Pixies - Doolittle (w/ guest John Petrick)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2016

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome drummer John Petrick of the Stewart Dolly (thestewartdolly.bandcamp.com) to the podcast to discuss the Pixies sophomore full length release Doolittle (1989, 4AD). The band formed around the core of primary songwriter Black Francis and guitarist Joey Santiago after the two met at the University of Massachusetts Amherst before bassist Kim Deal and drummer Dave Lovering solidified the lineup. Signed to British indie label 4AD, the band took off with college radio and have since maintained their legacy as one of THE most important alternative bands. John shares how he discovered the band through looking up Weezer on allmusic.com. Bill, Brian, and John discuss Black Francis' name, whether or not his character in the songs reveals who he is in life, Joey Santiago's noisey guitars, Brian not knowing anything about superhero names, the monolithic nature of the album, how to learn to play bass using the Kim Deal method, how Black Francis' voice cracking during a particular song is John's favorite moment on the album, Ennio Morricone, a surprising amount about how the band is like the Beatles in many ways, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Outside there's a box car waiting, outside the family's too, Out by the fire breathing
0:22.6	Outside we'll wait till face turns out
0:27.6	I know the nervous walking
0:30.6	I know the dirty bed hangs
0:35.6	Out by the box Car waiting
0:38.5	Take me way to
0:40.6	Now at least
0:42.8	Hello and welcome to the great
0:45.7	Albums podcast
0:46.6	I'm Bill
0:47.3	And I'm Brian
0:48.1	What we just listening to you right there, Brian
0:50.0	As here comes your man
0:51.6	By the Pixies
0:53.0	We done did it We brought the Pixies. We done did it.
0:55.0	We brought the Pixies to the podcast.
0:57.2	Yeah, it took a long, long time.
0:58.8	Yep.
0:59.1	I think this has been one of our most requested artists.
1:02.4	Yeah.
1:03.0	Since like the beginning of the podcast.
1:05.1	Yeah.
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