Doolittle (album)

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Doolittle
A monkey surrounded by lines forming geometric shapes. The border of the image is brown, and "Pixies" is printed in the upper-right corner
Studio album by
Pixies
ReleasedApril 17, 1989
RecordedOctober 31 – November 23, 1988
StudioDowntown Recorders (Boston)
GenreAlternative rock
Length38:38
Label
ProducerGil Norton
Pixies chronology
Surfer Rosa
(1988) 		Doolittle
(1989) 		Bossanova
(1990)
Singles from Doolittle
  1. "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
    Released: March 20, 1989
  2. "Here Comes Your Man"
    Released: June 1, 1989
  3. "Debaser"
    Released: July 21, 1997

Doolittle is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 1989 on 4AD records. Its idiosyncratic lyrics were written by the Pixies' main songwriter and lead vocalist Black Francis, and allude to surrealist imagery, biblical violence and descriptions of torture and death. Their 1988 album Surfer Rosa was highly acclaimed, leading to high expectations for its follow up. Doolittle' was an instant critical success, and became their break-through album. It was especially well received in Europe, where the British music weeklies Melody Maker and Sounds both named it as their album of the year.

The album is widely praised for its "quiet/loud" dynamic, achieved through subdued verses founded on Kim Deal's bass patterns and David Lovering drums, which then reach peaks in tone and volume through the addition of distorted guitars by Francis and Joey Santiago. This technique became highly influential on the development of early 1990s grunge music; Kurt Cobain said that it was one of his favorite records, and that its songs heavily influenced "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

Doolittle has sold consistently since its release and numerous music publications have placed it as one of the top albums of the 1980s. On release it reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart, and was certified gold in 1995 and platinum in 2018 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Both singles from the album, "Here Comes Your Man" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven", reached the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US, while many of the album tracks, including "Debaser" and "Hey", remain favourites of both critics and fans.

Background[edit]

The Pixies' classic line-up during a 2009 reunion. L-R: Santiago, Black, Lovering, Deal

The band's 1988 album Surfer Rosa was better received in the United Kingdom than in the United States. In support of its release the band did a short tour of Europe with fellow Bostonians Throwing Muses, where according to a critic for Melody Maker they were "welcomed like gods, which I felt underestimated them somewhat." The band were given multiple cover photographs in the weekly UK music magazine, as the album topped the NME's Indie Chart.[1][2]

Versions of the songs that would later appear on Doolittle—including "Dead", "Hey", "Tame" and "There Goes My Gun"—were recorded in the second half of 1998 during several sessions for John Peel's radio show, and "Hey" appeared on a free EP circulated with a 1988 edition of Sounds.[3] The first demos were recorded in 1988 at the Eden Sound recording studio in Boston, during a break from the band's touring schedule. They recorded there for a week. The group's frontman and main songwriter Black Francis (born Charles Thompson, later known as Frank Black) gave the upcoming album the provisional title of Whore, which he later claimed was meant "in the more traditional...operatic...biblical sense ...as in the great whore of Babylon".[4]

After completing the demo tape, the band's manager Ken Goes suggested two producers: Liverpudlian Gil Norton and American Ed Stasium. The band had earlier worked with Norton on the single version of "Gigantic" in May 1988. Francis had no preference. Ivo Watts-Russell, head of the band's label 4AD, chose Norton to produce the next album.[5] Norton arrived in Boston in mid October 1988 when he and Francis met to review the demo recordings. They spent two days analyzing the song's structures and arrangements, and two weeks in pre-production as Norton familiarized himself with the Pixies' sound.[6]

Recording and production[edit]

The recording sessions began on October 31, 1988, in Boston at Downtown Recorders, then a 24-track studio. 4AD gave the Pixies a budget of $40,000 (approximately $103,050 today), excluding producer's fees. This was a relatively modest sum for a large late-1980s indie label, but four times the amount spent on their debut, Surfer Rosa.[7] The three weeks sessions began on November 28 at Carriage House Studios, a residential studio in Stamford, Connecticut. Norton was assisted by two assistant recording engineers and two second assistants[8] He hired Steven Haigler as mixing engineer, who he had earlier worked with at Fort Apache Studios.[9]

Francis brought a mixture of newly written and older tracks to the recording sessions.[10] Many of the newer tracks were underdeveloped, and according to Norton, consisted of minute or minute and half "ditties" consisting of short bursts of "verse, chorus, verse, beat-beat-beat-bang....finished". As producer and arranger, Norton says he often built tracks by suggesting the band double or repeat sections. This songwriting approach is evident in the fact that of the some 23 songs or ideas the band started with, only three of the albums final 15 tracks are longer than three-minutes.[10]

