't know what is then.🤷🏼♀️
Pixies!!!!!
Uma das bandas de rock alternativa que mais contemplo no cenário rock!!!!
Rock''and roll!!!!
Kim is so shiny.
trying to sing while playing a walking bassline is hard work
damn sexy shiny sweaty kim.
If Kim doesn't show up that day to the audition for a bass player (with NO bass) are the Pixies still the Pixies?
NaboCane no
I hate just about everything about Massachusetts except Kim Deal.
Fantastic, can you imagine what it was being 15 years old and seeing this on Firma Onrust on television? it changed at least my life and love for music! Love the Pixies and Kim Deal
Biggest Pixies hit, one of the few they let Kim take the front on, awesome and influential band. Frank is amazing but science shows the bass is what gets us going 😘
i saw them live two days a row, Civic Auditorium and the Fillmore.... San Francisco,
and yes they sound like their recording.. amazing, true musicians who can play it every time.. possibly a couple of the best days in my life... to see them back to back.. i have been spoiled for concerts ever since ... i just had to stop
Bands from the 90's and above owe a lot to these guys.
Best band, best song, best live performance. I listen at least three times if I listen once. It's like a chunk of rock candy.
❤🇨🇱
I wish I could go back to the early 80's and just spend the next 15 or so years going around to live music shows of all the great bands of those days. I was a little too young when it came and went unfortunately.
This song made me play Bass, they mean a lot to me, iconic album
Fuck yea!! i've been learning to play music on the guitar and the keyboards, but after listening to the pixies bass, I've learned so much how the bass can impact the music. Kim Deal plays this simple mysterious bassline that sounds weirdly odd, but when the other instruments kick in, I'm like "Oooh Fucking Shit!!" I get it now!" Its fucking genius, the Pixies were an magical band. Like so many disco funk Bassists in the 70s and 80s.
My favorite Pixies song. Cobain’s favorite Pixies song. They should have let Kim write more. Probably should have pushed the bass up on the master recording. I can never get the volume out of it that I want.
He liked it so much he plagiarized it
@@charlesmendonca7540 Curt Cobain and Nirvana didn't plagiarize anything. He himself recognized to be a great fan of them and with "smells like teen spirit" he said he tried to sound like the pixies.
Everything was agreed, and if there was any kind of plagiarism, it would have been reported. But the pixies were the biggest influence for all the late 80s and 90s alt rock bands, like Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and all the grunge genre.
@@Cosmefulanito2812 not plagiarized but you can tell where smells came from for sure
@@theanomaly73 that's for sure, everything from the 90s sounds like pixies. As I said, it was more like a tribute than a plagiarism
@@Cosmefulanito2812 cobain himself said he should have been in the pixies or at least a pixies cover band. Smells like Gigantic Spirit
Uma das melhores bandas de rock que escutei na vida!!😎
Personally this song stands out most for me opening the door to pixies. I never had the pleasure of getting deep in my teens, now I’m 37 experiencing them for the last decade or so feels like listening to them for the first time all over. This song hits different in 2024z
Possibly one of the the best band's this century
People dont really realize what bands like this did for rock. The music coming from the northeast really was so new shit no one else was doing. Great stuff.
The sweat is indicative of the passion going in to this song.
fucking raw and beautiful, they dont make them like this anymore
They did, Motorhead and Metallica comes to mind.
Been listening to the Pixies since i discovered them through "Fight Club". Im glad alot of people are discovering now through "Fear Street"
What a great live version! I’ve read many comments on other live videos that say “better than the record,” but those are usually people that are high on arsenic. This one is actually better than the record.
One of the greatest band of the 80s/90s and maybe of all time. Pixies and Sonic Youth are my favourite grunge bands and awesome live! Go Pixies!
Eeeew... I don't think we should put Pixies in the "grunge camp". They were well ahead all that. The term only came into existence a couple after their global impact. It's like calling The Beatles a "metal band" after they wrote Helter Skelter.
Si puede ser también the jesus anda meryl chain
The first time I saw the Pixies was Coachella 2004. Two friends and I flew fromNYC to California. They played Saturday night. It's was Pixies then Radiohead. What a moment. They blew me away even more than I had expected. Best Band ever hands down.
my god I haven't listened to this is forever......and I don't know why....I miss the original pixies. I saw them in spokane wa and they were so awesome.......
her smile and voice at 1:12
I'm just a millennial, who had just discovered Pixies, I love it.
