Top Highlights

• Throughout the 1990s their posthumous legend grew and grew, and they emerged as one of the most admired and namechecked bands of the decade of alternative rock. They became gods in absentia.
• It is deliberately both attractive and repellent, a pleasure that makes you squirm—a trick Thompson picked up from two of his heroes, Luis Buñuel and David Lynch, the masters, decades apart, of Surrealist film.
• Doolittle is, on one hand, among the most violent pop albums ever recorded, if not in body count then in the starkness of its calamities. It features rape, mutilation of the eyes, vampirism, suffocation, smothering by tons of garbage, and the chaos of blind gunfire; for the punch line, everybody gets crushed to death.