Debaser forms: live, studio and demo. A version of this song was also used in the game "DJ Hero 2", remixed with The Prodigy's song "Invaders Must Die"; this mix is available as downloadable content for the game. The lyrics are based on a surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called "Un Chien Andalou". The film includes a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor, which is referenced in the song lyric "Slicin' up eyeballs/I want you to know." According to Black Francis: The title "Debaser" references the fact that "Un Chien Andalou" debases morality
Destiny (1921 film) to make movies. It wasn’t the three stories themselves that moved me so much, but the main episode – the arrival of the man in the black hat (whom I instantly recognised as Death) in the Flemish village – and the scene in the cemetery. Something about this film spoke to something deep in me; it clarified my life and my vision of the world." In Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou", two lovers are buried in the sand, in reference to the Frank's death in the film. Alfred Hitchcock once stated he was impressed with the film. Hollywood actor Douglas Fairbanks