Pixies - Alec Eiffel

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @Jack_Rivet
    @Jack_Rivet 4 года назад +344

    I heard this song in an Alternative Rock club in 1995.
    I've spent the last 25 years looking for a song called In The Lifeboat.

    • @nicolasmrn
      @nicolasmrn 3 года назад +34

      that's amazing man, and hilarious too, because "In the Lifeboat" totally fits.

    • @fragre77
      @fragre77 3 года назад +19

      life before Shazam was weird

    • @Jack_Rivet
      @Jack_Rivet 3 года назад +16

      @@fragre77 I don’t know if Shazam would have worked with the ear-splitting volume 90’s clubs went for.
      But yeah, it was!

    • @fridastwin
      @fridastwin 3 года назад +1

      Omg, I’m dying!!! 😂😂😂

    • @wiggermadeteslacleswafflei2927
      @wiggermadeteslacleswafflei2927 3 года назад +3

      What's worse is The Breeders

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat 4 года назад +268

    An underrated song.

    • @lennycook206
      @lennycook206 4 года назад +9

      This must be the most used comment in 2020 on YT. What is it with this phenomenon? "Underrated"

    • @jrock4060
      @jrock4060 4 года назад +3

      Your underrated

    • @lennycook206
      @lennycook206 4 года назад +3

      @@jrock4060 "You're" you muppet.

    • @jrock4060
      @jrock4060 4 года назад +3

      @@lennycook206 what a waste of a comment

    • @lennycook206
      @lennycook206 4 года назад +3

      @@jrock4060 the irony

  • @kaitlinmojica9678
    @kaitlinmojica9678 4 года назад +295

    The most underrated Pixies song. That melody that starts about midway in the song is badass yet beautiful.

    • @bentonja668
      @bentonja668 4 года назад +11

      Trompe Le Monde is not only my favorite Pixies album, its my favorite album, period.

    • @auron2x
      @auron2x 3 года назад +11

      Man, after hearing it for first time I had that melody stuck in my head for about 6 months after. I thought I was going to have to go to the doctors about it!

    • @metaorior
      @metaorior 3 года назад +1

      YES

    • @DaisyChaine
      @DaisyChaine 3 года назад +1

      you were probably born long after the pixies broke up and moved on with their other side projects. i bet you don’t even know the name of kim’s band after pixies or the name of blacks solo stuff

    • @kaitlinmojica9678
      @kaitlinmojica9678 3 года назад +15

      @@DaisyChaine Kim's band was the breeders, she also had another band called the amps. Never listened to blacks solo stuff. And just cause I was born after they broke up doesn't mean I don't know shit about them lol. So get off my comment boomer.

  • @mxlchic6471
    @mxlchic6471 4 года назад +77

    this chord progression is eternal and blessed

  • @drdeesnutts48
    @drdeesnutts48 4 года назад +51

    This song is about 50% of the reason Trompe le monde is my favourite Pixies album.

    • @jordanroherty4483
      @jordanroherty4483 Год назад

      For me, it's 1/4th, the other 75% being the title track, Planet of Sound, and The Sad Punk.

    • @michaelcooper4986
      @michaelcooper4986 4 месяца назад

      Not a bad album at all I always thought that they were totally underrated as a band

  • @bernardw4842
    @bernardw4842 4 года назад +61

    "They didn't want it but he built it anyway" is still a favourite lyric

    • @jesselopes5196
      @jesselopes5196 3 года назад +2

      Yeah - unfortunately it reminds me of The Fountainhead haha

  • @hectorvonvector4663
    @hectorvonvector4663 5 лет назад +171

    The best Pixies song period. I can’t get enough of that guitar

    • @whateverdude6298
      @whateverdude6298 5 лет назад +6

      my fav is Gouge Away but this is close 2nd

    • @harter517
      @harter517 5 лет назад +5

      Agree. Probably their best song.

