PIXIES Poll: The best track on Surfer Rosa

Oh please. "Gigantic".

You knew I had to get around to this one eventually. It's a lot of people's favorite Pixies album (not necessarily mine). Pretty tough 4-way tie for me, though, between Bone Machine, Break My Body, Gigantic and Where is My Mind.

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For me it's between Gigantic and River Euphrates which is probably more tied to the memories it holds for me than the actual song but it still makes this a tough decision.

OK fine, Gigantic.

Gigantic.

a big big love.

i go for "Oh My Golly!"

Granted it's a small sampling thus far, but I never realized "Gigantic" was so universally loved.

yeah but the gigantic on their first e.p. is much better if ya ask me. therefore where is my mind.

by the way this was the last great "indie" album ever made imho - there were some decent/good ones afterwards, but basically it was all downhill from here.

</ducks, runs for cover, rapidly puts on flame retardant suit while hiding behind a door with a chair wedged under the doorknob etc etc>

where is my mind since i first heard the pixies?

think I might vote bone machine since gigantic and where is my mind won't need my help

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The frayed color of ice

Shit, too hard. Any one of about 8, but I'll go for Where Is My Mind?

done before:
Surfer Rosa, a poll

^^^ unauthorized poll, not part of The Johnny Fever Series®

fair enough...

gigantic is overrated and might be my least favourite pixies song.
always wonder why people like it so much.

get ready for challops!

"Gigantic" was better when Weezer remade it as "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here."

I didn't remember doing the poll, but looking back at my earlier post, I followed the exact same thought process when voting. I guess I have pretty entrenched feelings about this album.

gigantic is pretty yawnsome, where is my mind is pretty awesome, but i always preferred doolittle.

When these were out I had Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa on either side of a cassette, and thought of them as two sides of the same album; I never really thought about how much more I like Come on Pilgrim. Though of course "Gigantic" is one of the best 3 Pixies songs probably and is a clear winner here. Loved, I think, because it's so majestically simple and strips out from the idea of song every element apart from "Pixiesness," and still flies.

Almost went for "Oh My Golly!" but switched to "Vamos" at the last second. "If we get bored....we'll move to cALiForNIAA!" A lot of things could have won this for me really. "Gigantic" obv.

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ha, this time I voted for "Oh My Golly!" without a moment's hesitation. By far the most fun to sing without having to know the words.

Far and away my favorite Pixies, and "Broken Face" has always been the top track; the way it moves from the hanging sustained note to the full-on crush. If their legacy is the loud-soft thing, that's my favorite example of it. Also, I think the "I got no lips / got no tongue" expresses paralysis and confusion better than "Where is My Mind"

Gigantic has a boring chorus.

I think that the pre-chorus is more boring: "Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Let's have a ball." If I didn't know that the part where she goes "GI-GAN-TIC! GI-GAN-TIC!" was coming up, I'd turn it off right there.

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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