During the final mixing, Norton smoothed out the band's rough edges via tight compression, adding reverb and delay to the guitars, which he then tracked in multiple layers, notably on the intended lead single "Debaser";[11] a similar approach was taken with the double tracked vocals on "Wave of Mutilation". During pre-production, Norton advised Francis to slow down the tempo and lengthen several songs by adding more verses. "There Goes My Gun" was originally a much faster and shorter Hüsker Dü-style song; at Norton's advice, Francis slowed the tempo, while "Debaser" was given an extended coda.[12] His suggestions were not always welcome; several instances of advice to add verses frustrated the singer. On one occasion, Francis took Norton to a record store and handed him a copy of a Buddy Holly greatest hits album in which most of the songs are around two minutes or three minutes long, justifying why his songs should be kept short.[13] He later admitted that he knew that Norton was trying to give the band a more commercial sound while he wanted the band to retain the underground sound achieved with Albini.[12]

Tension between Francis and Deal became visible to band members and the production team during recording. Bickering and standoffs marred the recording sessions and led to increased stress among the band members.[14] John Murphy, Deal's husband at the time, recalls that the band dynamic "went from just all fun to work" during the production.[15] Production continued until December 12, 1988, while Norton and Haigler mixed the album. During this period Santiago became unhappy as he felt Norton was adding too much reverb to his guitar parts. In response, he covered his Marshall cabinets with blankets to make that he didn't his live sound to be interfered with.[16] The final tapes were sent for mastering later that month.[17]

Music and lyrics[edit]

"Debaser"
"Debaser" is the opening track of Doolittle. This sample contains the first chorus and the bridge into the second verse.
"Monkey Gone to Heaven"
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" is the seventh track from Doolittle. This sample contains the end of the second verse and the beginning of the chorus.
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Norton's production is markedly different to Albini's recording of Surfer Rosa and is far more polished than the debut's ambient and raw recordings. Albini's recording emphasised Francis's abrasive guitars that both popularized the band and sealed his reputation, leading to later work with musicians such as Nirvana and PJ Harvey. Critics continue to debate whether Norton's or Albini's production best served the Pixies music.[18]

Two of the songs are based Old Testament stories of sex and death:[19] the story of David and Bathsheba in "Dead", and Samson and Delilah in "Gouge Away".[20] Francis's fascination with Biblical themes is traced back to his teenage years; when he was twelve, he and his parents joined the Pentecostal church.[21] Such imagery is also prevalent in "Monkey Gone to Heaven", where using numerology, Francis describes the Devil as being "six" and God as "seven".[11]

Side one[edit]

The album opens with "Debaser", described as a "noisy surf-punk" song,[22] is widely considered instrumental in their crossover into the mainstream. It begins with a Deal's bass guitar pattern, which breaks into the first chorus when joined by Santiago's guitar riff and Black's shouted vocal. A live favorite, the track contains an extended coda where the baseline is overlain with, according to the music critic Rob Hughes, Santiago's "frenzied guitar riffage...at full tilt as the song hurtles to its climax".[22] Written while an anthropology student at UMass, Boston, Francis' lyrics "slicing up eyeballs" refer to Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's 1929 film Un Chien Andalou.[16][22] He has said that he "got into avant-garde movies and Surrealism as an escape from reality...To me, Surrealism is totally artificial. I recently read an interview with the director David Lynch who said he had ideas and images but that he didn't know exactly what they meant."[23]

"Tame" is built around Deal's three-chord bass progression (D, C, F)[24] overlaid by Joey Santiago guitar parts which include an E7♯9 chord which he described as his "Hendrix chord" (a dominant seventh with an augmented second sharp ninth chord, notable from the 1967 song "Purple Haze").[25] Tame's "loud part" occurs during the chorus when Francis plays a D/C/F progression and repeatedly screams the word "tame".[25] Along "Gouge Away", the track is regarded as one of the peaks of the Pixies' signature quiet verse / loud chorus dynamic,[26][27][28] According to the music writer Mark Beaumont, "Tame" and "Gouge Away" were among the Pixies tracks Kurt Cobain had in mind when writing "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which Cobain said was his attempt at "writing a Pixies song". The same influence can be seen in the Nirvana tracks "In Bloom" and 'Heart-Shaped Box".[29] The track ends with Francis and Deal repeatedly grunting in a sound suggesting two people having sex.[30]

