House Of Wires - Where Is My Mind? (The Pixies Cover)

From '' You Are Obsolete ''
Label: (1) Tooth & Nail Records, (2) Plastiq Musiq
Catalog#: (1) tnd1115, (2) PM 004
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 22 Sep 1998

Tracks
01. Busy
02. Where Is My Mind? (Written-By -- Black Francis)
03. Everything Lies In Ruins
04. Latency
05. Breathe
06. Long Lost
07. Mother
08. Tree Of Knowledge
09. Death Is A Beginning
10. When Words Fall (Written-By -- Brandon Curisma)
11. Final Moment
12. Violin

Vocals, Violin, Cello, Harp [Finger], Piano, Accordion -- John Sonnenberg
Vocals [Female] -- Tessie Ramirez
Synthesizer, Programmed By -- John Sonnenberg, Rob Gutschow
Drums [Acoustic] -- Steve Elkins
Effects [Real Time], Recorded By [Acoustic Instruments] -- Rob Gutschow
Trumpet, Flugelhorn -- Aaron Feldstein

Engineer -- Bob Moon, Ronnie Martin
Executive Producer -- Brandon Ebel, Ronnie Martin
Producer -- House Of Wires, Ronnie Martin
Design [Designed By] -- Collection Agency, The
Written-By -- House Of Wires (tracks: 1, 3 to 9, 11, 12)

Engineered at Moon Song.
All acoustic instruments recorded at Ka-boom.
℗ & © 1998 Tooth & Nail Records.

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"Where Is My Mind?" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies.
It is the seventh track on their 1988 album Surfer Rosa.
The song was written by frontman Black Francis while he attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, inspired by his experiences scuba diving in the Caribbean.
He later said he had "this very small fish trying to chase me. I don't know why—I don't know too much about fish behavior."

Use in films

"Where Is My Mind?" was prominently featured during the final scene and ending credits of the 1999 film Fight Club.
The 1998 film The Adventures of Sebastian Cole also used the song during closing credits. In 2003, it was used to close the movie Gaz Bar Blues.
In 2005 the song was used in an episode of Veronica Mars and in some commercials for The Weather Man.
It was featured in an HBO commercial for The Dark Knight.
In 2006, it appeared as intro in the episode "Sex, Birth, Death" of the CBS series Criminal Minds.
The following year, it also appeared in the 45th chapter of The 4400, the series finale.
A cover by City Wolf is also featured in the 2009 film Observe and Report.
In 2010, it appeared in Mr. Nobody and in the closing credits of BBC Documentary Madness in the Fast Lane.
A "Where is My Mind?" instrumental cover by Maxence Cyrin appeared in the film "It's Kind of a Funny Story" in 2010.
A version of the song was also included in the 2011 film Sucker Punch, performed by actress Emily Browning.

Legacy

"Where is My Mind?" was voted in at number 29 in the "Hottest 100 of All Time" music poll conducted by Australian radio station, Triple J.
Over half a million votes were cast in the poll.
On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, NASA transmitted "Where is My Mind?" to Mars to wake up the Mars rover Spirit in honor of its software transplant.

Other versions

Two German bands, Locas Electronicas, a project of the Cologne Indie-Rock-Band Locas in Love and Wolke covered the song with German text.
Both songs are called "Wo ist mein Kopf", although the translation of the songtext slightly differs.

End of Fashion have been criticised for their uncredited copying of the guitar riff from the "Where Is My Mind?", for their song "O Yeah".
For example, Rockus Online Magazine reviewer Jonathon Miller called the song "disturbingly Pixies-ish" and went on to write: "End of Fashion are having no problem appealing to the 95% of people that haven't heard (and still remember) the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" and have never experienced a truly exciting live show, and if that's what the band is aiming for, then they are a complete success."

Black Francis re-recorded the song in 2004 and released it on his album Frank Black Francis.

Electronic musician M.I.A. also covers the chorus of this song on the track "20 Dollar" from her second full length album.

Bassnectar also remixed the song in 2010.

Storm Large covered the song on her 2009 album "Crazy Enough".

British rock band Placebo covered the song for their Sleeping with Ghosts bonus track disc.

The Tennessee band Kings of Leon covered the song in several concerts through 2010.

James Blunt has covered this song in live performances.

Israeli musician Yoav and actress Emily Browning covered the song for the 2011 film Sucker Punch.

British beatboxer THePETEBOX made a prominent beatboxing remix of this song using looping station which has gained substantial success on YouTube.

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[anounrmous]

the whole cd is just as good

[zeldaxlove14able]

luv♥

[MrMafibeats]

@krallstello yea I have 2 travelogue LPs and all the PIVOT CLOWJ ;)

[krallstello]

@MrMafibeats : See my post, Re: House of Wires :)



[krallstello]

I love this band, but then, the keyboardist, Rob, is my son in law ;) Seriously, they were very good. Disbanded now, but the vocalist, Jon S. has a band in Ohio called "Travelogue" (with his wife)

[MrMafibeats]

very good, love HOUSE OF WIRES, just wonder what ever happened to them