Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 09:36:26 +0100 From: "A.J. Norman" Subject: Breeders, Volume 10, Bark Psychosis, Laika A good (but expensive) day yesterday. Here's what I bought: Breeders - Head to Toe EP (BAD D 4012) -------------------------------------- As promised, 10" vinyl only. Horrible cover (by Jo) - a tapestry of a naked woman in a grotty wooden frame with everything hand-written. The music is OK - "Head to Toe" is a so-so punk rock song, "Shocker in Gloomtown" is more of the same, Sebadoh's "Freed Pig" is ace, and there is an unlisted version of "Saints" on there as well. All except the A-side recorded with J Mascis, and the best thing about this EP is the thought of J producing a song written by his ex-bass player about what a bastard the singer from Dinosaur Jr is. Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:21:21 EDT From: "Steven Hipkiss." (sah577@VMS1.BHAM.AC.UK) Subject: Re: Breeders and Dead Can Dance James Logan wrote > I've recently bought the Breeder's album "Last Splash" and I'm loving > it. Can any one impart more information to me about this band. I have > a feeling that they have released an earlier album. Is this correct? > Have any of the band members been involved with other bands? The Breeders at this time featured Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim MacPherson. Kim started the group as a side-line while she was in the Pixies. They released the first album, 'Pod'. The band at this time the band had Kim, Josephine, Tanya Donelly and Shannon Doughty(?), Tanya being on day release from the Throwing Muses. Between the two albums they released the Safari EP. By the time they started recording the second album Tanya had started doing Belly and so didn't have the time to put in. She has since gone solo and has a single out later this year. Kim drafted twin sister Kelley in as a replacement. She got a smack habit, got done for receiving some stuff through the post and went through rehab as an alternative to jail. During this time Kim started on some solo stuff, but ended up doing it with another band which she called the Amps. It was going to be Tammy and the Amps, but she dropped the idea. Kelley came out oof rehab clean and put together a band to record some stuff she had written. The Kelley Deal released their album earlier this year. 'Go to the sugar altar' is the title. As for Josephine she started off as a vocalist in the Perfect Disaster, formed Honey Tongue with Jon Mattock from Spiritualized and released the Nude Nudes album. She produced the Kostars album and was seen at this years CMJ festival in the Kostars on drums and in The Josephine Wiggs Experience on vocals. That is about all I can remember. If there are details missing/wrong I apologise, but it was all done from the top of my head with no prior preparation. Steve s.a.hipkiss@bham.ac.uk Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:04:21 -0700 From: Jens Alfke (jens@MOOSEYARD.COM) Subject: Re: Breeders hypnosis Dan Shubin opines: >I have to express an opinion about the Breeders and the Paladins. The >Breeders IMHO are one of the worst bands signed to major distribution. >They are unoriginal, out-of-tune and don't seem to have anything to >say. Have you listened to "Pod" or just "Last Splash"? I agree entirely about the latter, but "Pod" is a very, very weird album that repays several listenings. I got it when it came out and it didn't do much for me at first (out-of-tune was definitely one of my complaints) and then on about the fourth listening it clicked. The songs are quite strange, don't do what you expect them to do, and there's a really appealing amateurishness about the whole affair which I think is mostly caused by (as I've been told) Kim's having written most of the songs back in high school. The great failure of their subsequent material is that Kim probably had to start writing new songs -- clearly somewhere down the line her naivete had worn off and the newer songs just sound like very derivative modern-rock. As for "one of the worst bands signed to major distribution", this is the kind of absurd exaggeration that strikes too many of us. Are you really saying with a straight face that the Breeders are worse than REO Speedwagon, Styx, Poison, Tiny Tim, Dan Hill ("Sometimes When We Touch") or Lobo ("Me And You And a Dog Named Boo")? And that's just scratching the surface. GO to the cut-out bin of your local record store (or the used section) and in 30 seconds you can discover dozens more 'artists' a million times worse than anything ever released on 4AD. Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:49:51 -0800 From: Michael Scholtz Subject: breeders and scheer since no one else has ventured a review on the breeders' fan club 7" ... the a-side, 'climbing the sun', sounds like the kind of uninspired jamming that the garage band next door knocks out at 1:00 a.m. after all the energy is gone and everyone's about ready to pack it in. two chord riff, bass player on autopilot, can't-find-the-key "soloing", words shouted sporadically in what sounds like japanese -- even the diehards and riot grrrls won't play this more than once. pointless. my expectations were pretty low by the time i flipped the record over, but "forced to drive" on the b-side is actually a pretty fine little tune, a nice harmonized melody with a few noisy breaks, decently recorded, and very much in line with prior efforts. not stellar, but not a total loss. Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:51:02 -0800 From: Iron Chef Subject: Re: Breeders Digest 7" On Fri, 20 Mar 1998 Cameron Webb (cameronw@CIDM.WSAHS.NSW.GOV.AU) wites: >A few months ago there was talk about a new breeders track being >released on 7" as part of the next Breeders Digest. I received my copy in October of 1997. It featues two demonstration versions of tracks from the "forthcoming album". "Climbing The Sun" just sort of starts and stops in a "sound-guy-records-rehearsal-noise" kind of way, but "Forced To Drive" is pretty good. It definitely sounds like a _Last Splash_ outtake though. >BTW....how many Breeders Digests are there? I'v only seen one (I >think #1) which features Guitar World's tab of Cannonball and some >touring diarys. So far, there are only two. With the initial issue you got the January 1995 Issue #1 (featuring the "Cannonball" tab), _The Breeders Live In Stokholm_ CD, and a button. The second issue came out in April of 1996 and featured letters from each band member telling you what was going on in their lives (Kelley draws a timeline from "arresed for drugs" to the release of _Go To The Sugar Alter_), and more. I suspect Issue #3 will come out at around the time the new album does.