Pixies - Crackity Jones Lyrics

That bassist is playing fast as fuq, respect

me mori

toy muelto

Do you have a jalapeño!?!?!?

sos un groso chabon

These two songs changed my life. So many lessons in just these two songs that everyone from Radiohead to Nirvana cribbed from. One of the catchiest, weirdest, most creative indie bands ever to walk the earth.

Indie band?

Here because of Brad

Du pure génie ce groupe, wow mon groupe préféré.

You can cry you can mope
But can you swing from a good rope

I would love to hear a Mastodon cover of Crackity Jones.

Pixies goes crazy

- cats like to dance to the pixies -

Hope everything is alright

Hope everything is alright
Hope everything is alright

What's that floatin' in the water?
Oh, Neptune's only daughter

I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Pray for a man in the middle
One that talks like Doolittle

I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Do you have another opinion? Yup
Do you have another opinion?

La la la la, la la la la
La la la la, la la la la
Got bombed, got frozen
Got finally off to finally dozin'

I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Do you have another opinion? Yup! Opinion
Do you have another opinion?
Do you have another opinion?

You can cry, you can mope
But, can you swing from a good rope?
Oh, I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Hope everything is alright
Hope everything is alright

jose Jones
Told me alone
His story
He got friends
Like Pacro Picopiedra
La Muñeca
He receives on his set


Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
(Wup, wup)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones


Please forgive me
Hose Jones
You need these walls
For your own
I'm movin' out of this hospedaje
I'm afraid you'll cut me boy


Thirty miles by
Hundred miles by
Stinkin' island
Por goofiar
An' cruisin' automobile
Chasin' voices
He receives in his head


Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
(Wup, wup)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
(Wup, wup)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones

I’ve been a fan since this came out but somehow missed the “you can cry you can mope, but can you swing from a good rope?” line. So Fucking badass.

hope everything is alright

The album was named after a line in this song... "Pray for a man in the middle, one that talks like Doo---little!"

Do you have a jalapeno?

This songs has been stuck in my head, been singing it for days.

marcus helbling same

The are worse things =]

This is so fucking amazing

Cra-cra-crackity Jones, woof woof!

I was looking for the cartoon cat man with one eye named crackity joe. Please don’t say I made him up. I know he is real. If you have seen him please tell me from which cartoon. Please it is important.

Oct.31 is the only day that matters you made him up

I am not sure but I have found crackity jones

Do you have another opinion???

Y'all sleepin on Mr Grieves

Anyone Came here from a Sightofdelirum YTP anyone?!!!

Do you have another opinion?...

whoa! love this song! omg takes me back and it's so dope please forgive me jose... omg the pixes... so amazing

this whole album is a masterpiece - cant be touched - monster

I believe in Mr grieves

It's my favorite Pixies album and I love 'em all!!!!!

There’s no band that sounds like the pixies, but Doolittle was their finest moment no doubt. PACKED full of amazing tracks front to back.

When I hear this I think of a Jim Jarmusch film

I take off my hat

Check out TV on The Radio's cover of Mr. Grieves. That was how I first heard it

This is good stuff!!

I am deeply concerned with the well-being of your mental status.....
??? unfamiliar object saturating surface tension.. What shall we do?!

My surnames Greaves. Close Enough

Pixies are so fun to listen to

Yes they are

And a band even more funny in my opinion : Primus!!

Mr. Grieves sounds like a mix of Reggae,Wild West Movie Music,and Punk

And fucking awesome

Yep, they're kings of the Reggwiwesmunk genre

Psychobilly. And tourettes. That yelping at the end of Crackity Jones.

@See my Spinning, Shining Wheels in all Colours! Yep, they're the kings of the Psychorettes genre

JF. Gracias! Pueden tener las máscaras mientras llegan, se saludan y después mucho después quitarlas si es límitidariamente al borde de lo necesario. Seguro se siente como esta canción.

La ponemos juntos?

@Juan Fernando sí.

Zocalo of México City

This was when Black was studying in the University of Puerto Rico and Crackity Jones was his roommate, in that University there's a lot of nut jobs, always has been like that.

Damn how good is this!!!! Need to buy the CD, worn my tape out...I'm so old... LOL

well, still got mine, but i m curius when it will die.. i hope it won t do fast.

"Crackity Jones" describes a crazed roommate and was inspired by Francis' stay in an apartment block with a "weirdo, psycho, gay roommate" in Puerto Rico as a student.

Black Francis was on a six-month trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico (the song's lyrics describe a "stinking island" that is "thirty miles by a hundred miles" long) as an exchange student as part of his college degree. He found himself in a squalid high-rise apartment (describing it as a "crazy all-male dormitory"), waiting for his assigned roommate to show up. Francis later described meeting his roommate:

"He didn't show up for about a month. First thing he said to me, he had cut his finger or something, I had never even met him. It was like out of a David Lynch movie.”

Francis continued to live with the roommate, but the roommate's rants about Fred Flintstone and the voices in his head tested Francis' patience. He returned to Boston after six months to start the Pixies with Joey Santiago.

kumbaya shit the roommate sounds hot

I'M AFRAID YOU'LL CUT ME BOY!

Cryptic as fuck, until you learn the context decades later..that's Black Francis' lyrics for you

Just when you think you know a guy

It’s weird to hear there’s an actual story behind it. Tbh it never occurred to me to think about what the lyrics meant for all the years I listened to this song lol

He's got no friends. Only periods.

How does this not have more comments?? Best songs ❤

You look very pretty!

@Jacob Kell True you sexy seagull ;)

@4 score hes a FUCK

a duck*

because no words can explain how red hot the pixies are

Con este par de rolas me voy a comer el mundo.

These two tracks are like, pretty fucking good

*this fucking band*

these are the only studio versions of these songs on youtube at the moment

Out here I’ve noticed most the songs from Doolittle were removed from YouTube for some reason. Really upsetting. Good thing I have the CD still.

To be fair, a band can't keep going without some revenue. Like, no one should be without their favorite songs, and music shouldn't be manopolized.
These guys did go broke for a good while in the 90s after their split.
They returned for the fans though, that's for sure.
But yea, if you love the band, try to support when ya can :)
That, and studios can be lame about copyrights and smacking them down in free places

I still believe in Mr Grieves, he is way cooler than Santa Claus.

And he believes in us, too

does anyone have another opinion?

<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

He's got friends like Paco Pico Piedra

**HEY!** i know that guy, la LA La la..... la LA La la-la...

Scott Harkness la muñeca

This singular part gets stuck in my head like a month after I last listened to this album lol

djrubus LA MUÑECA

Pablo Pico Piedra

Imprecionante discooo!!!

" hope everything is (still) all right"

Alucinante

tremendo, estas canciones van una atras de la otra