    • @RozzDarkly
      @RozzDarkly 5 лет назад +4

      Simple riff doesn't make no *sense* ,, but you like it anyways

    • @rorydean6803
      @rorydean6803 4 года назад +2

      I'm gonna have to agree... this along with debaser got me into the best indie band ever 🤣😎

    • @davideaston6944
      @davideaston6944 3 года назад +1

      Well, if that was their best, then... Kinda glad I haven't heard a lot of their music!
      {%^)

  • @WatTyler13
    @WatTyler13 4 года назад +82

    Early Pixies albums: brilliant for their singular and unpolished vibe.
    This Pixies album: brilliant for it's multi-layered and polished vibe.
    Either way, we all won.

    • @jeffbartell2087
      @jeffbartell2087 3 года назад +7

      4 perfect LPs. and then...whatever came after that we don't need to discuss

  • @Casket1488
    @Casket1488 4 года назад +170

    Only the pixies can make a song about French architecture sound so cool and awesome

    • @foxopossum
      @foxopossum 3 года назад +5

      ONLY the Pixies🤣🤣

    • @lolo-hq7sg
      @lolo-hq7sg 2 года назад +3

      Basic francophobia... Where are u from ? Have a guess, USA I assume ?

    • @sonicdiablo8968
      @sonicdiablo8968 2 года назад +3

      @@foxopossum Name another band that have written a song about French architecture

    • @foxopossum
      @foxopossum 2 года назад +3

      @@sonicdiablo8968 i was agreeing with you. The laughing faces were just to highlight me being so very delighted by the uniqueness of this band. They are my all time favorite 🥰❣️

    • @sonicdiablo8968
      @sonicdiablo8968 2 года назад +1

      @@foxopossum me too, love them

  • @thechief5670
    @thechief5670 3 года назад +22

    The end of this song is probably my favorite bit of Pixies music.

  • @thisdeath
    @thisdeath 6 месяцев назад +3

    man this is such a beautiful song especially that outro

  • @Aaronage1
    @Aaronage1 5 лет назад +315

    Super sad that critics still shit on Trompe Le Monde, deserves as much love as the Pixies earlier work 👍

    • @marlonstpeters2505
      @marlonstpeters2505 5 лет назад +9

      they did? as a "critic" myself i never looked..pixies are god, that's all i needed to know

    • @Iamluckystef
      @Iamluckystef 5 лет назад +13

      Yeah, high key slept on Trompe Le Monde myself. Super dope, lots of "shoegazey" elements imo, dig it.

    • @nonpolygon
      @nonpolygon 5 лет назад +24

      critics are usually embarrassing edgelords

    • @luismiguelreategui278
      @luismiguelreategui278 5 лет назад

      That is my favority

    • @CoboProdz
      @CoboProdz 5 лет назад +1

      Phenomenon album. Agreed!

  • @OldSethOnetooth
    @OldSethOnetooth 5 лет назад +98

    Had never noticed until now how Eric Drew Feldman's keyboard sounded like a Kim Deal harmony backing vocal and then in comes a Kim Deal harmony backing vocal over it. Those guys were sneaky.

    • @jaynesvijeo249
      @jaynesvijeo249 4 года назад

      Absolute g's

    • @alleygh0st
      @alleygh0st 3 года назад

      it basically does the same, just simplified the first time around

  • @chrishughes1103
    @chrishughes1103 27 дней назад

    The Pixies are the best and best brilliance of the brilliance of the bands of our era, so thank you for it, for YEARS !

  • @misterbamboostick
    @misterbamboostick 5 лет назад +79

    Gives me shivers every time Eric Drew Feldman's keyboards drop in, especially when it goes together with the vocals...

    • @stevengrounds3131
      @stevengrounds3131 5 лет назад +3

      Yes and his movements playing the keyboards awesome

    • @bigpapasandwichsteen
      @bigpapasandwichsteen 3 года назад +1

      I talked to Eric Drew Feldman outside a FB&C show in Minneapolis. And what a nice guy.

