Pixies - Doolittle

Doolittle brought the Pixies a wider audience by countering every unusual turn with a moment of sweetness. “Wave of Mutilation” has a chorus worthy of a power-pop classic, but it has a deceptively complicated arrangement, with swells in volume and tricky stops and starts. “Here Comes Your Man” is the kind of song you swear you’ve known all your life when hearing it for the first time, with a twangy guitar refrain that evokes '60s bubblegum even as the lyrics are cryptic and strange. “Monkey Gone to Heaven” moves from spare verses with only bass and drums to explosive choruses, pointing to the quiet/loud structure that would become a standard form in rock within a few short years, but it’s delivered with a rare sense of urgency to match the spiritual torment of the words. Doolittle is one of the Pixies' defining albums, the ideal introduction to them and a crucial guidepost for understanding where guitar-based music was headed.

TRACKLIST
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