Pixies
COME ON PILGRIM… IT’S SURFER ROSA DELUXE EDITIO
4AD
Re-releases p97 New releases p100 Turntables p114
In March 1987, Pixies entered a studio in Boston, Massachusetts to record a demo tape. The resulting 17 tracks ended up on a cassette known as The Purple Tape; the songs that featured would go on to reappear in various forms across their career, but an initial eight were trimmed and remixed by 4AD to become Come On Pilgrim. Songs sung in Spanish, religious references and a slow-fast, quiet-loud dynamic all featured heavily, forging a template and building a foundation for a group who, in many ways, would go on to be the ultimate alternative-rock group of the era.