While it’s an album hardly in need of commemoration given last year’s high-profile tour and a looming reissue, the Pixies’ beloved Doolittle — from which this site gets its name, of course — was released 21 years ago today. We pay tribute with a bit of vintage video, which finds the band performing two of the record’s best tracks, “Dead” and “I Bleed,” for “Snub TV,” an alternative-culture program that ran on U.S. and U.K. television from 1987 to 1989.
PREVIOUSLY ON VINTAGE VIDEO
- The Cure plays early version of ‘A Forest’ with alternate lyrics on French TV
- Kathryn Bigelow’s video for New Order’s ‘Touched By the Hand of God’
- The Cure’s Robert Smith guest hosts MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’ in 1990
- Jane’s Addiction rehearses ‘Chip Away’ for ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1997
- Depeche Mode’s 1988 MTV Music Video Award home movies
- Ramones find ‘Something to Believe In’ with ‘Hands Across Your Face’
- Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper’s ‘Elvis Is Everywhere,’ on the King’s birthday
- U2 rings out the 1980s with New Year’s gig at Dublin’s Point Depot
- The Replacements’ complete 1981 Twin/Tone showcase in Minneapolis
- The Cure’s ‘Wish’ TV commercial, from MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’
- Oingo Boingo complete 1990 Halloween concert at Irvine Meadows
- Radiohead covers The Smiths, Joy Division/New Order
