The Breeders - Classic or Dud?

Breeders = Classic up to (and, on the right day, including) Title TK.

The Breeders = major, major classic. Many of my fondest adolescent memories were soundtracked by The Breeders' music. Plus, Kim Deal has the most brilliant sense of humor. I saw her on the cable access program "The Hondo Show" recreating a scene out of Showgirls with one of her Amps bandmates and the host of the program. The fact that I can still remember this about four years after I saw it first is a testament to how memorable the scene was/is.

And Title TK needed to be in the Top 40, damn it.

lord custos, are you on crack?

Last Splash - my CD's been played so much it's gone all quiet and muffled and basically fucked (I didn't even know this was possible but...there you go), loveit loveit loveit even though "Cannonball" was for years the most overplayed indie club tune EVAH and - for shame - ended up immediately preceding my departure from whichever club on the grounds that "if the DJ's still playing that...sheesh" etc.

Title TK stands up well with the above, agreed, but I've perhaps not given it the exhaustive attention it deserves. Hmmm.

Anyway. Breeders=brilliant, Jo Wiggs was always my favourite but now she's disappeared (anyone remember Honey Tongue? Aces). Is she related to Pete?

Title TK is pretty good as well. But Last Splash fucking rocked like a monster when I was in middle school and still does so when I listen to it now. I listen to it a lot now.

Good God I am old.

How exactly are you going to wave them if they're already cut off?

I'll bet Ned started crying and gnashing his teeth when they played the theme to Buffy though!

-- Tom Breihan (lazerbee...), July 14th, 2003

Well, I think I know what your problem might be. Them ol' pair of ears need some quick replacing, gramps! :)

"How exactly are you going to wave them if they're already cut off? "
--My name is Kenny

SH*t you're kidding right?

-- Francis Watlington (peppermintsmok...), July 14th, 2003.

No! Dude! I get to make fun of you for being old! That's how it works! Nobody gets to make fun of me for being young! Don't make me fuck you up with my Nerf dart gun!

They've been playing it at most of their recent live shows, I wasn't saying it for the sake of being random.

(and yes i like the breeders way more than the pixies)

(btw the amg is a little messed up for kelley deal. boom boom boom doesn't show up under 'kelley deal 6000' but does under 'kelley deal')

I remember a cover of "The Angry Inch" from Hedwig, which is far cooler on several levels. Or so I deem.

Fortunately Gone

Not picking sides in the Breeders-Pixies fight— they're both solid bands.

No you're not.

...what a book she'll WRIIIIIiiiIIIIIiiiiTTTTE!"

I'm on the verge of proclaiming the Black Sessions 1993 show they did one of the greatest live albums never released as such.

I don't know of that live album at all.

So anyway the Pixies song was called...fuck where is that CD? Give me a minute here.

Sorry, this is a Breeders thread. And I am drunk.

Breeders > Pixies

not that I don't like the latter, but songs like "Do You Love Me Now?" and "DOE" kind of, well, SHALL WE SAY, TROMP LE MONDE?? harhahr

for me (not that I... blah blah..)

What exactly is classic about Pod?

I'd like to know too! Seems pretty unanimously like a record I should get round to hearing one day.

Couldn't disagree more - the songs on Title TK are fairly uninspired but what saves it is the gloriously raw-but-rich sound (the non-Albini tracks are very flat by comparison).

COME BACK, KIM AND SING SOME MORE!!!

last splash and pod are getting vinyl reissues and coming out on march 31

pod on vinyl is perfection

i did it

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g192/rrawn/kimnkelley.jpg

Surmounter, that's awesome!

hey surm, air high five.

