[1] The band's 1991 "Head On" single includes a live version of "Debaser" recorded in Chicago on August 9, 1989.

The album version of the song was later released as a single in 1997 to promote the Death to the Pixies compilation.

The lyrics of "Debaser" are based on Un Chien Andalou, a 1929 short film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

The film includes a scene in which a woman's eye is apparently cut open by a razor, which is referenced in the lyric "slicin' up eyeballs."

"[3] In the earliest version of the song, the line "un chien andalusia" was originally "Shed, Apollonia!