Brick Is Red (track)
by Pixies
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Brick Is Red appears on the following album(s) by Pixies:
- Surfer Rosa (track #13) (this album) (1988)
- Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim (track #14) (compilation) (1988)
- Minotaur (track #21) (compilation) (2009)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 04/04/2026 19:23 | stareaterogni0n | 5,634 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/21/2026 22:02 | Juneof44 | 4,697 | 73/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2026 14:55 | Exist-en-ciel | 160,957 | 71/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2026 04:54 | alexandermause | 17,953 | 85/100 |
| ! | 01/17/2026 12:46 |  doombringer | 14,891 | 74/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.0/100, a mean average of 82.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.0.
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Brad1770 10/14/2019 01:50 | #243724
Another song clearly about death and more specifically death by hanging as for told by the lines
“A fist is fast and Jimmy's cast hang me
A white moon's hot
The other side's not
Hang me”
The line
“My eyes have turned just the color of
Diamond…”
references death in terms of a persons eyes rolling back to white upon dying
Great closer.
GandalfORiley345 05/09/2014 23:24 | #111361
Good song to close and album, and one f my favorite´s
Best track on the album. A perfect closer to a perfect album.
Nice song!
I agree with eclab.
eclab 01/07/2013 11:18 | #60544
The opening is excellent.
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