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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. br /br /This album should be in the library of any serious alternative rock fan.
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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.
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Yeah, Kim Deal made a big splash of her own, and Frank Black is still holding Ihis/I own. But as any Pixies fan will tell you, and as IDoolittle/I 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. I–Dan Leone/I
Pixies- Doolittle on SACD – nz_flyboy – New Zealand
In these days of digital remastering of older releases- where the remastered sound often suffers over the top digital brick wall compression (the “loudness war”), its great to find a modern remaster sounding genuinely better clearer than the original. The only other recent remasters I know of where this is true is of the new Beatles 2009 ones.br /The difference is that this is alternative rock/ pop genre and also its one of the only bands where the increased sonic clarity and punch is thanks to the fantastic job the sound engineers have done from the original tapes and the SACD release format.br /Its a shame no other alternative bands (other than NIN) have been blessed with this process… but here’s hoping for Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana, and Midnight Oil (not that these original CD releases sound bad).br /The loudness war makes me sick to the point I almost have to take my laptop into my record store to see how overly compressed and ruined many modern releases are before I decide whether I’ll hand over any money for them (no wonder CD sales are rapidly declining). However with alternative rock on SACD I know I’ll always get the best possible sound hands down!br /The Pixies were a great band, and Doolittle a brilliant album that still sounds fresh as ever. Turn it up on your SACD player and relive it as never before!br /My only gripe is the packaging- a cardboard digipack type thingy with the disc in a miniture felt sleeve- I suppose some artist thought this would be classy but its a pain in the ass. Its also oddly oversize so it doesn’t fit at all with my other CDs- I had to cut it down to fit in a standard Jewel case.br /Looking forward to Surfa Rosa next.
This is album is a good reason why alternative rock is an amazing genre – Justin Rice – Seattle, WA
It’s got everything you could ever want in rock music.br /br /The album is (usually) never too harsh to be offensive, nor too subdued to be boring. For the majority of the album the fuzz/noise levels are not only perfect, but are balanced out by the softer verses in each song. The album is interesting to listen to and each song is unique. This is in contrast to albums where all of the songs sound like similar copies of each other, with small and minor changes made here and there. On “Dolittle”, each song is fresh. The arrangements are dynamic and contrasting and never stale or overused. The album is also easy to digest. This is a pop album with most songs clocking in at 2-3 minutes in length. The tunes are catchy. Every chord, every beat, every pause….fits together perfectly.br /br /It has it all. Perfect balance. Creative. Catchy. The epoch of good rock music started with “Dolittle” and was a slow downhill trudge from there.br /br /With this and all of their albums, the Pixies set the bar too high.br /Nobody inside the genre or out has come close to topping them as consistently as they overcame their peers.br /br /I recommend every Pixies album for the true alternative rock fan.
Doolittle – Bjorn Viberg – European Union
Doolittle being the Pixies 2nd studio album and their 1989 release and the critics loved it and Allmusic and Rolling Stone Magazine gave it max score. I agree with them. This is an incredible album. Two singles were released “Here comes your man” and “Monkeys gone to heaven”. The booklet is quite strange but contains all the lyrics and has a list of whom and what they play on the album. 5/5.
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