Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Album: Surfer Rosa Artist: The Pixies Released: 1988 Producer: Steve Albini Label: 4AD Vocals/Guitar – Black Francis Guitar – Joey Santiago Bass/Vocals – Kim Deal (credited here as Mrs John Murphy) Drums – Dave Lovering TITLE OF REVIEW: I Was Talking To Preachy Preach About Kissy Kiss As part of my punk trilogy of music reviews, I decided I would write about at least one American punk band. It just so happened that the album I settled on – ...
...perspective. I would describe Surfer Rosa as being one of the most important late 80s releases in my record collection. Whenever I dust it off and put it on it never fails to surprise me with its feral power and its oddness. The Pixies biggest gift to 90s guitar music – the clever deployment of huge distorted guitars behind choruses; which Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam all absorbed – is best showcased on Surfer Rosa. The band recorded ...

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Although I was a bit young to find the Pixies when I was younger (I'm only 20) after hearing a few tunes I invested in their best of Death To the Pixies, and sybsequenty the rest of their back catalogue. While always alternative, the Pixies managed to weld their dynmanics and passion to insanely catchy riffs and choruses, and Frank Black's lunatic vocals on Debaser are enough to grab the attention of any listener, but even the more restrained tunes ...

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Surfer Rosa is my favourite Pixies release. OK, it's not as good technically as Doolittle, (in fact is one of the worst recorded things I've ever heard) but the songs still shine through - my favourites being Gigantic (sung by future Breeders singer Kim Deal under the name of Mrs John Murphy) and Where is My Mind? which showed that under all the shouting they could do a slow number. Overall though (especially when coupled with Come On Pigrim - as ...

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...comes the re-vamped version... Surfer Rosa... an influential piece made even better with the addition of Come on Pilgrim on the CD version sold over here in Britain. This was the first full-length album to be released by Frank and his motley crew, and is seen by many as the standard for modern alt rock/grunge that must be lived up to. Just ask people like Dave Grohl... (Ex-Nirvana drummer, Foo Fighter's frontman). If you want to know about the ...
...detail as I'll end up writing this so many times in subsequent updates and have done so already - it's a four piece guitar rock group, encorporating very early grunge, alt rock, and even a bit of folk and Latino style. The tracks are as follows (including the tracks from Come On Pilgrim, as most of us Brits can only get the joint copy) (*I apologise if they're out of order as my copy of the CD's at uni, so I'm getting them off the internet...): ...

nicolap 07.10.2000 (28.03.2002) · Read full review
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Actually there's not much to say. I couldn't beleive they split up to be honest. Very sad day... Anyway Surfa Rosa (inc Come on Pilgrim on CD) is one of their best to be sure! Although I prefer Trompe Le Monde (Alec Eiffel!!) who could live without the Holiday Song? hmm? Seriously (yeah right) The Pixies were (and still are to their fans) one of the most interesting things to happen to alternative music in recent years. Their mixture of Hispanic ...

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...not commercial. At all. Surfer Rosa was a great album that marked a whole generation of sensitive and artistic teenagers. Kurt Cobain, for example, referred many times of "Smells like teen spirit" as "a Pixies rip-off". And, while that would be stretching the true too much, there is an obvious influence of the Pixies in Nirvana's music. This album kicks off with Bone Machine, a song that had repeatedly been defined as "a mess... a glorious mess". ...
...come from out of nowhere and stab you on your back. Where is My Mind? is a big hit. I has been covered recently by Nada Surf and, believe me, that song rocks! In Vamos, Francis Black yells uninteligible things in a horribly pronounced Spanish. Caribou and Gigantic will rock you. Break my Body and Brick is red will make you shudder. And Tony's Theme and Cactus will make you laugh to death. My recomendation is that you look for the Canadian versio, ...

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...with the band’s second album, Surfer Rosa. This is a set that chronicles the band’s early years, and provides a cross-section of much of the Pixies’ musical styles. This record includes many songs that are considered by die-hard Pixies fans as the best Pixies material. “Gigantic”, written, not by Black Francis, but by Kim Deal’s alias. This song was released as a single (a re-recorded version), but sadly did not reach a chart position to match its ...
...fantastic simplistic drum intro, kicking off the album, and notably “Caribou”, an incredible atmospheric song. As I have already mentioned, this album is considered the best Pixies album, but I would recommend it only to existing fans who already have other Pixies albums, as new listeners may find Francis’ vocal style a bit extreme, and I could imagine being put off at first listen. Either way – buy this record! ...

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...guitar licks. The highlights of Surfer Rosa are certainly the melodic Where is my Mind?, Gigantic, with Deal on lead vocals, River Euphrates, Break my Body with its beautiful chorus and the insane Vamos, with Spanish singing and Joey's most insane guitar ever. I highly recommend this cd for anyone with a bit of balls! ...

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