Pixies тобының "Here Comes Your Man" әнінің тарихы

"Here Comes Your Man" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies, written and sung by the band's frontman Black Francis. Produced by Gil Norton, it was released as the second single from the group's second album Doolittle in June 1989. 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; Jon Dolan of Spin magazine commented that it was "the most accessible song ever by an underground type band." The song reached number three on the U. S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. In 2019, the single was certified Gold in Canada.

Black Francis recalled that he wrote "Here Comes Your Man" around the time he was age 14 or 15. Years later after the Pixies were formed, producer Paul Kolderie noted the group did not want to record "Here Comes Your Man" for its demo "The Purple Tape". The group referred to it as "the Tom Petty song", according to Kolderie. Producer Gary Smith stated that, "There was some reluctance to do 'Here Comes Your Man' because it was too pop, there was something too straight about it." When 4AD label head Ivo Watts Russell handpicked the track listing for the group's debut release Come on Pilgrim, he intentionally left out "Here Comes Your Man". Watts Russell stated that he liked the song, but "it felt just too obviously commercial and I didn't know what we were doing with [the band]". Watts Russell also felt it was too reminiscent of Mink DeVille's "Spanish Stroll". For a post Surfer Rosa single, 4AD rejected another recording of the song; they later chose "Gigantic", with "River Euphrates" on the B side. Francis reflected in 2004 that, during the recording of the group's second album Doolittle, he felt embarrassed by "Here Comes Your Man", but since producer Gil Norton really liked the song, the songwriter "threw him a bone".

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.

"Here Comes Your Man" was released as a single in June 1989, and the song's music video received some airplay on MTV. The cover image, chosen by Francis, comes from a photograph that cover designer Simon Larbalestier took of a bull terrier for a gallery showing. The song reached number three on the U. S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Joey Santiago later recalled: "The tour manager asked, 'Hey, Arsenio Hall wants you to come on the show.' We said, 'Well, what do they want to hear?' He said, 'Here Comes Your Man.' No way. We told them we would love to go on, only if we did the song 'Tame'. And they said, 'No, thank you.'" The following year, the song made an appearance on the June 11 episode of the BBC magazine show The One Show, playing over a montage of Michael Crawford's career.