Debaser (track)
by Pixies
Debaser appears on the following album(s) by Pixies:
- Doolittle (track #1) (this album) (1989)
- Death To The Pixies (track #5) (compilation) (1997)
- Death To The Pixies (track #19) (compilation) (1997)
- Live At Coachella 2004/05/01 (track #12) (2010)
- Live: Malibu Nightclub, Lido Beach, NY, 31 July '89 (track #7) (2017)
- Minotaur (track #22) (compilation) (2009)
- Live From Brixton Academy, London. June 2nd, 2004 (track #20) (2020)
- 1991‐06‐01: Live From Espace Médoquine, Bordeaux, France (track #12) (2021)
- Live From Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, Cleveland, OH. June 8th, 2005 (track #13) (2021)
- Live From Coachella 2004 (track #12) (2022)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/18/2025 14:47 |  VictorVale | 42,931 | 88/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2025 05:56 | Exist-en-ciel | 27,218 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2025 23:11 |  Superunknown | 506 | 86/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2025 16:32 | gmessian | 1,400 | 55/100 |
| ! | 08/14/2025 22:38 |  DJFresh-Rock | 1,459 | 83/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 91.9/100, a mean average of 90.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 92.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.0.
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Awesome rock tune. One of the best of the 80s
Black Francis references 'Un Chien Andalou'( a Dali/Bunuel surrealist film of the 1920's) which contains a scene where a man is slicing a girl's eyeballs. Nice. It is said the film debases morality and standards of art hence the song title. Some might say this song does the same for music. I couldn't possibly comment.
StefanR10 07/11/2020 22:07 | #255436
I like very much the riff and the bass. Good quality awesome.
Way ahead of its time.
pjohnsongolf 09/29/2018 03:18 | #221813
This is my favorite song to sing to. Absolutely awfully beautiful
DeusExMackia 03/15/2018 11:16 | #210971
Sounded new in 1989.
Sounded new in 1999.
Sounded new in 2009.
Will still sound new in 2019 and beyond.
Man, the first time I heard this song, I was like wtf is this shit.
Brad1770 01/07/2018 22:20 | #204917
Cracking track, 100/100
Awesome opener :D Love the Bunuel reference!
buzzdainer 03/27/2017 02:45 | #188164
"I am un chien andalusia." It's pretty hard to argue with that ironclad logic. I really have no idea what Black Francis is getting at here, nor do I know what a debaser is, aside from the obvious: one who debases. What I do know is that this song has one hell of a catchy riff, and it's a great introduction to one of rock music's wildest gibberish fests.
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