The Breeders -- Pod

I liked their stoner rock approach, with some extended jams tossed in, but having just discovered Endless Boogie, I felt the jams could have been longer. Perhaps, my anticipation for the breeders was getting to me, I mean, I was getting tired of Hank Williams as well that night, so..

I was in the back right of the room. Just a few steps from the bar. You?

ahhh

i was like in front of them

When I got in there was no one in the room and I considered standing at the stage but my girl wasn't too keen on being trapped in event that she needed to escape. I was pleased with how packed it finally became, tho. I was afraid no one was interested in them anymore.

yeah i was pleased too. looking back at the room was great =)

You going to any other good shows in the city this summer? I just got my SY + Feelies tickets yesterday for the R2R July 4th show!!

u know i don't have anything planned :( which is silly

This could use a good remastering.

LOL, you should post that here: http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/

(Surmounter) Keep an eye on the Siren Festival, River 2 River and Summerstage (though I'd imagine you know to do that already) - Siren has SM +the Jicks, while Summerstage is having Seun Kuti!

ok! :D

doe is the 1st breeders song that i was like "whoa, who is this?"

I love the harmonies on Fortunately Gone. I remember seeing them play Iris and When I Was A Painter on Snub TV a while before the album came out, and those two tracks are great too. Also Glorious. Hmmmmmmm...need to think about this...

when i was a painter i painted you well
too bad i have to die
you brought the essentials, perversion appeal
of many lovers at one time

go.

Warm Gun is basically the best cover ever, so that one

great drumming by "Shannon Doughton".

yeah, whatever happened to her?

j/k

this is very difficult indeed. i could choose six songs here!

Oh!

the part where she goes up and squeals on Oh!
-- Surmounter

^^ this

'DOE' is perfect. it's one of those songs you can listen to 20 times in a row.

Iris and Hellbound are good. The rest is as shit as the rest of their catalogue.

when i saw them about 15 years ago in rhode island the place went apeshit when they played hellbound.

the part where she goes up and squeals on Oh!

-- Surmounter, Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:37 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Best moment in recorded Kim Deal history.

Iris is such a shameless Jane's Addiction rip-off.

That is Geir-esque in its complete RONGness.

Perry Farrell is the shit on Kim Deal's combat boot.

I <3 u all u revisionists.

Guaranteed serious back-up by sunrise by some people who are old enough to know better. B-)

What're gonna do, hold a seance for gygax (RIP)?

listen fuckface, grow a pair (of ears).

obligatory challops

Are you trying to tell me, Steve, that I liked Jane's Addiction in 1990 more than I did Pixies/The Breeders by calling me a revisionist? Because, if you are, you are RONG as David R. notes above.

her voice sounds Perry Farrel-ish on Iris, i can see this

what's your paypal addy Mr. Que?

brittwalf✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧

Wash yourself in your tears
And build your church
On the strength of your RONG

That is Geir-esque in its complete RONGness.

-- David R., Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:27 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Link

oh! for nostalgic reasons.

ps, does anyone know where i might be able to find pod on vinyl?

http://www.musicstack.com/listings.cgi?find=the_breeders&t=pod&media=Vinyl

Heh one of those Musicstack listings is at Replay Records - used to be in a run down arcade in Reading, closed down last year I think, must just do online sales now I guess.

thank you, mr. fever.

Painter and Doe are wonderful, but in another misguided attempt to vote for the underdog, maybe Only In 3s. Though, hm, Lime House... huh, I can't pick.

wouldn't the underdog here be metal man? i will be surprised if there's even one vote.

i love that song -- the loud part in the middle works everytime.

Well, yeah. I just meant that I like to vote for things I don't reckon will get many votes above things I maybe like a little more but am sure will do well for themselves. This often backfires.

The internet has just provided me with Pod-era Breeders demos! This has pretty much made my evening.

LOL, you should post that here: http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/

If I'm going to poke a nest of vinyl-fetishist hornets with a stick, I'd need to commit to some time. Possibly an enjoyable exercise, but not without its annoyances.

As much as I like most of Albini's production work and other stuff coming from electrical audio (been there, beautiful setup), I've read that he purposefully handicapped the CD masters to sound inferior to the ones used for the vinyl issues around the Breeders/Slint/early Shellac era. God knows if I can find the source again, and I don't know whether it quotes Albini directly or is just hearsay. If you ever listen to those tracks in a mix with songs of the same era, you'll know what I mean. It sounds twee and puny (kind of like how Shellac came off opening for The Stooges now that I think of it). His work with Nina Nastasia to me seemed a bit of a breakthrough, like he stopped hating the human voice.

The internet has just provided me with Pod-era Breeders demos!

