Yeah Pod is definitely their best
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
Mentioned on another thread, but I saw them on their recent small club tour and was completely blown away by "Walking With A Killer" (my first time hearing it) and I'm a jaded fuck who rarely gets into new material. They put on a fantastic live show fwiw.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
You can buy all of the KD solo series 7" songs via Amazon music and iTunes I think. Makes a GREAT mini album. "Likkle More" destroys me.
I think Deal just might be my favourite songwriter and singer of all time. Hard to think of anyone who's given me more joy.
My challop: Title TK > Pod > Pacer > Mountain Battles > Last Splash
(I hate the overproduction of LS and think it buffed out the ragged charm of the real Deal aesthetic)
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
Honest, earnest question from me: what exactly do people like about Title TK? I can't figure it out for the life of me. Such a tossed off, songless record.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
That's me re Pod!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
:O
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
Look, arguing about the merits of this or that album is futile. The ethos produces a remarkable consistency.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
JF - I don't know what to say to you except that the writing on that record is better than any other of the albums. The songs are loose and sketchy, they ride the tension between pop sweetness and chaos so perfectly that I never tire of them. It's the thing Deal does better than anyone else I've heard (maybe Bob Pollard gets there but his hit:miss ratio is lower, plus he doesn't have THAT VOICE). "London Song" I have probably listened to a hundred times, it never fails to raise the hair on the back of my neck and feels like pure energy. If you don't feel it you don't, I guess, but it took me maybe a year to fully dial into its wavelength and it's just kept giving since then.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
Pod, Pacer >>>>>>>>
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
Hm, 16 years ago? Make that 300 times at least, I guess!
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
Pod and the Kim Deal 7"s MattK referred to (as an album) are truly unfuckwithable.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
It helps that Title TK was stuck in my car CD player for a year before fixing it. I can hum every note.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
xps That's what I get from songs like "Oh!" and "Iris" and basically the entirety of Pod and don't get at all from anything on Title TK, but it's not you who needs to be sold on the virtues of Pod (it's your #2).
I mean, agree to disagree and whatnot, and I feign a lot of confusion and outrage on this board just for the sake of comedy, but this is a thing I am legit confused by out in the real world.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
I love Title TK, the production is perfect, layered and weird but distinctly garage-y in the Deal way.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
Nothing with "Little Fury" can be called songless
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 05:34 (six years ago) link
Or Off You or Too Alive or
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
"Dawn: Making an Effort." WOW.
― J. Sam, Friday, 2 March 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
I love this whole album.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 March 2018 06:01 (six years ago) link
Thank you for reminding me, to my surprise my local CD store had the physical disc on release date! Got there with 10 minutes to spare, about to hit the car which is one of my few remaining disc players.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 2 March 2018 06:33 (six years ago) link
The Josephine Wiggs co-writes are bringing the muscle, playing this loud on a decent system now.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 2 March 2018 07:45 (six years ago) link
which ones did she co-write (besides, i assume, MetaGoth)?
― alpine static, Friday, 2 March 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
and Skinhead #2
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 2 March 2018 08:15 (six years ago) link
I had no idea she was back. delighted about that.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 2 March 2018 08:38 (six years ago) link
this is the Last Splash lineup jed!
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
yes!
Bass so heavy.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
this is a great record.
who produced this? It's HEAVY.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Self produced but I think albini is semi involved?
― tylerw, Saturday, 3 March 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
only 3 songs I think? I haven't listened to it yet. but I was thinking about Pod the other day and how heavy the drums are on it. I suppose that's typical Albini production and just how In Utero is recorded etc but he's so good at that
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 3 March 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
"I need spit/to crush these beetles on my lips" is divine.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
It's crazy how "Archangel's Thunderbird" just sounds like another Breeders song.
― J. Sam, Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
it sounds so WILD and cray though. I'm not sure it does sound like another breeders song. It doesn't to me. I mean obviously, the end product does!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
I'm drunk!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
oh man I gotta hear this
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
― tylerw, F
one song -- the cover
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
Great album, great listen, a great birthday gift.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
Yeah this is seriously so good.
― cwkiii, Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:15 (six years ago) link
wait they cover amon duul ii??
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
yes and it rules
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:29 (six years ago) link
I love this album.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 3 March 2018 06:35 (six years ago) link
Oooh baby, this is a helluva Breeders album
I played it three times in a row this afternoon, can't get enough. Especially love "Dawn: Making an Effort" which is not really the kind of song I come to the Breeders for but man they pull it off
― bunny slopes, Saturday, 3 March 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
Good Morning!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link
WAIT IN THE CAR. I'VE GOT BUSINESS.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 3 March 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
MetaGoth is such a Pixies song
― alpine static, Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
I dunno, it slots right in beside “Roi” in my mental Rolodex
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
I listened to this album in the car on the way to Cheapo, and they were playing it there too. It's everywhere!
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 4 March 2018 07:27 (six years ago) link
"Dawn: Making an Effort" is the only tune on here I like, and I had to listen to this album four times in a row yesterday while my record shop-owning pal tried to "Beta Band it" (his phrase) in his store
He didn't end up selling any and I'm not surprised. I think you've all been listening to a different album than I did. There are zero hooks on this thing.
also, horrid cover art / design. Enough with the 4AD boilerplate already!
For the record, I really liked Title TK (and I love Pod and Last Splash).
Sorry to be the lone voice of dissent here, but this album does absolutely nothing for me
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
Not a voice of dissent, but I have mixed feelings about this album, which I dont feel like elaborating here. I definitely think "Metagoth" & the one-two punch of AT & Dawn p much make this album
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
hittin' home runsand line driveswith the sun in their eyes
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
yeah this is really good, remarkably so. i am surprised by how good this is for some reason. don't know what i was expecting.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
wtf hvnt i hrd either of those songs
― surm, Monday, 28 September 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
All of Kim's solo singles are great. God I wish she would put something new out. All Nerve seems much farther away than two years.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 28 September 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
they're from a 7" series that Kim Deal's been releasing for the last 5-6 years... most of 'em are still available on her site:
https://kimdealmusic.com/
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 28 September 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
O shit
― surm, Monday, 28 September 2020 06:08 (three years ago) link
they can also be purchased as mp3s via Amazon music (does that still exist? that's where I bought my digital copies). The five singles make a pretty excellent mini-album.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 28 September 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
I'm normally very much more into the rockers than the slow songs w/ The Breeders - going back 25 years - but Dawn Making An Effort is definitely my favorite song on All Nerve.
― alpine static, Monday, 28 September 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link
It is really devastating
― surm, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
90
million
miles
away
― cwkiii, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
GOOD MORNING
― Left, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
staring at their discography and starting to think this is my favorite one
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
idk if this is my fav breeders album, but "dawn: making an effort" might be my fav breeders song
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
I'm listening to the whole thing for the first time in several months right now and thinking the same thing.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Last post was an xpost but the drums JUST kicked in on "Dawn" and at least at this moment in time I agree with you 1000%.
Just kind of had my mind blow to see that today was the Deal sisters' 60th birthday.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
happy birthday cool sisters
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
tough kids lovesad songs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
happy birthday deals but also mods pls delete this post that makes me feel ancient
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
It's Joey Santiago's birthday today as well, 55 years old
― nate woolls, Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
Title TK forever but All Nerve is casual majesty, the years will not diminish them
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
they are one of the few bands I can think of with a pretty flawless run of albums, more so if the Amps record is included.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
I love the slurry singing that Kim sometimes does.
I have fantasies of moving to Dayton and being Kim’s handyman so she’ll have more time to work on music. I wish she would put out some more solo singles.
They are my favorite band, but I don’t think I can pick a favorite album of theirs.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 11 June 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link