The Breeders - Classic or Dud?

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I declare the Buffy theme far cooler! Buffy episodes have endings, I LOVE endings. And they played it down here, it was a great great moment

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What's this about the Pixies reforming? Thought I saw something on Pitchfork ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

someone told me about it last weekend, yes.
i don't think it would be a good idea. keep the beautiful corpse intact etc.

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic

Fortunately Gone

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Since I snarked on Kim in the Pixies reunion thread, I thought I'd pay penance here and say: small-c classic. I can't say they're one of the greats of rock 'n' roll, but every album Kim Deal has played on has had its share of ragged, quietly unassuming, but brilliant pop songs. Yes, that includes the Amps album (Those hoarse screams on "Tipp City"! Those not-quite-on-the-beat drums on "Hoverin"! "Dedicated", for crissake!!) and Title TK (ever listened to it back-to-back with Pod? No? I think you'd be pleasantly surprised if you did).

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

― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

am I the only one who likes them more than the Pixies?

No you're not.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

"When Iris sleeps over...

...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.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I usually think the Breeders are overrated. But if someone were to put on an album of them right now I think I'd probably smile and be pleased as punch.

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

― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 28 October 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

i miss kim deal.

― the orchid and the wasp (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 October 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah! WTF? She was the one who wrote that amazing song the Pixies came back with. What was it called? The really amazing one...won't come to me now. Keep thinking about spiders lately. It's very distracting.

― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 28 October 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a movie called Spider Baby that had this girl in it acting like a spider and killing people with large scissors while pretending to be a spider. It was from the late 60's. Very cool. Also Robyn Hitchcock's album is called Ole Tarantula and the girl in the movie had about three pet tarantulas she kept hidden from people.

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

― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 28 October 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

BAM THWOK. That was the name of it.

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

― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 28 October 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

for me:

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

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 28 October 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

Throwing Muses > Pixies

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.

― ennui (fandango), Saturday, 28 October 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

also Title TK one of Albini's shittiest sound jobs

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).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

The Safari EP is one of my favorite EPs evah. Last Splash needs editing. Haven't heard the other two.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Kim Deal's voice (and i guess Kelly's too) is grand.
i love her so much...and her gtr playing's alright, too!

COME BACK, KIM AND SING SOME MORE!!!

― edde (edde), Sunday, 29 October 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

pod on vinyl is perfection

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:36 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

i did it

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

― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:27 (sixteen years ago)

Surmounter, that's awesome!

― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:32 (sixteen years ago)

hey surm, air high five.

― fyi vagina (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:35 (sixteen years ago)

was pumped to show u guys

― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

Didn't they use to look alike?

― StanM, Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:37 (sixteen years ago)

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

― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:38 (sixteen years ago)

what are her solo albums like?

― fyi vagina (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:39 (sixteen years ago)

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

― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:41 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― fyi vagina (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:43 (sixteen years ago)

sounds perfect :P

― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

Congrats surm, and you look like a sweetie btw

― Niles Crane (Niles Caulder), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:55 (sixteen years ago)

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 :)

― willem, Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:05 (sixteen years ago)

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

― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:07 (sixteen years ago)

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

― jed_, Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:13 (sixteen years ago)

kelley, surm, kim
surely?

― willem, Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:21 (sixteen years ago)

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

― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

no! really? wow.. kim looks healthy

― willem, Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:24 (sixteen years ago)

kim w/ short hair looks awes

― jed_, Friday, 30 October 2009 01:58 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Trip Maker, Friday, 30 October 2009 03:08 (sixteen years ago)

'overglazed' is the jam

― Snop Snitchin, Friday, 30 October 2009 16:22 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

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

― Zeno, Saturday, 21 August 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

eight months pass...

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.

― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

enjoy it while you can s&s

― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:45 (fifteen years ago)

Do you plan on murdering him?

― kelpolaris, Thursday, 19 May 2011 04:57 (fifteen years ago)

― excitebikable boy (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:35 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

― tylerw, Friday, 10 June 2011 19:22 (fourteen years ago)

Oh shit! HBD!!!

― Trip Maker, Friday, 10 June 2011 19:25 (fourteen years ago)

Whoa! Happy birthday Deal sisters.

― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 10 June 2011 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

Happy happy birthday!

― brodie_odie_dope (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 June 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Michael B, Friday, 10 June 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

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