a b Sinker, Mark (March 19, 1988). "Surf Pixies: Must Buy!". NME. London. p.31. Archived from the original on September 30, 2000 . Retrieved May 26, 2016. {{ cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) Some of the most notable passengers on the Mayflower included Myles Standish, a professional soldier who would become the military leader of the new colony; and William Bradford, a leader of the Separatist congregation and author of “Of Plymouth Plantation,” his account of the Mayflower voyage and the founding of Plymouth Colony. In March 1987, Pixies entered Boston's Fort Apache Studios with Fort Apache owner/record producer Gary Smith to record a demo tape. The resulting 17-song cassette, later dubbed " The Purple Tape", eventually found its way to Ivo Watts-Russell, president and co-founder of the influential British record label 4AD. Pixies' manager Ken Goes was also the manager of Throwing Muses, who had become the first American band to sign to 4AD a year earlier. Goes passed Pixies' demo tape on to Watts-Russell, who walked the streets of New York listening to it on his Walkman and "absolutely adored it from day one". [7] Despite initial hesitance to sign the band, seeing as how 4AD had already signed an American band from the same manager, he was convinced to do so by his girlfriend, Deborah Edgeley, a secretary for 4AD. [7] Dedicated fans know the story of the Pixies’ early work, with their 1987 mini-album debut, Come on Pilgrim, being composed of demo recordings made earlier in the year. Just six months later, the band released their Steve Albini-produced album Surfer Rosa, which, while not generating widespread commercial success at the time, slowly became an underground favourite, serving as a vital influence for grunge and musicians such as Kurt Cobain. As 4AD was an independent label, distribution in the United States was handled by British label Rough Trade Records; however, it failed to chart in either country. Only one single was released, a rerecorded version of " Gigantic", and reached number 93 on the UK Singles Chart. Surfer Rosa was rereleased in the US by Elektra Records in 1992, and in 2005 was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.

In their free-associative lyrics and strange, dysmorphic rendering of the human body ( Bone Machine, Broken Face), the Pixies’ songbook owed a clear debt of influence to the surrealists. They referenced past masters of the genre with the sliced-up eyeballs of Debaser (a nod to Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s film Un Chien Andalou) and B-side, ‘Manta Ray’, which pays punning tribute to American surrealist Man Ray. David Lynch was another key piece of the puzzle; when Oliver learned of Thompson’s yen for the cult filmmaker, he knew they’d hit it off. “At 4AD, I would hear all the demos coming in, so before I even started I was getting a flavour,” he says. “Then I’d ask the bands for their lyrics, and the conversation would go to what else they enjoyed, who they liked in music, painting and film. With Charles I hit it off on David Lynch, and Eraserhead in particular.” For those who might complain about anniversary or retrospective tours being a poor attempt to recapture the spark of a time that is long since gone, one only need to take a cursory look towards the Pixies on stage to know they are one outfit bound to never fall into this category. Rather, they’re legends of the game, showing just why it is they’re the beloved figures they’ve come to be known as, and performing as if we were right there in the early days, watching the birth of greatness. The original 1987 UK release of Come On Pilgrim entered the UK indie album chart on October24,1987 ( 1987-10-24), spending 29 weeks on the chart and peaking at number 5. [16] The album received far more attention from the music press in the UK than in the United States, and was reviewed in Q Magazine, Sounds and NME. [17] [18] [19] a b c Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies. Virgin Books, 2005. ISBN 0-312-34007-9. p. 82 Before long though, the stage was once again adorned by a number of figures, with Boston’s Pixies making their long-awaited return. Instantly jumping into the lonesome opening notes of “Caribou”, the performance suddenly became this intoxicating affair of nostalgia parading as a wall of noise.

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Other unusual and offbeat subject matter is raised on the album. " Cactus" is narrated by a prison inmate who requests his girlfriend smear her dress with blood and mail it to him. [13] "Gigantic" is about an illicit love affair [21] and borrows from the 1986 film Crimes of the Heart, in which a married woman falls in love with a teenager. Francis was inspired to write "Where Is My Mind?" after scuba diving in the Caribbean. He later said he had "this very small fish trying to chase me. I don't know why—I don't know too much about fish behavior." [22] Release [ edit ] Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. " Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies". Virgin Books, 2005. ISBN 0-312-34007-9. Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that makes automated requests to our server and causes problems. Rolling Stone – the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003)". Archived from the original on 2020-09-23 . Retrieved 2021-02-25. More than half of the English settlers died during that first winter, as a result of poor nutrition and housing that proved inadequate in the harsh weather. Leaders such as Bradford, Standish, John Carver, William Brewster and Edward Winslow played important roles in keeping the remaining settlers together. In April 1621, after the death of the settlement’s first governor, John Carver, Bradford was unanimously chosen to hold that position; he would be reelected 30 times and served as governor of Plymouth for all but five years until 1656. The First Thanksgiving

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Kim Deal moved on to focus on the Breeders, a project with her identical twin Kelley whose albums sound like abstract slumber-party music for teenagers with comfortable access to weed. Last Splash belongs in the Library of Congress, and their subsequent albums— Title TK and Mountain Battles—remain object lessons in how bands can remain weird without ever becoming alienating.

