Surfer Rosa

1	Bone Machine 3:03
2	Break My Body 2:06
3	Something Against You 1:48
4	Broken Face 1:30
5	Gigantic 3:55
6	River Euphrates 2:32
7	Where Is My Mind? 3:54
8	Cactus 2:16
9	Tony's Theme 1:52
10	Oh My Golly! 2:33
11	Vamos 4:22
12	I'm Amazed 1:43
13	Brick Is Red 2:02

Barnes & Noble

On little more than Black Francis' yowl, Kim Deal's remedial bass-playing, and Joey Santiago's wall-of-noise guitar, the Pixies became the most popular alternative rock group of the '80s and a harbinger of the revolution to come. Need proof? When Nirvana were but grunge pups they actually considered canning their massive single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" because it sounded like a Pixies rip-off. 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. If so, they wouldn't be alone. Surfer Rosa's beguiling mix of swelling guitar, cleverly twisted lyrical imagery, and self-consciously cute, even cuddly, melodies influenced a generation. The album really takes off with Kim Deal's utterly poppy "Gigantic," the heat-blast "Tony's Theme," and Francis' levitating "Where Is My Mind." Today, Surfer Rosa stands with Nevermind and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless as an alt-rock classic. Jon Dolan

All Music Guide

When Rough Trade reissued the Pixies' seminal full-length debut album, Surfer Rosa, on CD, they added the terrific mini-album Come on Pilgrim as a bonus. While it's nice to have these two records on one disc, the sequencing of Come on Pilgrim after Surfer Rosa is a little disconcerting, since the two albums each have distinctive sounds that clash slightly. Steve Albini's production of Surfer Rosa is metallic and spare -- it's in black and white, with no shades of grey and no color. Come on Pilgrim, on the other hand, is filled with greys and colors, and while the contrast between the two is certainly interesting, it would be more enlightening if the mini-LP was placed before Surfer Rosa. Nevertheless, some fans might like having both albums on one disc, but buying them individually is a better move and, in any case, a little more cost-effective as well. Stephen Thomas Erlewine