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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 ... Read review

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I was talking to preachy preach about kissy kiss

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


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...album I settled on – Surfer Rosa – influenced more 90s alternative rock bands than any other American indie/punk release I can think of. The Pixies are often described as an indie rock outfit, and I’ve seen some reviewers describe them as indie pop. However anyone who was had even a cursory listen to “Come on Pilgrim” (1987) and especially “Surfer Rosa” (1988), would have a different perspective.

I would describe Surfer Rosa as being ... more

andystrong 29.05.2003 (29.05.2003)
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Grunge Before Grunge was born...

Advantages: Impassioned
Disadvantages: I was too young the first time !

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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Wonderful!!

Advantages: Brillant songs
Disadvantages: So badly recorded it's not funny

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 ...

Tarquin_Farquart 20.07.2000 · Read full review
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Where is my mind... Away with the Pixies

Advantages: Two albums in one...
Disadvantages: n/a

...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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Nice one Francis!

Advantages: Grrrrrreat! (said tony)'s theme
Disadvantages: None really, except they split up!

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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This is art

Advantages: This album may change your life.... forever.
Disadvantages: None.

...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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Advantages: Excellent primal scream therapy in audio format
Disadvantages: Not for Radio 4 listeners

One-time Big Black mainman Steve Albini is probably better known for being the knob-twiddler on Nirvana's "In Utero" album, as well as The Pixies "Surfer Rosa" and even...um...a Page and Plant LP. Albini has pioneered his own sound (angular guitar noise, sparse yet hard drums) for years, and "1000 Hurts" (it's a pun: "hertz", geddit?) has it in spades. Shellac are a more organic proposition than Albini's previous band (real drums rather than a machine) but no less intense. Lyrically, it concerns the break-up of a relationship and all the feelings of loathing and rejection that go with it. It's not easy-going by any means but, at 37 minutes long, it doesn't outstay its welcome. The first track, Prayer To God, is a good indication of what the rest of the album will be like: jagged, slashing chords, thudding drums, and a screamed lyric ...

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Advantages: A fine collection
Disadvantages: Some people may find it just too alternative.....

Some argue Nirvana were the definition of 'grunge', others say the Pixies were...I can't see the comparison to be fair, the Pixies rather encapsulate the definition of Indie and Alternative music, and this is the 'best of' collection that they deserve - 23 tracks to showcase the Pixies history from their five albums - 'Come on Pilgrims', 'Surfer Rosa' the classic 'Doolittle', 'Bossanova' and 'Trompe le Monde' - all made within a five year time-span. The opening two tracks - 'Bone Machine', from 'Surfer Rosa', and 'Nimrod's Son' classify the alternative-ness to the Pixies style, and as my 'Disadvantages' state - it may just be TOO alternative for some, faint-hearted traditionalists, with the rhythm jumping about all over the place to Frank Black's shouting and grooving - to those new to the Pixies, you may instantly say "he can't sing ...

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Advantages: Accessible, great fun.
Disadvantages: None

Trompe Le Monde is the Pixies final LP before the band split leaving a legacy of bad feeling between Black Francis and Kim Deal. I find the album more accessible than earlier ones such as 'Bossanova' and 'Surfer Rosa' which, although excellent, take more time to click properly. 'Trompe Le Monde' contains classic Pixies ingredients. Explosive, chaotic, adrenalin (probably amphetamine) fuelled music with twisted vocals screamed as if there's no tommorow. For example, 'Subbaculcha'("...drug running on this Panamanian Schooner....She walks the deck in a black dress and me I dress up in black.") or the sexual politics-(ish) of 'U-Mass' ("Oh kiss me cunt, Oh kiss my cock....."). The album contains an excellent cover of 'Head On' by The Jesus and Mary Chain, more speed and energy than the original. The production is excellent, a real wall ...

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