WHOA -- was this courtesy of some enterprising blogger, or discovered thru other means?

I found these a while ago...can't remember where. They were not as thrilling as I'd hoped they'd be.

the pod demos are fantastic! i like 'en a little more than the album, but really, is there anything that Kim Deal does that isn't pure awesomeness???

voted Iris bcz I used to play the live version off of No Alternative when wanting to piss my quadmates off.

'en = 'em

lol I've been listening to the Pod Demos lately, and "Limehouse" feels like one of the standout tracks on there

30 years old today!

Relisten party?

Okay wow, since this got such an absurdly popular response, I'm gonna go cue up the record and blast it loudly.

"Glorious". co-written by bassist Jim Halliday, who *googles* was in The Low Rollers (?) and may have been romantically involved with Breeders member Carrie Bradley. Jim was replaced by Jo Wiggs prior to this album's recording. Not a lot of people know this but Joey Santiago's goldtop Les Paul was a loaner from Kim Deal, who I believe plays the lead on this song as the tone (not to mention the solo-ing) sounds just like those early Pixies songs.

"Doe". Also co-written by Halliday. Britt & Tanya are so good on this. I mentioned on another thread that there's zero distortion (or reverb) on this track and it's so much more powerful for it, a real testament to Albini's production. A lot of anachronism has obscured the fact that Pod was recorded 7 months prior to Spiderland and I wonder if this song had any sort of influence (it seems to be in E harmonic/melodic minor, which reminds me of something like "Don, Aman").

"Happiness Is A Warm Gun" which is a cover or so I'm told. Albini does some weird processing on the vox on this song. Kim's are doubled but there's some weird stuff that comes in and out (like a weird bleed-in for a second around 1m38s). Not much to say about this track, it's probably the best known song on here.

"Oh!" a 'duet' with labelmate Michael Allen. Carrie really uh, carries this track,, esp into the part where Kim's voice cracks. Britt plays a quarter (+?) beat behind which makes the song feel like it's crawling. Kim also plays some really nice acoustic arpeggios in the verses that you can pick up when the volume is cranked.

"Hellbound". Not my favorite track, seems like a song that was never really fleshed out.

"When I Was A Painter". There's footage of this lineup (I think the only footage that exists) from the studio recording in Edinburgh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf56RgivRLM

which is facinating because Kim is playing like Frank Black (acoustic through overdrive pedal) & Tanya does all her leads in full barre position. Britt is barely visible in the other room.

I'm loving this, Al, keep it going!

okay, only had time for side A. I'm sure you're all riveted for my insight about side B which will have to wait until next time!!!11

For sure. Cool to see the acoustic-through-cranked-Marshall was the Breeders m.o. from day one, too.

well, studio day one, sorry Kelley

Britt Daniel of Spoon also played an acoustic in that style of BF/FB

Great revive!

prompted by the other Breeders thread I did actually listen to this whole album a few hours ago. think it's still my favourite

> A lot of anachronism has obscured the fact that Pod was recorded 7 months prior to Spiderland and I wonder if this song had any sort of influence

Didn't realize this, which makes this all the weirder to me -- I watched the Slint doc (thanks to the thread revive) and Albini said something like (totally paraphrasing) "it's testament to Britt's range that he could go from (Slint) to basically playing three minute pop songs." But it's not like Pod is some huge leap away from what Slint was doing. Pod's got a ton of space in it and the drumming on, say, "Iris" or "Oh!" or "Only in 3s" could be on Spiderland.

god i love "Only In 3s" and "Lime House"

I should give this a listen after the Slint doc.

One vote for Fortunately Gone is crazy. I love the second voice on the "Sweetly as it drops upon your head.." parts.

“Lime House” is still perhaps the best song that Deal has ever written.

I think the Spin Alternative Record Guide states that “Hellbound” is about abortion, but I don’t totally buy it. I don’t really know what Deal’s political/religious beliefs are

cherished very few car driving memories as much as the time i was driving in the middle of nowhere late at night listening to some random radio station and "Oh!" came on.

xp I’d offer “London Song” as her best, it’s the most Kim of Kim songs for me

Pod was recorded after Slint recorded “Glenn” but before Spiderland. Maybe it’s Waldord’s style or maybe it’s that Albini recorded both, but I think the connection between Glenn and Pod is really strong, as far as the drumming goes. Stronger than Spiderland.

xxxp Kim’s always said it was about abortion.
From https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/breeders-summerfest-2022

“This next song is an old, old song. It’s about an abortion,” she said, before launching into “Hellbound.”

“On my own on saturdays”

Your soft belly bossing lows...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j370Yg3Mu8

^ 35 Years of 'Pod' Q&A with Kim, Josephine, Tanya, and Britt