Pixies - Doolittle
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Artist: PixiesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Debaser
- Tame
- Wave of Mutilation
- I Bleed
- Here Comes Your Man
- Dead
- Monkey Gone to Heaven
- Mr. Grieves
- Crackity Jones
- La Love You
- No. 13 Baby
- There Goes My Gun
- Hey
- Silver
- Gouge Away
Music reviews of Doolittle
Music Review: One of the best alternative rock albums ever
Rating: 5 Stars
I recently heard about the Pixies being on tour in my home town and unfortunately missed them (nov 2009). As a substitute I watched the Pixies documentary film Pixies - loudQUIETloud: A Film about The Pixies. It made me remember how much I loved the Pixies music and caused me to update my library with this CD. These guys are musicians par excellence. This and Bossanova, IMHO, are their two best albums. This is when they were at their creative best. If you like other Pixies songs and don't have this, you've got to get it. Almost all other alternative rock pales in comparison. Kurt Cobain even publicly stated that Nirvanna's biggest hit "smells like teen spirit" was a blatant knock-off of the Pixies style. Not to say that wasn't a good song... Now, in general, you don't listen to the Pixies for insightful or clever lyrics. It's the music that matters. As one other reviewer points out, the Pixies are a band in which the sum of the parts FAR exceeds the individuals. I don't know why, as each member of the band has incredible mastery over their instrument and a unique style that is totally their own. Any one of the band members, it seems to me, could elevate a typical band to must-hear. Now, multiply that by four for each of Frank Black, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering, and you've got the alternative rock dream team. The Pixies, like no other band I've heard before or since, know how to build a song that is at the same time angry and beautiful. Harmonious and melodic, yet punk angry with screaming vocals and wailing guitars and driving percussion. On this album, they are at their best in using their instruments to capture the angst, anger, frustration and energy that alternative rock represents, while also layering beautiful melodies and harmonies. The result is just...musical! And, as if those beautiful melodies are not enough, they thwart any attempts to categorize them as a loud angry alternative rock band by interspersing a few incredibly catchy melodic feel-good pop songs. Now, I'm not 18 anymore (thank goodness!), but I've got to say that when I'm working out hard, this album captures the gamut of my feelings perfectly.
This album should be in the library of any serious alternative rock fan.
Description of Doolittle
SACD/Hybrid 2008 version of the Pixies 1989 album, Doolittle. Pixies is led by Black Francis (AKA Charles Thompson), this Boston band reveled in the raw, loud energy of punk, but harnessed it in service of catchy melodies laced with bizarre lyrics. Doolittle, is widely considered to be one of the best alternative-rock albums ever, and their influence extends to a legion of artists, including PJ Harvey and Nirvana. After five records in five years, they were gone, splintering into the Breeders (led by bassist Kim Deal) and Francis's solo namesake, Frank Black. In 2004, however, the band reunited for some highly publicized performances. 15 tracks.Yeah, Kim Deal made a big splash of her own, and Frank Black is still holding his own. But as any Pixies fan will tell you, and as Doolittle suggests (like "ten million pounds of sludge" to the head), the Pixies rocked harder than the sum of their parts. They were masters of dynamics (check out "Monkey Gone to Heaven," or "Hey"), moving from quietly subdued to all-out head-banging and back before you could say "la la love you." Black Francis was one of the most unique vocal stylists of the '80s. His duets with bassist Deal, "I Bleed" and "Silver," work the way Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong worked together. And it's still staggering how much Joey Santiago, lead guitarist, could accomplish with one simple, single note. "Here Comes Your Man," by the way, is as straightforwardly poppy as the Pixies ever got, so enjoy it. --Dan Leone
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