    • @craigmurdock4740
      @craigmurdock4740 2 года назад

      Such an under appreciated musician

  • @DoroteoVilla
    @DoroteoVilla 5 месяцев назад +5

    The fade out. Gorgeous.

  • @crumbcrunchers5017
    @crumbcrunchers5017 4 месяца назад +2

    My favorite Pixies song, hands down.

  • @DocVandy1999
    @DocVandy1999 Год назад +3

    Easily coolest pixies video, hands down

  • @alexythimia23
    @alexythimia23 3 года назад +7

    This fkn band..just been in love since 89

  • @sourjellybaby4286
    @sourjellybaby4286 5 лет назад +45

    Just come back from Paris and at the top of the Eiffel Tower read about Eiffel's work on aerodynanics. So this video makes a whole lot more SENSE!

    • @stevengrounds3131
      @stevengrounds3131 5 лет назад +1

      Underrated comment 🤣

    • @floryboonda
      @floryboonda 3 года назад

      @@stevengrounds3131 lol

    • @io3204
      @io3204 3 года назад +1

      You mean how the drag coefficient relates to the intensity of sound?

  • @currentresident3775
    @currentresident3775 5 лет назад +76

    Trompe Le Monde is an epic album!!! Played it to death back in the day...🌌🌠

    • @philipgior3312
      @philipgior3312 5 лет назад +4

      In my opinion one of the greatest of all time.

    • @currentresident3775
      @currentresident3775 5 лет назад +5

      Philip Gior Absolutely- the production was perfect.

    • @mikebott6940
      @mikebott6940 5 лет назад +4

      @@philipgior3312 Yep, Dare I say it's as good as all the other Pixies albums ?

    • @philipgior3312
      @philipgior3312 5 лет назад +1

      @@mikebott6940 Yes, you may dare!

  • @saruealmeida3717
    @saruealmeida3717 5 лет назад +30

    The intensity of sound.

  • @memorypaigeee8828
    @memorypaigeee8828 28 дней назад +1

    One of my favorite songs by the pixies honestly all of em are gems 💎

  • @blueconversechucks
    @blueconversechucks 2 года назад +10

    Kind of sad that you usually can't transition from planet of sound to alec Eiffel on RUclips without an ad interrupting. It's one of my favorite transitions on any album I've ever had. If you like these songs, seek it out and Crank it up! It kicks ass!

  • @nicolasmrn
    @nicolasmrn 4 года назад +34

    this song is amazing, the outro drives me nuts! Black Francis is a genius and Kim, Joe and Lovering too!

  • @steve_22xy
    @steve_22xy 4 года назад +13

    nice to hear a Pixies song with keyboards, New Wave-ish . they're able to play so many ways

  • @whateverdude6298
    @whateverdude6298 5 лет назад +24

    this song gives me goose bumps every time

  • @saravivarini9216
    @saravivarini9216 Год назад +3

    Always the best ones, no way

  • @carlosg.c.9666
    @carlosg.c.9666 8 месяцев назад +2

    el clip más trabajado de los Pixies

  • @jimmynebula4264
    @jimmynebula4264 5 лет назад +62

    Oh Alexander I see you beneath
    The archway of aerodynamics

    • @eliasmg9144
      @eliasmg9144 5 лет назад +1

      So many equations make one engineer big.

    • @nicolasmrn
      @nicolasmrn 4 года назад +5

      that part is so angelical, reminds me of cocteau twins and stereolab

    • @stefanoforcellini4875
      @stefanoforcellini4875 4 года назад +1

      oh yeah

    • @jimmynebula
      @jimmynebula 4 года назад

      @@nicolasmrn you hit it right on!

  • @MattKingNOLA
    @MattKingNOLA Год назад +1

    Creative AF! You should be proud.

