Pixies - Doolittle
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Artist: PixiesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: 4ad / Ada
Soundtracks:
- Debaser
- Tame
- Wave of Mutilation
- I Bleed
- Here Comes Your Man
- Dead
- Monkey Gone to Heaven
- Mr. Grieves
- Crackity Jones
- La La Love You
- No. 13 Baby
- There Goes My Gun
- Hey
- Silver
- Gouge Away
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Free Music Review: The Hype is Right! No Way!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Pixies sometimes have such a legendary reputation that you might just end up walking away dissappointed. Well, I can't really say that it will live up to YOUR expectations, Doolittle doesn't even have to worry about being a product of hype. In fact, I wonder why the majority of the tracks on this album don't even _______ get enough mentioning from people like the rock music press. At least twelve of these songs are perfect.
It's certainly correct that this legendary (for good reason) Boston band is often imitated but never duplicated. Millions of bands have taken the sound of Nirvana (who are notoriously known for their Pixies influence and pointing MTV and the general public to alternative rock or whatever that story goes) and other bands that probably cited the Pixies blah blah blah (I got confused writing that, I will admit) No matter how people could slam this band for some stupid _____ like sounding like a lot of the stuff on the radio (yeah right), the Pixies boasted one-of-a-kind personality and weirdness, elastic, pounding, drums with a one-of-a-kind personal feel that squarely belongs only to the man behind the kit, and female backed up vocals and bass like the drums that none of those bands could ever accomplish, and that's not all. Just listening closely to the way these guys play, plan, execute, and mix up their breed of rock that no one could eclipse.
This is my first Pixies album, so I really can't compare it to others, though I have heard some off of Surfer Rosa and I can say, from the looks of it, this really is much slicker, especially in songwriting (the first track off of Surfer Rosa, Bone Machine, for example, sounds like the Pixies were still developing). The albums flows extremely well from each track to the next, and lending an ear to all the little details in this album, and they grow on you and you might just savor them like fine wine. Doolittle has many of these that I wouldn't do without. There's the crazy plodding drums of Mr. Grieves (and I'm not even mentioning what else is on that song), the surf guitar from Here Comes Your Man, all the lyrics, pretty much how each song is perfect and has me going for the skip button sometimes. If not for that, the songs themselves are pretty much played perfectly and the band sounds like they put all of their thought from beginning to end.
Doolittle is one of those albums that you can't really explain considering everybody else has already wrote everything and your review would just sound redundant. And while Gouge Away isn't up to par with the rest of the album (I really don't see why so many people like it), and No. 13 Baby is a disaster (Frank Black just destroys it right the moment he starts singing), this album is crammed with KILLER (and Gouge Away isn't bad, mind you). Get it.
9.5/10
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