Blog: PopMatters

If man is five, then the devil is six. And if the devil is six, then the Pixies' Doolittle is 59. The 59th most acclaimed album in music history, that is. Mendelsohn: This is the first time we get to talk about the Pixies? That strikes me as crazy-mostly because almost every rock band to form after 1990 did so with the intent of ripping off the Pixies. I mean, if you want to talk about influential, this quartet wrote the book in the late '80s and early '90s and they did it with perfect form: they [...]