  • @thomassumner2206
    @thomassumner2206 6 месяцев назад +2

    I am a pixies fan
    I celebrate yher entire catalogue

  • @jasonpeters9716
    @jasonpeters9716 3 месяца назад +1

    Almost got a "4AD" tat in 95...18yrs old.
    Came very close on drunken night.
    That or a cursive "t" inside a triangle.
    (Toadies, emblem)

  • @Pongant
    @Pongant 3 года назад +2

    The melody is so haunting...

  • @philipgior3312
    @philipgior3312 5 лет назад +23

    Joey plays some hot guitar licks on this track. I never even realized this song had a video.

    • @Blake4625kHz
      @Blake4625kHz 4 года назад +1

      When the song is so good it should not have a video 😩 ( still will watch it a thousand times over a Bush vid any day) but damn..

  • @EmegopsForever
    @EmegopsForever 5 лет назад +63

    i feel like you guys are just sitting on a ton of classic content just put it out already!!!! this and all the wolfgang press music videos like wtf I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE 4AD

  • @siobhanstrauss8492
    @siobhanstrauss8492 2 года назад +4

    I love the Pixies

  • @HoloGong
    @HoloGong 4 года назад +9

    You know this song is rough and tuff and intellectual and I LOVE IT!

  • @menswear2112
    @menswear2112 Год назад +1

    Can we just take a moment and appreciate Lovering’s drumming? Direct but not simple.

  • @Turnet47
    @Turnet47 2 года назад +2

    This song is so underrated. The second half for me is basically some mystic experience lmao

  • @ianfisher5623
    @ianfisher5623 6 месяцев назад +1

    This song rocks....thank you

  • @2ghetto4greyhound55
    @2ghetto4greyhound55 2 года назад +2

    I am here to ROCK!🧚‍♀️🎸💎🤘&2Turn back the CLOCK!⚡🎰

  • @NachtSchreck13
    @NachtSchreck13 Год назад +2

    My favorite pixies song.

  • @aaronimoh
    @aaronimoh 11 лет назад +20

    One of my very favorite bands!

  • @lupehn
    @lupehn 5 лет назад +5

    The build up and ending is always so epic!

  • @jghamann
    @jghamann 2 года назад +9

    I was 15 at the time and loved this. Never understood my friends love for Guns and Roses, never liked it. And they thought I was weird for loving this song.

  • @丸山康平-l2f
    @丸山康平-l2f Год назад +1

    4ADで最高のバンド

  • @mrebyers
    @mrebyers 11 лет назад +10

    This one has vastly superior audio and video quality, genius.

  • @ben.futureprimitive
    @ben.futureprimitive 3 года назад +3

    damn.. this songs recall back my teen days non stop playing this track..

  • @nicolasmrn
    @nicolasmrn 3 года назад +2

    one of my favorites outros ever.

  • @Bye_Hghts
    @Bye_Hghts 3 года назад +12

    Pioneer of aerodynamics
    (Little Eiffel, Little Eiffel)
    They thought he was real smart Alec
    (Little Eiffel, Little Eiffel)
    He thought big they called it a phallic
    (Little Eiffel, Little Eiffel)
    They didn't know he was panoramic
    Little Eiffel stands in the archway
    (Little Eiffel, Little Eiffel)
    Keeping low doesn't make no sense
    Sometimes people can be oh so dense
    They didn't want it but he built it anyway
    (Little Eiffel, Little Eiffel)
    Little Eiffel stands in the archway
    (Little Eiffel, Little Eiffel)
    Keeping low don't make sense
    Keeping low doesn't make no-sense
    Little Eiffel stands in the archway
    Oh Alexander I see you beneath
    The archway of aerodynamics

  • @phillipcampbell843
    @phillipcampbell843 2 года назад +5

    I miss this Gen X energy. Best outro ever

  • @animalrevenge1058
    @animalrevenge1058 5 лет назад +23

    Santiago’ s guitar 👌🏻

  • @jaumecalvoboronat6384
    @jaumecalvoboronat6384 5 лет назад +3

    Just another amaizing song from Pixies !
    In a perfect word , they would be one of the three best band ever

  • @ugachanman423
    @ugachanman423 3 года назад +3

    This song gave huge inspirations to a lot of artists, especially MEW.

