Pixies - Gouge Away (6 Music Live Room)

Pixies perform Gouge Away live for BBC Radio 6 Music

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[carlschroeder]

Back in 2024 for another listen, who else is with me! This is timeless!

[manny]

I LOVE that they changed the song from the recorded version (they play it like this live for years now). On the album the lyrics start right in. This extended intro really adds to the mood of the song.
Great song from a great band.

[Bacchus]

After all these years - still one of the coolest bands

[dersteirer]

You don't have to be a Pixies fan to understand: this is flawless and perfect ❤

[ignasty]

Santiago makes lead guitar magic. His style is incredible

[zacharyjames]

I rang up Frank Black at work yesterday. I was completely starstruck. He came to the register and I couldn't stop looking up and staring at him and he finally asked me "Is everything OK?" And I ask "Is your name Frank?" And he replies "Yes" and I started to fanboy. He was very kind and humble. Such a surreal moment for me that I won't soon forget.

[Mr__Snrub]

I come back to this version so often, just incredible.

[ricardosplace]

That Dave Lovering is a first class drummer, no beats were skipped!

[SteveCalderon]

I have been watching this band perform this song for 30 years now and the last couple of years it has become an almost religious experience. It has transcended everything it has ever been before and ascended to a plane of pure sonic joy for me that nothing else has even come close to. I'd say that in its current incarnation, the live version has achieved perfection, but that doesn't do it justice. It's perfect, but it's perfect even for a Pixies song. There is simply nothing to compare to the experience of standing in the middle of a dance floor in a crowded auditorium, eyes closed, gently swaying to the calm-before-the-storm bass groove, knowing that with each controlled-chaos verse, hell is going to break a little more loose. By the time we get to "break the walls and kill us all", I am screaming the words back at Charles Thompson with the understanding that though he wrote them, I am feeling them, because that is his will. This song, and the way it is played today, stands as one of the greatest rock and roll achievements of my lifetime.

[BIgBass]

Just when I thought this song could never get better. I'm floored, this has got to be the best version of this song I've ever heard.

[sebb]

This Production is just badass. The bass, the drums, everything. This specific recording is a masterpiece. To see it taped is a revelation.

[skpk]

Brought here by RocketPoweredMohawk, shout out to his family.

[Rocketpoweredmohawk]

can’t believe all my people are spamming the comments of this masterpiece how dare u

[philipgior]

Over the years this band has risen in my esteem from one of the best American bands of their era, to one of the greatest bands of all time.

[Maximus-hqcz]

Paz is a hell of a musician, she was good in A Perfect Circle and now shes shredding with the Pixies...

[lilinparis]

In the 90's, I was lucky to see Frank Black in concert in Paris. I'm 55 and still love Pixies.

[beausinclair]

You're still the teenager of the year, Frank.

[mikewilson]

Dave looks like he could run a marathon. Drumming is a fantastic workout.

[tommackean]

Listening to this in an office with headphones on and I still take a deep breath just before "Missy aggravation" like I'm going to scream along. Very very few bands make me feel the way the Pixies do. I want to yell at people who don't know them and love them that they are missing out on something incredible. This is an awesome version too.

[jonathanpalmer]

I must have listened to this 500 times and it never gets old