Doolittle (Album)

align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Doolittle
lign="center" colspan="3"|
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Album by the Pixies
lign="left" valign="top"|Released colspan="2" valign="top"|April 18, 1989
lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded colspan="2" valign="top"|Downtown Records in Boston, Massachusetts, 1988
lign="left" valign="top"|Genre colspan="2" valign="top"|Alternative, College rock
lign="left" valign="top"|Length colspan="2" valign="top"|40 min 03 s
lign="left" valign="top"|Record label colspan="2" valign="top"|4AD/Elektra Records
lign="left" valign="top"|Producer colspan="2" valign="top"|Gil Norton
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Professional reviews
lign="left" valign="top"|Allmusic.com valign="top"|5 stars out of 5 valign="top"|link
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"|The Pixies chronology
align="top"|Surfer Rosa
(1988)
valign="top"|Doolittle
(1989)
valign="top"|Bossanova
(1990)
Doolittle is the Pixies' second LP album, released in April 1989 through the 4AD label (green-brown cover). The album was re-released in May 2003 (blue-brown cover). The album title comes from the "Mr. Grieves" lyric "Pray for a man in the middle / One that talks like Doolittle".

Track listing

  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 La Love You"
  11. "No. 13 Baby"
  12. "There Goes My Gun"
  13. "Hey"
  14. "Silver"
  15. "Gouge Away"

Credits

  Black Francis - vocals, guitar  Kim Deal - bass guitar (slide guitar on "Silver")  Joey Santiago - lead guitar, backing vocals  David Lovering - drums (lead vocal on "La La Love You", bass guitar on "Silver") 
  Produced and Engineered by Gil Norton  Assistant Engineers: Dave Snider and Matt Lane  Mixing Engineer: Steve Haigler  Recorded at Downtown Records, Boston, M.A.  Mixed at Carriage House Studios, Stamford, C.T.  All songs written by Black Francis  except "Silver" (Black Francis/Kim Deal)  Published by Rice 'n' Beans Music BMI 
  Additional musicians on Monkey:  Karen Karlsrud - violin   Corine Metter - violin  Arthur Fiacco - cello     Ann Rorich - cello  Art Direction and Design: Vaughan Oliver/v23  Photography: Simon Larbalestier  Managed by Ken Goes, Box 9515, North Dartmouth  M.a. 02746, United States of America 

Trivia

The first track, "Debaser", references a short surrealist silent film, Un Chien Andalou, made in 1928 by Luis Buuel and Salvador Dal. The song's lyrics, "I am un chien andalusia", mix part of the French movie title, the English name of the place Andalusia that Andalou ("Andalusian") pertains to, and a Spanish pronunciation of "Un". The lyrics "Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know" refer to the first scene of the movie. That scene's visuals imply that a woman's eye is cut with a razor, and it is often recalled as actually portraying the cut. The line "Got me a movie, I want you to know" reinforces both of these parallels by its explicit mention of film.

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