Oh Gen X...Where Art Thou Now?

So today was a good day at the usually crappy local record stores in town. I found the Pixies "Surfer Rosa" and "Doolittle" used on vinyl. Tres cool I know. But the weirdest thing was that when I went to take the "Surfer Rosa" record out of its sleeve, a piece of loose paper fell out with an uncredited, hand written review of the record from when it was originally released in 1988. Here it is in its entirety (typos are the writer's):

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

The Pixies have created this new type of experimental - hillbilly - metal - disco - rock music. This is there second record and it becomes foggier and foggier of the point of each record.

"Come on Pilgrim," the 1st record from this Boston-based band, was a collection of songs that had both little point and little credibility. The only possible advantages to it is that the album clocked a short 35 min., and the hope the the second album would be better.

It isn't. Surfer Rosa is one of the most pointless and boring experimental albums of late. The songs are uninteresting, the themes are non-existant, the lyrics are incomprehensible, and the musicianship is nil. At the very least, this band is not together at all. I shudder at the thought of them live.

This album could have been so good for them. They have created this exciting musical style, but ruin it by their own self-indulgence into their inventions.

I'll think you'll find that one spin through "Surfer Rosa" will not deserve another. Let's hope that the third album is either bettter or not created.

So there you go. "Surfer Rosa" is, apparently a piece of shit. Who knew?