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Surfer Rosa

Index Surfer Rosa

Surfer Rosa is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in March 1988 on the British independent record label 4AD. [1]

102 relations: A-side and B-side, Acclaimed Music, Adobe Flash, AllMusic, Alternative rock, Analog recording, Audio engineer, Audio mastering, Big Black, Billy Corgan, Black Francis, Blender (magazine), Bossanova (Pixies album), Cactus (song), Calvin Klein, Caribbean, Come On Pilgrim, Cover art, Crimes of the Heart (film), Crucifix, David Lovering, Dinosaur Jr., Doolittle (album), Downtown Recorders, Elektra Records, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Extended play, Fan magazine, Flamenco, Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies, Forced Exposure, Fort Apache Studios, Gary Smith (record producer), Gigantic (song), Gil Norton, Grunge, In Utero (album), Incest, Independent record label, Ivo Watts-Russell, J Mascis, Joey Santiago, Joy Press, Kim Deal, Kurt Cobain, Last.fm, Melody Maker, Mini-LP, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Mojo (magazine), ..., Music Express, MusicHound, Mutilation, Nevermind, Nielsen SoundScan, Nirvana (band), NME, Ogg, Omnibus Press, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Pazz & Jop, Phonograph record, Pitchfork (website), Pixies, Pixies (EP), PJ Harvey, Puerto Rico, Q (magazine), Q Division Studios, Radio3Net, Record Mirror, Record sleeve, Recording Industry Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America certification, Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Rough Trade Records, Scuba diving, Simon & Schuster, Simon Larbalestier, Slant Magazine, Somerville, Massachusetts, Sounds (magazine), South End, Boston, Spin (magazine), Spin Alternative Record Guide, Steve Albini, Super Audio CD, The Fall (band), The Rolling Stone Album Guide, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Village Voice, Trompe le Monde, UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts, UK Singles Chart, Vaughan Oliver, Vintage Books, Virgin Books, Voyeurism, Where Is My Mind?, 4AD. Expand index (52 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Acclaimed Music

Acclaimed Music is a website created by Henrik Franzon, a statistician from Stockholm, SwedenMatt Rosoff, "The critics vs.

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Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a deprecated multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich Internet applications, desktop applications, mobile applications, mobile games and embedded web browser video players.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Analog recording

Analog recording (Greek, ana is "according to" and logos "relationship") is a technique used for the recording of analog signals which, among many possibilities, allows analog audio and analog video for later playback.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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Big Black

Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987.

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Billy Corgan

William Patrick Corgan Jr. (born March 17, 1967) is an American musician, songwriter, producer, poet, and professional wrestling magnate.

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Black Francis

Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (born April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Blender (magazine)

Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more".

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Bossanova (Pixies album)

Bossanova is the third studio album by American rock band Pixies.

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Cactus (song)

"Cactus" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies, and is the eighth track on their 1988 album Surfer Rosa.

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Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein Inc. is an American fashion house founded by designer Calvin Klein and childhood friend Barry K. Schwartz.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Come On Pilgrim

Come On Pilgrim is the debut mini-LP release by the American alternative rock band Pixies.

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Cover art

Cover art it is either an artwork as illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper (tabloid), comic book, video game (box art), DVD, CD, videotape, or music album (album art).

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Crimes of the Heart (film)

Crimes of the Heart is a 1986 American southern gothic film directed by Bruce Beresford.

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Crucifix

A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is an image of Jesus on the cross, as distinct from a bare cross.

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David Lovering

David Lovering (born December 6, 1961) is an American musician and magician.

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Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. is an American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984, originally simply called Dinosaur until legal issues forced a change in name.

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Doolittle (album)

Doolittle is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 1989 on 4AD.

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Downtown Recorders

Downtown Recorders is a recording studio in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music was created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Fan magazine

A fan magazine is a commercially written and published magazine intended for the amusement of fans of the popular culture subject matter which it covers.

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Flamenco

Flamenco, in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of Southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia.

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Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies

Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies is a 2005 book by Josh Frank and Caryn Ganz about the American alternative rock band Pixies.

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Forced Exposure

Forced Exposure was an independent music magazine founded by Jimmy Johnson and Katie The Kleening Lady (Goldman) (zine).

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Fort Apache Studios

Fort Apache Studios is a New England recording studio focusing on alternative rock sessions produced there since 1986.

