The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Surfer Rosa

These are the albums most often named alongside Pixies - Surfer Rosa by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Pixies, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
2. Sonic Youth - Sister
3. Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
4. Sebadoh - Bakesale
5. De La Soul - Buhlo͞one Mind State
6. Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo habitual
7. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
8. Sonic Youth - Evol
9. Love - Forever Changes
10. The KLF - The White Room
11. R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
12. Nirvana - In Utero
13. Sonic Youth - Dirty
14. The Breeders - Last Splash
15. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
16. Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
17. Primus - Frizzle Fry
18. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
19. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
20. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
21. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
22. White Zombie - Astro‐Creep: 2000: Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head
23. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
24. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
25. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
26. Brandy - The Gift Of Repetition
27. Culture - Cumbolo
28. Dave Bixby - Ode to Quetzalcoatl
29. Paco Delucia - Siroco
30. E*Vax - Parking Lot Music

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