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''Doolittle'' is the second studio album from the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 1989 on 4AD. The album's offbeat and dark subject material, featuring references to surrealism, Biblical violence, torture and death, contrasts with the clean production sound achieved by the newly hired producer Gil Norton. ''Doolittle'' was the Pixies' first international release, with Elektra Records acting as the album's distributor in the United States and PolyGram in Canada. Pixies released two singles from ''Doolittle'', "Here Comes Your Man" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven", both of which were chart successes on the US chart for Modern Rock Tracks. The album itself reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart, an unexpected success for the band. In retrospect, album tracks such as "Debaser", "Wave of Mutilation", "Monkey Gone to Heaven", "Gouge Away", and "Hey" are highly acclaimed by critics, while the album, along with debut LP ''Surfer Rosa'', is often seen as the band's strongest work. ''Doolittle'' has continued to sell consistently well in the years since its release, and in 1995 was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album has been cited as inspirational by many alternative artists, while numerous music publications have ranked it as one of the most influential albums ever. A 2003 poll of ''NME'' writers ranked ''Doolittle'' as the second-greatest album of all time,〔(【引用サイトリンク】NME's 100 Best Albums )〕 and ''Rolling Stone'' placed the album at 226 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".〔(''Rolling Stone Magazine'' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ) Nov 18, 2003〕 ==Background== Following their highly regarded but commercially unsuccessful 1988 album ''Surfer Rosa'',〔Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. "Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies". Virgin Books, 2006. ISBN 0-312-34007-9. p. 87〕 the band embarked on a European tour with fellow Bostonians Throwing Muses, before beginning a tour of North American states. During this time Black Francis, the group's frontman and principal songwriter, began to write new material for a future album, with songs such as "Dead", "Hey", "Tame", and "There Goes My Gun" emerging through the course of the year.〔Frank, Ganz, 2005. p. 104〕 Versions of the newly composed songs were recorded during several sessions for John Peel's radio show in 1988, while a live recording of "Hey" appeared on a free EP circulated with a 1988 edition of ''Sounds''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=4AD — Pixies profile )〕 In mid-1988, the Pixies began to record demo sessions while on breaks from touring. The band headed to the Boston recording studio Eden Sound, which at the time comprised a small room in the basement of a hair salon. They recorded at the studio for a week, in circumstances similar to the previous year's the Purple Tape sessions. Francis gave the demo tape and upcoming album the provisional title of ''Whore'', though he later claimed his natural father had originally suggested the name. Francis has clarified that he was thinking of the word "in the more traditional sense () the operatic, biblical sense, () as in the great whore of Babylon."〔Sisario, Ben. ''Doolittle 33⅓''. Continuum, 2006. ISBN 0-8264-1774-4. p. 21〕 After completing the demo tape, band manager Ken Goes suggested two producers for the album; Liverpudlian Gil Norton and American Ed Stasium. The band had previously worked with Norton while recording the single version of "Gigantic" in May 1988. Francis had no preference, although Ivo Watts-Russell, head of the band's label 4AD, wanted Norton to produce the Pixies' next album. He was hired as producer, with Stasium not even approached for the position.〔Sisario, 2006. p. 45〕 Norton arrived in Boston on October 31, 1988, and first visited Francis' apartment to review the album's demos. The two talked about arrangements, and spent two days intensively analyzing the album's songs. Norton learned to gauge Francis' reaction to changing arrangements, and later observed that the frontman "doesn't like to do anything twice." Norton spent a further two weeks in pre-production to familiarise himself with the Pixies' sound.〔Frank, Ganz, 2005. p. 112〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doolittle (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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