Doolittle is the Pixies' 1989 second album, produced by Gil Norton for 4AD, and it is where their strange, abrasive brilliance met real pop hooks. Built on Black Francis's surreal songwriting, Kim Deal's grounding bass and the band's signature loud-quiet-loud dynamics, it tears through Debaser, Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone to Heaven and Wave of Mutilation. Its DNA runs straight through Nirvana, Radiohead and a generation of alt-rock that followed. Fifteen songs in under forty minutes, and not a wasted second. Essential for any alternative collection.