My Life in Music: The Pixies – Debaser

There aren’t many good songs about Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s film Un Chien Andalou, but this is one of them. Who else but The Pixies could have made the line “Slicing up eyeballs – ha, ha, ha, ho!” such singalong fun.  They are my favourite band.  I loved the way that they didn’t look like a rock group, and that they made deliberately boring videos so that MTV wouldn’t play them.  I was in a nightclub in Swansea, that teetered on the edge of the sea, when the news appeared on a video screen that The Pixies had broken up.  My reaction was to buy more drinks and become less sober.