:D

was pumped to show u guys

Didn't they use to look alike?

i almost effed up and gave them both Pod to sign, and then it hit me that kelley wasn't on Pod. so i ran home and got one of her solo albums too

what are her solo albums like?

they're like... kim, but more preschool and ridiculous, in an amazing way, if that makes sense

it does. but while i don't have them i am just going to listen to last splash instead. it's been too long, like a whole month without hearing it.

sounds perfect :P

Congrats surm, and you look like a sweetie btw

I've only seen them onstage at a concert where the stage was a good few feet higher than the audience so my view was biased but are they that small or are you very tall? Terrific pic btw :)

they're pretty small! i'm only 5'11"

is that kim on left? she looks v different whichever one is her.

kelley, surm, kim
surely?

no! kim, me, kelley. they do look pretty different.

no! really? wow.. kim looks healthy

kim w/ short hair looks awes

They were so good when I saw them this summer. They played "I am Decided"!

'overglazed' is the jam

i love how Kim Deal smiles so much during live shows.

I had "Cannonball" stuck in my head today for no good reason.

I suspect that this is/was true about everyone on ILM at some point in their lives.

enjoy it while you can s&s

Do you plan on murdering him?

no

so these two ladies are 50 today! crazy
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2009/5/2/1241275037877/Kelley-and-Kim-Deal-001.jpg

Oh shit! HBD!!!

Whoa! Happy birthday Deal sisters.

Happy happy birthday!

yes indeed happy birthday. still making top records too...

kind of an amazing pic
http://www.jamesgreer.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/wKdj0-1024x689.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51x9YvOuZQL._SS500_.jpg

<3

Want you, koo koo, handonbag

http://www.kimdealmusic.com/

Man, I bought the 7", and it's pressed really shittily - the center hole is too small to fit over the spindle on my turntable! I tried to force it down but the belt wouldn't move. I'm not sure what to do - definitely a drag.

doh, that is lame. i didn't even know about this til today...

when this used to happen to me I'd use the scoop-bladey thing on a Swiss Army knife to enlarge the spindle hole

I've only bought like 2 7"s in the last 8-9 years though

prob still works tho

Stick the pen end of a biro in the hole and turn it back and forth a few times, that usually sorts it.

walking with a killer is kinda great

New Kim Deal single released today!

http://www.kimdealmusic.com/

http://vimeo.com/89355190

HELL YES

Do they produce all their own stuff? I always love the sounds they get. They seem to never have a producer mess w anything on their albums, it always sounds like it was EXACTLY what they wanted to do. Love them forever for it!

Albini is their most common producer, but they've worked with various others. Kim co-produced Last Splash.

Cool, I guess I always loved Albini's minimalist recording style. The new stuff sounds like it could have been recorded in the 90s! That's a good thing!

Kim Deal is such an inspiration to me. Just wish she would do more stuff.

omg this song

New Kim Deal single released today!

http://www.kimdealmusic.com/

― cwkiii, Monday, April 29, 2013 5:55 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HOW DID I MISS ALL THIS

I did my best. :)

:) ty

That was sweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXYjys3bI1k

1990, live session (recording of POD?): When I Was A Painter / Iris
Kim, Josephine, Tanya and Britt

Not QUITE a new Breeders song but when it's a Kim solo single that happens to feature both Kelley and Britt Walford, well then:

http://vimeo.com/110603858

man i love the sound of those drums

October 15 - Glasgow, Scotland @ ABC
October 16 - Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar St.
October 17 - Manchester, England @ Academy 2
October 18 - London, England @ Electric Ballroom

October 22 - Amsterdam, Holland @ Melkweg Max
October 23 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
October 24 - Berlin, Germany @ Heimathafen
October 25 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega

October 27 - Paris, France @ La Gaite Lyrique

October 29 — St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Centre (supporting Arcade Fire)

November 1 — Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick

November 3 — Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
November 4 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theater
November 5 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
November 6 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

November 8 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
November 9 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox at Market

November 12 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
November 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater

pic.twitter.com/1FvIqTK3tn

— theBreeders (@thebreeders) October 1, 2017

oops

I've been in the habit of listening to those 2013-14 Kim Deal singles as a full album, if this ends up as good as that I'll be thrilled.

