Crucial Track for April 20, 2025

"Here Comes Your Man" by Pixies

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Fav song from HS? Here Comes Your Man by the Pixies. The Pixies quickly became one of my favorite bands early in HS and I even wore out my Doolittle tape while camping one summer. I knew that album so well that I’d sing it in my head start to finish, even mentally “flipping over the tape”, during every long swim practice after school..for years, multiple times. Those were some loooonng practices. Then get out of the pool and listen to the actual album in my Walkman while waiting for a ride home. I was also obsessed with Kim Deal (and Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, the gals of Sleater Kinney and other similar women in music at the time) and her do whatever she wanted vibe which was completely opposed to everything my young female self was hearing at the time. I imagined running away and being in a band, marrying some cool guy and walking down the aisle to Here Comes Your Man. As one does, at long swim practices when you’re 15. 😂