The Breeders -- Pod

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

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Ugh, I should have placed my vote for Metal Man. I'm kinda stunned that "Lime House" didn't place.

Didn't know about this, I swear I woulda voted as I listen to this all the time now thanks to this thread

I woulda said If I were a painter I'd say.

Metal man is great wtf?

i'm so glad you woulda chosen painter :) it was always my favorite growing up.

and i'm so glad you got this album!!

i didn't vote. i just couldn't decide.

Didn't know this ended at the weekend. Would probably have voted Lime House if I'd checked in yesterday, as it was in my head all day Saturday. But I'm happy to see Doe at the top.

Really hot in the nineties....not in the mood for it now.

To be fair, Doe is a worthy winner

it really is.

No 'Lime House' votes,huh - wow

i just really realized this was a tie.

uh, sometimes when Iris pops in my head, i faint inside.

i've just never heard a better rock song in my life. ever.

Oh!

not surprised that about 15 people bothered to vote for a washed up alcoholic's band that did 2 good covers...

FUCK

p dnftt

would also just like to point out that that's a completely retarded opinion.

PS might have been on this thread someone told me to listen to electrelane? and another friend had told me, didn't realize he had until i actually looked them up. had a song on my comp already. anyway, they're great.

No 'Lime House' votes,huh - wow

I might have, but I couldn't stop myself from voting "Oh!"

um

i just got some news. i will meet the sisters. soon. i can't talk details but i'm freaking. out.

Nice. :-) Just for the heck of it or are you doing an interview or...?

no interview... but work-related

padpfojkapokje

Surmounter, agent to the stars.

i wonder how this record would sound with a different production. "last splash" style for example.

it's just that the Steve Albini production that was so refreshing and cool in 1990, now sounds...dated or overused?

i just think this production is so clean, and simple. doesn't seem dated or ... anything, really

just simple

lets the songs speak for themselves

it sounds like a mellower Fugazi, or PJ harvey Rid Of Me area - which is no surprising.

(i do like this record, just for the record.)

i don't know those records, but if that is stripped down, treble-rich minimalism, i have no problem with it

perfecting day to listen to glorious today

*perfect ...

last splash production is definitely what seemed more "of the trend" at the time. i'm sure that is all debatable now.

maybe it's just me and my recent "Steve Albini backlash" phase