Surfer Rosa is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in March 1988 on the British label 4AD. It was produced by...
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full-length album, Surfer Rosa. It was recorded by Steve Albini, completed in two weeks, and released in early 1988. Surfer Rosa gained the Pixies acclaim...
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adopting the stage name Mrs. John Murphy for the albums Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa. Following Doolittle and the Pixies' hiatus, she formed the Breeders...
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Surfer Rosa, was released in 1988 on 4AD; an American distribution deal was made with Rough Trade Records several months later. However, Surfer Rosa did...
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Surfer Rosa. At the same time, the two releases were issued on separate vinyl records by Rough Trade. That same month, 4AD also released Surfer Rosa and...
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Francis. The song appeared on the band's first full-length studio album, Surfer Rosa, released in 1988. One of the longest songs on the album, "Gigantic"...
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band Pixies, released as the seventh track on their 1988 debut album, Surfer Rosa. It is one of the band's signature songs and has inspired a multitude...
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and "Hey", remain favorites of critics and fans. Pixies' 1988 album Surfer Rosa was better received in the United Kingdom than in the United States....
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case he had another son". In 1988 Pixies recorded their debut album Surfer Rosa. Thompson wrote and sang on all the tracks, with the exception of the...
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Shellac (1992–2024), and engineered acclaimed albums like the Pixies' Surfer Rosa (1988), PJ Harvey's Rid of Me and Nirvana's In Utero (both 1993). Albini...
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band's 1987 demo tape, but not included on either Come On Pilgrim or Surfer Rosa, as the songwriter was reluctant to release the song. Critics saw "Here...
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the Pixies, began writing new material while the Pixies were touring Surfer Rosa in Europe with Throwing Muses. As neither band had plans in the immediate...
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as "The Holiday Song" and "Vamos". After the band's next two albums, Surfer Rosa (1988) and Doolittle (1989), the relationship between the band members...
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Pilgrim 3:14 5. "Broken Face" Surfer Rosa 1:29 6. "Gigantic" Francis Kim Deal Surfer Rosa 3:13 7. "Vamos" Surfer Rosa 4:18 8. "Hey" Doolittle (1989)...
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then do real wimpy pop songs." When Cobain heard the Pixies' 1988 album Surfer Rosa after recording Bleach, he felt it had the sound he wanted to achieve...
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Pixies entered the studio again in 1988 to record their second album Surfer Rosa. Lovering's contribution on songs such as "Bone Machine" – which begins...
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Surfer, Dude is a 2008 American comedy film directed by S.R. Bindler and starring Matthew McConaughey. Woody Harrelson claims the film is the most "non-work"...
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Chicago studio. Deal had previously worked with Albini on the Pixies' Surfer Rosa and the Breeders' Pod releases. The Amps and Albini recorded songs including...
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Machine" Surfer Rosa (1988) 2:34 13. "Gigantic" Francis Kim Deal Surfer Rosa (single version) 3:13 14. "Where Is My Mind?" Surfer Rosa 3:52 15. "Velouria"...
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alternative rock band Pixies, and is the eighth track on their 1988 album Surfer Rosa. It was written and sung by the band's frontman Black Francis and engineered...
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Disaster on bass. Deal asked Steve Albini, who had worked on the Pixies' Surfer Rosa, to engineer the album. Deal thought it would be fun to form an all-female...
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whom she had previously worked on Pod, Pacer, and the Pixies' album Surfer Rosa. Although Deal performed most of the instruments herself at the 1999...
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with Melody Maker, Cobain said that hearing their 1988 debut album, Surfer Rosa, "convinced him to abandon his more Black Flag-influenced songwriting...
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Artist Release Format Label Credit Pixies Surfer Rosa LP, CD, cassette 4AD Producer, engineer Head of David Dustbowl LP, CD Blast First Producer, credited...
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that the album's production "leans towards the harsh garage grunge of Surfer Rosa, although the songs retain the strong melodies of Doolittle," and said...
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Machine" Surfer Rosa 1988 "Born in Chicago" Rubáiyát compilation Nick Gravenites ‡ 1990 Paul Butterfield Blues Band cover "Break My Body" Surfer Rosa 1988...
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cornerstone album of alternative rock, along with R.E.M.'s Murmur, the Pixies' Surfer Rosa, and Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. Eric Boehlert of Salon called it...
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discography during his lifetime, including the albums Come On Pilgrim (1987), Surfer Rosa (1988), Doolittle (1989), Bossanova (1990), Trompe Le Monde (1991), Indie...
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recollections from a range of characters involved with the band, including Surfer Rosa producer Steve Albini, Kim Deal's twin sister Kelley Deal and 4AD co-founder...
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he chose Albini because he had produced two of his favorite records, Surfer Rosa (1988) by the Pixies and Pod (1990) by the Breeders. Cobain wanted to...
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