The lyrics for "Wave of Mutilation" are based on contemporary newspaper reports of Japanese men committing murder–suicide after unsuccessful business ventures, in a scene Francis describes a them being forces into driving "off a pier into the ocean."[31] Imagery involving drowning and oceans also appear in "Mr. Grieves" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven".[32]

"Here Comes Your Man" was written when Francis was a teenager. Along along with "Monkey Gone to Heaven", it was described by Rolling Stone's critic Chris Mundy as a melodic and "outright pop song".[33] It was first recorded for the Purple tapes sessions, a version described by the music writer Phil Udell as rough "around the edges".[34] The album version was rearranged by Norton.[10]

Side one closes with the album's first single, "Monkey Gone to Heaven". Written in D major, it opens with Francis playing a short chord progression backed by Deal's bass guitar.[35] The track is over-dubbed with cellos and violins, a choice Norton was nervous about, admitting in a 2005 interview that it took the band "outside [their] usual parameters", that they had earlier believed "we weren't ever going to do on a Pixies song".[10] "Monkey Gone to Heaven" describes the impact of human-caused environmental destruction on the ocean.[11] Francis said that "on one hand, it's this big organic toilet. Things get flushed and repurified or decomposed and it's this big, dark, mysterious place. It's also a very mythological place where there are octopus's gardens, the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, and mermaids."[36]

Side two[edit]

The second side opens with "Mr. Grieves" played in frantic style described as both "faux-hillbilly" and "wired folk".[37][38] They lyrics that the idea of destruction further, suggesting the human race is doomed to extinction.[39] The following track "Crackity Jones" is partly sung in Spanish and incorporates G♯ and A triads over a C♯ pedal. Francis' rhythm guitar starts with an eighth-note downstroke reminiscent of early 1980s second-wave punk rock.[39] The lyrics of "Crackity Jones" were inspired by Francis' one month stay in Puerto Rico as a student, when he shared a "seedy" high-rise apartment with a "weirdo, psycho, gay roommate".[21] Musically the track is the fastest played and most aggressive track on the album,[40]

The whimsical track "La La Love You" is sung by the band's drummer David Lovering in a baritone voice, intended as a satire of the 1950s crooning style.[41][33][42] Francis asked Lovering to sing it in a voice resembling Ringo Starr's 1960s tongue-in-cheek vocals.[43][44] Its vocal style and simplistic lyrics (including the line "first base, second base, third base, home run") were intended as parody of crude sex jokes.[45] Given that it was his only time proving vocals for a Pixies track, Lovering admits that on the day of recording, he was so nervous that he "[knocked back] a lot of vodka".[16]

The penultimate song "Silver" was co-written with Deal, who sings the lead vocal line. The track is built around a county music riff played on slide guitar, described by critics as "sparse" and "eerie" in a manner reminiscent of soundtracks for late–1960s spaghetti westerns. However critics consider the track as lacking in melody and dynamics and it is often considered the weakest song on the album.[44][46][47]

The lyrics of the closing song, "Gouge Away" are based on the Old Testament story of Samson's betrayal by Delilah.[48][49] Although the music follows the quite/loud formula, the build up to the loud part is more gradual and nuanced that in tracks such as "Debaser" and "Tame".[50] The track is built on Deal's three-note bass part (G♯/B/E) and a tight Lovering drum pattern which has been described by Sisario as a "kind of gothic dance groove".[50] Deal, who also contributes backing vocals, is accompanied in the bridge by Santiago, playing B♭ and C notes before ending on G♯ as the chorus beigins. The "loud part" occurs in the verses, when both Santiago and Francis follow the bass progression using heavily distorted guitar chords.[50][25]

Artwork and title[edit]

A black-and-white photograph of a bell attached to a machine by a hose.
"As Loud As Hell" by Simon Larbalestier, from the Doolittle booklet. The image alludes to lyrics in "I Bleed".

The artwork was designed by photographer Simon Larbalestier and graphic artist Vaughan Oliver who had worked on the Pixies' previous albums, Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa.[51] According to Larbalestier, Doolittle was the first album where he and Oliver had access to the lyrics which "made a fundamental difference".[52] Both Oliver and Francis wanted macabre and surreal images to illustrate the album. The images are placed in pairs, with each juxtaposing two principle elements such as a monkey and halo for Monkey Gone to Heaven, a pelvic bone and stiletto for "Tame", and a spoon containing hair laid across a woman's torso for "Gouge Away".[53]

Around the time Oliver decided on the cover art, Francis discarded the album's working title Whore, worrying that "people were going to think I was some kind of anti-Catholic or that I'd been raised Catholic and trying to get into this Catholic naughty-boy stuff...A monkey with a halo, calling it Whore, that would bring all kinds of shit that wouldn't be true. So I said I'd change the title."[54]

