The best albums of the 1980s, according to Kurt Cobain
From R.E.M. to Pixies, the Nirvana frontman picks his favourites.
Pixies
“Get out of my way”: the 1993 hit song that broke up the Pixies
The straw that broke the caribou’s bones.
Incest, inmates, and mutilation: The many strange themes of the Pixies’ 1988 masterpiece ‘Surfer Rosa’
Shocking, strange and salacious.
The album Dave Grohl and David Bowie agreed was the most important of the 1980s: “It was so necessary”
“There was such a lot of sludge in America at the time”.
Pixies to return home for US tour to celebrate 40th anniversary
The band are heading across the US this September.
“They don’t have the hassles”: the artists Kurt Cobain wanted to trade careers with
He could handle that.
“Untouchable and incomparable”: The American band Bono said would live on forever
Too powerful for their time.