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  Huderon: Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Surfer Rosa is the debut album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in March 1988 on the independent record label 4AD.
Despite this, Surfer Rosa was rereleased in the U.S. by Elektra Records in 1992, and in 2005 was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Surfer Rosa is often cited as a favorite of music critics, and is frequently included on professional lists of the all-time best rock albums.
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  Surfer Rosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Surfer Rosa is the Pixies' first full-length album, released on March 21, 1988 by 4AD Records.
Surfer Rosa established the Pixies as an important indie rock band, and also established Albini's reputation as a highly innovative recording technician.
Surfer Rosa's cover is a photograph of a topless flamenco dancer standing against a wall that displays a crucifix and a torn poster.
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 Pixies-Surfer Rosa
Recorded by legend Steve Albini (Big Black, Breeders, PJ Harvey, Nirvana) in the spring of 1988, Surfer Rosa is still fresh over a decade later.
The US version of Surfer Rosa ends with "Brick is Red", a song which ends the album, leaving you begging for more.
At 33 minutes, Surfer Rosa needs no filler, and there is none.
www.ou.edu /class/webstudy/DEC98/gallery/rc/SurferRosa.html   (315 words)

  
 Surfer Rosa - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Surfer Rosa contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Surfer Rosa may stick to certain types of skin.
Surfer Rosa has been shipped to our troops in Iraq and is also being dropped by our warplanes on North Korea.
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 allmusic ((( Surfer Rosa > Overview )))
One of the most compulsively listenable college rock albums of the '80s, the Pixies' 1988 full-length debut Surfer Rosa fulfilled the promise of Come on Pilgrim and, thanks to Steve Albini's production, added a muscular edge that made their harshest moments seem even more menacing and perverse.
For each blazing piece of punk, there are softer, poppier moments such as "Where Is My Mind?," Francis' strangely poignant song inspired by scuba diving in the Caribbean, and the Kim Deal-penned "Gigantic," which almost outshines the rest of the album.
Surfer Rosa may not be the group's most accessible work, but it is one of their most compelling.
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 Amazon.ca: Surfer Rosa: Music: Pixies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the late eighties they rocked the casbah with surfer rosa, their second album.
Surfer Rosa is so seminal that this meager review can do it no justice.
I could go on and on about Joey Santiago's remarkably innovative guitar playing and the fantastic drumming, but I'll leave it at this: Surfer Rosa is a crucial album for anyone who is interested in rock music made past 1989 or so.
www.amazon.ca /Surfer-Rosa-Pixies/dp/B00008YJH5   (1147 words)

  
 Morphizm.com -- A Bit Awkward: Interview with Matthew Galkin loudQUIETloud, A Film About the Pixies
Surfer Rosa changed the indie/alternative/whatever game, even though no one really knew who the Pixies were before Doolitle 's "Here Comes Your Man" started popping up on radio and MTV lip-service shows like 120 Minutes.
And on, because Surfer Rosa was paired up with Come On Pilgrim, which meant that for another five or six bucks you got 21 songs of nirvana, as Cobain did.
The Pixies were for real, and Rosa was their monstrous birth pressed into musical form, one that is still impossible to ignore.
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 Amazon.com: Surfer Rosa: Music: Pixies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
To close, Surfer Rosa is one of those timeless, brilliant rock albums that everyone should own.
Surfer Rosa is their hardest and rawest album--Steve Albini produced this one and it shows.
Surfer Roas is one album that belongs in everyone collection.
www.amazon.com /Surfer-Rosa-Pixies/dp/B000002HAF   (1827 words)