  • @thomassumner2206
    @thomassumner2206 6 месяцев назад +2

    Sometimes people can be oh . so dense

  • @thyrionjc2885
    @thyrionjc2885 Год назад +1

    Une des dix chansons que j'emmène dans ma tombe

  • @rainflowers1099
    @rainflowers1099 2 года назад +1

    This is an incredible tune, one of my favourite Pixies songs for sure

  • @arieltd78
    @arieltd78 3 года назад +2

    Trompe le Monde is ny favorite Pixies album, can listen to it continually nonstop from beginning to end 😎👍🏼

  • @alexcepile1420
    @alexcepile1420 2 года назад +1

    one of the best songs ever made

  • @wynstonsmith7194
    @wynstonsmith7194 3 года назад +3

    Saw the Pixies open for U2 in 1992 and when they played this song me and my date got up and were dancing like maniacs (we LOVED the Pixies). Everyone around us was giving us strange looks. Fuck 'em!

    • @seekah1
      @seekah1 3 года назад

      I would've gone for the Pixies, fuck U2 at that point.

  • @cheekymouse4
    @cheekymouse4 3 года назад +1

    The most beautiful ending to a song x

  • @xdo0b
    @xdo0b 5 лет назад +19

    Obrigado Pixies.

  • @katewehr414
    @katewehr414 2 года назад +2

    im just gonna say godamn i forgot the love i had for these guys and gals straight beauty

  • @chrisrothgeb8725
    @chrisrothgeb8725 5 лет назад +2

    Keep these gems coming.. TWP and now Pixies Trompe le Monde? It’s about time the masses hear music played by musicians.

    • @jaybee7876
      @jaybee7876 5 лет назад

      It's between Frank Black & Mojave 3 this week....

  • @kevbouchet3374
    @kevbouchet3374 2 года назад +3

    Es tan surrealista que no puedo evitar enamorarme. . el video, las melodías. . Gracias por tantos años de pura magia, son eternos, Pixies!

  • @animarious
    @animarious 5 лет назад +5

    I've waiting years for the hd version of this video. Thanks 4AD.

    • @Hangaroid
      @Hangaroid 5 лет назад +2

      This is 480p, but I guess HD for that time

  • @carlospires7411
    @carlospires7411 5 лет назад +17

    Fantástico álbum! 🖤🖤🖤

  • @75harg
    @75harg 2 года назад +4

    I wish this song lasted 79 minutes

  • @cedricdavis-lj6tq
    @cedricdavis-lj6tq Год назад +1

    Pixies....that's it that's all of it

  • @lupehn
    @lupehn 4 года назад +2

    This song never gets old

  • @GeorgeB514
    @GeorgeB514 5 лет назад +31

    yea to me Trompe Le Monde is the best LP but opinions vary... I heard this particular song played when I first visited Paris and was staying in a Hostel a stones throw from Eiffel and I told the guy running the box how cool it was to hear this song here and he, a local, hadn't even realized the minor significance and we shared a smile

    • @ApeQuake
      @ApeQuake 5 лет назад +4

      Trompe Le Monde was an INCREDIBLE album, but it was closer to a Frank Black solo album. My favorite of theirs remains Bossanova.

  • @peky6036
    @peky6036 2 года назад +1

    this song is amazing

  • @axelchendo1704
    @axelchendo1704 3 года назад +8

    Amante del punk rock y es increíble que nunca escuché está banda🤘

    • @75harg
      @75harg 2 года назад +1

      bienvenido a la mejor banda de la historia

  • @TheGroovySideOftheTube
    @TheGroovySideOftheTube 4 года назад +1

    I got this on 12" when it came out. Nice!

