Were The Pixies the First Band to Write a Song About El Nino?

By Kevin Zelnio, on August 7th, 2011 6 comments   Music   el nino, Frank Black, The Pixies, Wave of Mutilation  

Of course, it may be debatable how this song is all about El Nino, but there is NO DEBATE on whether The Pixies were one of the greatest bands in existence of my generation.

6 comments to Were The Pixies the First Band to Write a Song About El Nino?

• Markk

  August 8, 2011 at 00:51 · Reply

  I’m guessing some old Atacama tribes local band a few thousand years ago … not that old Francis didn’t write one of my all time favorite songs. I think I have three versions or so in the old collection.

• ElOceanografo

  August 8, 2011 at 01:23 · Reply

  Hey, if Frank says so, I’ll take his word on it…

  Cool video. I didn’t know they’d performed at Newport. I got to see them in San Jose, which was one of the memorable moments of my first year in college.

• LB

  August 8, 2011 at 03:55 · Reply

  Its very impressive that he figured out ENSO’s wave-like nature – he wrote this song BEFORE Topex/Poseidon was launched, when everyone else got to see it propogating across the Pacific. Should we be searching their back catologue for other ideas, as mathematicians did with Gauss’s notebooks after he died??

• Hege F.

  August 8, 2011 at 09:50 · Reply

  Had a bit of fun reading through the comments on this page:

  http://www.lyricsdepot.com/pixies/wave-of-mutilation.html

  Somehow made me think of Nick Hornby’s ‘Juliet, Naked’ :-D

  • Kevin Zelnio

    August 8, 2011 at 17:02 · Reply

    Ha! Those are a riot!

• Jason R

  August 8, 2011 at 21:47 · Reply

  Everything I know about Artemia I learned from the Pixies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mmR5fQIEU