Pixies - River Euphrates

[TheSurferbob]

she looks like a sociology teacher I once had

[kurtywurty85]

This is now in my playlist on here, entitled: Lovely.

[Megalocalypse1]

I thoroughly enjoy this video

[master777999]

FUCK YEAH!

[jedirhythm]

this video is really fun to watch! really good vibe and atmosphere that fits the music. and very very human. just the pixies would want it. love it.

I apologize on behalf of any jaded critics who watch too many blockbuster films and expect to have their minds explode. they'll shut up though if you just give them some more crack.

[Advarb]

Excellent video! Well done!

[jabatheglut]

yea, but they are saying ride. just so you know.

[TheEggster70]

I am of this era but had never heard of them til a couple of years ago.

[proffesorcaresser]

The chick at the end should motion with her finger...... 'No NO not that way..... this way'

[Darksunshinerain87]

This will always be my favorite Pixies song. I love it so fucking much. Long live The Pixies!

[HarpoonTorpedo]

i la la love super 8, you get such a great "film" look to your film. if that makes any sense.

[FaxanaduJohn]

Alriggghhht! Arrrgghhhaa!! Tyre Fucker!

[mm63443]

HOW COOL CAN YOU GET?

[annienickjenks3]

i dont care what they're saying, this shows movement , goes with the song and so, whatever, i need to take this with me, i'm always correcting my man, and when someong corrected me, tho i think they are wrong about a descendant's song-sour grapes- they just looked really stupid, and so it is

[euroyankee2003]

I used to live on the Euphrates... I sang this song to myself every day on my way to work.

[fifitrixibellenz]

They're singing: "Rain, rain, rain, rain..." not "ride, ride, ride.." The reference is to River Euphrates and the Flood (of the Bible)

[MassHero]

@fifitrixibellenz No, they're saying "ride, ride, ride, ride....".

[justinPoneal]

@fifitrixibellenz you so wrong...... like on every level.

[Silverfucked]

@fifitrixibellenz

no... its ride, ride, ride

[ar316309]

hahaha this shit is so dumb sorry just had to laugh at it

[snarkmedia]

@subduedsuperdude wow, this coming from the half-wit who shat out "Giant Meatloaf". I will certainly take your opinion into account when making any future career choices. Thanks for your invaluable opinion!

[michaelmcmichaelson]

@subduedsuperdude a hole,who cares what they're saying?

[pharaoh23]

i dig it. reminds me of the kind of video that REM would have made in 1983

[snarkmedia]

You have a fine appreciation for the brutally literal, mr lionel9965.

[Lionel9965]

lmao, i bet you thought they were saying "Run run run" right?

[dummy1977]

I thought they just had their wisdom teeth pulled...

[HIPandiDONTmeanHOP]

what the fuck?!? no kung fu showdown at the end?!?

[cbnetmkr]

nothin wrong wit a beautiful asian chick running and pixies ;)

[jackassfromnc]

Did you storyboard this vid?

[snarkmedia]

Didn't do full storyboards, but I did do a shot-by-shot breakdown.

[argentofan123]

lawl.

[spliffscientist]

such a bomb song to pick!

PIXIES !!!

[martinmdq2003]

beatyful

[richardcraven]

very.

very disappointing video. horrible video.

awesome song, but i concur with the guy that said he felt like he wasted a half an hour. it hurts.

[snarkmedia]

Hi Dick. Thanks for the comments, I appreciate and value your obviously well thought out criticism. By the way, what have you written/shot/produced?

[richardcraven]

well i do have some videos on here (not under my profile) but I don't want to share them, cause I'm sure you'd blow them up with hate comments. if it makes any difference Im suprised I wrote that comment. i retract it, simply on the grounds that your right about it not being very specific

[johnnymagic10]

@snarkmedia dude it's richard craven... the guy who did "wishmaster!" respect yo!

[VacLateralus]

@snarkmedia I know this is two years late... But nobody cares about the 'dissapointed Spielbergo'.

[Zonderloki]

good song, disappointing video

[fabiolongu]

fantastici

[negetivekreep]

cool vid man pixies r fuggin awesome.

[chaz021275]

Cool vid mon ami. Best Band ever made.

[kleansr]

sucked, more cuts please, and make it interesting, you fail

[jjamo5]

You tit

[lumpofloight]

dude come on man... where is she going?? couldn't you have shown something other than that one girl running in your footage? i feel like i just wasted half an hour, even though the video's less than 3 minutes long. i could have been doing something while i listened to this song. i mean, at least show some boobs or something. i'm just kidding. it was good. being left hanging isn't really a bad thing. i'm just.. what do they call it.. 'heckling'.