  
 NotSoPop
Perhaps the most important release from the Pixies, if not for its musical innovation, then for its cultural impact, would have to be Surfer Rosa.
Several of their early gems can be found on this album, and it serves as a showcase of a young band that still had numerous possibilities open to them.
Surfer Rosa makes for an intense and fun record, and was extremely innovative for it's time.
www.notsopop.com /reviews/music/pixies-surferrosa.html   (432 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Surfer Rosa by The Pixies at Epinions.com
The Pixies were THE definitive "alternative" band of the 1980's and early 1990's and Surfer Rosa is THE definitive Pixies album.
Surfer Rosa was the first full-length release by the Pixies.
While every heavy metal band in the country was trying their damndest to be as loud and shocking as possible, the Pixies were leaving them all in the dust with "Something Against You" and "Broken Face".
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 Pixies ♫ Free Ringtones ♫
All The songs are tsaken from demo tape, and recorded before being signed to 4AD, the studio released immediately after singing eight from seventeen.
In 2001 it has named 50 heaviest album of all time in Q magazine, in Rolling stone is was at 315, at 6th position in Spin magazine.
Kurt Cobain said in his journals numerous times that Surfer Rosa is his 2nd favorite album of all time.
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 Urban Dictionary: surfer
true surfers cannot be stoners for the sake of being capable to actually surf.
surfers are also stereotyped as being male, that is very not true.
female surfers (like me) are extremely special, they have skill and aptience to sit out in the water for hours with a bunch of animals (guys) and risk flashing an entire beach while surfing in bikinis.
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 The Daily Vault Album Reviews : Surfer Rosa
Come On Pilgrim landed the Pixies on the map of the college rock world, but Surfer Rosa proclaimed that a new sheriff was in town and was going to take rock in a whole different direction.
Surfer Rosa is given a splatterhouse production sheen by Steve Albini.
Still, there's plenty of anarchism going on in Surfer Rosa, most notably Deal's scattered, spoken-word story about field hockey player lust.
www.dailyvault.com /toc.php5?review=2636   (320 words)

  
 Netphoria - Smashing Pumpkins Music Store: Surfer Rosa   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Surfer Rosa became a blueprint for grunge and a major influence of many of the key players notably Nirvana (Kurt addmitted he tried to rip them of with Smells like Teen Spirit)
Surfer Rosa is now being played(for about the 100th time)on my CD player as I write this.
I only have one small disagreement with those who claim "Where Is My Mind" being the best song on Surfer Rosa.
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 Surfer Rosa - Pixies - Review - I was talking to preachy preach about kissy kiss
In conclusion, Surfer Rosa is a well produced, hurtling HGV of a rock record.
Of the five albums The Pixies released (all of which are worthy of inspection except possibly 1990s Bossanova) I would pick out Surfer Rosa and Trompe Le Monde (isn’t that quite rude in French?!?) as being the two standout albums.
In stark contrast, Surfer Rosa is the sound of a band coming together and finding their feet.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Surfer Rosa, Pixies, CD
Maybe they felt they were cribbing the rumbling drive of "Bone Machine" or the mountainous noise of "Gigantic," both from the Pixies 1988 full-length debut, Surfer Rosa.
Surfer Rosa's beguiling mix of swelling guitar, cleverly twisted lyrical imagery, and self-consciously cute, even cuddly, melodies influenced a generation.
Surfer Rosa is possibly the best of thier five albums, but it is difficult to distinguish if any one album is better than another.
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 Amazon.com: Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim: Music: Pixies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I'll never forget the day I first bought and heard 'Sufer Rosa (& Come On Pilgrim)', it was one of those moments in life when the music really does provided a soundtrack to life.
Surfer Rosa must be one of the greatest alternative rock albums ever recorded.
Come On Pilgrim lacks the punch of Surfer Rosa, and isn't as well recorded, but its worth having for Caribou, Ed is Dead and I've Been Tired, for its amusing lyrics ("I said I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed/I like Lou Reed/she said, sticking her tongue in my ear..")
www.amazon.com /Surfer-Rosa-Come-Pilgrim-Pixies/dp/B00005LAGO   (1319 words)

