salvidor?
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song: debaser
album: doolittle
band: pixies
usa - 1989
+: the lyrics are based on a surrealist film by luis buñuel and salvador dalí called un chien andalou. the film notoriously opens with 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.”
according to black francis:
i wish buñuel was still alive. he made this film about nothing in particular. the title itself is a nonsense. with my stupid, pseudo-scholar, naive, enthusiast, avant-garde-ish, amateurish way to watch un chien andalou (twice), i thought: ‘yeah, i will make a song about it.’ [he sings:] “un chien andalou”… it sounds too french, so i will sing “un chien andalusia”, it sounds good, no?’
the title “debaser” references the fact that un chien andalou debases morality and standards of art, according to black francis.
