The Breeders -- Pod

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

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