• 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. 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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  • band Pixies. It is the seventh track on the band's 1988 debut album Surfer Rosa. It is one of the band's signature songs and has inspired a multitude...
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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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  • 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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  • biblical violence and descriptions of torture and death. Their 1988 album Surfer Rosa was highly acclaimed, leading to high expectations for its follow up...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Underground, 1981–1991, Azerrad describes Albini's work on the Pixies album Surfer Rosa: "The recordings were both very basic and very exacting: Albini used...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 1983 film Scarface "Tony's Theme", a song by the Pixies from the album Surfer Rosa This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tony's...
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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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  • Pixies releases: "I'm Amazed", "Broken Face", and "Break My Body" (for Surfer Rosa); "Here Comes Your Man" (Doolittle); a live version of "In Heaven" ("Gigantic"...
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  • Lovering Joey Santiago Kim Deal Kim Shattuck Paz Lenchantin Studio albums Surfer Rosa Doolittle Bossanova Trompe le Monde Indie Cindy Head Carrier Beneath...
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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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  • 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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