Release[edit]

The American label Elektra Records began to take interest in the Pixies around October 1988, and signed the band following a bidding war.[55] The label then negotiated with the Pixies' British label 4AD, which held their worldwide distribution rights. Elektra released a promotional live album containing the album tracks "Debaser" and "Gouge Away" along with earlier material.[3] In early April, two weeks before Doolittle's released, Elektra closed a deal with 4AD that allowed them full US distribution rights—PolyGram had already secured Canadian rights.[56]

Doolittle was released in the UK on April 17, 1989 and in the US the following day. Elektra's major label muscle secured retail displays across the US. The label also exposed the album's lead single, "Monkey Gone to Heaven", to key major and local radio stations.[57] On the week of release, the album reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart,[58] but was left at number 171 on the US Billboard 200.[59] With the help of college radio-play of "Monkey Gone to Heaven", it eventually rose to number 98, spending two weeks in the Top 100.[59] Doolittle sold steadily in America, breaking sales of 100,000 after six months.[60] By early 1992, while the band were supporting U2 on their Zoo TV Tour, the album was selling 1,500 copies per week.[60] By the middle of 1993—two years after the release of Trompe le Monde —their last album before their initial breakup — Doolittle was selling an average of 1,200 copies per week.[60] It was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1995 and Platinum in 2018.[61]

The album's success, and especially its heavy rotation on MTV, had a significant impact on the band members. According to Santiago, its sales "validated the career my parents didn’t think I had. When they first saw me on MTV, they went: "Ah, okay. You’re not just playing shitty nightclubs!""[16] Francis recalls that shortly after the album came out, he was pulled over by border police in near the Mexican border in Texas while in the possession of marijuana. One of the officers recognized him from MTV, and minutes later he was posing with them for photographs while holding one a shotgun.[16]

Reception[edit]

Contemporary professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Chicago Tribune[62]
Los Angeles Times[63]
NME10/10[64]
Q[65]
Record Mirror4/5[66]
Rolling Stone[67]
Sounds[68]
The Village VoiceB+[69]

Following the critically acclaimed Surfer Rosa, the album was highly anticipated. It received near universally positive reviews, especially from the UK and European music press.[16][22] NME's Edwin Pouncey wrote that "the songs on Doolittle have the power to make you literally jump out of your skin with excitement". He singled out "Debaser" as one of the highlights, describing it as "blessed with the kind of beefy bass hook that originally brought "Gigantic" to life".[70] Q critic Peter Kane wrote that the album's "carefully structured noise and straightforward rhythmic insistence makes perfect sense".[71] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice wrote, "They're in love and they don't know why—with rock and roll, which is heartening in a time when so many college dropouts have lost touch with the verities."[69]

The album appeared on several contemporary end-of-year "Best Album" lists. Both Rolling Stone and The Village Voice placed the album tenth, and music magazines Sounds and Melody Maker both placed the album as the second-best of the year.[16] NME ranked the album fourth in their end-of-year list.[72]


Accolades for Doolittle
Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Hot Press Ireland Top 100 Albums[73] 2006 34
NME UK 100 Best Albums[74] 2003 2
Pitchfork US Top 100 Albums of the 1980s[75] 2002 4
Rolling Stone US The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[76] 2003 226
2012 227
2020 141
Spin US 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005[77] 2005 36
Slant Magazine US Best Albums of the 1980s[78] 2012 34

Legacy[edit]

Retrospective professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic100/100[79]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[44]
Blender[80]
The Guardian[46]
Mojo[81]
Pitchfork10/10[37]
Q[82]
Rolling Stone[83]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[84]
SpinA[85]
Uncut10/10[86]

Doolittle is widely regarded as one of the key alternative rock albums of the 1980s.[87] A 2002 Rolling Stone review gave it the maximum score of five stars, writing that it laid the "groundwork for Nineties rock".[83] It was included in critic Robert Dimery's influential book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[88] PopMatters included it in their list of the "12 Essential 1980s Alternative Rock Albums" saying, "Doolittle captured the musicians at the top of their game".[89] In a 2017 survey, Pitchfork ranked it as the fourth best album of the 1980s;[90] a 2003 poll of NME writers ranked Doolittle as the second-greatest album of all time;[74] and Rolling Stone placed the album at 141 on its 2020 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[91]

