PIXIES Poll: The best track on Surfer Rosa

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