Doolittle [Import]

Pixies | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 20, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Music Japan
• ASIN: B0010MTL8O
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #567,734 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Debaser

2. Tame

3. Wave of Mutilation

4. I Bleed

5. Here Comes Your Man

6. Dead

7. Monkey Gone to Heaven

8. Mr. Grieves

9. Crackity Jones

10. La Love You

11. No. 13 Baby

12. There Goes My Gun

13. Hey

14. Silver

15. Gouge Away

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An almost impossibly good album, October 3, 2004

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Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doolittle (Audio CD)

If asked what my favorite cut from this album is, I am very nearly at a loss. This disc is simply relentless, with one astonishingly polished, robust, inventive, glorious cut after another. We like to talk about albums that have no filler, but this is one of the few that justifies that description. If there is a critcism that could be made of this album, it is that it is too consistently brilliant to digest properly. By the way, if forced to chose a favorite cut, I might go with "Gouge Away," but I wouldn't go too far out of the way to defend my choice, and I might feel differently on a different day.

Black Francis aka Frank Black aka Charles Thompson (his real name) is the heart and soul of the band, writing all the songs and taking most of the lead vocals, in the performance of which he often literally screams out the lyrics. The man comes across as taut, angry, and more than a little manic. Though his singing and songs make this the classic it is, the rest of the quartet carries their load as well. Kim Deal adds some wonderful back up vocals throughout, and provides solid bass, never being simply a pretty face. David Lovering lays down solid beats throughout the album, crucial in a project that depends so strongly on powerful rhythms. And Joey Santiago plays great guitar on every song, providing an energy and texture that perfectly compliments Black's great songs.

I have a couple of friend's who don't like this disc, and I am powerless to explain this. This is one of those albums that, when fully digested, becomes part of one's emotional and musical furniture, a disc that I go back to again and again and again. And it remains as vital and as fresh sounding today as it did when I first discovered it fifteen years ago.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Omigosh - How did I miss this one!, August 21, 2005

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Duff (Edmonton) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doolittle (Audio CD)

Every so often, a truly superior effort slips through the cracks of even the most ardent music fan. A buddy lent me a copy of "Doolittle" by the Pixies and now I feel like I've "discovered" something remarkable. But a word of warning, reserve judgement until you have listened to it three times! I say this because the style varies greatly from song to song and the vocals of Black Frances are unusual. But the songs are killer, ranging from shout-it-out cuts such as "Debaser" to straight pop songs like "Here Comes Your Man". Throw in complete changes of pace like "Dead", which brought to mind some of the more inventive David Bowie or Iggy Pop efforts of the early 80's. Just when you think you've got it all figured out, the next song will take you in an entirely different direction. The bouncing beat of "Mr. Grieves" acelerates to the manic pace of "Crackity Jones", slows down again for "La La Love You" and "There Goes My Gun" before completely changing gears yet again...well, you get the idea. It's quite a ride!
It's a shame I was sleeping for the last fifteen plus years and missed the "Pixies", but now I'm going to make up the time by wearing their CDs out.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A devil between us, August 26, 2005

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jgc (Charlottesville, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doolittle (Audio CD)

I realize that finally weighing in on `Doolittle' at this late date is sort of like speculating on who shot J. R., but I missed out the first time around. A college bloke in hardly unhip Austin, TX, I was plenty ripe for it, but I simply bought the wrong album -- with nothing to go on, I opted for `Surfer Rosa,' probably because of the great pair on the cover. But the dogmatically abrasive `Rosa' is not the place to start, and now a couple decades later I finally pick up `Doolittle' and learn I could have and should have loved the Pixies all along.

Ambitious but disciplined, the Pixies certainly don't make it easy on themselves: conjuring up both earthiness and clarity, they could make it on sound alone, but they're also constantly pushing their songcraft, piling great hooks on top of great hooks (I mean this literally). Their songs average about two and half minutes, even though tracks like "Hey" and "No. 13 Baby" show what they can do with a groove. Great grooves, by the way -- these hypnotic creatures could go on for half an hour apiece as far as I'm concerned. And I almost never detect them getting arty on us. Against all odds, they keep it fun.