  
 FrankBlack.Net Store - Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim
Surfer Rosa must be one of the greatest alternative rock albums ever recorded.
Come On Pilgrim lacks the punch of Surfer Rosa, and isn't as well recorded, but its worth having for Caribou, Ed is Dead and I've Been Tired, for its amusing lyrics ("I said I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed/I like Lou Reed/she said, sticking her tongue in my ear..")
"Surfer Rosa" is brilliant from end to end -- I caught my refrigerator repairman singing along to "River Euphrates." "Cactus" and "I'm Amazed" are bedrock.
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 Surfer Rosa by Pixies CD
Terse, exhilarating and single-minded, SURFER ROSA is an audacious collection.
Surfer Rosa is my favorite Pixies album - not a bad song on it.
Its nothing to do with age: Surfer Rosa was released a year before i was born but you don't see me complaining do you?
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/5788290/a/Surfer+Rosa.htm   (278 words)

  
 Maldives Sri Lankan Airlines Pro kicks off with big scores
The LA surfer has enormous expectations as an emerging surfer from the USA and his style, speed and power saw him progress comfortably to round two although surprisingly, in second place behind young Brazilian surfer Nick Rosa.
Both Reynolds and Rosa set the scene for what will be expected throughout this event with nothing but superb performances likely to see any surfer progress in such quality waves.
Thornton summed up the feelings of most surfers here after his heat saying “ It’s such an easy wave to surf that you sort of know you have to be scoring in the excellent range if you’re going to progress.
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 Surfer Rosa - Music - MyLayoutsCreator.com
Surfer Rosa is what it would sound like if Mike Tyson, Helen Keller, Pauly Shore, and a random homeless guy picked up instruments for the first time and decided to record an album.
"Surfer Rosa" is an excellent example of artful sloppiness, the musical equivalent to the Tower of Pisa.
first heard "where is my mind" in LOST across america along with "ten percenter" (not on this cd), i was like i have to get that cd (surfer rosa), i listened to it once and was like man this sucks and i put into my box of cd's instead of on the rack.
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 The Pixies - Surfer Rosa Ultradisc UHR™ SACD - Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Inc.
Surfer Rosa established the Pixies as an essential indie rock band, and also established Albini's reputation as a highly innovative record producer.
Surfer Rosa has been re-mastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab from recently discovered, first-generation analog original master tapes.
Surfa Rosa is also number 6 on Spin Magazine's list of the greatest 100 albums of 1985-2005.
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 Surfer Rosa
Surfer Rosa DJ Crew en el Free-Way: We are the mods
De momento y a falta de que podamos funcionar con continuidad y sacar material acumulado, pongo alguna foto del II Carnaval Surfer Rosa o la fiesta gambitera del 17.
II Fiesta de Carnaval Surfer Rosa y Nacho Vegas a Eurovisión
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 -= Frank Black Forum =- - Surfer rosa or daydream nation
Which of these albums does everyone think is more important in influencing alternative music "Surfer Rosa" or "Daydream Nation" or are they both of equal importance.
Like, Nirvana may have been more influenced by Surfer Rosa, while whatever other band was more influenced by Daydream Nation, or Raw Power, or whatever.
Every song on Surfer Rosa had an influence on me. That is just me though.
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 BBC - Seven Ages of Rock - Events - Pixies release 'Surfer Rosa'
Albini's dynamic, raw recording technique was perfectly suited to the bands 'loud quiet loud' style and nasty guitar sounds.
'Surfer Rosa' was a huge breakthrough for the Pixies and won them many new fans.
A great example is the iconic "Where Is My Mind" (Later used in the sound track for 'Fight Club') which Frank Black wrote about some fish he met on a scuba diving trip, and Kim Deal's sexually charged "Gigantic".
www.bbc.co.uk /music/sevenages/events/alternative-rock/pixies-release-surfer-rosa   (258 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Surfer Rosa: Music: Pixies
Even the infamous kurt cobain said that it was probably his favourite record of the decade (1980).
He also said that he had practically ripped off the pixies' Surfer Rosa album when writing the song that changed everything, smells like teen spirit.
Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim ~ Pixies
www.amazon.co.uk /Surfer-Rosa-Pixies/dp/B00008YJH5   (352 words)

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