Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim

One of those classics that capture a bunch of songs written early in a band's career, with their rawness still intact.The best of what did come later was still pretty angular, but this is a great set of unpolished gems.My favourite spiky, surreal, abrasive singalong album of all time.

Well, what can I say about this album is that absolutely Pixies at their best.The production sees Steve Albini as sound engineer and producing this masterpiece that is from 1988, and Steve's CV sees him as one of the most sought after Sound Engineer, even though he has his own recording studio (3 storeys state of the art in Detroit...if I am not mistaken), to successes like producing lots of grunge bands in the 90s like...Nirvana (In Utero), and many more that I would need Wikipedia..This makes no exception, 22 tracks some too short but Pixies are a kind of a "conceptual" band....so even tracks o < 60 seconds can be accepted as experiment and ok....notwithstanding a track like "Where is My Mind?" which is one of my all time favourite...A 22 tracker that you can listen with no ...blank spot or fall in styleExceptional! Love it!

Very good album.

Absolutely fantastic album, I recently bought the Wave of Mutilation best of and fell in love with The Pixies, I'm even going to see them in my hometown of Manchester in December now. If you have any vague interest in The Pixies and you want to delve more into their world then look no further. BUY THIS ALBUM!

arrived earlier than expected . bonus of come on pilgrim included so a steal at the price .

Bought via the brilliant music magpie, already received ! Thank you

Had this on vinyl and loved it then. Time has not taken anything away from this....Great album by a great band....classic

For me, time has not been kind to Pixies - as an artsy teenager in the late 80s, I loved their first three releases up to Doolittle and saw them play brilliantly live at Reading.I was first introduced to Surfer Rosa at a time when 99% of my schoolfriends were content listening to the prevailing chart tosh - Kylie and Jason, Sonia, Bros. Late one night at a party, one of my cooler sixth-form friends put the album on the tape player; it was loud, screechy, hi-energy, low-fi and just about the most exciting thing I'd ever heard (I had yet to discover the Jesus And Mary Chain).It had an attitude that defiantly thumbed its nose, nay flipped the finger, at the well-polished but vacuous chart fodder of the time and appealed to the teenage rebel in me; I loved it and was hooked.So, after a gap of about 15 years since my last listen, I finally re-purchased this twin-album CD and realised something had changed in the intervening years; it just didn't sound that great any more. Why not ?Well, mainly, grunge happened. It crossed over into the mainstream and created a new audience ready for all sorts of bands that would otherwise have been consigned to the underground. Bands who owe their sound and success to musical pioneers like Pixies, Sonic Youth et al but who are more adept and sophisticated song-writers.Surfer Rosa, then, is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand where so-called "alternative" music came from and why it matters. Moreover, as Pixies first full-length release (here handily packaged with their original EP) it is an album of great historical significance and certainly merits a place in any serious record collection. But it does sound a bit dated now.

Punk und Rock

Les deux premiers albums des Pixies, le second "surfer rosa" produit par le regretté Steve Albini qui vient de nous quitter; la quintescence du rock indé, post punk, qui a influencé le grunge; de l'urgence, de la folie, pas toujours maitrisée mais pleine de fraicheur et toujours un sens de la mélodie, du riff accrocheur qui fait de tout ça de l'excellente pop music! indispensable!

Me encanta que sea en cartón. A ver si se animan y sacan todos los demás en ese formato. Lo prefiero a las cajas de plástico ya que ocupan menos espacio y son más resistentes. Del disco qué decir. El 7 de mayo murió Steve Albini y es buena forma de recordarlo. Es uno de sus mejores trabajos como productor. Luego siguió (afortunadamente) con The Breeders. Disco esencial y junto con Doolitle, lo mejor de los Pixies.

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