Pixies first album released in 1988 on 4AD and produced by Steve Albini was a mix of punk and alternative music soon becoming a critics and musicians favorite, as well as a major influence for Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. Often cited as a prime example of the 80's College Rock movement, the track Where Is My Mind? was immortalized as a freedom anthem in the movie Fight Club by David Fincher.

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Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rated 317/500

Remastered from Recently Discovered First-Generation Original Analog Master Tapes!

Number 7 on Pitchfork’s Top 100 Favorite Records of the 1980s
Number 31 on New Musical Express Top 100 Albums of All Time
Number 79 on Mojo’s The 100 Records That Changed the World

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• 180 grams High Definition Vinyl pressed at RTI
• Half-Speed mastering on MFSL Gain 2 Ultra Analog System
• Mastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes
• Mastered by Shawn R. Britton
• Special Static Free & Dust Free Inner Sleeves
• Deluxe Gatefold heavy duty cover

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 Underground’s 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.

“The heaviness and hugeness of the room-reverberating drumbeat that begins the album-opening “Bone Machine” epitomizes the record’s 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 (there’s a piano—who knew?), and haunting “Where Is My Mind?,” which opens unto a sonic canyon that swallows the listener whole.” –Bob Gendron, The Absolute Sound

Musicians:

Black Francis, vocals and guitars
David Lovering, drums
Mrs. John Murphy, bass and vocals
Joey Santiago, lead guitars

Track Listing:

01. Bone Machine
02. Break My Body
03. Something Against You
04. Broken Face
05. Gigantic
06. River Euphrates
07. Where Is My Mind?
08. Cactus
09. Tony's Theme
10. Oh My Golly!
11. Vamos
12. I'm Amazed
13. Brick Is Red

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