“Break my Body” by The Pixies

"Break My Body" comes off Surfer Rosa, the debut album the Pixies put out on the British label 4AD in March 1988, with Steve Albini producing and engineering. Black Francis wrote it and sings lead, Kim Deal plays bass and adds backing vocals, Joey Santiago shares the guitars with Francis, and Dave Lovering drums.

Surfer Rosa is the record where Albini's experimental recording tricks and that distinctive drum sound collided with a band drawn to the lurid, mutilation and incest among the album's subjects, and this song lives right in the middle of that glorious racket. The album didn't chart in Britain or America, but it keeps turning up on critics' lists of the best rock records, Billy Corgan and PJ Harvey have named it as an inspiration, and Nirvana's In Utero owes it a debt.

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