PIXIES Poll: The best track on Doolittle

Debaser is not that good!

― mizzell, Thursday, August 9, 2007 4:29 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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man, looking at that song list reminds me that this is probably one of the ten best albums I own

A little surprised by the margin of victory here seeing as I never got into Hey when I was listening to this album regularly (ie about 12 years ago at least).

took me some distance and time, but it's definitely surpassed apparent fan favorite Surfa Rosa for me.

wow. i saw this thread and logged in so i could vote for "Hey" and whaddya know..

i always loved the beginning it was like some kind of ghost version of the rolling stones

really surprised at this outcome. hey? really?

this should be a yearly poll. gouge away would win for me x99999999

it's all about no. 13 baby

Dan I want to personally thank you for carrying the Kim Deal torch in this thread...anybody who's heard the Pod Demos knows that Sliver was utterly immolated out of spite by Mr. Black Francis...

alright I still really love No. 13 Baby, but I am starting to see how maybe Hey is the best song off this album...

How is this album so perfect.

It's incomprehensible.

i honestly rate it as the worst of their albums. and this is a band i find extremely overrated btw

charlie otm

for me the only album that really works is Bossanova.

But what a collection of songs here!! The 7 also-rans are a litany of awesome.

some dude totally incorrect.

thermo otm

dayo itt

some dude otm

the circle is complete.

some dude and charlie h completely and utterly wrong

curious what these 'no way is doolittle their worst album' ppl think is the actual worst pixies album.

trompe le monde

sb

I couldn't handle Bossanova back when I bought it and I haven't given it a second chance. My Pixies album ranking:

1. Trompe le Monde
2. Surfer Rosa
3. Doolittle
4. Come On Pilgrim
5. Bossanova

pixies 87-89 >>>>>>> bossanova/trompe le monde

am with ship & charlie here, except that I think Trompe might be worse...Doolittle imo is the classic whole-is-less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts album; I like a ton of the songs, and feel overwhelmed when I try to rank them, but there's something about the context--the pacing, or maybe Gil Norton's production--that makes them sound impossibly stiff and pretentious, like some gallery exhibit for Black Francis's abstract song-sculptures.

Whereas, Surfer Rosa's audio-verite production makes that album sound like rock music as a form is undergoing some wrenching transformation as we're listening...

naw u crazy

1. Surfer Rosa
2. Trompe Le Monde
3. Doolittle
4. Bossanova

Come On Pilgrim≥Surfer>Doolittle>Bossanova>Trompe Le Monde

curious what these 'no way is doolittle their worst album' ppl think is the actual worst pixies album.

That's a trap. There is no 'worst' Pixies album.

except for Bossanova

Bossanova is filler-riddled, but totally owns

Bossanova gets my vote as well. But only so far as it's not quite as good as the others, I still love it.

.Doolittle imo is the classic whole-is-less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts album

This is key. All of those songs are so great, but they don't hang together very well. They all feel like they're sort of neatly placed on shelves, whereas Trompe le Monde they all feel like they're in orbit around one another, related to some extent.

That is the exact opposite of how I hear Doolittle, which is basically an ebb-and-flow album to me.

1. Bossanova
2. Trompe Le Monde
3. Doolittle
4. Come on Pilgrim
5. Surfer Rosa

I've pretty much accepted that my opinions on the pixies are totally out of step with everyone else, but would like to know which songs on Bossanova are thought to be filler.

I have to check the Big Orange SPIN Book for Eric Weisbard's suggested running order; he also complained that the sequencing was a problem.

xp I'm with you on the 4 + 5.

Filler:

"Ana"
"Blown Away"
"Hang Wire"

No, maybe, yeah.

^rong as hell (xp)

Ana and Blown Away are two of my favorites on the album...

All Over the World, Hang Wire, Stormy Weather, Is she Weird & Hang Wire are sometimes awesome, sometimes wearying

can maybe see the case for blown away and hang wire, but i love both of them, ana is great

"sometimes-awesome, sometimes-wearying" refers to Hang Wire and Is She Weird...

the first Hang Wire was meant to be Down to the Well, which I actually like a lot but more in its Purple Tape form, with the odd Kim Deal background chant & stuff...

the highlights on trompe le monde are better, but bossanova's consistency is why it's my favoite.

Bossanova version is way fiercer but Deal's weird chik-aa-oom makes the song imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQJMClWeApI

Bossanova also the album that gave me a real appreciation for surf music

I'm absolutely baffled that "Hey" would be the #1 choice on an album with both "Debaser" and "Tame", let alone the other usual well-known hits. I had to actually listen to the album again to remember how "Hey" even went. Insanity.

Also WTF, I was sure that it was already Proven by Science™ that Bossanova was the worst Pixies album.

I had to double-check to see if I was the lone vote for "Silver", lol

(I wasn't; I voted "Dead")

I know I voted them "Surfer Rosa > Trompe Le Monde > Doolittle > Bossanova", but realistically 'Bossanova' is the only album of theirs I can level any sort of criticism at. The other three are just ranked in terms of which one I'm more likely to choose if I'm going to listen to this band.

The problem I have with 'Bossanova' is mainly down to the song sequencing, the album is quite strong for me until after 'Dig For Fire' and then all of a sudden dips very noticeably, IMO, with only 'The Happening' really standing out. Although, having said that, 'All Over The World' with its extended outro feels more like a penultimate track than a 'track seven'. There's nothing wrong with stuff like 'Down To The Well', 'Blown Away' or 'Hang Wire', but sequencing them together with the low-point (for me) of the album, 'Stormy Weather', just weakens those songs for me. As it stands at the moment, as a front-to-back listen, it's more a 4/5 for me than the 4.5/5 that AMG rates it as.