| Product Summary | | Label: 4ad Records | | UPC: 00652637090529 | | Release Date: 5/20/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60597685 | | Item#: MSCJ4L | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Debaser ~ The Pixies |  | | 2. Tame ~ The Pixies | | | 3. Wave Of Mutilation ~ The Pixies | | | 4. I Bleed ~ The Pixies | | | 5. Here Comes Your Man ~ The Pixies | | | 6. Dead ~ The Pixies | | | 7. Monkey Gone To Heaven ~ The Pixies | | | 8. Mr. Grieves ~ The Pixies | | | 9. Crackity Jones ~ The Pixies | | | 10. La La Love You ~ The Pixies | | | 11. No. 13 Baby ~ The Pixies | | | 12. There Goes My Gun ~ The Pixies | | | 13. Hey ~ The Pixies | | | 14. Silver ~ The Pixies | | | 15. Gouge Away ~ The Pixies | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | The Pixies: Black Francis (vocals, guitar); Kim Deal (vocals, slide guitar, bass); David Lovering (vocals, bass, drums); Joey Santiago (guitar). | | Additional personnel: Karen Karlsrud, Corine Metter (violin); Arthur Fiacco, Ann Rorich (cello). | | Recorded at Downtown Recorders, Boston, Massachusetts. | | After 1988's brilliant but abrasive Surfer Rosa, the Pixies' sound couldn't get much more extreme. Their Elektra debut, Doolittle, reins in the noise in favor of pop songcraft and accessibility. Producer Gil Norton's sonic sheen adds some polish, but Black Francis' tighter songwriting focuses the group's attack. Doolittle's most ferocious moments, like "Dead," a visceral retelling of David and Bathsheba's affair -- are more stylized than the group's past outbursts. Meanwhile, their poppy side surfaces on the irresistible single "Here Comes Your Man" and the sweetly surreal love song "La La Love You." The Pixies' arty, noisy weirdness mix with just enough hooks to produce gleefully demented singles like "Debaser," -- inspired by Bunuel's classic surrealist short Un Chien Andalou -- and "Wave of Mutilation," their surfy ode to driving a car into the sea. Though Doolittle's sound is cleaner and smoother than the Pixies' earlier albums, there are still plenty of weird, abrasive vignettes: the blankly psychotic "There Goes My Gun," "Crackity Jones," a song about a crazy roommate Francis had in Puerto Rico, and the nihilistic finale "Gouge Away." Meanwhile, "Tame," and "I Bleed" continue the Pixies' penchant for cryptic kink. But the album doesn't just refine the Pixies' sound; they also expand their range on the brooding, wannabe spaghetti western theme "Silver" and the strangely theatrical "Mr. Grieves." "Hey" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven," on the other hand, stretch Francis' lyrical horizons: "Monkey"'s elliptical environmentalism and "Hey"'s twisted longing are the Pixies' versions of message songs and romantic ballads. Their most accessible album, Doolittle's wide-ranging moods and sounds make it one of their most eclectic and ambitious. A fun, freaky alternative to most other late-'80s college rock, it's easy to see why the album made the Pixies into underground rock stars. ~ Heather Phares | | From the opening bars of DOOLITTLE, the Pixies' brilliant duality comes into focus. Chiming guitar streaks waft over an AOR-ready riff, while vocals bark out references to a deliberately obscure culture. "Debaser," for instance, finds singer/songwriter Black Francis alluding to "Chien Andalou," Spanish director Luis Bunuel's surrealist film renowned for a scene where an eyeball is sliced. | | The Pixies' calling card is their calculated sonic mayhem. Francis and bass player Kim Deal weave vocal harmonies of inimitable dissonance as guitarist Joey Santiago's leads ring like air-raid sirens. DOOLITTLE perfectly captures The Pixies' refusal to be categorized into one form of musical identity. The album's most gorgeous melody is wrapped around the words "cease to exist, giving my goodbye," and crowned with the title "Wave Of Mutilation." The rest of the album follows suit, and even the love songs bear Francis' warped humor, boasting titles like "Tame" and "Dead." | | DOOLITTLE is quintessential Pixies. Unflinching in their abrasion, the group created some of the best, most intriguing rock music of the early 1990s. |
Producer: Gil Norton |
Engineer: Gil Norton |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/20/2003 | | Original Release Date : 1989 | | Catalog ID : 70905 | | Label : 4AD (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 40m : 3s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00652637090529 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (11/28/02, p.94)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...[Featuring a] breathtaking mix of noisy, almost surflike guitars, sweet pop melodies and primal-scream-therapy vocals..."Q (1/03, p.69)
- Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever" Alternative Press (7/95, pp.78-79)
- Ranked #13 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...The fractious combination of [Black] Francis's over-the-top but strangely relevant lyrics and vocals, and the band's unsettling melodicism reached its epitome in 1989's DOOLITTLE..." CMJ (1/5/04, p.26)
- Ranked #2 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1989" Blender (Magazine)
(p.86)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "DOOLITTLE offsets ROSA-style punk with painfully lovely expanses." |
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