<P> Surfer Rosa was released in the UK by 4AD on March 21, 1988, entering the UK Indie Chart the following week . It spent 60 weeks in the chart, peaking at number 2 . Until August of that year it was only available in the U.S. as an import . Although the label held worldwide distribution rights to Pixies, they did not have access to a distributor outside the UK . When 4AD signed a distribution deal with Rough Trade's U.S. branch, the album was released on vinyl and cassette as part of the Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim release . While Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim has remained in print on CD in the UK, subsequent U.S. releases have seen the two released on separate CDs . These separate releases first appeared in January 1992, when Elektra Records first reissued the band's first two albums . After 4AD reacquired rights to the band's U.S. distribution, they released both as separate CDs . Surfer Rosa was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2005, 17 years after its original release . </P> <P> "Gigantic" was the only single taken from Surfer Rosa . The track and its B - side, "River Euphrates", were rerecorded by Gil Norton at Blackwing Studios in London, early in May 1988 . The remixed single was well met by critics . The single failed to sell, and spent just one week at number 93 on the UK Singles Chart . Despite the poor commercial performance of both Surfer Rosa and "Gigantic", Ivo Watts - Russell has said that the response to the album was "times five" compared with Come On Pilgrim . </P> <P> Surfer Rosa's cover artwork features a photograph of a topless "friend of a friend" of the band, posing as a flamenco dancer, pitched against a wall which displays a crucifix and a torn poster . Simon Larbalestier, who contributed pictures to all Pixies album sleeves, decided to build the set because "we couldn't find the atmosphere we wanted naturally ." According to Larbalestier, Black Francis came up with the idea for the cover as he wrote songs in his father's "topless Spanish bar"; Larbalestier added the crucifix and torn poster, and they "sort of loaded that with all the Catholicism ." Commenting on the cover in 2005, Francis said, "I just hope people find it tasteful ." The cover booklet expands on the theme, and features photographs of the flamenco dancer in several other poses; there are no song lyrics or written content, apart from album credits, in the booklet . </P> <P> Albini's name does not appear on the original record sleeve . The booklet's photographs were taken in one day at a pub opposite the 4AD offices, because, according to Larbalestier, "it was one of the few places that had a raised stage". In an 1988 interview with Joy Press, Black Francis described the concept as referring to "a surfer girl," who "walks along the Beach of Binones, has a surfboard, very beautiful ." When questioned about the topless element, he replied, "For the first record, I told them I liked nudity . I like body lines--not necessarily something in bad taste, didn't even have to be female, just body lines...like that Obsession ad, you know?" According to Melody Maker, the album was originally entitled "Gigantic" after Deal's song, but the band feared misinterpretation of the cover and changed it to "Surfer Rosa ." The "name" of the cover woman, and the album title, comes from the "Oh My Golly!" lyric, "Besando chichando con surfer rosa ." </P>

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