In the alternative rock family tree, a big fat line runs from the Pixies directly to the chart-smashing Noise Pop/Grunge that Nirvana broke with in 1991. Surfer Rosa, the Pixies' 1988 full length debut of skronked-out, Surf-damaged Punk-Pop, was a revelation to just about everyone who heard it. At first listen the remedial chord progressions, utterly nonsensical lyrics, and bizarre delivery sounded like the flailings of inept college rockers with a psychotropic casualty for a...  [+]