Come On Pilgrim... It's Surfer Rosa

Great records, great packaging and a live album to boot!

Three decent records in a single sleeve doesn't quite cut the mustard!Fallout shelter live is a nice idea but quality isn't there no matter how good your setup is!Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa on vinyl is the real winner.Get to play them to death all over again!

The two albums are amazing, can't deny that, and the live performance was incredible. The packaging is flawless and extremely well presented. The item itself even contains a small booklet for collectors or fans. Makes for a perfect gift, but I just wanted to by it for myself, couldn't resist.The item is amazing and the recordings are very good quality.

Leaving aside the packaging issues, this is a pretty sorry way to treat some truly excellent and original music. 4AD gets a thumbs-up for releasing The Fallout Shelter officially, but otherwise this is not a patch on the Doolittle 3-CD set. Would it have been asking too much for 4AD to have licensed the other tracks from the Come On, Pilgrim sessions from Frank Black and/or Cooking Vinyl? Then we could have had the whole lot together for the first time ever. THAT would have been a cause for celebration, but I'm beginning to think that will never happen. And why on earth didn't 4AD include the single versions of Gigantic and River Euphrates, the latter being far more powerful in its longer version? Then there's the single-only live tracks: Vamos and the wonderful In Heaven. They got all the singles/B-sides/demos/sessions together for the Doolittle set, so why couldn't they have done the same here? Overall this is a missed opportunity and, to be honest, a pretty lazy release seemingly compiled by somebody who hasn't bothered to check for any potential extras. But that seems to be the first rule of archive releases these days: always leave off at least a couple of tracks that any fan would include and which are easily available.

Surfer Rosa and Come On Pilgrim were the most deranged collections of songs that Black Francis / Frank Black and co ever produced.Musically gifted and lyrically insane. Oh, and you get a very good live album to boot.

Amazing music and will not disappoint but packaging is a bit underwhelming, the new artwork doesn’t add anything and considering there are 3 discs they could have used a gatefold sleeve. If you have the original records, like I do, I’d not bother and get it on cd instead for the bonus material.

The album that made me fall in love with music.

Record outer sleeve damaged. Nothing wrong with records. Good job (despite it being a limited edition) I buy records to play not as investments otherwise I would send back. Looks like damage occurred before the record was packed because box it came in was pristine.