It established the Pixies' loud–quiet dynamic,[92] which became highly influential on alternative rock.[93][27] After writing "Smells Like Teen Spirit", both Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana thought: "this really sounds like the Pixies. People are really going to nail us for this."[94] Norton was frequently credited with capturing the album's dynamics and became highly sought after by bands wishing to achieve a similar sound.[95] The English musician PJ Harvey admits to being "in awe" of "I Bleed" and "Tame", and described Francis's writing as "amazing".[96]

Ten years after their breakup, Doolittle continued to sell between 500 and 1,000 copies a week, and following their 2004 reunion tour sales reached 1,200 copies per week. At the end of 2005, best estimates put total US sales at between 800,000 and one million copies.[60] As of 2015, sales in the United States have exceeded 834,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[97]

The band released a number of singles from the album after their initial break-up. In 1997, "Debaser" was released to promote the Death to the Pixies compilation.[98] In June 1989, 4AD released "Here Comes Your Man" as the album's second single. It reached number three on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 54 in the UK Singles Chart.[99][100] On May 6, 2019, "Here Comes Your Man" was certified Gold in Canada; "Hey" was certified Gold in Canada on September 20, 2021.[101]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks were written by Black Francis, except "Silver", written by Black Francis and Kim Deal.

No.TitleLength
1."Debaser"2:52
2."Tame"1:55
3."Wave of Mutilation"2:04
4."I Bleed"2:34
5."Here Comes Your Man"3:21
6."Dead"2:21
7."Monkey Gone to Heaven"2:56
8."Mr. Grieves"2:05
9."Crackity Jones"1:24
10."La La Love You"2:43
11."No. 13 Baby"3:51
12."There Goes My Gun"1:49
13."Hey"3:31
14."Silver"2:25
15."Gouge Away"2:45
Total length:38:38

Reissues[edit]

To mark the 25th anniversary of the album, 4AD releasedDoolittle 25 which added unreleased B-sides, demos and two full Peel sessions.[102] In addition to the original track listing, the reissue contained the following tracks, all of which were previously released unless otherwise indicated.

Disc 2 / LP 2 – B-sides & Peel Sessions
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Dead"Peel session, October 9, 19883:18
2."Tame"Peel session, October 9, 1988; previously unreleased1:58
3."There Goes My Gun"Peel session, October 9, 19882:18
4."Manta Ray"Peel session, October 9, 19881:49
5."Into the White"Peel session, April 16, 1989; previously unreleased4:11
6."Wave of Mutilation"Peel session, April 16, 19892:31
7."Down to the Well"Peel session, April 16, 19892:14
8."Manta Ray"B-side of "Monkey Gone to Heaven"2:04
9."Weird at My School"B-side of "Monkey Gone to Heaven"1:58
10."Dancing the Manta Ray"B-side of "Monkey Gone to Heaven"2:14
11."Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)"B-side of "Here Comes Your Man"3:02
12."Into the White"B-side of "Here Comes Your Man"4:43
13."Bailey's Walk"B-side of "Here Comes Your Man"2:24
Disc 3 / LP 3 (tracks 1–18) – Demos
No.TitleNotesLength
1."Debaser"Previously released3:00
2."Tame" 2:01
3."Wave of Mutilation"First demo2:04
4."I Bleed" 1:46
5."Here Comes Your Man"1986 demo; previously released3:07
6."Dead" 1:35
7."Monkey Gone to Heaven" 2:52
8."Mr. Grieves" 1:42
9."Crackity Jones" 1:21
10."La La Love You" 2:08
11."No. 13 Baby – VIVA LA LOMA RICA"First demo2:17
12."There Goes My Gun" 1:29
13."Hey"First demo3:22
14."Silver" 2:11
15."Gouge Away" 1:42
16."My Manta Ray Is All Right" 2:03
17."Santo"Previously released as B-side of "Dig for Fire"2:17
18."Weird at My School"First demo1:53
19."Wave of Mutilation" 1:03
20."No. 13 Baby"Previously released3:07
21."Debaser"First demo3:37
22."Gouge Away"First demo2:08

On December 9, 2016, a Pure Audio Blu-Ray version of the album was released containing a 5.1 surround sound mix by Kevin Vanbergen and a high definition stereo mix by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab.[103] In 2022, the album was formatted for Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos and released on Apple Music.[104]

Personnel[edit]

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Doolittle.[105]

Charts[edit]

Chart (1989) Peak
position 		Weeks
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[106] 53 9
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[107] 18 5
UK Albums (OCC)[58] 8 11
US Billboard 200[108] 98 27
French Albums (SNEP)[109] 66 2

Certifications[edit]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[110] Gold 50,000^
France (SNEP)[111] Gold 100,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[112] Platinum 300,000*
United States (RIAA)[61] Platinum 1,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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