PIXIES Poll: The best track on Surfer Rosa

Bone Machine.

second poll of the song/album/band never really seem to work on ILM.

srsly this album is all time top 10 for me...

River Euphrates (tho i feel like I should rep for Brick is Red)

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Gigantic

too lazy to think on it. Gigantic.

river euphrates

maybe broken face

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Crap, now I can't remember if I even voted in my own poll. Or what I voted for if I did. I should write this shit down.

Wow, no track left un-voted for!

30 Years
http://thequietus.com/articles/24210-pixies-surfer-rosa-review-anniversary

Pretty good piece. But is it really “ride the tyre down Ricer Euphrates”? I’ve always heard “tiger” but I guess they don’t float too well and object to being ridden.

I've always thought it was tiger too. Let's just pretend it is.

ugh, RIVER, typing on a phone without glasses

Always figured it was Tiger because of the name of the other big river in Mesopotamia.

I got logged out of Facebook BY Facebook this weekend because sometime in November I commented on a status with a youtube of "I'm Amazed" and the cover image on it was the album cover, boobs and all. Apparently that's a violation of Community Standards.

It still bewilders me that boobs are somehow offensive. Like, to whom? Answer's Break My Body tho

antisemitism on the hand is ok on fb. how hypocritical!

I had the same thing last weekend after sharing a YouTube of "Oh My Golly" or something last September. They must be on boobwatch.

Many Americans are scared of the female body and have trouble not looking at it as anything but a sexual object.

This is more specific to FB than general cultural mores. We’re talking about widely available album cover images here

There’s a big ongoing thing w/FB censoring breastfeeding community/instructional pics

For the better part of my teenage years this was my favorite album. Where is My Mind and Gigantic where the initial highlights and I played them until they wore them out. these days Break my body and Cactus are the ones I’m the most fond of.

I prefer Doollitle by a long shot, which I didn’t really listen to until I was in my mid 20s almost a decade later after being in love with this album. Don’t know how to describe it but Surfer Rosa does seem to have a more manic and free form, all songs feel loose and a little bit like controlled chaos in a good way. Doolitle is more traditionally shaped.

My best friend made a (cassette) copy of Surfer Rosa for me somewhere toward the end of 1989, at the beginning of 9th grade; I probably already knew Doolittle from 120 Minutes play. I don't know if it was by snobby design, but he left off "Where is My Mind?" so that he could fit in a bunch of random Amphetamine Reptile singles and shit. I didn't hear that song until I bought the CD many months later.

he left off "Where is My Mind?" so that he could fit in a bunch of random Amphetamine Reptile singles and shit.

haha, classic teen move