The Breeders -- Pod

Glorious pumped up on a Saturday morning...

I agree with Iris. I saw they play last week here in NYC - and came away thinking they might be the best live band I've ever seen. Very tight band, and quite playful. The setlist was phenomenal, too - they didn't neglect any of their albums and even played a few Amps songs.

i WAS THERe! the setlist was great, and Iris was just insane

kim's empty glasses performance was awesome

(unless you were at the pool perf., i was at webster hall)

mccarren pool show is on 7/13

i don't know if i should go, it was perfect already

the part where she goes up and squeals on Oh!

even more pysched to see them now that I hear they are playing some Amps songs.

yes those were goood. i really wish she played tipp city but it might have sent me over the edge

I'm passing on the McC Park pool show - can't take that neighborhood. Too many rich white kids looking for an inner-city 'experience' before they give up on college living ... no offense :)

this is what i hear, i'm not sure if i can do it

also how good is Opened when you're drunkedy drunk?

robin flies again

Are we all enjoying 'mountain battles'? The only track that I've been passing on is the spanish tune. The german track, however, rules over all on that album.

was good live too!

Sure was! - what was your take on the opening act? I liked the big guy's voice but overall I wasn't that impressed. Especially, when one of their songs was obviously a led zep tune in disguise.

see i didn't mind them! vocals were much too low tho

(where were you standing/sitting?)

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.

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

If only Steve Hillage had produced this record.

It's been too long since I've listened to this. Such a great album

feel like I have "Lime House" in my head for abt a week after every time I see or hear the word "lime", no votes wtf

(hatches plan to buy limes on the way home and drink Moscow Mules with Pod on loud)

I wrote about 'Pod' after taking it along to a recent Devon Record Club night. I think it's the best thing Kim Deal ever did, excepting Surfer Rosa. My post is here: http://bit.ly/LwTBVW

i finally like this album!

and, newly emboldened by this power, i would like to say wtf at no votes for 'lime house'

TAR BABY

"Opened" and "Metal Man" are the only songs on this that I cannot see myself voting for on any given day.

lime house is a banger

I'm moving house and all my "current" LPs are safely stored in boxes, I pulled Pod with a few others out of a less sellotaped box for some nostalgic entertainment tonight and this is a fucking great record. Not heard it for a long, long time. It's interesting how like Slint some of the guitar playing is.

Kim's voice is.. tasty

No votes for Limehouse - wtf - that was always my favourite tune!

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”