[meenjerk]

you can't see it but she's running away from me because i was chasing her with my pants around my ankles...... that's why she is running all half assed like that.

[rodriquezfilms]

I love this video. very cool for some reason

[lonelygnome1]

damn....now i wanna ride a tiger...

[VenusImperius]

not a tire?

[KerreyTheBitterSugar]

Pixies are one of the coolest bands ever!

[maosaytounge49]

god this song makes me gush. brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! best band of their era!

[MaturitySucks2008]

sonic youth are better :-)

[daveschrdr]

o wow, my girlfriend on her way over for a booty call hehe :)

[ofxxxthexxxflowers]

All the coolest people I know are pixies fans.

[breeeegs]

so that means I'm cool

[warhols25]

@ofxxxthexxxflowers hahaha, we are !

[porraprima]

if i just hear the lyrics in a superficial way, it kind of clicks together and makes sense. but if i really try to think about what its trying to say, i dont get it.

so i just enjoy the whole of it.

=)

[jbrow103]

my interpretation is that he is driving through the middle east and the car runs out of gas so they take off the tires and tube the euphrates river. makes sense to me. sounds logical, too.

[cohzy]

watch the interview about how he writes his songs he admits he does in a way write nonsense, he makes the elody and sounds and fills in words later- he wants it to be open to interpretation by each person just go with what you like.

[Wermodaz]

that's the way any ssongwriter creates a song, it's the way I do it as well! But when you try to fight words to melody, as disparate as they may be, it's still a tangent of your your original intent. Much of Beck is nonsense (though I am a fan).

[Wermodaz]

*fit instead of fight

[macskinty]

See Ronnie James Dio for Tiger ridery

[Wermodaz]

the official FB website lists the lyrics as "ride a tyre"

[PixiesInMyHead]

I lay everything I got down to this song

[Wermodaz]

if you have a fundamental understanding of the English language, you can easily tell he says 'tire' and not 'tiger.' Sure FB writes cryptically, but he never writes nonsense and you can see where he's coming from if you think about it. can you really explain "ride a tiger?" Are you getting you're info from one of the many lyrics websites? those are typically incorrect.

[Wermodaz]

why does everyone think the lyric is "ride a tiger?" it's clearly "ride a tire." listen to the rerecorded verison from the b-sides. the car ran out of gas so to continue they remove the tire and float down the river.

[reckoner912]

No no its definitely "ride the tiger".

[tecklePie]

you are wrong

[tecklePie]

you're right man, "Let's ride a tire down river Euphrates"

[AbsoluteShambles]

Haha this song is bloody brilliant, in keeping with their surrealist theme (which rocks my fucking world)

[funkymcbean]

and the Pixies fans unite once again.

[freakytiki999]

seriously, im sooooooo glad i share the same interests with the group displaying their ravishing intellectual stimuli on this here...comment board

[WizardsStaff]

balls are alright, i prefer vag

[funkymcbean]

with a name like that, sounds like you won't be getting it.

[draknatsr]

Uh... yeah it is.

[draknatsr]

Politics are gay . . .

[mingerz4life]

And gay is not an adjective!

[orelero]

You're wrong, actually it can be used as an adjective or a noun...

[mingerz4life]

Well, you know, when talking in terms of homosexuality, which that person below obviously was, sort of.. Unless for some reason he thinks politics are happy. Why are we discussing grammar on youtube. Sorry.

[orelero]

"Why are we discussing grammar on youtube."

that's what you were doing in some way.

[mingerz4life]

Lol, I'm sorry, now I'm confused. Did I just point out I was doing that, or are you saying I'm not.. Ah! Look the Pixies, their always great, lets just enjoy them:P

Peace.

[orelero]

no worries ;)

Yeah the Pixies are legend =)

[donnaredding]

If you're going to use a political song you can't have such a pointless plot, or lack thereof. Euphrates is in the middle east, and associated with the Armenian genocide, and the US war for oil. Frank Black mentions Gaza, which is a disputed area of Isrealis and Palestinians. You should be aware of every element you use when making a video. You may have succeded in doing a practice video, but overall it's a failure because you didn't think about how your sound interacts with your images.

[trotsky89]

Ok fuckhead try to explain to me how this song has anything to do with politics?

How come people take the Pixies so damn seriously???

I seriously think this song is about tripping balls on some black tar.

[donnaredding]

I get your point, you're trying to let people know that you're not intelligent. My whole first comment was about how it has to do with politics.

