My Top 1000 Songs #1001: Allison

So, after a week-long vacation, I'm thinking I'll just keep going with this Top 1000 thing a little longer. Still need a little something to wake my semi-retired-brain each morning, and this works as well as anything else.

I suppose it's no longer a Top 1000 now that I'm at #1001. Maybe it's now a Top 2000? But I haven't sketched out the next 1000 songs (just a few hundred), and that may be too ambitious. Top 1000(+) it stays for now.

As for "Allison"--no, not the Elvis Costello song (with a single L), though that's a marvelous, timeless ballad, and the only reason I haven't included it is because it's become such a standard it just seems overly obvious to put on the list.

No, we're talking the Pixies here. The cut off 1990's Bossanova (an ode to jazz musician Mose Allison, not a girl) is a bit of a trifle--not even 80 seconds, and one of their most straightforward pop-rock songs. But it's also one of the Pixies' most reliable tracks for perking up a mixtape, and I've always loved using it as a quick pick-me-up when I'm overtired. I remember it was paired with "Dig For Fire" into a two-song/single video on MTV's 120 Minutes, and that was pretty cool.

Live 1991:

Here's that tandem "Dig For Fire/Allison" video:

Another killer Fastbacks cover: