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Advantages: Best album by a brilliant band Disadvantages: One or two vocal growls and barks too many
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 ...
Advantages: Great album Disadvantages: Not the best Pixies album
The late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was once quoted as saying, "I just rip of the Pixies". Now if that doesn't say it all I don't know what does. The Pixies are still the most influential alt-rock band of all time. With the likes of Queen of the Stoneage stealing riffs and melodies proves that Frank Black and his band are still influencing the current crop of bands year by year. Placebo even covered "Where is my mind", the firm fans favourite song off ...
Was it really 1989 when this was released? (I suppose so beacuse we always sang along in the car on the way to school orchestra practice)! Well, unlike me, it hasn't dated a second and when the world floods I'll take it to listen to on my desert island for sure!
If up-beat, eccentric, intelligent, amusing, philosophical music is what you're looking for then you are in for a treat. From the opening title song "Flood" to the final "Road Movie to Berlin" ... ...only hint at their majesty:
1. Theme from flood
2. Birdhouse in your soul
3. Lucky ball and chain
4. Istanbul (not Constantinople)
5. Dead
6. Your racist friend
7. Particle man
8. Twisting
9. We want a rock
10. Someone keeps moving my chair
11. Hearing aid
12. Minimum wage
13. Letterbox
14. Whistling in the dark
15. Hot cha
16. Women and men
17. Sapphire bullets of pure love
18. They might be giants
19. Road movie to Berlin
Phew- ...
Advantages: Ground-breaking, brilliant first album Disadvantages: Often indecipherable lyrics
...listener. I don’t think Murmur is my favourite REM album; if forced at gunpoint to choose one to take to a desert island, I’d probably (and predictably) go for Automatic for the People, although I also have a soft spot for the underrated Up and the earlier Document.
Stipe may nowadays be bald and weird, drummer Bill Berry may have left the band following a near-fatal brain aneurysm, but REM still go on, thankfully, and the world is a ...
sheri3004 02.06.2005 ·Read full review
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Review of Murmur - R.E.M.
Advantages: Like nothing you've heard before, psychedelic insanity Disadvantages: Some will find this crude or just plain offensive
...I think you'll agree.
Locust Abortion Technician is widely regarded as their greatest achievement, the point at which their mixture of shrieking guitar and frankly satanic vocals reached full fruition. Having not heard any of their other albums so far, I cannot really comment, but I can assure you that this is a classic album, so long as you have the stomach for it.
It immediately wrongfoots the listener by kicking in with some dreamy synth, and ... ...about the meaning regret. If you've heard Orbital's track "Satan" then you'll know what's coming, for it was here that they lifted the by-now classic sample. The father explains, and then casually says "Oh, and by the way, if you see your Mom this weekend, would you be sure and tell her...SATAN!!! SATAN!!! SATAN!!!" The guitar riff from Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" explodes into life, only speeded up and accompanied by some demonic laughter. This ...
Excellent performance, tonnes of steam, ventilated ironing board (*)
