Music

Dammit kid, you’re makin’ me feel old

During my time at Crazy Go Nuts University, I was in a band that covered a couple of Pixies numbers (Tame, U-Mass, and we also covered their cover of The Beatles’ Wild Honey Pie), and have attended 4 concerts where the Pixies were either part of the line-up or the headlining act. I suppose this kind of “oof” was bound to happen sooner or later.

Wave of Mutilation came from the Pixies’ 1989 album, Doolittle:

Joey deVilla

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