How Pixies & Doolittle Launched The 90s

Pixies started out as a joke. More specifically, a want-ad referencing the post-hardcore Hüsker Dü and light-weight 60s folk three-piece, Peter, Paul and Mary, with the additional condition that applicants have “no chops”. No musical experience required. Bassist Kim Deal took the bait, and unknowingly became essential to one of the most important American bands of the late 1980s. Crafting uniquely odd, mutilated pop songs about death, sex, environmental collapse and eyeball-trauma, by their second album Pixies built the template for alternative rock’s assault on the mainstream. Whispering and roaring in equal measure, this is the story of how Pixies and Doolittle launched the 90s. #pixies #whereismymind #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn & Chad Van Wagner. 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Previously on... Pixies 07:06 I am un chien andalusia: Recording Doolittle 14:54 “Monkey Gone to Heaven“ & “Here Comes Your Man“ 21:12 The Death & Enduring Legacy of Pixies Bibliography Fool The World: The Oral History of A Band Called Pixies: An Oral History of The Pixies by Caryn Ganz, 2005, Virgin Books Doolittle 33 1/3 by Ben Sisario, 2006, Bloomsbury Continuum Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston, 2013, The Friday Project Pixies - On The Road (1989) pro. Myles Mangino Gouge - Documentary (2001) dir. Matt Quinn “The Pixies: Speaking In Tongues“ Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, Mar 1988 “The Pixies: Bone Idols“ Robin Gibson, Sounds, Apr 1988 “Pixies“ uncredited, Joy Press, Jul/Aug 1988 “The Pixies’ Charles Francis“ Martin Aston, The Catalogue, 1989 “The Pixies: Doolittle“ Edwin Pouncey, NME, Apr 1989 “The Pixies: Talking With The Animals“ Helen Mead, NME, Apr 1989 “The Pixies: Animal Crackers“ Keith Cameron, Sounds, May 1989 “Here and There and Everywhere“ Marlne Goldman, Alternative Press, Sep 1989 “The Pixies: Ditties Of Pixilated Reasoning“ Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 1990 “The Pixies: Tyranny And Mutation“ Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, Aug 1990 “The Pixies: No Time-Wasters!“ Andy Gill, Q Magazine, Sep 1990 “The Pixies: Road To Gnomewhere“ Bruce Dessau, Vox, Jul 1991 “Kurt Cobain: Success Doesn’t Suck“ David Fricke, Rolling Stone, Jan 1994 “Kim Deal: The Breeders Leader Gets P...“ by Charles Aaron, Spin Magazine, July 1995 “Pixies: Pixies“ Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, Jul 2002 “The Pixies Reunite for Tour“ Andrew Dansby, Rolling Stone, Feb 2004 “Life to the Pixies“ Marc Spitz, Spin Magazine, Sep 2004 “The Rebirth of the Pixies“ Keith Cameron, Mojo, Jan 2005 “Classic Tracks: The Pixies ’Monkey Gone To Heaven’“ Richard Buskin, Sound on Sound, Dec 2005 “Pixies Catalogue Review“ Mike Powell, Pitchfork, Apr 2014 “The Pixies: Looking back on Doolittle and the making of a classic“ Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, May 2014 “’Debaser’“ Mark Stingley, Esquire, Dec 2014 “Pixies’ Doolittle at 30: How songs about suicide, psychopaths and mutilated eyeballs sparked a new rock generation“ Mark Beaumont, Independent, Apr 2019 “‘Doolittle’ at 30 – enjoy these 30 vital pieces of information about the game-changing Pixies album“ Tom Howard, NME, Apr 2019 “10 Stories Behind the Pixies’ Doolittle“ Adam Kivel & Zach Schonfeld, Consequence, Apr 2019 “Pixies: how we made Where Is My Mind?“ Daniel Dylan Wray, The Guardian, Nov 2020 “Pixies’ Black Francis: ‘I subscribe to the belief that men are f***ing everything up’“ Mark Beaumont, Independent, Oct 2021 “Joey Santiago on his top 5 Pixies guitar performances“ Danny Scott, Musicradar, Oct 2022 Soundtrack Luar - Citrine () Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present Luar - Anchor () You can also follow me here: Twitter: Facebook: Or support me on Patreon: