The Breeders - Classic or Dud?

like steely dan, no breeders ranking is wrong

pod is today's "featured article" on wikipedia. which is nice

songs are great but the albini aesthetic rarely does it for me, i'd have gone for last splash. but i'll take it

30 years old today!

the thing about pod vs. last splash is that they're both perfect

albini's method of recording very tight bands in a straight up way that emphasized dynamics which would somehow make them sound more mysterious and strange = still classic i think, despite the uneven mastering (or at least i think that must be why "happiness" is 30x louder than the rest of the record)

yeah I think there is something a little off about the mastering of Pod, at least on the CD version, would be interesting to hear that album on vinyl and see if it's any different. I think the Albini recording works otherwise

just had a quick look on slsk and found some FLACs purporting to be ripped from the original LP so will see

I can listen to "Lime House" on repeat for an hour. Easily Deal's best song ever. POD is indeed a far better album than LAST SPLASH, and I love how she returned to Albini
after the bloat of Gil Norton

Albini's Rid of Me (and some other) production being discussed on PJ Harveythread. Back then I listened to alt-rock on casettes, via whatever headphones, didn't worry about production.

or typos

I can listen to "Lime House" on repeat for an hour.

If I'm going to do this I'm going to listen to the demo version anyways thx for watching my TEDTalk

I listened to the vinyl rip of Pod earlier, Happiness Is A Warm Gun was still a little louder than the tracks around it but it sounded great although I don't think it was significantly different to the CD, not that I A/B'd it or anything. It did seem to be actually a vinyl rip, there were a couple of tiny pops during Metal Man which has a lot of quiet parts.

It is a great album and it took me back to my teens when I bought it and I could picture my bedroom at my mum's house

Used to play my Pod tape in mom's minivan, hope she enjoyed it. The Breeders were so formative for me I didn't even know the (post-Beatlemania) Beatles yet.

Pod is so good. One of the top 10 albums of the 1990s.

Can’t recommend the Pod demos enough.

https://www.facebook.com/thebreeders/videos/192614573033175/

interested

yeah, they're selling a skateboard deck. no longer interested.

^ Yeah, that. Gah!

TAKING A NAP
'CUZ STRATEGY'S FOR PUNKS!

hmm!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbS2AIfgPJ8/?utm_medium=copy_link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLmWTgRlYPs

I don’t think Kim has done any interviews in 7+ years, no?

She did WTF with Marc Maron in 2017, and what I thought was quite a lot of press around All Nerve in 2018. Pretty quiet since then...

The full band did an NPR interview for All Nerve, but I can't remember which show it was for.

I interviewed her for an alt-weekly in 2018.

Can you share? Will understand if it breaches anonymity or w/e.

Digging the new R. Ring album

My favorite band from the nineties was the Breeders. They’re still touring. I wish I could do a show with them!

— John Hinckley (@JohnHinckley20) May 27, 2023

The man has good taste.

Supporting Foo Fighters in NZ!

20/01/24
AUCKLAND, NZ
GO MEDIA STADIUM
MT SMART
with THE BREEDERS & DICK MOVE

24/01/24
CHRISTCHURCH, NZ
APOLLO PROJECTS STADIUM
with THE BREEDERS & DICK MOVE

27/01/24
WELLINGTON, NZ
SKY STADIUM
with THE BREEDERS & DICK MOVE

also in the US, currently, with Last Splash 30th anniversary headline dates in between. Belly opening for Breeders on some Californian and Washington dates.

Yep, we have tickets for one of those dates. Hard to believe it's been 10 years since we saw them on the last anniversary tour!

I'm going to see them in SF, albeit at a very different venue then their last time here (Rickshaw Stop & The Independent)

My favorite band. They played recently in Atlanta but it's just too far from Savannah (5 hours) and I saw the prior Last Splash reunion. I think we saw them on one of the last nights and they came back and played Pod in full as well, plus a couple of b-sides. It was terrific.

They are definitely a band that has gotten better live.

so should i see em in a week and a half?

Yes! They are much better now than they were in the 90s.

If you like the Breeders and Last Splash, do it!

Very good new piece in WaPo. Gift link, go nuts:

https://wapo.st/3PnKDA4

Thanks Ned. A couple paragraphs in, already an error:

Macpherson, who joined after 1990s “Pod,” pounded his Gretsch kit like an Ohio schoolboy raised on Rush.

Jim didn't join until 1993, he replaced Jim Mattock (of Spacemen 3 and Josephine's band Perfect Disaster) who drummed on the Safari EP.

Well, strictly speaking the sentence is accurate! He joined after it, they just didn’t say when.

TIL: "ROI" is no-wave and "No Aloha" is shoegaze... picking nits I know yayaya.

but I'm also trying to figure out what song Kim's chart is for...

xp Yeah it’s a little clunky but the writer is describing their “third lineup” and prob didn’t want to get into the weeds of mentioning an EP.

POV I'm your editor:

Macpherson, who joined for 1994's “Last Splash,” pounded his Gretsch kit like an Ohio schoolboy raised on Rush.

^Better for sure. Good article though!

Better but since it was 1993... *runs away*

If only there were some way of verifying facts.

sorry, but this really is picking nits. the error in Steve Shasta's rewrite would be worse if published than the original sentence, which is not inaccurate and just fairly common shorthand when writing for a mass audience. (i agree, however, that Steve's rewrite is better w/o the year error.)

Fwiw, I agree and didn’t realize the year was wrong in Steve’s edit (which I assume was a simple oversight!)

The thing which irks me is my favourite album Title TK (few would agree with me that it's their best) is half a footnote, as if the Lopez/Medelez incarnation of the band was somehow invalid despite putting out as many records as the Wiggs/Macpherson lineup.
(it's Jon Mattock btw)

argh I meant "Medeles"