Doolittle

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Class packaging that's linked to but doesn't just reproduce the original - and accommodates the vinyl without sticking or splitting. We bring you breaking news, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes features, as well as unrivalled access to the biggest names in rock music; from Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple, Guns N’ Roses to the Rolling Stones, AC/DC to the Sex Pistols, and everything in between. I thought I’d at least be able to dig Wave Of Mutilation a bit having heard it on the 1990 movie Pump Up the Volume, but alas, the version from that film was a remix that I liked much more than the uptempo track on Doolittle. 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. The songs are okay and the album is quite short for a 15 song record; so it makes for a decent album, which I can now cross off my "to do" list.

Pixies – Doolittle (2021, Vinyl) - Discogs

Thus side two plays not only with excess snap and crackle but regulalr rips and farts too which nothinf can solve. The vocalist often sounded like a non-vocalist, mixing screams and shouts with whispered, almost spoken passages, occasionally switching into Spanish for no apparent reason. When she joins Francis at the mic, she can sweeten the song ( This Monkey's Gone To Heaven) or ratchet up the intensity ( Tame) or both in the same song ( I Bleed, Silver). I'm really just joking around here, so people don't need to take any of these comments too seriously. In truth, Pixies got there two years earlier – before Bleach, even – with a second album that combined bristling fury with the hooks to take it overground.For reasons unexplained, their lyrics occasionally lapsed into Spanish and their promotional T-shirts read Death to the Pixies.

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I like the RKS masterings I've heard, just find it odd there is zero talk of his 2014 pressing of Bossanova (or the 30th).As well as being adept at screaming and shouting, Francis also does a decent leer, employed to good effect here ( there are times when he sounds disturbingly like he might be some kind of serial killer!

Pixies – Doolittle (1989, Vinyl) - Discogs

In a decade where, increasingly, image was as important as talent, the heavier end of the rock spectrum had descended almost into self-parody. Drummer Lovering steps up to the mike for the throwaway, tongue-in-cheek La La Love You and takes a turn on bass on the psycho-cowboy-maybe-drug-related Silver with Kim Deal playing slide guitar on the only song she is credited with on the album.After the brilliance of Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa they took the surprising step of ditching the latter's producer, Steve Albini, when it came time to record their second long player, engaging the services of Gil Norton instead. Kim Deal got only one co-songwriting credit on Doolittle, the parched and eerie country drone of Silver – in an act of astonishing pig-headedness, the Pixies declined to perform any of the Deal-penned songs that ended up on the Breeders’ fantastic debut album, Pod. I’m ignorant about the different masterings there have been since each of them came out and how they compare. Pixies: Doolittle - Album Of The Week Club review One of the albums that altered the course of rock music as we know it, how will the Pixies' Doolittle stand up to the Album Of The Week Club scrutineers?

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The overtly poppy 'hit' single, Here Comes Your Man complete with jaunty surf-guitar, hides a lyric that tells the dark tale of a bunch of hobos riding out the quiet period before an earthquake which leads to their demise, another example of the many contrasting elements which is part of Pixies make-up.

The three records, with the thick cardboard inners, do not fit within the two pockets of the gatefold. The Pixies proved so influential that it’s now almost impossible to imagine how bizarre they seemed on arrival in the late 80s. Doolittle’s push for the big time worked, at least in Britain: improbably enough, it made the top 10. It had seen the release not just of Doolittle’s predecessor, Surfer Rosa, but Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff, You’re Living All Over Me and Bug by Dinosaur Jr, Bongwater’s Double Bummer, the Butthole Surfers’ Hairway to Steven, debut albums by Royal Trux and Fugazi, Soundgarden’s Ultramega OK and Galaxie 500’s Today; a few weeks after Doolittle came out, it was followed by Nirvana’s Bleach. You didn’t need to be an expert in musical semantics to work out what all the gasping and grunting that punctuated Francis and Deal’s vocals on Tame or Hey was meant to signify.