  • @josuealmanza9393
    @josuealmanza9393 3 года назад +4

    You can have a band and be cool, but you will never be as cool as Pixies

  • @lesk8
    @lesk8 11 лет назад +6

    this is so cool... great band...

  • @jonathanlomell4702
    @jonathanlomell4702 4 года назад +7

    this song made me appreciate them even more
    We need more artists like pixies

  • @redrevolver182
    @redrevolver182 5 лет назад +9

    28 años de esta maravilla

  • @ashesoftime5864
    @ashesoftime5864 2 года назад

    My favourite Pixies song .... always thought the lyrics went 'little white horse stands in the otways' :DDDDDDDD ..... I think Trompe le Monde is far and away their most interesting and beautiful album. From one of the most utterly inventive and gorgeous bands in history. Saw them twice in concert and just loved them. Such appealing and endearing performers. How they produced so much authentic music untrammelled by the vagaries of fame and trends I cannot imagine. Genius XXX

  • @boxianparkk
    @boxianparkk Год назад +2

    AMO EL SONIDO DE PIXIES

  • @SebastianTorres22
    @SebastianTorres22 2 года назад +1

    This song is madness. I love it!

  • @rexmundi3108
    @rexmundi3108 4 года назад +9

    Very few bands are actually tested in wind tunnels.

  • @amargeta398
    @amargeta398 3 года назад +1

    Amazing guitar

  • @nesssavaness
    @nesssavaness 3 года назад +1

    The second PIxies song I ever heard! Classic.

  • @obus4186
    @obus4186 2 года назад

    Been listening to this and their song "space, I believe in", another less known but filled with original melodies, intertwined with Santiago's feedback loaded guitar

  • @fiveorsixgirls
    @fiveorsixgirls 4 года назад +1

    My second favorite

  • @maxkol4380
    @maxkol4380 5 лет назад +12

    Maybe the coolest video ever

  • @sandradantas2948
    @sandradantas2948 5 лет назад +1

    The intensity of sound

  • @silviojoseperedacortes7029
    @silviojoseperedacortes7029 3 года назад +1

    Hypnotic track !!!!!!

    • @seekah1
      @seekah1 3 года назад +1

      3m of Pixies magic, such a gorgeous song, and extremely underrated.

  • @hiquegpx
    @hiquegpx 4 года назад +2

    the first song I got really really high listening to, was around seventeen and been toking ever since

  • @starcraftnewbie2003
    @starcraftnewbie2003 4 года назад

    Such a brilliant way to make a great song. They're geniuses.

  • @wayneelliott7011
    @wayneelliott7011 4 года назад +2

    Trompe Le Monde is a Masterpiece.

    • @robertgosev4881
      @robertgosev4881 3 года назад

      Исто и босанова сурфар роса и долитл албумите.

  • @remakeremodel2933
    @remakeremodel2933 3 года назад

    Thunderous!! ... they always were and always will be

  • @Tokyo_Matt
    @Tokyo_Matt 4 года назад +2

    Best sub 3 minute punk record of all time

  • @mkmstillstackin
    @mkmstillstackin 3 года назад +1

    I come back at least once a year, like a moth to the flame.

  • @lancashirebomber9744
    @lancashirebomber9744 4 года назад +2

    tromp le monde is my fave lp from pixies.

  • @TZKeyz
    @TZKeyz 5 лет назад +2

    Love the keyboard parts.

  • @stevepirog917
    @stevepirog917 3 месяца назад

    I fell in love with the band listening to troumpe le monde, planet of sound , then this. I hadn't heard previous material. Frankly, earlier stuff doesn't hold up

  • @johannaguzman7
    @johannaguzman7 4 года назад +3

    Me encantan the pixies !