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The Pixies Respond to Dave Grohl’s Fanboy-Level Confession About ‘Surfer Rosa’

Surfer Rosa is just shy of its 40th anniversary, but it’s still an influential album for so many.

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The Pixies’ debut album Surfer Rosa is just a couple of years away from turning 40, but it’s still considered iconic for many fans and fellow artists alike. For example, Dave Grohl recently declared the 1988 debut the “perfect record” while speaking with BBC 6 Radio Music in June 2026.

“I love that record so much for a lot of reasons,” the Foo Fighters frontman said. “One, that it was produced by the almighty Steve Albini, and it was maybe the first album to become popular and showcase his incredible engineering sonic technique.”

Grohl then highlighted Black Francis’ songwriting. “His lyrics were just—they kind of teetered back and forth from abstract intellectual to things that just sounded so absurd and almost like dumb in a way,” said........

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