I fucking hate Kim Fucking Deal !!!!!!!!!
I don't know why !
I know it's stupid but not as stupid as some of you Dumbfucks on here.
Maybe she looks like a man, maybe.
I think she should just become a nun or something.

I have POD & love this mother-fucking album.
Because I fucking hate her, I vow to myself NOT to ever listen to any of their fucking albums after POD.
So far so good.
She has a sister yeah ?
Now the sister is A FUCKING MAN !!!

"pod" is one of my favourite records ever.

"last splash" is great too.

but "title tk"...there's "off you", "huffer"...and then nothing. two good songs don't make a good record.

gaetano wrote:"pod" is one of my favourite records ever.

"last splash" is great too.

but "title tk"...there's "off you", "huffer"...and then nothing. two good songs don't make a good record.

Give it another chance. It's actually quite close to the style of Pod: not quite as dark, but very close compositionally. I love it.

Breeders are Not Crap. I may not like everything, but Pod, Last Splash and Title TK are great records.

alex maiolo wrote:How about some love for Tonya Donnelly? Of the the more under rated guitarists around and, I would imagine, part of the reason Pod is so great.

Kim wasn't much of a guitarist back then. I understand Tonya had a profound influence on those guitar parts.
-A

Well few people really know what their contributions really were but, Kim started as a guitar player and picked up bass for the Pixies. So she was just as much a guitar player then as ever.

I would also speculate (based off playing much of the Breeders material) that Tonya had a smaller influence than she liked. Which is partially credited as why she left. Plus many of those Breeder songs were old...like before-the-Pixies old.

So not to take away from her contribution, which involves many things not music related, but it seems (as always) a mostly Kim deal....which is good in my book.

Regards,
David

dimpfelmoser wrote:
Well, starting off as a side project, undergoing constant line up changes and not releasing records for seven years is something of a give away in my book. I don't mean that to be judgemental and I don't want to belittle any contributions from all the wonderfull people involved in making their records but the Breeders from 88 where quite different from the 2002 Breeders in that only Kim Deal was still involved (errr, and Steve). Strangely enough I find myself thinking of Pacer as yet another Breeders record.

But the primary song writer was and is Kim. There is the constant.
I think that makes it almost a requirement that there would be line-up changes.

But since 2002, or so on, she pick up those guys from East Los. That was pretty consistent.

However, I think most people would agree that they weren't a particularly good live act.
d

I dont think this is the case. You make have seen them at bad moments (or good moments) and not liked them. But this is hardly a "most people would agree".

One of the times I saw them was their first gig in a while with that "new" East Los band...with Kelley..at the Congress, where Low opened for them at the last minute (wow did Low do an amazing version of "Last Night I Dreamt...") .. Steve was the MC too boot.

They werent the tightest (yet) but they were great. And judging by crowd response, most of those people would agree they were a good live act.

Regards,
David

I can't stop listening to Pod. I've had this album forever but didn't fall in love with it until two or three years ago. Right now I think it blows away the Pixies' best album but that might change, i dunno. I really hope Kim writes and sings more if the pixies do record something new.

spoon wrote:

However, I think most people would agree that they weren't a particularly good live act.
d

I dont think this is the case. You make have seen them at bad moments (or good moments) and not liked them. But this is hardly a "most people would agree".

One of the times I saw them was their first gig in a while with that "new" East Los band...with Kelley..at the Congress, where Low opened for them at the last minute (wow did Low do an amazing version of "Last Night I Dreamt...") .. Steve was the MC too boot.

They werent the tightest (yet) but they were great. And judging by crowd response, most of those people would agree they were a good live act.

Regards,
David

I already conceded that this might be the case, yet i can only judge from my personal experience and what I've seen on youtube and some TV screens. But yeah, like the first three times I saw stereolab they were just dreadful and boring and in recent years I've bee completly blown away

Not Crap with a large waffle factor for the extremely poor guitar playing on the Last Splash LP.

There are other waffles as well.

Weird. I've always loved the guitars on Last Splash. Quite a different approach to tone than the one taken on Pod but I really like it. I've always wondered how much of it was ye olde acoustic through a Marshall that Kim used to like to use. I personally can't really find much to fault in the playing itself, either.

Pod and Last Splash are fantastic. Title TK has a higher WF for me.

The Breeders were very good live the one time I saw them.

Not Crap

Neil wrote:Weird. I've always loved the guitars on Last Splash. Quite a different approach to tone than the one taken on Pod but I really like it. I've always wondered how much of it was ye olde acoustic through a Marshall that Kim used to like to use.

If I remember correctly from an interview with her after it came out, most, if not all the guitars were amp distorted acoustic guitars. I am quite a fan of the album.

They made a great finale to the Shellac ATP second weekend. A friend made the observation that "the great thing about them is that the songs are really short. If you don't like one, you only have to wait a minute before another one starts."