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I am listening to Bossanova by Pixies. I always tend to dismiss this album because it isn't Surfer Rosa or Doolittle. What I seem to have failed to notice in all of my listens to this album is that it is both heavier, and poppier than any of that earlier material. The album, by and large, sounds like Frank and the gang went about songwriting in a very different way than they did on their pervious records. Except for "Is She Weird" it is also a curiosity why the album was released on 4AD. Which I suppose is a valid question for almost everything that Pixies released on that label excepting a handful of songs. It is a better album than I remember it being, which promises to push it up in my considerable queue for future listens.

I am almost certain that the only way Bossanova got onto my iPod in the first place is because it was in my "random" playlist. A playlist dedicated to unlistened albums. Of course I just bought a new computer, so there are only about fifty albums that I have listened to since its inception. I do, however, think that this was an unplayed album from the library on my PowerBook as well.