83. Debaser by The Pixies 1989

A Lizard Lounge favourite and played almost religously every night (or so it seemed) The Pixies "Debaser" never failed to get the crowd going crazy inevitably coming on around midnight. I first started playing Pixies music at KAOS which was situated in North Melbourne at what used to be Therapy!.

But it was the Lizard where the music of The Pixies felt right. As the Lizard Lounge really started to take off in 1991 the Saturday only club took over Friday nights and then Thursday nights. Thursday nights were free entry and became packed drunken nights with punters rolling in from The Armadale down on High Street. 

We stopped the free lollies mainly because people would spit them out and they would stick to the floor. We bought UV lights and painted signs everywhere in day glo. And we mixed up the music more. Then the queues started. And it was all just so groovy.