"Wave of Mutilation" is an alternative rock song by the American band Pixies, and is the third track on their 1989 album Doolittle.
Written and sung by the band's frontman Black Francis, the song was inspired by articles about Japanese businessmen committing murder-suicides by driving into the ocean.
The song also references a lyric from the Charles Manson-penned "Cease to Exist", released by the Beach Boys as "Never Learn Not to Love".
Written by Pixies frontman Black Francis, "Wave of Mutilation" was inspired by news coverage of murder-suicides occurring in Japan.
No one's going to be able to figure that out, but I was reading about Japanese businessmen doing murder-suicides with their families because they'd failed in business, and they were driving off the pier into the ocean.
"[5] A studio version based on this arrangement, labeled as the "UK Surf version", was released as a B-side to "Here Comes Your Man", as the fourth track of the original Motion picture Soundtrack of the movie Pump Up The Volume (1990) and has since appeared on Complete B-Sides, as well as the expanded reissue of Doolittle.