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.

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. The artwork was conceived by Vaughan Oliver, with photography from Simon Larbalestier. The man in the "hair shirt" on the cover was a friend of Larbalestier's and the photograph was from a series of work Larbalestier was making based on The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert. [11] Composition [ edit ] Music [ edit ] Azerrad, Michael. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991. Little Brown and Company, 2001. ISBN 0-316-78753-1, p. 344 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. The Record: Unfinished Business". Capital Public Radio. 3 February 2015. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019 . Retrieved 16 April 2019.As of 2015, sales in the United States have exceeded 705,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [47] Legacy [ edit ] Crucially, the Pixies weren’t from New York or Los Angeles, or even Chicago, but Boston: a famous place but fiercely provincial, with all the reticence of small-town New England and almost no cosmopolitan sheen. We can always depend on Boston for more sports and software engineers. Early on, Francis—a comic-book kid raised in an evangelical church—talked about the band’s music with all the pretense of someone fixing toilets or laying shingle. “You want to be different from other people, sure, so you throw in as many arbitrary things as possible,” he told the writer Simon Reynolds shortly after their 1988 debut, Surfer Rosa. A few minutes later, the band’s drummer, David Lovering, interrupted to describe a video he’d seen of “people shooting eggs out of their ass, right across the room into another guy's mouth.” 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.

Surfer Rosa was released in the UK by 4AD on March 21, 1988, entering the UK Indie Chart the following week. It spent 60 weeks in the chart, peaking at number 2. [23] Until August of that year it was only available in the U.S. as an import. Although the label held worldwide distribution rights to Pixies, they did not have access to a distributor outside the UK. When 4AD signed a distribution deal with Rough Trade's U.S. branch, the album was released on vinyl and cassette as part of the Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim release. While Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim has remained in print on CD in the UK, subsequent U.S. releases have seen the two released on separate CDs. These separate releases first appeared in January 1992, when Elektra Records first reissued the band's first two albums. After 4AD reacquired rights to the band's U.S. distribution, they released both as separate CDs. [24] Surfer Rosa was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2005, 17 years after its original release. [25]

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 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

In addition to interpreting and mediating between the colonial leaders and Native American chiefs (including Massasoit, chief of the Pokanoket), Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn, which became an important crop, as well as where to fish and hunt beaver. In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims famously shared a harvest feast with the Pokanokets; the meal is now considered the basis for the first Thanksgiving holiday. Pixies Titles/Names". Alec Eiffel. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01 . Retrieved 2007-04-15. a b Phares, Heather. "Surfer Rosa – Pixies". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022 . Retrieved March 31, 2007.Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies. Virgin Books, 2005. ISBN 0-312-34007-9. p. 75 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.”

Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. " Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies". Virgin Books, 2005. ISBN 0-312-34007-9.

Rolling Stone – the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2012)". Archived from the original on 2021-02-01 . Retrieved 2021-02-25. a b Christgau, Robert (September 27, 1988). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Archived from the original on September 14, 2015 . Retrieved September 5, 2015. 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 Albini, Steve. "They Don't Call Him the Martin Hannett of the '90s For Nothing." Forced Exposure #17. 1991.