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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
 Posted - 09/22/2006 : 17:33:46
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Pilgrim, Surfer and Doolittle have appeared in a year-by-year list of Treblezine's best albums of the 80s:
http://www.treblezine.com/features/81.html
6. The Pixies — Come On Pilgrim (4AD)
Hands down, the best demo tape ever
commercially released. I mean, I don't know
how many demo tapes were actually
released. Maybe Nebraska counts, or any
Guided by Voices album. Either way, The
Pixies wins for not actually trying to make
one of the greatest albums of the decade,
and somehow pulling it off. Yeah, sure,
their next two would be even more mind-
blowing, but they had Albini and Gil Norton
on their side. This was a damn demo. Didn't I make that clear? – Jeff
Terich
1.The Pixies — Surfer Rosa (4AD)
Frank Black didn't do a whole lot of what
you could call singing back in the early
days. He yelped, shouted, moaned,
screamed and hollered his way through the
band's first proper full-length, the Steve
Albini engineered Surfer Rosa with a
frightening ferocity, and a dark, dark sense
of humor. His lyrics were such that only the
most fearsome and aggressive melodies
could possibly back them, so in that regard,
this album is a complete success. For a band that liked it so raw, both
lyrically and musically, it's a wonder that Surfer Rosa is so much fun. But
it only makes sense; you can only have this good of a time when being
completely uninhibited. – Jeff Terich
1.The Pixies — Doolittle (4AD-Elektra)
Given how many Pixies-influenced bands
are out there today, it's easy to forget just
how revolutionary the Pixies were around
the time they released Doolittle. While fans
may split on which is the more monumental
album, it or its predecessor, Surfer Rosa,
the pairing of aggressive post-punk and
surf pop, with hints of Latin influences,
made the dominance of Doolittle difficult to
argue with. By 1989, the Boston band had
garnered a bevy of cult fans, but their sophomore album had broken
them somewhat into the mainstream, at least of alternative rock. – Terrance Terich |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2006 : 10:35:55
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So Doolittle and Surfer Rosa were tied on first place, but Doolittle (or Dolittle as they put it) was clear number 9 in the all time list?
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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3 albums in Treblezine's albums of the 80s!
