Joe Theobald, aka DJ Captain Wormhole, Looks at all things vinyl 

waveofmutilation2003@hotmail.com is my first and most trusty email.

It’s my go-to repository for pixelated junk, chief anchor of single-use accounts and a willing punchbag, absorbing countless jabs provoked by my own unquenchable thirst for 10%’s off and free delivery.

Baffling contact centre agents with my OG hotmail account is a happy accident, but occasionally the person on end of the headset is real enough to recognise why I chose it – because The Pixies rule.

Mr Bevan, my art teacher from year 9 through to year 11, first introduced me to The Pixies via Doolittle and 14 years later I still think they rule, specifically the fast songs.

Tame, the second track on Doolittle, is a classic example of a ‘Pixies Quicky’. When it first played I was scared and excited – Black Francis’ screaming is really heavy, like Tokyo Gore Police heavy, and it’s over in 115 seconds. Up to that point I was accustomed to PureGarage courtesy of DJ EZ.

115 isn’t even that short for a ‘quicky’, Crackity Jones is Doolittle’s briefest barrage of noise at 84 seconds and the current record holder is Bossanova’s Allison which clocks in at just 77 whirlwind surf-rock seconds.

Their Sophomore album, Surfer Rosa, has an average track length of just 2min 31 and that’s skewed by a couple of lengthier outliers (Vamos and Where Is My Mind?).

Did I just like The Pixies because I could fit more of their songs on my dinky little mid-noughties MP3 player? No. But it would be a better reason for liking a band than most can muster anyways.

My top six Pixies Quickies are:

6. Break My Body (Surfer Rosa)

5. The Holiday Song (Come On Pilgrim)

4. Something Against You (Sufer Rosa)

3. Subbacultcha (Trompe le Monde)

2. Tame (Doolittle)

1. Alec Eiffel (Trompe le Monde).