Doolittle - Pixies Reviews

The album Doolittle was released in 1989 and was the third album from the band and in my opinion was the best album that the band produced before infighting saw them pretty much disappear from the musicbuying publics awareness. I love the unusual vocals from lead singer Frank Black whether it is the gentle songs or the full on wailing ...  Read the complete review

Doolittle is one of those albums that I am still playing on my i-pod regularly even though it waw released over 15 years ago. One of the reasons I keep listening to it is that it never seems to date - there are planty of bands currently that are still using that heavy guitar and drum sound that is prevalent of this album. The singing ...  Read the complete review

With their first album and Ep (now sold together on one CD) the pixies reinvented the sound of rock and roll music. They built songs from old testament bible stories (where else could you find stories so twiseted, vengeful and violent) They reinvented dynamics, using quiet and loud at their ultimate extremes, often using the same riff ...  Read the complete review

After witnessing their stunning headlining set at this years Carling Leeds Festival I felt I had to have more albums by alternative rock legends the Pixies. The album I plumped for was 1989s Doolittle. Whilst I had heard very good things about this album I doubted it would come close to the brilliance of the wonderful Surfer Rosa LP. I was ...  Read the complete review

'Doolittle' represents the pinnacle of the Pixie canon; as good as the albums that followed this were, neither of them lived up to the above-and-beyond criticism standard set by this. There's not much to choose between this and its predecessor; whereas 'Surfer Rosa' was a teeth-bared, vicious, nasty piece of ...  Read the complete review

Waves of mutilation... Hating blue-eyed chicks... Wanting to die... Being the son of a motherf**ker... Wishing there was no television... (and my favourite)... Wanting your girlfriend to send her wet dress into your prison cell... Welcome to the strange, deranged mind of Frank Black ...  Read the complete review

Doolittle, the Pixies’ third album, opens with “Debaser”, the band’s most successful single to date. This song has been covered by, among others, Kerbdog (who split up recently – and Wilt have been formed by the lead singer – check them out), and it sets the feel for the rest of the album. Kim ...  Read the complete review

The five-star rating will already have clued you in on how I feel about this album. But unlike many Pixies devotees, I don't rate it as their best -- I'd reserve that accolade for its predecessor, Surfer Rosa. Compare the two and Doolittle is both more polished and more accomplished, musically. It's filled to the brim with ...  Read the complete review

My friends used to love the Pixies and listened to them constantly. I however hated them, I thought they were just whingy American teenage rockers trying to do heavy metal.... but then...... something happened..... suddenly whilst listening to Monkey Gone to Heaven (on this album) I realised I had been completely wrong all along. I must have ...  Read the complete review

It all starts fairly quietly with Kim Deal's bassline, but very soon the powerful guitars crash in, and you're away - explosive music from the near-legendary Pixies. This first track, "Debaser", is typical of their energised music, and this song in particular takes my breath away. It's clearly about cult film "La ...  Read the complete review

The Pixies are proberly one of the best and most influencial bands of the 1980's. They inflenced nearly every grunge band, including Nirvana. Doolittle is proberly there best album for newcomers to thier music. Track 1 - Debaser, is proberly one of the best tracks they ever recorded. Nirvana stoles the guiter riff for Smells Like ...  Read the complete review