Tuesday, September 12, 2006

100 favourite songs: #52: "Where Is My Mind?" - Pixies

A classic, of course. Strangely off-kilter and a bit perverse, but, underneath it all, essentially a brill pop song. - 10/04

I just instinctively ‘get’ “Where Is My Mind?”. Love its uneven falling-down stagger and the jagged, wiry, unhinged energy of it all, and neither can nor want to resist its combination of insane pop catchiness and refusal to conform to convention or expectation; the song is the very furthest thing from cerebral, but listening to it feels nonetheless like a mind-expanding experience. In a word, cool.