Pixies - Surfer Rosa
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Artist: PixiesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-01-28
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Bone Machine
- Break My Body
- Something Against You
- Broken Face
- Gigantic
- River Euphrates
- Where Is My Mind?
- Cactus
- Tony's Theme
- Oh My Golly!
- Vamos
- I'm Amazed
- Untitled
- Brick Is Red
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Hit: 5 Stars
The Pixies-Surfer Rosa *****
I seriously debated with myself whether or not to even review Surfer Rosa due to that simple fact that for me personally with this album there is no way for me not to be biased. This has truly been one of the most important albums in my life.
In a nutshell Surfer Rosa is easily the strongest and best Pixies album ever released, and aside from that it is honestly the best album to emerge from the 1980's far surpassing Appetite For Destruction, The Joshua Tree, Rain Dogs, and anything else you can think of.
The true mix of hardcore and pop make Surfer Rosa a knockout. Black's sneering vocals and lyrics of incest and pain among other things is to say the least, breathtaking. Kim Deals vocals are the best they ever sounded, even better then with The Breeders.
The rocking fun of 'Tony's Theme' aside classics like the manic 'Cactus' and the albums opener 'Bone Machine' make Surfer Rosa not only amazing but eclectic. The insanity of 'Broken Face' 'Break My Body' and 'Something Against You' are so violent yet beautiful it baffles you. 'River Euphrates' is beyond explanation while Deals 'Gigantic' is so near perfect its strange. The final four songs on the album are a juxtaposition of Mexico and punk that somehow make this album essential but would ruin anyone else's. But the center piece of Surfer Rosa is the haunting 'Where Is My Mind' which is once again the best thing the group ever did as well as the best song to emerge from the 1980's. The song is among my personal favorites and honestly brings tears to my eyes upon every listen.
To summarize quickly, Surfer Rosa is essential, it is more important then any album of the 1990's because well it inspired them all, and it is always refreshing to hear so it is one that I will recommend to everyone who likes music.
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Before the Breeders and Frank Black, there was this Boston quartet, playing hardcore's rush and terseness against the acoustic grit and the minor-key flourish of Latin pop. Their first full-length album is their starkest, harsh and trebly, with the drums right in your face, and songs edited to eliminate any note that's not absolutely necessary. Singer Black Francis yelping away about destroyed bodies and the river Euphrates, alternately acting cryptic and crazed. Kim Deal, then calling herself "Mrs. John Murphy," contributes the highlight, "Gigantic," a creepy anthem about childhood voyeurism. The playing is snarly and tricky but unfailingly tuneful, and the hooks come out of nowhere, hiding behind the noise, and bite down hard. --Douglas WolkAlternative Rock Music CDs
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