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"There are drawbacks to performing an entire album live in concert &amp;#x2014; even for the Pixies, who unfurled 1989&amp;apos;s groundbreaking Doolittle on Wednesday in the first of three sold-out nights at the Hollywood Palladium. &amp;quot;You can&amp;apos;t skip it if you don&amp;apos;t like any of the songs,&amp;quot; bassist-singer-chatterbox Kim Deal noted onstage with a blissful grin. &amp;quot;You have to listen to all of them.&amp;quot;\r\nThe reunited Pixies began a nine-city U.S. Doolittle Tour this week in Los Angeles, marking the 20th anniversary of their alt-rock classic. Its intense mix of sonic dementia and soaring pop melody was brought to life in a 90-minute set filled out with memorable, if overlooked Pixies B sides from the same era, beginning with the heavy thump of &amp;quot;Dancing the Manta Ray,&amp;quot; the thrashing Spanish guitar of &amp;quot;Weird At My School&amp;quot; and the blistering, spooky surf sounds of &amp;quot;Bailey&amp;apos;s Walk.&amp;quot;\r\nBefore stepping onstage, the Pixies began with an unexpected screening of the 1929 surrealistic silent short Un chien andalou, with its notorious images of a sliced eyeball, severed hand, a man in nun&amp;apos;s clothing and other provocative visuals to warm a Pixie&amp;apos;s soul. It was directed by Luis Bunuel, the subject of the band&amp;apos;s raging &amp;quot;Debaser,&amp;quot; which opens Doolittle with a shriek of madness and release from singer-guitarist Black Francis: &amp;quot;Got me a movie / I want you to know/slicing up eyeballs . . .!&amp;quot;\r\nLike the Doolittle album, the performance Wednesday was an unsteady balance of darkness and light, from howls of unease to the warmth of &amp;quot;Here Comes Your Man,&amp;quot; as the band&amp;apos;s faces were spread out on the big screen behind them, goofing in black and white like the Beatles in A Hard Day&amp;apos;s Night. After some sci-fi gibberish from Francis on &amp;quot;Dead,&amp;quot; Deal announced happily, &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re still on the first side&amp;quot; of the album.\r\nDuring &amp;quot;Monkey Gone To Heaven,&amp;quot; fans raised their hands in the air, holding up five fingers, six or seven, as a wailing Francis ranked humanity&amp;apos;s mysterious place in the universe: &amp;quot;If man is 5 . . . then the devil is 6 . . . then God is 7!&amp;quot; The sly guitar interplay on &amp;quot;No. 13 Baby&amp;quot; between Francis and lead guitarist Joey Santiago was as simple and gorgeous as ever, and &amp;quot;Silver&amp;quot; was a haunted, dustier duet between Francis and Deal, before &amp;quot;Gouge Away&amp;quot; closed the album&amp;apos;s 15 songs with Francis&amp;apos; vocals whispered, rasped and roared.\r\nFor the first encore, the Pixies returned for a dreamy, unhurried B side version of &amp;quot;Wave of Mutilation (U.K. Surf),&amp;quot; as Deal and Francis harmonized together as road-weary spirits and Santiago riffed into the ether like a postpunk Santo &amp;amp; Johnny. That soon gave way to a billowing cloud of white fog onstage for an explosive &amp;quot;Into the White&amp;quot; as Deal droned, &amp;quot;Go, and you&amp;apos;ll go real far/Just past the big quasar,&amp;quot; while drummer David Lovering pounded an anxious beat and the guitars slashed and burned, sending surf sounds tumbling into the outer limits.\r\nFor the night&amp;apos;s second encore, the Pixies reached further into the past, with a trio of their raging early indie-rock tunes, retaining their edge and madness more than two decades later. Deal rasped through &amp;quot;Gigantic&amp;quot; (from 1988&amp;apos;s equally influential Surfer Rosa) amid mad strumming and oscillating guitars. And Francis sang calmly within a swirl of tension and madness of &amp;quot;Where Is My Mind?&amp;quot; before the Pixies closed out the night with final howl from Deal that was eerie, unpolished perfection.\r\nSet list: &amp;quot;Dancing The Manta Ray&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Weird At My School&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Bailey&amp;apos;s Walk&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Manta Ray&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Debaser&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Tame&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Wave of Mutilation&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I Bleed&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Here Comes Your Man&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Dead&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Monkey Gone to Heaven&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Mr. Grieves&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Crackity Jones&amp;quot; &amp;quot;La La Love You&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No. 13 Baby&amp;quot; &amp;quot;There Goes My Gun&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Hey&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Silver&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Gouge Away&amp;quot;  First Encore: &amp;quot;Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Into the White&amp;quot;  Second Encore: &amp;quot;Isla De Encanta&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Gigantic&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Where Is My Mind?\r\nRelated Stories: &amp;#x2022; Pixies&amp;apos; &amp;quot;Doolittle&amp;quot; Turns 20: Frank Black on the Band&amp;apos;s Return to the Road &amp;#x2022; Kim Deal Says No New Pixies Album &amp;quot;Because I Don&amp;apos;t Want To&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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