“Alec Eiffel” is a song was written and sung by Pixies frontman Black Francis, and is the third track on their 1991 album Trompe le Monde. This song is about the architect of the Eiffel Tower Alec Eiffel. When it was being built, people thought his design was stupid and that it would not fit in with Parisian landscape. That is why this song is about how people are always trying to bring down others and their ideas.