By the time William Bradford died in 1657, he had already expressed anxiety that New England would soon be torn apart by violence. In 1675, Bradford’s predictions came true, in the form of King Philip’s War. (Philip was the English name of Metacomet, the son of Massasoit and leader of the Pokanokets since the early 1660s.) That conflict left some 5,000 inhabitants of New England dead, three quarters of those Native Americans. In terms of percentage of population killed, King Philip’s War was more than twice as costly as the American Civil War and seven times more so than the American Revolution. The Pilgrim Legacy in New England Of course, it was clear that despite the legacy which these releases boast, many fans were either there for (or simply appreciated more) the band’s hits. Although songs like “The Holiday Song”, “Nimrod’s Son”, “Gigantic”, and “Where Is My Mind?” received the most applause, observers would be remiss to have not mentioned the sheer brilliance of lesser-appreciated cuts like “Bone Machine”, “Tony’s Theme”, and a b Phares, Heather. "Surfer Rosa – Pixies". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022 . Retrieved March 31, 2007. a b Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies. Virgin Books, 2005. ISBN 0-312-34007-9. p. 80The recordings which comprise this EP were taken verbatim from the band’s demo tape (often referred to as The Purple Tape). 4AD co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell had a history of bands suffering from a diminished energy when re-recording their demos, so he decided to simply take the best songs from The Purple Tape and release them as they were. Best Albums of the 1980s | Music". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29 . Retrieved 2012-09-14. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 22 September 2020. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021 . Retrieved 25 February 2021. a b c "Surfer Rosa at AcclaimedMusic.net". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28 . Retrieved 2007-03-25. The shoot for Surfer Rosa has a singular, haunting quality that’s lost none of its power today. The images derive some of their uncanny feel from a photographic technique – ‘solarisation’, where negatives are reversed in tone through exposure – pioneered by surrealist photographers Lee Miller and Man Ray. But Larbalestier says the effect was a “happy accident” caused by near-freezing temperatures in the darkroom. Says Oliver of the result: “It just had an atmosphere. There’s a mystery and ambiguity to it, but there’s also an emotive context. You don’t have to work at it.”

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About four years ago I moved from New York to Arizona and found myself listening to the the band's last two albums—1990's Bossanova and 1991’s Trompe Le Monde—a lot. It’s true what they say about the desert when they say it looks like the moon. Plants and animals seem proud to have survived the odds. Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde make sense to me here, when it’s 110 degrees by lunch and the concrete ripples in the heat. They’re narrower in scope than Doolittle, and have a tough, inorganic presence, like burnished chrome. My favourite song on that record is Gigantic. The way Kim [Deal] delivers her vocal… her personality is so strong and her voice is so pretty and distinctive. She has one of the best voices I’ve ever heard. By that I don’t just mean she sings in tune – there is a charisma and her enthusiasm for music comes through in her singing. The best description I could give of it is that it sounds simultaneously like she’s smiling and raising an eyebrow at you when she’s singing. You clearly get a very emotional tone from her. She’s not adopting a persona, she’s just singing as herself. The album failed to secure distribution in the United States when it was first released and was first issued in the U.S. in August 1988, when Rough Trade included it on their CD release of the band's first full-length album, Surfer Rosa. At the same time, the two releases were issued on separate vinyl records by Rough Trade. That same month, 4AD also released Surfer Rosa and Come On Pilgrim on CD together in the UK. This has been the standard UK CD release ever since, only being out of print for about six months in 1998. [ citation needed] Subsequent U.S. CD releases have split them in two. Mervis, Scott (June 8, 2021). "Pixies will play Stage AE in September". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Retrieved October 6, 2021. The Boston band debuted in 1988 with "Surfer Rosa," introducing its unique form of quiet-to-loud art-punk and, over the course of a few years, hit the college airwaves with such songs as "Gigantic," "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and "Here Comes Your Man." Pure Pop. "Acclaimed Music— Pure Pop lists". Acclaimed Music. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29 . Retrieved 2007-04-07.