Daily album battle · No. 5 · Thursday, 22 October 2026 · Final result

Doolittle vs Achtung Baby

Pixies against U2. Both alternative rock, released two years apart. Doolittle won with 100% of 2 votes.

Doolittle by Pixies, album coverWinner
DoolittlePixies
1989 · 4AD
100%
Achtung Baby by U2, album cover
Achtung BabyU2
1991 · Island
0%
100%Doolittle
0%Achtung Baby

Doolittle won with 100% of 2 votes.

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Doolittle aheadAchtung Baby ahead
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Doolittle beat Achtung Baby 100–0 in Riffology's daily album battle

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Tale of the tape

On paper: 1–6
Doolittle
Achtung Baby
17 April 1989
Released
18 November 1991
4AD
Label
Island
Gil Norton
Produced by
Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno +1
Downtown Recorders (Boston)
Recorded at
Hansa (Berlin), Elsinore (Dalkey) +3
31 October – 23 November 1988
Recorded
October 1990 – September 1991
38:44 · 15 tracks
Running time
55:28 · 12 tracks
2
Singles
5
No. 8
UK chart peak
No. 2
No. 98
US Billboard 200 peak
No. 1
Platinum
US certification
8× Platinum
Platinum
UK certification
4× Platinum
14k
Listeners
9.1k
150k
Wikipedia readers, last year
216k

Charts and certifications from Wikipedia, credits from MusicBrainz and Wikidata, listeners from ListenBrainz. A dot marks the stronger number.

The case for each

Doolittle by Pixies

Doolittle is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Pixies, released on 17 April 1989 on 4AD. It followed Surfer Rosa and turned out to be their breakthrough, winning instant critical praise and doing especially well in Europe, where Melody Maker and Sounds both named it album of the year. In the UK it reached number eight.

The full story, tracklist and credits →

Achtung Baby by U2

Achtung Baby is U2's seventh studio album, released on 18 November 1991 through Island. Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno produced it, and it came after the backlash to Rattle and Hum and a feeling that the band had run out of road. U2 responded by bringing alternative, industrial and electronic dance influences into their sound.

The full story, tracklist and credits →

On Riffology

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Podcast · Episode 69 · 1 h 20 min
Pixies – Doolittle
0:00 / 1:19:30

Previous battles

Battle champions

Albums with the most battle wins.

  1. 1
    Rage Against the MachineRage Against the Machine
    1–0
  2. 21–0
  3. 3
    DoolittlePixies
    1–0
  4. 4
    BadmotorfingerSoundgarden
    1–0
  5. 51–0
  6. 61–0
  7. 71–0

How the daily album battle works

Every day at midnight UTC the vault draws two well-known studio albums, close in popularity, era and style, and puts them head to head. Everyone sees the same battle. You get one vote, and the result is shown once you've voted. Voting closes at midnight UTC, when the next battle starts and the result goes into the record books for good.

No album battles twice in the same year, and every finished battle keeps its own page, so the arguments can carry on.