'Where Is My Mind'-The Pixies

The Pixies song 'Where Is My Mind' from the album 'Surfa Rosa' released in 1988 is an American alternative rock song written by frontman Black Francis. The song was famously used as the main backing track to the endng of the American film 'Fight club' realeased in 1999. This song was also used throughout the credits at the end of the film. The use of this song in 'Fight Club being the first film the song would appear in, made people immidiatley assositate the song and the film together. 'Where is my mind' then appeared in many other films including, 'A matter of degrees', 'Gaz bar blues' and a cover by City Wolf was used in the film 'Observe and report'. The song has also been covered by artists such as 'Kings Of Leon', 'James Blunt' and 'M.I.A'. The song was then used in a television advert for 'Thomsons Holiday' in 2011. The song was taken from where we as the audience are used to hearing it and put in a completly different context in the holidays advert where we would not expect to hear it, but the song still works effective. This shows that a song does not have a difined place just because it was used for one thing, there is no attatchment to it when it is used again.