13 reasons why Pixies were the best thing since generic pre-packaged loaves of the sliced variety

1. Because the following invoke a series of spontaneous and simultaneous bodily jirations and screamalongs:

• Rock Music
• Tame
• Something Against You
• River Euphrates
• Gouge Away
• There Goes My Gun
• Wild Honey Pie

2. Because of love songs that range from ironic to unconventionally romantic to just plain perverted:

• Hey
• Cactus
• La La Love You

3. Because of lyrics unparalleled in occasional nonsensicalness yet unquestionable ingeniousness:

• Subbacultcha ......"You know, when you GROPE! FOR! LUNA!"
• Bone Machine ......"You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me" | You buy me a soda and you try to molest me in the parking lot"
• I've Been Tired ......"I said I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed. I like Lou Reed, she said, sticking her tongue in my ear... While we're at it baby, why don't you tell me one of your biggest fears? I said, losing my penis to a whore with disease.. just KIDding, I said - losing my life to a whore with disease... she said, Excuse me, please?"

4. "You Fuckin' Die"

5. Because some songs seem extra-emotionally intense and meaningful, without really being about anything at all:

• Wave of Mutilation (slow version)
• In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
• Caribou

6. Because some songs make you feel like you're floating away:

• Havalina
• Blown Away
• (the ending of) Motorway to Roswell

7. Because some songs make for perfect non-shitty pop:

• Alec Eiffel
• Trompe Le Monde
• Here Comes Your Man

8. Because of blood-curling screams mixed with angelic, sometimes irrelevantly out-of-tune harmonies (...see "1" & "5"...)

9. Because Joey Santiago does more with one bent note than all the world's Dimebag Darylls and Zak Wyldes put together.

10. Because they really know how to make a purposely, wonderfully bad music video.

11. ...or how to use them to poke fun at the mainstream:

12. Because "Pixies" reminds you of every & anything great about the 80s.

• Theme From Narc

13. Because...



Oh and yeah, Where Is My Mind was good in Fight Club. Now shut up about it.