MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released June 19th in 1989

This song feels like a runway to the sound of the 90s

Pixies with:

“Here Comes Your Man.”

(Music Cut #2)

Pixies helped pioneer

the loud-quiet-loud sound

that inspired Nirvana.

But “Here Comes Your Man” was

Bright.

Catchy.

Almost too normal.

The band reportedly called it:

“the Tom Petty song.”

(Music Cut #3 – Tom Petty clip)

And to be clear…

I like Tom Petty.

But for Pixies,

“Here Comes Your Man”

almost sounded too perfect, too pop, too commercial.

So, of course, what happens –

it became one of their biggest Modern Rock hits.

(Music Cut #4 – back to “Here Comes Your Man” clip)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“I know the nervous walkin’
I know the dirty beard hangs
Out by the boxcar waitin’
Take me away to nowhere plains.” – The Pixies

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