Doolittle

For their second album, Black Francis wrote fifteen songs about Old Testament violence, surrealist film, and monkeys going to heaven, and the band played them with a pop discipline nobody expected. Producer Gil Norton cleaned up the sound just enough; the crawling verses and screaming choruses stayed. Debaser opens the record with a tribute to Un Chien Andalou, the 1929 Bunuel and Dali film with the sliced eyeball, sung like it is the best news in the world.