Doolittle - Pixies Reviews

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...