Pixies Doolittle Remastered Rar
Like Please Please Me, The Velvet Underground & Nico, and Nevermind (which wouldn’t exist without it), Doolittle is an album that launched a thousand bands. It still sounds as disturbing, catchy, crazy, and uniformly perfect as it did 25 years ago—much less a product of its time than those other albums in its influential league.
There is nothing indicative of the antiseptic sounds of ’89 in Gil Norton’s raw, organic production, though its original CD release was still in need of a sonic upgrade. Doolittle apparently got that when it and the rest of The Pixies’ catalogue was remastered in 2003.
I don’t have that version, so I can’t confirm whether or not 4AD’s new triple-disc deluxe edition is an all-new master or a recycle of the 2003 one (and since nothing in the press material indicates a remaster, I think it might be safe to assume the latter). However, this is still a pretty must-own repurchase of an album that should have already been in your collection for twenty-something years. Like all really necessary deluxe-edition excesses, Doolittle 25 offers ways to hear some familiar music in fresh and enlightening ways. While the original album occupies disc one, its demos on disc three strip away Norton’s barely-there sheen for an even rawer, even wilder Doolittle; not necessary a better version of an LP I already called perfect (and it can’t be said enough: Doolittle is perfect. It’s perfect), but a good idea of how it would sound on stage.
Genuine live recordings can be heard on disc two in the form of a snatch of John Peel sessions that reinterpret some of the material faster, nastier. That second disc also includes all related B-sides, (many also in Peel performances) which are the best original B-sides of The Pixies’ career: “Manta Ray”, “Weird at My School”, “Wave of Mutilation UK Surf”, “Into the White”, and “Dancing the Manta Ray” (though I should note that “Bailey’s Walk” is probably their worst B-side). That these tracks are significantly meatier here than they were on 2001’s anemic sounding Complete B-sides CD leaves no wonder that at least they were remastered for Doolittle 25.
Pixies – Surfer Rosa (1988) MFSL 2007 PS3 Rip SACD ISO DSD64 2.0 1-bit/2.8224 MHz 33:41 minutes Scans included 1,35 GB or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz Full Scans included 696 MB Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2032 One of the most compulsively listenable college rock albums of the ’80s, the Pixies’ 1988 full-length debut Surfer Rosa fulfilled the promise of Come on Pilgrim and, thanks to Steve Albini’s production, added a muscular edge that made their harshest moments seem even more menacing and perverse. On songs like “Something Against You”, Black Francis’ cryptic shrieks and non sequiturs are backed by David Lovering and Kim Deal’s punchy rhythms, which are so visceral that they’d overwhelm any guitarist except Joey Santiago, who takes the spotlight on the epic “Vamos”. Albini’s high-contrast dynamics suit Surfer Rosa well, especially on the explosive opener “Bone Machine” and the kinky, T. Rex-inspired “Cactus”. But, like the black-and-white photo of a flamenco dancer on its cover, Surfer Rosa is the Pixies’ most polarized work. For each blazing piece of punk, there are softer, poppier moments such as “Where Is My Mind?”, Francis’ strangely poignant song inspired by scuba diving in the Caribbean, and the Kim Deal-penned “Gigantic”, which almost outshines the rest of the album. But even Surfer Rosa’s less iconic songs reflect how important the album was in the group’s development.
The “song about a superhero named Tony” (“Tony’s Theme”) was the most lighthearted song the Pixies had recorded, pointing the way to their more overtly playful, whimsical work on Doolittle. Francis’ warped sense of humor is evident in lyrics like “Bone Machine”’s “He bought me a soda and tried to molest me in the parking lot/Yep yep yep!” In a year that included landmark albums from contemporaries like Throwing Muses, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine, the Pixies managed to turn in one of 1988’s most striking, distinctive records. Surfer Rosa may not be the group’s most accessible work, but it is one of their most compelling. Tracklist: 01. Bone Machine 02.
Break My Body 03. Something Against You 04. Broken Face 05. River Euphrates 07. Where Is My Mind? Tony’s Theme 10. I’m Amazed 13.
Pixies Doolittle Remastered Rar 2017
Brick Is Red Mastered by Shawn R. Britton at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA.