Riff where is my mind

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Malignant. Director James Wan's latest horror movie marks the latest in a long line of appearances of the iconic song in film and television. However, this is the first time that this particular cover, performed by the music development firm Safari Riot, has been featured on screen.

Since then, the song and its numerous covers have a storied history of being featured in cinema, appearing in everything from the cult arthouse sci-fi film Mr. Nobody to the campy creature feature Big Ass Spider!

A piano cover by Maxence Cyrin has become particularly popular in recent years and has been featured prominently in the critically acclaimed tv shows The Leftovers and Mr. At first, the casual listener might not even recognize that one of the main musical themes in Malignant — which has enjoyed a mixed critical reception — is "Where is My Mind?

Right away, The Pixies started getting a lot of notice. The first Pixies release, Come On Pilgrim , was essentially remixes of recordings from their demo The Purple Tape , and it featured many of the lyrical twists and innovative song structures that still characterize the Pixies today.

The release got hot overseas, though it didn't get much attention in the United States. Very soon after the release of Come On Pilgrim , the band worked with producer Steve Albini to create Surfer Rosa ; they recorded it in only a week. It's Albini who's credited with giving the album its harsh, muscular, live sound, and who used tactics such as "putting Charles' [Black's] voice through a guitar, to make it sound all grisly," as Deal told Melody Maker in at that time, she was calling herself Mrs.

John Murphy. The album received reviews like this one, from Q magazine, documented in Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies : "The 13 tracks have short, uncomfortable titles but lyrics that go beyond the usual black nihilism into personal enigma Not gelling their act together is almost certainly part of the whole point of Pixies, but if they're not careful they could have a bright future in front of them.

The songs range from the driving rock and grinding guitar lead of opener, "Bone Machine," to the snarling "Something Against You," to the unpredictable musical changes of "Vamos," and, of course, the simple pop melody of "Where is My Mind?

How did Black explain this wide array of styles? He told Melody Maker that, "Well, you want to be different from other people, sure, so you throw in as many arbitrary things as possible. How does "Where is My Mind? Let's hear what Black has to say about it :. What happened was, she poked her head out of the bathroom and said, 'That's a good one.

Finish that one. I get probably one request every couple of months for that song to be used in some way. I can't explain it to you; I just think the song is likeable.

Even though Kim barely sings on it, there's something about her singing that little haunting two note riff. The same thing with Joey, he's got a little two-note thing going on too. It's so simple, and then there's me in the middle singing the wacky cute little lyrics. So it's kind of a quintessential Pixie song. It sort of displays everyone's personalities are very strong.

He co-founded the Pixies with Black Francis back in , back when his University of Massachusetts Amherst roommate was known by his birth name, Charles Thompson. It validates your feelings of being not alone, as someone else is singing about it. Night after night, city after city, the band peer into a sea of faces, chanting those four words, united in the knowledge that, ultimately, none of us have it all worked out. Since cutting his teeth on Surfer Rosa , Steve Albini has become a recording heavyweight, producing albums for the likes of PJ Harvey and Low, not to mention the obvious, Nirvana , on their studio swansong, In Utero.

That was pretty satisfying. But Santiago recalls feeling crestfallen at the time. I went to the movies for something else, and I saw the trailer for it.