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# The Pixies' Doolittle (33 1/3)

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    A must for any Pixies fan
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 16, 2010*

The first thing to know about the 33 1/3 series is that since each book is written by a different author, each book will have its own tone, style, and in some cases, format.  For example, the book about Radiohead's OK Computer is a dry analysis of the music theory behind the album, while the book for PJ Harvey's Rid of Me is actually short fiction.  So it's important you read the description and reviews of each carefully before purchasing.Thankfully, the format for the Doolittle installment is more straight-forward than the examples I cite above: it's written in the basic long article style you'd expect to read in Spin or Rolling Stone.  That's not very surprising since the author, Ben Sisario, is a regular contributor to these magazines.  Through interviews with the band members (especially Charles Thompson and excluding Kim Deal, who refused to participate) and others involved, he quickly covers the formation of the band in 1986 and their early and quick success (in England, at least) with Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa, before moving on to the main subject.Not surprisingly, there is a lot here about Thompson's writing influences, especially his interests in surrealistic art (its influence is most notable on "Debaser", which begins "Got me a movie!  Ha ha ha ho! Slicing up eyeballs!  Ha ha ha ho!" after the Bunuel and Dali film `Un chien andalou') and religious & mythological storytelling, ("Ole Neptuna's only daughter" & "Then, God is seven!") which came to their greatest fruition on Doolittle.  Sisario does a good job of getting the story on Thompson's oftentimes obscure, almost impressionistic lyrics.  Sometimes, as Thompson admits, words came for no better reason than a rhyme pattern, yet they always seem to coalesce around the themes that interest him.Of course, there's also a good bit here on the music.  Joey Santiago talks about his influences, especially the minimalist note painting of Wes Montgomery and the `Hendrix' chord. (E7 sharp-9, which Hendrix used to add just the right edge to the verse in `Purple Haze'.  Santiago went up a step to F7 sharp-9 to create the menacing drone in chorus of `Tame')  Sisario also touches on Lovering's assured and bombastic drumming and Deal's thumping bass, which anchored the music while the melodies flew by.  Interviews with the producer, Gil Norton, show his genius for corralling the band, especially Thompson, to get the best album possible.  (Though the Pixies were well-prepared for the sessions, and it's implied that the relative failure of their next two albums could be attributed to poor band preparation for them.  Though how much of that was from the already-rising tensions anyway?)But it is the contrasts that make The Pixies, and especially Doolittle, so great:  Deal's angelic voice as a counterpoint to Thompson's screams, the quietloudquietloud verse and chorus dynamic, the humor tinged lyrics of rape, incest, and violence.  Sisario goes into great detail on the musical effects and meanings in a song by song breakdown after the main text, and I found this to be the most intriguing part of the book, required reading for anyone who loves the album.  Thompson was the main songwriter and driving force of the band, but Sisario ably demonstrates how all the parts created a whole that pushed alternative rock to a place I would argue it has yet to return.  (He talks of the odd paradox that the Pixies have influenced so many without creating a single band that sounds like them.)This book is a must for any Pixie fan.  It's well-written, informative, and an all-too poignant reminder of the genius of a band that left us too soon.

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    Great study of important album
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2023*

If you love Pixies or alternative music at all you probably know this album. But there is a lot of really fascinating Info about Doolittle and Pixies in general. It’s a very readable piece

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    An Illuminating Reading of a Highly Original Album
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2019*

Ben Sisario's volume on the Pixies' classic 1989 album _Doolittle_ is my first experience of the 33 1/3 series, and it is just as good as I expected it to be. Each volume of the series is written by a different author, so unevenness is to be expected. It seems, however, that I began at a very good place.Numberless fans of the Pixies arrive at the band through Nirvana; to be more specific, through Kurt Cobain's famous comment that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was his attempt at ripping off the Pixies. I, for my part, cannot even claim this. It was my brother who read Kurt Cobain's comment somewhere, then told me that the Pixies were worth checking out. Before that, back when I was in college, someone had let me borrow _Doolittle_. The person described the album as "indie pop," which resulted in me carrying the CD in my backpack for months before I saw the person again and returned the CD to her, unlistened. If Sisario's book had been my introduction to the Pixies, the story would have been different.Fast-forward 12 years. I am now a Pixies fan and I own all of their studio albums. I may not consider _Doolittle_ their best album, but it is definitely their most accessible, and (as a result, perhaps) their most influential. It is also a highly original work. Part of the reason behind that, as Sisario explains in the book, is that _Doolittle_ was made by largely self-taught musicians who wanted to do something different, to stay away from clichés and, as the saying goes, carve their own path.Sisario's book displays an engaging style and enlightening information from those involved in the making of _Doolittle_. The author met with Black Francis, who provides most of the information, but also with David Lovering, Joey Santiago, and producer Gil Norton. Sisario gives a brief history of the band, but most of the content of the book is analytical. The volume explores the dark themes present in the album and the surrealist connection, which is crucial when it comes to appreciating the album's lyrics. The book consists of five chapters plus a concluding section (comprising more than one third of the book) in which Sisario explores each of the songs contained in _Doolittle_.I would say that for a series like 33 1/3 the key question is: does the book enhance the experience of listening to the album it describes? In this case, the answer is definitely yes.As I said above, this is the first 33 1/3 book I read, so I cannot compare it to other volumes in the series. I will definitely explore other titles, as this one has made a very good impression on me. I'm interested in the books on Nirvana's _In Utero_, Nine Inch Nails' _Pretty Hate Machine_, Michael Jackson's _Dangerous_, David Bowie's _Low_, The Rolling Stones' _Some Girls_, and the Ramones' debut album, among others. I will share my impressions here as soon as I read more of these.Thanks for reading, and enjoy the book!

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