Let the downward spiral commence
GFY millennial DB
and im just a gen z who had just discovered pixies
Hello i am fetus who love good music
I'm an older millennial who remembers listening to them in 1999. Fight Club got me hooked on them. I bought their greatest hits tribute CD in early 2000s. I don't think they even make CDs anymore. Crazy ain't it, how time flies? I'm 37 years old now, and my most precious memories are of the mid to late 90s when I didn't worry about bills, jobs, and current cultural matters like today. It was truly the last great American decade.
I've watched this millions of times. And, I'm going to watch it one million more. God...Bless...The...Pixies.
The Pixies and The Stone Roses in 1988-89 pretty much laid the blue print for music in the 90s... So much that followed had roots in either band. (In the UK anyhow).
Music making? Better leave it to the yankees. Except for Bowie, music from the UK sucks.
(No, I'm not an American)
That China crash really makes the chorus. Gotta love a drummer that knows how to just drive the beat and not get too fancy,
I still love her ❤
This was Kurt Cobain's fav song of them.
I can understand why... Its awesome.
Erik ST What if I told you no one gave a shit what Kurt thought.
+MrYouarethecancer Then you would obviously be wrong.
This was Kurt Cobain's favorite Pixies song, but not necessarily his favorite song of all time by anyone.
I had no idea this was the case! so weird because it's my favourite too
Kurt was a cynical asshole who thought he knew better than others, its even in his writings that he went over to kris Novasellic's house and smashed his eagles albums, and he acted so proud about it, not only that but he was suxh a fucking asshole to pearl jam like yeah, i get it, you dont like their music but that doesn't mean that you should act like they should stop playing music and just give up on life. oh yeah and hes a sham of a songwriter he even admits to it he says that music theory is retarded and useless then writes these songs that are DUN, DUN, DUN, correct in music theory. Kurts overrated, Layne Staley, Eddie Vedder, and Chris Cornell will always be 10x the man that kurt was.
Just love the natural juxtaposition of Male and female voices...perfect with that wonderful bass guitar!!!
June of 1988. Cubby Bear, Chicago. A top 5 show for me.
Es una música adelantada para esa época, genial¡¡
You can always judge how good a band is, by how closely live renditions of a song compare to the recorded version. Case in point: the Pixies. One of the best bands of their generation.
They're just called Pixies.
Exteminus
ya but it would be weird if he just put pixies
Couldn't agree anymore...I always look for that when checking out bands live.
don't agree with that at all. What's the point of going to see a band if they play it exactly the same as the record? For me the great bands play songs differently, often every night. Check out Zeppelin, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Hendrix, Pearl Jam, Nick Cave and loads more. It's much more exciting for the artist and the audience.
GravyDaveNewson Exactly, the OP's statement here is lame and wrong as fuck, a band's quality isn't measured by this notion AT ALL.
Es injusto que esta banda no sea tan reconosida me encatan sus canciones
this song ROCKS! It's GIGANTIC!
By the looks of the audience, they just witnessed one of the biggest changes in rock music and just didn't realise it... What I wouldn't give to be there 😱
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One of my favorite bands!
The Pixies is not the same without Kim Deal.
Oxel A its true
She came back for a while, but then she left again :/
I´ll see them in two weeks in Prague and I already know I´ll miss her there.
I had the same comment. The same everything.
I think she looked sexy in this video!
She always looked sexy!
Love all the tube TV's in the background.
I'm still wondering if anyone managed to obtain the tape(s) playing on the TVs.
Grunge really needs to come back. I love hip hop and some of the pop music and really like trap and chill hop. But I miss the rawness of this era
This song keeps getting in my head!!! Driving my crazy totally unpredictable!!! I hear this feed back then I start yelling GIGANTIC GIGANTIC
A Big Big Love to the Pixies, what a band they once were.
And still are.
Just the fact that this song is over 25 years old now but it's being used in a commercial today just further proves what Pixies fans already knew, One, that they were way ahead of the their time! And two that they made great music that has been often imitated but never duplicated!!!
Also proves that they ran out of money
I saw this performance on Dutch TV when it was first broadcast (I was 16 at the time) & I became an instant fan! :-)
Hard to believe that it's almost 30(!) years ago when this show was taped...time flies!