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Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 390/500!Numbered, Limited Edition! Remastered from Recently Discovered First-Generation, Original Analog Master Tapes!
#7 on Pitchforks Top 100 Favorite Records of the 1980s #31 on New Musical Express Top 100 Albums of All Time #79 on Mojos The 100 Records That Changed the World #315 on Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!
The Plymouth Rock on which alternative rock was founded, the Pixies Surfer Rosa forever altered the music environment even if it did take most of the world a few years to catch up with its brilliance. Internationally acknowledged as a pioneering record, its rollercoaster blend of harsh and soft tempos, male and female singing, intense punk and bubblegum pop tones, dark and light quips, and off-kilter sensibilities is the influential equivalent of the Velvet Undergrounds oft-cited 1967 debut.
The 1987 debut established the Pixies as otherworldly visionaries whose songs such as the insistent Bone Machine, badgering Something Against You, and sensual Cactus remain ahead of the curve. Having analog fanatic and noise aficionado Steve Albini working production ensured that the music would retain a requisite rawness and in-your-face sonic signature that paralleled the fundamentally chaotic, compulsive characteristics of the Pixies songs.
And now, thanks to the painstaking efforts of Mobile Fidelity engineers, you will truly hear this groundbreaking record as if you were experiencing it for the first time. Vivid, immediate, massive, and detailed, this is how Surfer Rosa was meant to be heard when Albini completed it and turned it into the label.
Also available on Mobile Fidelity 180g Vinyl is the Pixies' Doolittle (MFSL 1-309).
The heaviness and hugeness of the room-reverberating drumbeat that begins the album-opening Bone Machine epitomizes the records forward impact, visceral punch, grinding crunch, and dynamic headroom. Rather than cluttering the mix with an avalanche of effects, Albini left space without sacrificing live detail or volatile oomph, shown to great effect on Broken Face, Gigantic (theres a pianowho knew?), and haunting Where Is My Mind?, which opens unto a sonic canyon that swallows the listener whole. - Bob Gendron, The Absolute Sound, September 2007
"Smack in between hardcore punk and alternative, it was impossible to deconstruct the Pixies' ferocious howl. Their secret weapon was leaping from sweet to screamin' (which Kurt Cobain admitted to boosting): On "Gigantic," Kim Deal sings like Peppermint Patty as the band drives a spike into Eighties rock." - www.rollingstone.com
Features:
Numbered, Limited Edition
180g Vinyl
Musicians:
Black Francis, vocals, guitars
David Lovering, drums
Mrs. John Murphy, bass, vocals
Joey Santiago, lead guitars
Selections:
1. Bone Machine
2. Break My Body
3. Something Against You
4. Broken Face
5. Gigantic
6. River Euphrates
7. Where Is My Mind?
8. Cactus
9. Tony's Theme
10. Oh My Golly!
11. Vamos
12. I'm Amazed
13. Brick Is Red
