Here Comes Your Man is a song by the Pixies, released as the second single from the group’s second album Doolittle in June 1, 1989. The song was written by frontman Black Francis. Produced by Gil Norton, Written by Black Francis as a teenager, Here Comes Your Man was recorded for the band’s 1987 demo tape, but not included on either Come On Pilgrim or Surfer Rosa, as the songwriter was reluctant to release the song. Critics saw Here Comes Your Man as the Pixies‘ breakthrough song. The song reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. In 2019, the single was certified Gold in Canada.
Tracklist:
- Here Comes Your Man
- Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
- Into the White
- Bailey’s Walk
A music video to promote the single, co directed by Neil Pollock and Jonathan Bekemeier, shows the band playing its instruments through a distorted fish-eye lens, the camera variously panning horizontally across the performance space and vertically over the individual band members. Keeping in the spirit of the mimed performance, Francis and bassist Kim Deal open and shut their mouths in time with their prerecorded vocals, yet make no attempt to articulate their lips in sync with the words that they are supposed to be singing. Instead, they simply keep their mouths wide open with blank expressions for the duration of each verse. Francis stated that “Water on the brain” was the theme of the clip.
Pixies
Black Francis: vocals, guitar
Kim Deal: bass guitar, vocals
Joey Santiago: lead guitar, backing vocals
David Lovering: drums
