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- Posted: 09/17/2018 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2834): Doolittle by Pixies
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Today's album of the day
Doolittle by Pixies (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1989.
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Overall rank: 19
Average rating: 88/100 (from 2240 votes).
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Tracks:
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
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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CharlieBarley
Gender: Male
Age: 50
Location: Down To Earth 
- #2
- Posted: 09/17/2018 20:09
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I'll never forget the first time I heard this album in the early 90's. I thought it was a work of genius and I still do.
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glynspsa
Gender: Male
Age: 53
- #3
- Posted: 09/17/2018 20:29
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LordMark
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Location: Ontario 
- #4
- Posted: 09/17/2018 21:46
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My favourite grunge album, ahead of even Nirvana's 3 excellent 1991-1994 releases. My least favourite track here is "Silver", but even it is still pretty damn great. My favourites are "Debaser", "Tame", "Monkey Gone To Heaven", "No. 13 Baby", and "Gouge Away".
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mickilennial
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Gender: Female
Age: 37
Location: Detroit 
- #5
- Posted: 09/18/2018 01:45
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there is absolutely nothing "grunge" about Pixies outside of them influencing Nirvana and pretty every alternative rock band of the 90s
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CA Dreamin
Gender: Male
Location: LA 
- #6
- Posted: 09/18/2018 02:26
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The Pixies are grunge? Never heard that before.
Anyway, I dig this album but don't understand the acclaim. It's good no doubt. But from 1989 alone, I'd say Stone Roses, Pretty Hate Machine, and Disintegration are way better.
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baystateoftheart
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Age: 31
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 09/18/2018 02:40
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The worst album in BEA's top five of 1989. Looking at the year as a whole, I place sixteen albums ahead of it and counting. That said, I do like the album and love some of the songs.
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
- #8
- Posted: 09/18/2018 03:29
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_(album)
| Quote: | He told Norton, "If it's good enough for Buddy Holly ..."[15] In a Rolling Stone interview, Francis later recalled that "this record is him trying to make us, shall I say, commercial, and us trying to remain somewhat grungy".
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It's ok, it's not grunge. It's grungy alternative rock.
Ok, now that we know what perfect box something fits in cause that's how the real world works... I really like this album, but I kind of agree with baystateoftheart... as fantastic as it is, I do find it a bit overrated. I mean not on a large scale... just as overrated as any other highly rated album. It has plenty of fantastic tracks. It's not incredibly cohesive. It has a shit track or two. But still is emotionally and musically really addictive and has some of the best song writing of its time and ever. As an album though, I find it far from perfect and ranked it my 269th favorite album.
90/100 for sure though.
Last edited by RoundTheBend on 09/18/2018 04:13; edited 2 times in total
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HoldenM
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Gender: Male
Age: 31
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mickilennial
The Most Trusted Name in News
Gender: Female
Age: 37
Location: Detroit
- #10
- Posted: 09/18/2018 06:14
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whether you like it or love it or w/e, you can't discount its iconic status is from its impact and influence on the alternative landscape at the time
if it isnt in your top 100 i don't care about your opinion, real talk 😉
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