/mu/ Which Pixies album should I get first. By the way I'm

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>>73763365
Definitely start with Doolittle

>>73763389
I will, I hope you're not yanking my chain though.

Probably Come On Pilgrim, though Surfer Rosa and Doolittle are both great

Everything else is kinda meh

>>73763443
Nah, it's a good album.
Here Comes Your Man is also a better song than Where Is My Mind
https://youtu.be/BuNXzklTPtk

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Surfer Rosa [4AD/Rough Trade, 1988]

By general consensus the Amerindie find of the year, and I'll say this for them: they're OK. Aurally articulate but certainly not clean, much less neat, with guitar riffs you actually notice and a strong beat that doesn't owe any subgenre. Feature a woman as equal partner--no separatism or blatant gender aggression. If I was on the lookout for contemporaries who proved my world wasn't coming to an end, I might overrate them too. In fact, maybe I still do. B

Doolittle [4AD/Elektra, 1989]

They're in love and they don't know why--with rock and roll, which is heartening in a time when so many college dropouts have lost touch with the verities. You can tell from the bruising riffs, the rousing choruses, the cute little bass melodies, the solid if changeable beat. But not from any words they sing. They'll improve in direct relation to their improved contact with the outside world. Getting famous too fast could ruin them. B+

Bossanova [4AD/Elektra, 1990]

Though the words are less willful, they're still mostly indecipherable without the crib sheet and still mostly incomprehensible with it--leisure-class kiddies grasping at straws (or women: Black Francis has gone through three girlfriends by cut five) as the solar system bangs and whimpers to a halt. But these collegians are obscurantists no longer. Announcing their newfound religious faith with a surf-metal instrumental ("Cecilia Ann," who's not a girlfriend though Francis loves her best of all), they march out tunes so simple and confident and power riffs so grandly declamatory that you learn to understand the choruses by singing them. The beats are lively. The three-minute songs don't bash you over the head with their punk/pop brevity. Neither do the two-minute songs. If they weren't still a little gothic-surrealist they might even be too easy--but they ain't. A

Trompe le Monde [4AD/Elektra, 1991]

Not as catchy from the git as Bossanova, which with eyeballs all over the cover and escape from terra firma all over the lyric sheet is risky if you want to get a rack jobber's attention or respect. But postpunk formalists-in-spite-of-themselves, a category that includes any consumer/tastemaker who's zoned in on 50 or a hundred relevant albums, would be fools to deny themselves the feast that awaits. These devilkins have the music down, and they never overstay their welcome. A-

Daily reminder that Nirvana took the Pixies and watered them down for plebs like you.

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so what do I check then guys.

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Doolittle is the one that everyone like so try that one first. Generally when i try to get into an artist i got to their RYM and listen to the one with the highest score because.

>>73763808
Bossanova
Complete B Sides
Doolittle
Surfer Rosa and Come on Pilgrim
Trompe Le Monde