Somehow I completely missed that Kim Deal has released 6 singles in the last 5 years!

Sorry, 5, she just guested on a single by another band

digging this new song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i76b0OrdIQ

so so so good. i love the Breeders. if anyone is ever sad about what happened to the Pixies they just need to check out the Breeders, they are still solid.

Also they absolutely smoke live

Played Title TK yesterday for the first time in a long while, had almost forgotten how great it is. Also my LP is worth some money I saw as I checked discogs :)
Looking forward to a new album (&tour!).

yep this rules

This is better than anything Frank Black has farted out in the last 10 years.

Phantastic. They sound exactly like 25 years ago.

Nah, 21st century Breeders >> 20th century Breeders. Title TK is their best album, although Pod/Safari is a close second for me. Kim's writing and delivery gets better and looser every year.

Title TK is their best album

How cute.

Wait in the Car is now my default alarm clock sound.

Holy shit!! Those B-sides!!:

"Wait In the Car" will be released on three different seven-inch records, all limited to 1,500 copies. The first will be available on the Breeders' upcoming tour dates, starting October 15th. That record will be pressed on orange vinyl and feature a cover of Amon Düül II's "Archangel's Thunderbird," recorded with Steve Albini in Chicago. The second seven-inch will be available at select independent record stores starting October 27th. Pressed on yellow vinyl, that version will feature a cover of Devo's "Gates of Steel" on the B side. A release date for the third seven-inch has yet to be announced, though it's expected to arrive later this year, will be pressed on red vinyl and feature Deal's cover of Michael Nesmith's "Joanne."

xp don't try to tell me the bloated, overproduced Last Splash is better than TK

wait, they're back to the O.G. lineup?!

sorry, i guess i don't mean O.G., i mean what i would consider their "classic" lineup (Deal/Deal/Wiggs/MacPherson)

They reformed that lineup for the 20th anniversary of Last Splash

huh. i guess i missed that. thanks.

I totally forgot how great Pod is. <3

Omfg @ the Amon Duul II cover. Best news I've heard in freakin months!!!

This song is so incredible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtcXD3cefuA

kim is one of the only ppl worth suffering thru marc maron for. she's so great.

Saw them open for Arcade Fire a couple of weeks ago, they were in good silly spirits (if a bit subdued). Ended with "Gigantic."

They sold out their London show a few weeks ago in about 5 minutes, but I got lucky and one of my friends managed to obtain 2 free tickets and asked me if I wanted to go with him, which of course I did. Was absolutely great.

Uh, yes please:

Today, the Breeders announce details of their long-awaited fifth album. Entitled All Nerve, and featuring recent single ‘Wait in the Car’, the group’s first record in a decade will be released on March 2, 2018. All Nerve’s title track is now available to hear below.

‘ALL NERVE’ - http://bit.ly/2CViqyq

All Nerve reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson – the line-up behind the iconic and platinum-selling record, Last Splash. The quartet returned to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary and have been quietly working on new material since then. Recording took place at Candyland, Dayton, Kentucky, with Mike Montgomery; Electrical Audio, Chicago, with Steve Albini and Greg Norman; and with Tom Rastikis at Fernwood Studios, Dayton, Ohio. Artwork was conceived by Chris Bigg, who has worked with the Breeders since their first album, Pod.

All Nerve will be released on March 2nd on CD, standard edition black vinyl LP, limited alternate sleeve/orange vinyl (independent stores only) and digitally. 4AD Store customers also have the opportunity to bundle their LP album pre-order with the third iteration in the ‘Wait in the Car’ 7” single series, while stocks last. This limited red vinyl single features a cover of Mike Nesmith’s ‘Joanne’. For more information head to 4ad.com/store

To coincide with All Nerve and following a successful club tour late last year, the Breeders will tour North America and Europe throughout the Spring and Summer. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Visit thebreedersmusic.com for further details.

