No. 13 Baby (track)
by Pixies
No. 13 Baby appears on the following album(s) by Pixies:
- Doolittle (track #11) (this album) (1989)
- Live At Coachella 2004/05/01 (track #8) (2010)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 3 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 80,774 | 70/100 | |
| 3 days ago | Foxforce5 | 4,907 | 77/100 | |
| 01/21/2026 15:28 | Robert_fripp | 823 | 86/100 | |
| 12/28/2025 06:49 | spinout | 39,029 | 83/100 | |
| 11/18/2025 15:20 |  VictorVale | 43,220 | 88/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.3/100, a mean average of 83.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.2.
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Best track ever made by Pixies. Everytime I hear it, I think: this is really something special. Like Teenage Kicks - the Undertones and Get it on - T Rex.
'I'm in a state' of confusion why do so many rate this so highly. I agree the outro is really good but it is only just about saving a fairly ordinary song. Not the best by the Pixies by a long shot.
One of those songs that I'm in love with, then see it's rating on this site and become confused about life...
dihansse 09/14/2019 19:52 | #242614
I underestimated this track a bit amongst the other classics on this album... until I saw it being performed live and where the outro was really kicking ass and I came to realise that it does the same thing on the album; kick ass: what a solo!
The final 2 minutes are so simple yet so incredible. Often just listen to this to improve my mood.
buzzdainer 05/14/2017 01:06 | #190730
Terrific song, and perfectly placed on Doolittle. I especially appreciate Joey Santiago's slightly off-kilter guitar solo in the outro that follows Black Francis's final unhinged declarations: "Viva, don't want no blue eyes / La loma, I want brown eyes / Rica, I'm in a state."
Nothing special, but an OK track
hoyquarlow 07/30/2016 19:50 | #172001
Best Pixies song IMO... The instrumental, last 2 minutes are insanely epic.
tgarritsen 05/16/2016 12:50 | #166150
Not a song that I particulary think is special
flyingcitrus 01/13/2015 22:56 | #131484
Wasn't much of a fan of the vocals, but the outro was nice.
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