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| Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988) |
"Your head'll collapse if there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself..."
When I prefaced this list, I mentioned a severe lack of content from the 80's. Well, here we are with one of the three songs to make the countdown from the decade of my birth. I, along with most seven year-old's, knew nothing of the Pixies back in 1988. If I was listening to music, it was either something my parents had put on the stereo (Petty, Dylan, Dead, Be-at-lays, etc.), or I was jamming along to "Kokomo" with my school friends. At my very coolest, I might have thrown in a tape containing "Sweet Child o' Mine" or "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."
As I grew up and realized that this music thing may be evolving from a habit to an obsession, I followed the trail of critical acclaim to this influential and essential group. Having never seen "Fight Club" (still haven't), I happened upon this song more conventionally, in the middle of the album Surfer Rosa. Now, that record would eventually grow on me as a whole, but it was a little over my head the first time through. Not this track though.
Immediately gripping and incessantly catchy, it's become one of the most revisited tracks in the collection. It does not sound dated to this day, and it constantly amazes me that it came out in 1988. Take a listen to a game changer; a jam that was truly ahead of its time.
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