rsmurphy wrote: Ayn Randall

Holy shit. This got a solid larf from over the pond!

ChudFusk wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 1:08 pm I almost forgot my snarky 3rd option: Kim Coles

God, I re-watched Living Single last winter and was instantly reminded of my preteen crush on Synclaire.

Dave N. wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:29 pm

seby wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:14 pm

enframed wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:17 am

I love The Scientists (prefer the swampy Sydney years to the poppy Perth years), and yeah I have a couple Surrealists records, too.

Tony Thewlis is a monster

Kim Salmon lived in Houston for awhile. I never saw him during that period, but I think Trey did.

My band opened a show for Kim Salmon at Emo's in Houston around '95. He was not living there though. He asked if i could put them up for the night, and I explained that I lived in a one room garage apartment and had to be at work at 6 a.m. and it was just not a good idea because there was very little available parking. I'm pretty sure I was put on his shit list for that.

As far as this poll, Kim Deal. I love Kim Gordon, but Deal is the one who has moved me the most. Both incredible women, but, Kim Deal.

Had to go with Gordon by virtue of her being involved in more records that are meaningful for me. Also she sorta gets the Yoko Ono treatment for her bass playing and vocals which I feel compelled to defend. Obviously deal is super talented person with a one of a kind voice but I don’t listen to any of her music with any frequency these days.

ChudFusk wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:49 pm It would be closer to me if so much of SY's catalog wasn't art wank

You say this like it’s a bad thing!

This is like that scene in PCU when Pigman concludes his thesis.

Boy, i saw Kim Deal and her 11-piece band twice in the last week

so
fucking
good

i say this as someone who thinks the Breeders are basically as good as it gets

It's brave for her to do this, a big big reach, and 100% the right move creatively

the LA show was astonishing

so so beautiful and moving and unique and rocking

she is sort of taking a 60s/early 70s orchestral-pop template and just using it the way she would use a guitar to write songs--Forever Changes, Bryter Layter, Astral Weeks, Percy, Sister Lovers, Carpenters, some countrypolitan...but it's her bag completely with zero schlock or melodrama or frosting. All the good shit, no overwork.

The band is extremely great and has totally absorbed her way of hearing stuff and playing.

do
not
miss

i like what i've heard of the record but i think the whole thing is like a thousand percent in gear now

anyway, KD, this generation's Ray Davies, no shade on anyone else but that's the ticket