Returning guests Allan & Barb Vest of Oklahoma City-based doubleVee bring us a record considered by many to be one of the key alternative rock albums of the 1980s, 'Doolittle' by Boston's Pixies. Released in 1989, this collection of 15 short-but-potent songs was a thrilling shot of adrenaline that laid the groundwork for much of the nineties indie-rock to follow.
Songs discussed in this episode: Here Comes Your Man (Pixies cover) - Teenage Fanclub; Modern Times - doubleVee; Doe - The Breeders; Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths; 'Cross The Breeze - Sonic Youth; Mantovani - The Holy Terrors; Swallowed - Bush; Bone Machine - Pixies; Submarine Number Three Vee, Everyone's Lonely Under The Sea - doubleVee; Debaser - Pixies; Waiting For The Sun - The Doors; Tame, Wave Of Mutilation, Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf) - Pixies; Debaser (Pixies cover) - Tin Machine; Say Please - Guadalcanal Diary; I Bleed - Pixies; Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground; Here Comes Your Man, Dead, Monkey Gone To Heaven, Mr Grieves, Crackity Jones, La La Love You, No 13 Baby, There Goes My Gun, Hey, Silver, Gouge Away - Pixies; Maybe Tonight (What's Inside Of Me), Everyone's Lonely Under The Sea - doubleVee
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