PIXIES Poll: The best track on Doolittle

I think I'm going to burn the songs to cd in this order and see how it goes.

i think it's the most popular poll in ilm ever.
how many votes? 130 more or less?
anyway,mr.grievs shouldve been higher.

i think it's the most popular poll in ilm ever. how many votes? 130 more or less?

the Rolling Stones one had over 150 votes.

Two people voted for La La Love You? WTF?

i voted for "tame" but "i bleed" deserves more love

Holy crap! "Hey" won. I voted for it to make sure that its greatness was at least acknowledged, but I figured that "Debaser", "Here Comes Your Man", "Gouuge Away", and "Monkey Gone to Heaven" would have beaten it easily.

at least the two worst songs on the record came last.

and the top four is actually about right.

Debaser is not that good!

And Silver! It makes me mad when people complain about the later albums being just bf solo albums and i'm like yeah what bossanova needs is a snoozer like Silver. No thanks.

Bam Thwok is better than at least half of these songs.

"Hey"??
Strange decision, not even in the best ten songs of the album.

Debaser is not that good!

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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"