THE BREEDERS TOUR DATES:
North America
06 April – LOS ANGELES, CA, Theatre at Ace Hotel
07 April – SANTA ANA, CA, The Observatory
08 April – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, The Masonic
10 April – PORTLAND, OR, McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
11 April – VANCOUVER, BC, Commodore Ballroom
13 April – SEATTLE, WA, Showbox SoDo
15 April – BOISE, ID, Knitting Factory
16 April – SALT LAKE CITY, UT, The Grand at The Complex
18 April – DENVER, CO, Ogden Theater
19 April – ALBUQUERUE, NM, Sunshine Theater
21 April – AUSTIN, TX, Emo’s
22 April – DALLAS, TX, House Of Blues
23 April – HOUSTON, TX, House Of Blues
25 April – BIRMINGHAM, AL, Iron City
26 April – NASHVILLE, TN, Cannery Ballroom
28-29 April – CINCINNATI, OH, Homecoming Festival
30 April – BROOKLYN, NY, Brooklyn Steel
02 May – PORT CHESTER, NY, Capitol Theater
04 May – BOSTON, MA, House Of Blues
05 May – MONTREAL, QC, Corona Theater
06 May – TORONTO, ON, Phoenix Concert Theater
08 May – CHICAGO, IL, Vic Theater
09 May – MILWAUKEE, WI, The Rave
11 May – KANSAS CITY, MO, The Truman
13 May – MINNEAPOLIS, MN, First Avenue

Europe
27 May – DUBLIN, Vicar Street
28 May – EDINBURGH, Liquid Room
29 May – LEEDS, Stylus
30 May – LONDON, Roundhouse
02 June – COGNAC, Westrock
05 June – FERRARA, Cortile Estense
06 June – MILAN, Santeria
26 June – HELSINKI, Tavastia
28 June – STOCKHOLM, Gruna Lund
03 July – HAMBURG, Fabrik
04 July – COLOGNE, Gloria
10 July – BRISTOL, Academy
11 July – BIRMINGHAM, Institute
13 July – MANCHESTER, Ritz

All Nerve
1. Nervous Mary
2. Wait in the Car
3. All Nerve
4. MetaGoth
5. Spacewoman
6. Walking with the Killer
7. Howl at the Summit
8. Archangel’s Thunderbird
9. Dawn: Making an Effort
10. Skinhead #2
11. Blues at the Acropolis

MetaGoth!!!

This makes my YEAR

As posted above, "Walking With The Killer" was the absolute highlight of the show I saw a couple months ago. I love Kim's solo (demo?) version.... very intrigued by the album release.

as I noted on the other thread, the real draw for me here is what I assume is a cover of

Amon Duul II - "Archangels Thunderbird"

Those Kim Deal 7" singles from 2014 are great and make a nice album of sorts (incl. "Walking With a Killer"). I bought 3-4 of the vinyl releases but you can get the whole lot from iTunes I think, and Amazon if you don't want DRM. No lossless anywhere I could find though.
"Biker Gone" with Kim, Kelley and Britt Walford is effectively a Breeders song (and superb) -
https://vimeo.com/110603858

as I noted on the other thread, the real draw for me here is what I assume is a cover of

Amon Duul II - "Archangels Thunderbird"

The Breeders - All Nerve (2018)

Loving a lovable band.

Wow - decent mini reviews but my ranking would go Pod = TK > Nerve > Splash > Battles. Pacer would be equal to Nerve if we're including it.

like steely dan, no breeders ranking is wrong

pod is today's "featured article" on wikipedia. which is nice

songs are great but the albini aesthetic rarely does it for me, i'd have gone for last splash. but i'll take it

30 years old today!

the thing about pod vs. last splash is that they're both perfect

albini's method of recording very tight bands in a straight up way that emphasized dynamics which would somehow make them sound more mysterious and strange = still classic i think, despite the uneven mastering (or at least i think that must be why "happiness" is 30x louder than the rest of the record)

yeah I think there is something a little off about the mastering of Pod, at least on the CD version, would be interesting to hear that album on vinyl and see if it's any different. I think the Albini recording works otherwise

just had a quick look on slsk and found some FLACs purporting to be ripped from the original LP so will see

