Talk:Doolittle (album)/Archive 1

Reference in popular culture
I don't know if there are sufficient references to make a seperate topic but I will put the reference from the bloodhound gang to the Pixies with 'legacy' but I think there probably is more info about it.--Tomvasseur (talk) 19:18, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Length of Doolittle?
A copy of the album in my stereo presently gives its total length as 38:46, not 40:03. Do different versions vary, or is 40 minutes just wrong? Everyking 01:41, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Mine is 38:43. Blogbourri 05:37, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

This album is connected

 * All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 22:20, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Article rewrite
I'm currently rewriting the article here - I've already rewritten the lead, but have yet to source it. CloudNine 18:19, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've incorporated the changes into the article, and I'm hoping to get it to featured status. CloudNine 16:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Chart positions
Minor mistake: "Monkey Gone to Heaven" is listed as peaking twice in 1989 on the Modern Rock charts. I assume the second placing is meant to be on the UK Singles Chart. WesleyDodds 22:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Correction made. CloudNine 17:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Wrong review
This one Rolling Stone review gives the album 5/5 - one of the reviews in the infobox must be wrong. LuciferMorgan 22:54, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed. CloudNine 16:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

GA on hold
Hello :), few things stopping this from GA status
 * Notes and references need to be split so that the book details are in a separate section, check the article Heavy Metal and look at the sources section.
 * I've looked through the MOS, and there's nothing I've found that requires such an arrangement.
 * It's so the read can easily read what the book sources are, one of them is like ref #4. M3tal H3ad 03:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Listed it in a Further reading section.


 * Accolades - Remove the external jumps in this table and convert to references
 * Are you sure that's required by the good article criteria? Albums FAs, including Illmatic, use this format.
 * Comment: Actually, Illmatic now uses inline citations rather than external links in tables - I changed it to get it through its own GA review!- Alex valavanis 17:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. CloudNine 08:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * whore of Babylon". Full-stop comes before quotation mark
 * April 2 1989. needs to be wikilinked and missing a comma - April 2, 1989
 * 800 000 - 800,000
 * All songs written by Francis except for "Silver", which was written by Francis and Deal. This needs a reference and needs to be emrged with another section
 * Ref 36 needs a retrieve date
 * Where do the reviews come from? There are 6 reviews and only two with links
 * They're mentioned in the Sisario book.
 * References required here
 * a highly regarded but commercially unsuccessful release,
 * Throughout recording, Norton advised Francis to alter several songs; for example, "There Goes My Gun" had originally been a much faster Hüsker Dü-style song, but Norton slowed the song's tempo down greatly. i'm not quite sure on "greatly" slowing down a tempo either
 * album entered the Billboard 200 at #171.
 * it eventually rose to #98, all Billboard stuff can use
 * The single reached #3
 * its highest position was #56
 * All Billboard positions are also mentioned in the Sisario book, which is cited at the end of the paragraph.
 * with the band's trademark loud-quiet dynamic featuring throughout.
 * expose a quieter, slower and more melodical side to the band.
 * which, according to him, "made a fundamental difference".

Thanks for your review. My comments are above. CloudNine 18:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

External link suggestion: 33 1/3 excerpt
As an editor at Crawdaddy!, and to comply with COI guidelines, I am not posting the link to this excerpt from Ben Sisario's 33 1/3 title on Doolittle, which is reprinted by permission on the Crawdaddy! site. However, I would like to recommend the excerpt on its obvious merits, and hope that an editor will read it and consider it as a possible external link for this page. I appreciate your time. Crawdaddy! Mike harkin (talk) 22:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

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Music section suggestions/ideas
Top of the music section as it currently exists-



1. There's piano on Gigantic, and piano on at least one song on the pre-purple tape demos as well, and harmonica on "Born in Chicago" ^- Born in CHigago was on some limited run vinyl compilation... Seanmercy (talk) 05:54, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * "Born in Chicago" and the pre-Purple Tape demoes haven't been released. You may want to note Gigantic though.

2. Monkey Gone to Heaven is the only instance on Doolittle of other instruments, i.e. non guitar bass and drums appearing. ^ right, but not on Doolittle- there's keyboard (uncredited) and theremin on Bossanova and keys all over TLM, but this is the only Doolittle example, whereas the text as currently existing suggests otherwise Seanmercy (talk) 05:54, 21 November 2008 (UTC) Sorry, missed the 'on Doolittle' bit :)
 * Velouria had a theremin, and I'm sure there's a few examples, otherwise, what was Eric Drew Feldman doing on Trompe le Monde?

3. MGTH also happens to be constructed around a simple chord progression, which makes "while other tracks on Doolittle are constructed around simple chord progressions" seem a little silly- this seems to be a reference to the songwriting, not the arrangement of the song.

Anyone want to take a stab at rewording this? I will do so in a few days if no one objects.

Excellent article overall.

Seanmercy (talk) 16:49, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Go for it then I guess. CloudNine (talk) 09:58, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Slide guitar
The Lyrical Content section says Deal played the slide guitar on "Silver", but the Personnel section says Francis did. This should be fixed. Moisejp (talk) 12:09, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I went ahead and fixed it myself. Moisejp (talk) 12:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Doolittle Raid
i know this sounds crazy but I noticed today that the raid (a major ww2 battle) took place the same date (apr 18- 47 yrs apart) this album was released. I re read this article and found that there is apparently no connection. However is there any more info, or has this topic come up before? 66.220.113.98 (talk) 06:08, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Pixies discography
Doolittle was the pixies 3rd release, not their second. Come on Pilgrim, despite being originally recorded as a demo, was a given a full release before Surfer Rosa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.149.80.4 (talk) 13:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * According to Come On Pilgrim, it is their debut mini-LP release, not their first studio album release. Yes, this is their third release overall, but their second studio album. Tb hotch * ۩  ۞ 15:30, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Hey
If I made an article for Hey (which was used in multiple soundtracks) and it was properly cited would it be kept up as notable enough? --Mrmoustache14 (talk) 02:03, 21 September 2012 (UTC) I for one would like that, there's like an information blackout on the song. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.120.196.94 (talk) 16:54, 8 December 2012 (UTC)