Surfer Rosa
by Pixies

From souplipton 09/19/2016 20:56 | #175376 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This album really underwhelmed, especially when compared to Doolittle. The album runs 13 tracks, but most of those seem like song fragments more than songs (only 3 tracks really clock in at over 3 minutes). The fragments aren't really memorable or interesting andleave no impact, ending before they've had any chance to be noticed or differentiated. This album feels pretty overhyped to me.

From paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/12/2012 17:42 | #35086 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Lo-fi and ambivalent, the pixies thrash through a bunch of alt-rock pairing Black Francis's yowl with Kim Deal's lovely vulnerability. Highlights are "gigantic", "bone machine" and the haunting "where is m mind?" (used masterfully at the end of "fight club").

From arthurbittencourt 03/09/2014 23:12 | #105839 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This is Savage.This is a mother fucking masterpiece. I feel sorry for people who cant understand the drama of this. Every song is special as they mixture surrealism with punk in many cool/different vibes. The difference between this one and doolittle is really this is seems more like a classic album to me, due to it's uniqueness to it's time and massive rawness (If there is a god,blessed is steve albini). This way the album seems more powerful than Doolittle to me. Favourite Tracks : Break My Body - Beautiful desert feeling - ; River Euphrates - favourite pixies song ever, probably because of the explosive intro, and the colossal chorus - ; Oh My Golly - Defines the band's stereotype style : Spanish singing, surf rock, punk, crazy tempos, back vocals and genius dinamic.

my absolute favorite Pixies album. The splinter bomb needed to get rid of boring eighties music. After too many bombastic or egocentric albums, finally an album where sheer joy of making noise stood at the forefront.

From buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/24/2020 19:48 | #258661 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Surfer Rosa really is nearly as good as Doolittle, the Pixies' next release, considered by many to be the best album of the eighties. It's a little less playful than Doolittle, but also at times a bit riskier, more experimental, and more adventurous. The best track here, and perhaps the best-known Pixies song, is the wonderful "Where Is My Mind?" Frontman and lyricist Black Francis has said that the song was inspired by his experiences while scuba diving in the Caribbean; he had "this very small fish trying to chase me. I don't know why—I don't know too much about fish behavior." It's fascinating to me that a song with that backstory eventually became the backdrop to the hallucinogenic final scene of Fight Club. Such is the liminal space the Pixies occupy in the history of rock music.