Bone Machine (track)
by Pixies
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Bone Machine appears on the following album(s) by Pixies:
- Surfer Rosa (track #1) (this album) (1988)
- Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim (track #1) (compilation) (1988)
- Wave Of Mutilation: Best Of Pixies (track #1) (compilation) (2004)
- Death To The Pixies (track #12) (compilation) (1997)
- Live At Coachella 2004/05/01 (track #1) (2010)
- Live: Malibu Nightclub, Lido Beach, NY, 31 July '89 (track #2) (2017)
- Minotaur (track #9) (compilation) (2009)
- Live From Brixton Academy, London. June 2nd, 2004 (track #10) (2020)
- 1991‐06‐01: Live From Espace Médoquine, Bordeaux, France (track #9) (2021)
- Live From Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, Cleveland, OH. June 8th, 2005 (track #6) (2021)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/17/2026 12:18 |  doombringer | 13,079 | 74/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 22:26 | kinginsomniac12 | 5,202 | 100/100 |
| ! | 11/19/2025 13:39 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,736 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/14/2025 07:22 | zsolti | 6,816 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/06/2025 10:45 | timosbuecherei | 3,202 | 60/100 |
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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 88.6/100, a mean average of 87.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.5.
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Brad1770 10/09/2019 06:06 | #243560
This song deals with infidelity and in particular Carol ( who ever she was)
The Bone Machine is a sexual reference to a body part with the line: “I make you pray , you make me hard “
The track also touches upon paedophile priests with the lyrics: “ I was talking to preachy priest about kissy kiss”
And my favourite lyrical line from the entire album is in this track being:
“ Our love is rice and beans and horse’s lard”
That bassline is so infectious!
pjohnsongolf 11/15/2018 00:01 | #224938
One of my favorite songs by them. So good!
This song blows my mind. Probably my favorite Pixies song ever.
GandalfORiley345 05/09/2014 22:57 | #111347
Incredible drums riff to open the album, very intelligent lyrics and worked guitars
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