I can listen to "Lime House" on repeat for an hour. Easily Deal's best song ever. POD is indeed a far better album than LAST SPLASH, and I love how she returned to Albini
after the bloat of Gil Norton

Albini's Rid of Me (and some other) production being discussed on PJ Harveythread. Back then I listened to alt-rock on casettes, via whatever headphones, didn't worry about production.

or typos

I can listen to "Lime House" on repeat for an hour.

If I'm going to do this I'm going to listen to the demo version anyways thx for watching my TEDTalk

I listened to the vinyl rip of Pod earlier, Happiness Is A Warm Gun was still a little louder than the tracks around it but it sounded great although I don't think it was significantly different to the CD, not that I A/B'd it or anything. It did seem to be actually a vinyl rip, there were a couple of tiny pops during Metal Man which has a lot of quiet parts.

It is a great album and it took me back to my teens when I bought it and I could picture my bedroom at my mum's house

Used to play my Pod tape in mom's minivan, hope she enjoyed it. The Breeders were so formative for me I didn't even know the (post-Beatlemania) Beatles yet.

Pod is so good. One of the top 10 albums of the 1990s.

Can’t recommend the Pod demos enough.

https://www.facebook.com/thebreeders/videos/192614573033175/

interested

yeah, they're selling a skateboard deck. no longer interested.

^ Yeah, that. Gah!

TAKING A NAP
'CUZ STRATEGY'S FOR PUNKS!

hmm!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbS2AIfgPJ8/?utm_medium=copy_link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLmWTgRlYPs

I don’t think Kim has done any interviews in 7+ years, no?

She did WTF with Marc Maron in 2017, and what I thought was quite a lot of press around All Nerve in 2018. Pretty quiet since then...

The full band did an NPR interview for All Nerve, but I can't remember which show it was for.

I interviewed her for an alt-weekly in 2018.

Can you share? Will understand if it breaches anonymity or w/e.

Digging the new R. Ring album

My favorite band from the nineties was the Breeders. They’re still touring. I wish I could do a show with them!

— John Hinckley (@JohnHinckley20) May 27, 2023

The man has good taste.

Supporting Foo Fighters in NZ!

20/01/24
AUCKLAND, NZ
GO MEDIA STADIUM
MT SMART
with THE BREEDERS & DICK MOVE

24/01/24
CHRISTCHURCH, NZ
APOLLO PROJECTS STADIUM
with THE BREEDERS & DICK MOVE

27/01/24
WELLINGTON, NZ
SKY STADIUM
with THE BREEDERS & DICK MOVE

also in the US, currently, with Last Splash 30th anniversary headline dates in between. Belly opening for Breeders on some Californian and Washington dates.

Yep, we have tickets for one of those dates. Hard to believe it's been 10 years since we saw them on the last anniversary tour!

I'm going to see them in SF, albeit at a very different venue then their last time here (Rickshaw Stop & The Independent)

My favorite band. They played recently in Atlanta but it's just too far from Savannah (5 hours) and I saw the prior Last Splash reunion. I think we saw them on one of the last nights and they came back and played Pod in full as well, plus a couple of b-sides. It was terrific.

They are definitely a band that has gotten better live.

so should i see em in a week and a half?

Yes! They are much better now than they were in the 90s.

If you like the Breeders and Last Splash, do it!

Very good new piece in WaPo. Gift link, go nuts:

https://wapo.st/3PnKDA4

Thanks Ned. A couple paragraphs in, already an error:

Macpherson, who joined after 1990s “Pod,” pounded his Gretsch kit like an Ohio schoolboy raised on Rush.

Jim didn't join until 1993, he replaced Jim Mattock (of Spacemen 3 and Josephine's band Perfect Disaster) who drummed on the Safari EP.

