The best of the past…
Every week Turn Up The Volume! travels to the past to recycle
25 Killer Crackers & 3 Top Albums per year/per week. Here’s: 1989.
The 25 Killer Crackers
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The 3 Top Albums
– ‘1. The Stone Roses‘ by THE STONE ROSES –
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– ‘2. Doolittle‘ by PIXIES
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– 3. ‘New York‘ by LOU REED –
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Pixies in Belgium, 2017
(pic by Turn Up The Volume!)
Pixies‘ concert poster for 2013 gig in New York
Smashing live performances of smashing knockout songs…
‘Where Is My Mind?’
PIXIES
Town and Country Club
London – 1988
One of the best & most influential bands ever. I saw them two years later, in 1990, for the
first time. Seeing 2500 people losing their minds was quite impressive, so was Kim Deal…
PIXIES: Website – Facebook – Discography
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
20 March 2018
BAND: PIXIES
ALBUM: SURFER ROSA
RELEASED: 21 March 1988 – 30 years ago…
ARTWORK: “A photograph of a topless ‘friend of a friend’ of the band, posing as a flamenco dancer, pitched against a wall which displays a crucifix and a torn poster. Simon Larbalestier, who contributed pictures to all Pixies album sleeves, decided to build the set because ‘we couldn’t find the atmosphere we wanted naturally.’ According to Larbalestier, Black Francis came up with the idea for the cover as he wrote songs in his father’s “topless Spanish bar”; Larbalestier added the crucifix and torn poster, and they ‘sort of loaded that with all the Catholicism.”
ROLLING STONE wrote: “Smack in between hardcore punk and alternative, it was difficult
to make sense of the Pixies’ ferocious noise. Their secret weapon was leaping from sweet to screaming, pensive to pummeling: On “Gigantic,” Kim Deal sings like Peppermint Patty as the band drives a spike into Eighties rock.”
ALL MUSIC wrote: “In a year that included landmark albums from contemporaries like Throwing Muses, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine, the Pixies managed to turn in one of 1988’s most striking, distinctive records. Surfer Rosa may not be the group’s most accessible work, but it is one of their most compelling.”
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: One of my all-time favorite bands. Shattering havoc, other-worldly catchiness, hellish racket, shrieking choruses, lots of primal s*c*r*e*a*m*s and utterly cool Kim...
THREE HIGHLIGHTS: Where Is My Mind? / Bone Machine / Gigantic…
* WHERE IS MY MIND? – genially deranged…
* BONE MACHINE – piercing live rendition…
* GIGANTIC – coolest bass player ever…
SURFER ROSA in full…
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Pleased to meet you – Turn Up The Volume‘s first (1990) of many Pixies concerts…
Going back in sonic history…
1988 was a year of versatile vibes and kicks
Here are TURN UP THE VOLUME’S ten picks…
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1/ ‘Fiesta’ by THE POGUES
Ultimate party cracker…
Album: ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With God’
2/ ‘Wrote For Luck’ by HAPPY MONDAYS
Eight miles high…
Album: ‘Bummed’
3/ ‘Sidewalking’ by THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Psych pop pearl…
Album: ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’
4/ ‘People Have The Power’ by PATTI SMITH
Sing it loud, maybe it’ll help…
Album: ‘Dream Of Life’
5/ ‘Gigantic’ by PIXIES
Kim Deal on a roll…
Album: ‘Surfer Rosa’
6/ ‘Hit The North’ by THE FALL
You can dance to The Fall…
Album: ‘The Frenz Experiment’
7/ ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’ by PUBLIC ENEMY
Just believe Public Enemy…
Album: ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’
8/ ‘Sweet Child O’Mine’ by GUNS N’ ROSES
Massive rock and roll riffs…
Album: ‘Appetite For Destruction’
9/ ‘Orange Crush’ by R.E.M.
R.E.M. becoming a big alt act…
Album: ‘Green’
10/ ‘Christine’ by THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Pure pop melancholia…
Album: ‘The House Of Love’
Original member & stellar Pixies bassist
Made a classic Last Splash with The Breeders
And a top one with The Amps (‘Pacer’ – 1995)
Left Pixies in 2013 to reunite The Breeders
Simply one of the coolest ladies ever in rock
Three knockouts to ignite the birthday party…
GIGANTIC (Pixies)
CANNONBALL (The Breeders)
Bossanova
PIXIES
1990
Friday 24 March 2017
Saturday 11 March 2017
PIXIES – Surfer Rosa – Debut LP 1988