[trotsky89]

Just because he's mentioning stuff that's located in the Middle East doesn't make this song especially political. Sounds like you're just transferring your own beliefs onto something that you enjoy and trying to make your own opinion as FACT.

The birth of human civilization happened on the River Euphrates too, does this song have to do with ancient Sumer?

Give me a break.

[donnaredding]

If he'd written "Mississippi" instead of "River Euhprates" he would have had a better number of syllables for the phrasing. It was clearly a conscious choice.

[trotsky89]

Took you nearly a month to come back with that?

What's your point? You didn't even come close to answering my question. The phrasing in the song doesn't necessarily political since the lyrics are obtuse and up to an individual interpretation. Literally the lyrics said that they ran out of gas on the Gaza Strip so now they're riding a tiger down River Euphrates. EXPLAIN HOW THIS IS POLITICAL.

I bet you have a BA in English.

[trotsky89]

oh and lets not fail to mention that the gaza strip and river euphrates are not particularly connected geographically other than being in the same sub-region.

[donnaredding]

I was travelling through eastern Europe, I didn't have time for youtube. Why, did you check here every day? Anyway I can't believe you're actually asking how an american running out of gas and ANY place in the Middle East are linked with politics. I guess you're just not clever enough to grasp the concept, nor are you willing to do any research. I'm not wasting any more of my time on you, I feel like I'm arguing with a child.

[trotsky89]

It's amazing how someone can have a completely rational argument on the internet and some stuck up know-it-all will wilt in the face of it and then allege that the person challenging them is either stupid, childish or sub-human.

Here: In capital letters: YOUR INTERPRETATION IS NOT A TRUTH. The fact that you continually demonstrate that you cannot grasp this simple concept is tragic.

By the way, I hear the former Soviet Republic of Georgia is nice this time of year, you should visit there next

[trotsky89]

Oh and since Youtube won't let me write a treatise in response to youL: Since you're the one who's making the factual claim the burden of proof is on you, not me. I don't need to research your claim for you, lazy ass. God if I could have written research papers with your logic it would have been a lot easier.

[jdjisaok90]

Bitch bitch bitch. Shut up and enjoy the music.

[DylybearA]

you know i think its demeaniing to the artist when people who cant think of any other meaning say "oh this must be about drugs".

This is just an example because i see comments like these on so many songs and i think "just because a musicien does drugs doesnt mean everyother song they write is about it"

[trotsky89]

That's just what I see when I hear the song. A bad trip on bad drugs.

I don't even know if Frank Black does drugs or not.

[kangiwiyaka]

Don't you have some parrot coffins to construct you fat fuck?

[draknatsr]

Fuck you, Donna Redding, you bear of a stepmother.

All Trotsky is trying to do is tell you to fuck off.

He's not making assertions about this song's inspiration the way you are.

Trotsky is spiritually aligned with the Pixies.

You aren't, so fuck you and die.

[draknatsr]

Fuck you, Donna Redding, you bear of a stepmother.

All Trotsky is trying to do is tell you to fuck off.

He's not making assertions about this song's inspiration the way you are.

Trotsky is spiritually aligned with the Pixies.

You aren't, so fuck you and die.

[vancouverbluz]

lame

[ilpixies]

GOD BLESSS LOS PIXIES . :)

[portablewalrus]

Wow, that was the best filtered, plot less, running girl I've ever seen. Thank you Pixies for a good song.

[snarkmedia]

no filters; i shot on super8 film for a class project.

[portablewalrus]

oh i see. why all the running? is it because it was just for a class?

[snarkmedia]

it was mostly an exercise in shooting on super8, so I didn't spend a lot of time trying to write in a plot- especially since I didn't have sync sound, or a professional actor who could cope with emoting in a silent film.

Believe it or not, we shot on location for about 6 hours to get barely enough footage to cut down to the video.

[odracirpotato]

nice shot. when i first saw it i even thought it was an oficial promo video or something. and this song is great, btw.

[wazzledoozle]

geez all you did was run.

[grayson311]

never heard of this band but kinda like the song and style. is this from a new album?

[standingwater87]

this album came out in march 1988... its called surfer rosa... buy it

[kangiwiyaka]

Wow really? Thanks for the newsflash Rip Van Winkle.

[comicbknerd]

Love this song.

[DaylightVampire]

masterfully shot!!! Keep running my friend... See you at the finish line.

[subbacultcha7]

The best Song ever :)

anyway each Pixies song is the best song ever

[ptypnx]

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[corelleodraw]

uma verdadeira obra de art.....

MARAVILHA...

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