Well, strictly speaking the sentence is accurate! He joined after it, they just didn’t say when.

TIL: "ROI" is no-wave and "No Aloha" is shoegaze... picking nits I know yayaya.

but I'm also trying to figure out what song Kim's chart is for...

xp Yeah it’s a little clunky but the writer is describing their “third lineup” and prob didn’t want to get into the weeds of mentioning an EP.

POV I'm your editor:

Macpherson, who joined for 1994's “Last Splash,” pounded his Gretsch kit like an Ohio schoolboy raised on Rush.

^Better for sure. Good article though!

Better but since it was 1993... *runs away*

If only there were some way of verifying facts.

sorry, but this really is picking nits. the error in Steve Shasta's rewrite would be worse if published than the original sentence, which is not inaccurate and just fairly common shorthand when writing for a mass audience. (i agree, however, that Steve's rewrite is better w/o the year error.)

Fwiw, I agree and didn’t realize the year was wrong in Steve’s edit (which I assume was a simple oversight!)

The thing which irks me is my favourite album Title TK (few would agree with me that it's their best) is half a footnote, as if the Lopez/Medelez incarnation of the band was somehow invalid despite putting out as many records as the Wiggs/Macpherson lineup.
(it's Jon Mattock btw)

argh I meant "Medeles"

Might not agree it's their best no but I love Title TK

I might like Mountain Battles a little more, but yeah, I think Kim gets better and better. I'm glad the classic line-up got back together because All Nerve is amazing, but Title TK and Mountain Battles turned out just fine.

If nothing else, Title TK gave us “Off You,” a top ten Breeders song

I'm excited about the Kim solo album. I hope there's a bunch of new stuff and not just rerecordings of the solo singles. Although that would be good too. I just need more Kim. Sometimes I fantasize about moving to Dayton and volunteering to be her personal assistant just so she has more time to make music. "Don't worry Kim, I'll mow the lawn!"

My Kim Deal fantasies have changed a lot since high school.

I think "London Song" is my favourite Deal song of all time. The weirdness of her structures and phrasing, particularly on that album, are absolutely unique and so overlooked - maybe my number one, definitely my top 3 songwriters of all time.
Also the rhythm section are absolutely key to TK's wonky precision, it all sounds so loose but it's actually screwed down tight and perfectly locked in.

These days I'm very favorable to loose nature of "Mountain Battles" - it comes off as the Deals having fun.

I really dig “Divine Mascis” but this is at the top of my list of why I dislike the video/visualizer school of track rollouts - for me, the images color or affect how I receive the music in ways that feel kinda gross.

Anybody: if you see the Breeders on this tour can you get me a copy of the newest issue of Breeders Digest, only sold at their shows? They’re not playing near me and I have all the other issues and it must be mine.

I will of course pay you back and I can give you extra money for your troubles or send you some cool shit in the mail.

I will try! Seeing them 10/19

Sweet! My more or less complete Breeders Collection is counting on you. I promise I will make it worth your while.

Just saw the show in DC area at Fillmore Silver Spring. They were having fun and sounded strong.

The slick feeling zine comes with a Breeders heart pin and a sticker for $15! Entertaining but the zine is a bit skimpy

Digest #2 came with a pin that I lost long ago, to my eternal regret.

I didn’t see your reference to the zine till after I got home from the show . My wife brought it back to me at the show when she went to look at the merch and I was just at our seats

No worries. The first Breeders Digest came with a live CD and the second one came with a 7" that had a couple of demos of unreleased songs. The actual content of the digest was thin but still fun.

oh right, that's where Live In Stockholm was first released. With No Aloha on it, by the way, which they dropped from CD3 of Last Splash LSXX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Stockholm_1994 <- track 8 here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Splash#LSXX_track_listing <- No "No Aloha" in Stockholm here

Pretty fun interview/in-studio performance on World Cafe (Sep 22, 2023)...lots of giggles: https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2023/09/22/1134906818/the-breeders-celebrate-30-years-of-last-splash?ft=nprml&f=613820055

i legit lol'd when Josephine Wiggs says the only place she gets identified at is at Trader Joes

“Divine Mascis” is great, J should have joined the Breeders.

