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.
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
i WAS THERe! the setlist was great, and Iris was just insane
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
kim's empty glasses performance was awesome
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
(unless you were at the pool perf., i was at webster hall)
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
mccarren pool show is on 7/13
― mizzell, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know if i should go, it was perfect already
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
the part where she goes up and squeals on Oh!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
even more pysched to see them now that I hear they are playing some Amps songs.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
yes those were goood. i really wish she played tipp city but it might have sent me over the edge
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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 :)
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
this is what i hear, i'm not sure if i can do it
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
also how good is Opened when you're drunkedy drunk?
robin flies again
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
was good live too!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
see i didn't mind them! vocals were much too low tho
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
(where were you standing/sitting?)
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
ahhh
i was like in front of them
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i was pleased too. looking back at the room was great =)
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
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!!
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
u know i don't have anything planned :( which is silly
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
This could use a good remastering.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL, you should post that here: http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
(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!
― Kublakhan61, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
ok! :D
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
doe is the 1st breeders song that i was like "whoa, who is this?"
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Warm Gun is basically the best cover ever, so that one
― milo z, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
great drumming by "Shannon Doughton".
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, whatever happened to her?
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
j/k
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
this is very difficult indeed. i could choose six songs here!
― jed_, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
the part where she goes up and squeals on Oh! -- Surmounter
^^ this
― jaxon, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
'DOE' is perfect. it's one of those songs you can listen to 20 times in a row.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Iris and Hellbound are good. The rest is as shit as the rest of their catalogue.
― paulhw, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
when i saw them about 15 years ago in rhode island the place went apeshit when they played hellbound.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Surmounter, Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:37 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Best moment in recorded Kim Deal history.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Iris is such a shameless Jane's Addiction rip-off.
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
That is Geir-esque in its complete RONGness.
― David R., Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Perry Farrell is the shit on Kim Deal's combat boot.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I <3 u all u revisionists.
Guaranteed serious back-up by sunrise by some people who are old enough to know better. B-)
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
What're gonna do, hold a seance for gygax (RIP)?
― David R., Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
listen fuckface, grow a pair (of ears).
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
obligatory challops
― David R., Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2008 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
her voice sounds Perry Farrel-ish on Iris, i can see this
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 June 2008 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Surmounter, agent to the stars.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 May 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Zeno, Saturday, 4 September 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i just think this production is so clean, and simple. doesn't seem dated or ... anything, really
just simple
― janice (surm), Saturday, 4 September 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
lets the songs speak for themselves
― janice (surm), Saturday, 4 September 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.)
― Zeno, Saturday, 4 September 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know those records, but if that is stripped down, treble-rich minimalism, i have no problem with it
― janice (surm), Saturday, 4 September 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
perfecting day to listen to glorious today
― janice (surm), Saturday, 4 September 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
*perfect ...
last splash production is definitely what seemed more "of the trend" at the time. i'm sure that is all debatable now.
― janice (surm), Saturday, 4 September 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe it's just me and my recent "Steve Albini backlash" phase
― Zeno, Saturday, 4 September 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
If only Steve Hillage had produced this record.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
It's been too long since I've listened to this. Such a great album
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 6 September 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 6 September 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Rob Mitchell, Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
i finally like this album!
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 12 October 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
and, newly emboldened by this power, i would like to say wtf at no votes for 'lime house'
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 12 October 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
TAR BABY
― cwkiii, Friday, 12 October 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
"Opened" and "Metal Man" are the only songs on this that I cannot see myself voting for on any given day.
― cwkiii, Friday, 12 October 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
lime house is a banger
― surm, Friday, 12 October 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― kraudive, Saturday, 5 October 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
lol I've been listening to the Pod Demos lately, and "Limehouse" feels like one of the standout tracks on there
― outsider house rules (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 October 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
30 years old today!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
Relisten party?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Okay wow, since this got such an absurdly popular response, I'm gonna go cue up the record and blast it loudly.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
"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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
"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").
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
"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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
"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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
"Hellbound". Not my favorite track, seems like a song that was never really fleshed out.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
"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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
I'm loving this, Al, keep it going!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 29 May 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
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
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 May 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
For sure. Cool to see the acoustic-through-cranked-Marshall was the Breeders m.o. from day one, too.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 29 May 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
well, studio day one, sorry Kelley
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 29 May 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
Britt Daniel of Spoon also played an acoustic in that style of BF/FB
― mizzell, Friday, 29 May 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
Great revive!
― massage angry pixels (sic), Friday, 29 May 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
prompted by the other Breeders thread I did actually listen to this whole album a few hours ago. think it's still my favourite
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 May 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
> 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.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
god i love "Only In 3s" and "Lime House"
― alpine static, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
I should give this a listen after the Slint doc.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
One vote for Fortunately Gone is crazy. I love the second voice on the "Sweetly as it drops upon your head.." parts.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 26 January 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
“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
― beamish13, Thursday, 26 January 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
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.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 26 January 2023 01:47 (one year ago) link
xp I’d offer “London Song” as her best, it’s the most Kim of Kim songs for me
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:09 (one year ago) link
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.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:40 (one year ago) link
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.”
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 26 January 2023 07:34 (one year ago) link
“On my own on saturdays”
― ncxkd, Saturday, 18 March 2023 03:07 (one year ago) link