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Gary Smith (record producer)

Gary Smith is an entrepreneur, record producer, and artist's manager known for his work recording albums by alternative rock musicians since the mid-1980s at Fort Apache Studios.

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Gigantic (song)

"Gigantic" is a song by the American alternative rock band the Pixies, co-written by bassist Kim Deal and lead vocalist/guitarist Black Francis.

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Gil Norton

Gil Norton (born in Liverpool) is an English record producer known for his work with alternative rock bands such as Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters, Tribe, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, Feeder, The Distillers, Maxïmo Park, Counting Crows, Terrorvision, The Triffids, Del Amitri, James, The Feelers, The Beekeepers, Twin Atlantic, General Fiasco, Span and Intergallactic Lovers.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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In Utero (album)

In Utero is the third and final studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 21, 1993, by DGC Records.

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Incest

Incest is sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Ivo Watts-Russell

Ivo Watts-Russell (born 1954 in Northamptonshire, England) is joint-founder with Peter Kent of the indie record label 4AD.

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J Mascis

Joseph Donald Mascis Jr. (born December 10, 1965) is an American musician, best known as the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. He has also released several albums as a solo artist and played drums and guitar on other projects.

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Joey Santiago

Joseph Alberto "Joey" Santiago (born June 10, 1965) is a Filipino-American guitarist and composer.

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Joy Press

Joy Press (born 1966) is a writer and editor.

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Kim Deal

Kimberley Ann Deal (born June 10, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the former bassist and backing vocalist of the alternative rock band Pixies, and the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Breeders.

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Last.fm

Last.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Mini-LP

A mini-LP or mini-album is a short vinyl record album or LP, usually retailing at a lower price than an album that would be considered full-length.

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Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL or MoFi) is a record label specializing in the production of audiophile recordings.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Music Express

A Music Express is an amusement ride based on the original Caterpillar rides of Germany.

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MusicHound

MusicHound (sometimes stylized as musicHound) was a compiler of genre-specific music guides published in the United States by Visible Ink Press between 1996 and 2002.

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Mutilation

Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is cutting off or injury to a body part of a person so that the part of the body is permanently damaged, detached or disfigured.

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Nevermind

Nevermind is the second studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991.

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Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is the world’s largest specialist publisher of music-related books.

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Our Band Could Be Your Life

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991 is a book by Michael Azerrad.

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Pazz & Jop

Pazz & Jop is an annual poll of musical releases compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice since 1971.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Pixies

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Pixies (EP)

Pixies is a 2002 EP release of the (mostly) previously unissued material from Pixies' original 17-track demo tape (known to Pixies aficionados as "The Purple Tape"), recorded at Fort Apache Studios in March 1987 by Gary Smith.

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PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey, MBE (born 9 October 1969) known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Q Division Studios

Q Division Studios is a recording studio located in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States.

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Radio3Net

Radio 3 net is the former Radio România Tineret (or Radio 3).

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Record Mirror

Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper between 1954 and 1991 for pop fans and record collectors.

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Record sleeve

A record sleeve is the outer covering of a vinyl record.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Recording Industry Association of America certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2003 special issue of American biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and a related book published in 2005.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Simon Larbalestier

Simon Larbalestier (born 1962 in Pembrokeshire, UK) is a Welsh photographer.

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Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.

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Somerville, Massachusetts

Somerville is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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South End, Boston

The South End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Spin Alternative Record Guide

Spin Alternative Record Guide is a music reference book compiled by the American music magazine Spin and published in 1995 by Vintage Books.

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Steve Albini

Steven Albini (pronounced; born July 22, 1962) is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist.

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Super Audio CD

Super Audio CD (SACD) is a read-only optical disc for audio storage, introduced in 1999.

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The Fall (band)

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins (or Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Trompe le Monde

Trompe le Monde is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released on September 23, 1991 on 4AD in the United Kingdom and Elektra Records in the United States.

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UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts

The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Vaughan Oliver

Vaughan Oliver (born 1957) is a British graphic designer based in Epsom, south of London.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a publishing imprint established in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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Virgin Books

Virgin Books is a United Kingdom book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.

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Voyeurism

Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature.

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Where Is My Mind?

"Where Is My Mind?" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies.

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4AD

4AD is a British independent record label, founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1980.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfer_Rosa

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