His “Do You Love Me Now?” is pretty great.

It like that they get a schlubby nonsinger to replace the Deals vocals.

Cow_Art, I’m really sorry… by the time I got to the front of the merch line, they were sold out of the zine. :(

Awwwwww, man! Thanks for trying! There's always Ebay.

Once upon a time Kelley Deal may have been the weakest link at some point (30 years ago?) but holy shit she's in top form (aside from a couple flubs on "Flipside"). Absolutely killed it, she's got some big shoes to fill (her sister's, Tanya's, Joey Santiago's) and she is beyond capable. How could you not love this band!

Cow_Art, the merch line was like 60+ mins, sorry... :(

Thanks for thinking of me, I appreciate it!

None on Ebay yet. It's a little tricky because there's actually a couple of Breeders Digest publications, one about dogs and another for guinea pigs.

copy of zine obtained. can send to you after I read it lol

Some show notes

Kim mentioned they recorded Last Splash in San Francisco but neglected to mention that the studio* was a block and a half away from The Warfield on Mission & 6th.

Ironically because of the shitshow of Market St construction, my exit for the venue was exactly right in front of the building the studio formerly occupied.

*I think she called it Coast Recorders but it was actually Brilliant Studios.

Also when covering "Drivin' On 9" there was no shoutout to Dom Leone who wrote the song and lived in SF most of the 90s/00s.

I'd never seen Jim play so many Pod songs at once so it was interesting to compare his style with Britt's.

Had no idea Jo and Jim switched instruments for "Roi"... the psychedelic midsection of which was incredibly trippy.

Had no idea "I Just Wanna Get Along" was Kelley's song.

Reiterating Kelley can absolutely shred with the best of them. She was surprisingly stellar on the material when she wasn't in the band!

They replaced Carrie Bradley with someone named Sophie Galpin who had a Mancunian lilt but she could play 3rd guitar and violin very well.

Thanks, Shakey!

xp Dom Leone died in 1989.

Oof, Dan Leone I meant!

His brother, the ukelele player.

Triple oof, I just misgendered her FFS.

I didn't know "Drivin' On 9" was a cover until last week (after the show, my wife looked up & played the original).

this seems to come as a surprise to many people, sadly. The original is definitely superior, the Breeders version excises several key lines and verses, which undercuts and obscures the narrative that makes the song work imo.

also Cow Art just webmail me where to send the zine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuR-wL5sh_M

Worth mentioning that violinist Carrie Bradley in above video of ERQ playing in Oakland was originally a member of (pre-Pod) The Breeders and then again sporadically throughout the 90s.

Also when covering "Drivin' On 9" there was no shoutout to Dom Leone who wrote the song and lived in SF most of the 90s/00s.

how does webmail work

LL, no:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%27s_Redeeming_Qualities

figured it out!

Thank you SS

i tried looking for a thread, but Ed's Redeeming Qualities is great. Breeders could've made a new American songbook digging through their works.

Cow_Art check yr webmail, you should be receiving the zine soon if you haven't already

honestly we should change the name of this thread because "dud" is not an option.

i have been on a Breeders kick because I never listened to any of the post Last-Splash albums. Enjoying it IMMENSELY.

I still put on All Nerve a lot, it's a good morning album!

All the post Last Splash catalog is great but I love love love Title TK

The only bummer about the classic lineup getting back together is that it makes Title TK and Mountain Battles seem lesser, which is not the case.

I got the zine!!! Thanks a million! How do I check my webmail?

Title TK was a revelation. Ive gone back to it several times. Love the nonsense lyrics and meaty sound. Listening to Mountain Battles after it made me realize that Kim Deal will make a cool sounding song out of basically anything.

