Music critics hate art. That is a fact. The Pixies were a very artistic band, and that is why they had so little success. They were 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". Then you start to hear noices and other-worldly sounds that 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, because it also included their debut EP, "Come on Pilgrim" which makes it a masterpiece of rock music.
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