Wikipedia:Peer review/Surfer Rosa/archive1

Surfer Rosa

I'm looking to take this to featured status (as with Doolittle (album), Frank Black and Pixies :)). Any comments welcome. CloudNine 11:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I feel odd leaving comments on an article I have enough familiarity (with and sources at hand) where I can safely make changes myself. Still, we should get the peer review ball rollin'!

- Possibly briefly explain why Albini did not take royalties on the album. If need be, I can add a quote about Albini's philosophy about royalties from Our Band Could Be Your Life.
  - If you could add a quote, that would be great. Fool the World (my main source) doesn't expand on why Albini didn't take any royalities.
    - Short answer is that he feels like it's taking money out of the pockets of the artists he's worked with. I'll cite it tomorrow. WesleyDodds 13:16, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Remember to use American grammar. I spotted "Utilised" in the second paragraph of the "Recording" section.
  - Working on it.
- Move the "Music" section right below the "Recording" section. It just seems like a natural succession.
  - Done.
- The place to look for a direct quote for Kurt Cobain's fave albums list is in the Journals book. Unfortunately I don't own that one (particularly unfortunate because I need to check a cite used in the "Teen Spirit" article). But from what I understand a number of lists Cobain made about his favorite albums are reproduced in the book. A warning ahead of time: since it basically scans pages of Cobain's journal, there's no index for the book and you might spend a lot of time flipping through it to find the correct page. On a related note, if you want I can cite Come As You Are where Cobain mentions how he discovered the Pixies via this album.
  - Yeah, I'm planning on getting Journals. More information about Cobain and Surfer Rosa is welcome; I think I've got a quote about how he abandoned his previous songwriting for a "Motley-Crue"-esque songwriting style for Nevermind due to listening to Surfer Rosa. CloudNine 13:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - That sounds somewhat odd; I've always heard Motley Crue referenced in order to diss the Nevermind production. Kurt always seems to call his Nevermind-era songwriting more "pop" and mention R.E.M. and the Pixies as influences. Anyway, that'll be fun to read. WesleyDodds 13:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Actually, according to [1], he described it as an Iggy Pop/Aerosmith style of songwriting. My bad :) CloudNine 13:18, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's all I've got for now. Good luck! WesleyDodds 12:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for citing those quotes. CloudNine 18:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]