Wave Of Mutilation - Demo 1

Lead singer Black Francis (Frank Black) described this song as being about "Japanese businessmen doing murder-suicides with their families because they'd failed in business, and they're driving off a pier into the ocean."

In a concert in 2004 Frank Black stated half-jokingly, "This song is from about 15 years ago and while I didn't invent it, I was the first guy to sing about El Niño before it became all popular and everything. I just wanted to take credit for that."

Pixes drummer David Lovering describes this as a very "un-Pixies-like" song, calling it "gentle and dreamy." He told MusicRadar: "It's an easy song to play, but it's very effective in the way it grabs people. It's got a very odd, arresting spirit. There's nothing else that sounds quite like it."