Has anyone seen the iguana???

How do I check my webmail?

login to the email account that you use to login to your ILX profile

xpost Kim has a real knack for surreal turns of phrase. I think about the line "I need spit/to crush these beetles on my lips" from "Skinhead#2" on All Nerve all the time

Here's a challop: the only Breeders album I don't play often is Pod.

I’d love the zine, please

Oh. So webmail means the email goes to my regular email account?

If that’s the case, I have no emails pertaining to the Breeders Digest.

But I have an address and I know how much it cost, so I think we’re good.

Here's a challop: the only Breeders album I don't play often is Pod.

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 17:00 (yesterday) link

It's funny that with the In Utero anniversary and the attendant discourse all the stuff about how them wanting to work with Albini becuz of Sufer Rosa, which I am not discounting, but I haven't seen any mention of Pod which at the time seemed, and listening to both records recently, to be a pretty obv sonic template, I mean "Happiness is a Warm Gun" sounds exactly like something on In Utero

Every time I listen to the Amps record I think "oh I don't really remember this record" and the second it starts I realize I have it memorized

first song on the Amps record has been one of my go-to random out-of-nowhere just-start-singing-out-of-thin-air melodies for 30 years

"now i'd liiiike to get back..."

In "Tipp City" I thought I was mishearing this but she really does sing "I have relations with anonymous internet nation", which feels both of the times and truly prophetic

"Unplugged" mini-set in the coastal redwoods:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcFS92RAnYk

Do You Love Me Now?
Divine Hammer
Invisible Man
Drivin' On 9

God I am so sick of Last Splash being the only Breeders album.

that was completely sublime. ty, SS for sharing

sorry, should have said that!

https://www.kimdealmusic.com/

New solo single from Kim!

So good, feelin' a little Blondie ("Sunday Girl") in the verses.

I’m at work, it’s killing me that I can’t hear this now. Kim is the best.

wonder if there's any chance this means a solo album is coming?

from reddit:

Around March of last year, Kim delivered a solo album to 4AD

Many presumed it would be a collection of all of her solo singles, as well as the unreleased single 'Nobody Loves You More'

However, recently Kyle Rector (long time friend of the band, who runs their social media and merch store) shared that the album will consist of entirely new songs, aside from two songs from the solo series, which have been re-recorded.

It's sounding like the album will come out this year, exciting stuff!

Edit:

A new song called "Coast" was released today (June 15)!

Some info taken from 4AD's website:

‘Coast’ was written in 2020 after being at her friend Mike Montgomery’s wedding when the house band, The Grape Whizzers, jammed Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 ‘Margaritaville’ with “revelatory levels of low self-esteem.” But the song’s roots reach back as far as 2000, when Kim was staying on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. An unlikely retreat for the Ohio native (“I hate the sun, beach and watersports,”), she spent a rough off-season where young workers “check the WAM” for surfing conditions.

‘Coast’ was recorded by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. Lindsay Glover and Breeders alum Mando Lopez are the song’s rhythm section, Kim’s sister Kelley plays guitar and horns are by Chicago marching band Mucca Pazza.

The two solo songs that have been recorded are rumoured to be Are You Mine and Wish I Was. The new song "Disobedience" played at the recent Breeders shows is also rumoured to be on the album.

Glad to hear that “Are You Mine” will get a wider airing. That’s a Top 10 Ever KD tune.

yeah, that one is incredible — not sure how she'll top the original recording!

new song sounds very nice.

Oh man, this is pretty nice. The song feels slight but the sound of it is so warm and direct, it's a good change for her. Kim's voice is so lovely, it's fun to see it in a different setting.

Is this the first time Kim has had horns on a song? It's definitely got me stoked for the album.

Really into this.

next single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpqLQIoivAY

Wish I ever had a use for a scarf so I could wear a Kelley Deal original.

https://kelleydeal.bigcartel.com/