Every now and then I get people asking for a playlist of every song mentioned in my videos: Well here's a Spotify link for this one: open.spotify.com/playlist/6cnHYUkEiGu9WWib5GR15k?si=6feee730004e4d25 UA-cam Music link: music.ua-cam.com/play/PLooaZ33lSaleHDYgwVOwCJqfhVNvHPYSx.html&si=RWTrRqIHNn9AKleX
This channel has strung together the best produced and most factually rich musical documentary that's ever been in a long long time. Every episode could be it's own DVD when i was growing up. Stuff that Rolling Stone or MTv would kill for. 10/10
A surprising amount of this channel's content falls into my tastes across a lifetime, most of which was obscure here in Australia (including The Pixies and the Breeders, but also some British bands that I thought were alternative but turned out to be quite mainstream in their home country, such as Echo and The Bunnymen). But the other cool thing about this channel is that it puts together documentaries that I have enjoyed listening to, on groups that I never took any real interest in, and would not otherwise consider listening to documentaries on anywhere else (such as the Spice Girls)
I think it’s funny how the Breeders started off wanting to make a hit dance song and ended up being sampled for motherf***ing Firestarter. Actual full circle
Liam Howlet does take some good alternative band samples, he does have a good ear. His Dirtchamber Sessions mixtape is a great listen, mashing up old skool hip hop with The Charlatans, Sex Pistols, Jane's Addiction to mention a few. If you've not heard it, we'll worth checking it out.
can i mention one thing i love about your videos mr. theory? i love that the last segments of your videos often talk about how these bands/artists influenced the current generation of bands/artists. i know it's a small thing but it's great for discovering new/current bands.
My parents were working security at a breeders show in Chicago, and Kim deal was extremely drunk and wanted to play a cheap trick song for the encore and my mom had to write the lyrics on a napkin because Kim couldn’t remember them. (Kim also insisted that my parent brought home all the catering from the venue)
She doesn't drink anymore. Sober. Remember Pixies Sell Out Tour? Like 20 something years ago when they got back together. When she kept drinking zero alcohol beer. I was watching closely. Oh goodness, that was a while ago...praying that kid is still sober.
@@TTGTO288My grandparents live in Dayton, Ohio. When my grandparents moved there, my Uncle told them that the writer of Cannonball, Kim Deal, was living nextdoor. She came to a neighborhood party one time, and mentioned that she DID get drunk a LOT when she was younger. If you want proof, Kim lives on Oakwood, Dayton, Ohio.
Tanya Donelly is such a strange musician, leaving bands right before they went big before finally hitting big herself in Belly. And then she just started doing her own thing after having a family. Love her.
Thank you for saying out loud that Kim was underutilized in Pixies. Charles’ fatal flaw imho and I love Pixies. But Kim is probably one of my favorite singers and The Breeders are one of my favorite bands. I feel so fortunate to have grown up with all of this incredible music. The “All Apologies “ moment in this video… 🥺😭
It was his band. He wrote nearly all of the music for Pixies. She was allowed to join the band to play bass. Not play bass and write half the songs. It all worked out for the best for all parties. Pixies didn't burn out and become irrelevant, and Kim got her own band where she was the protagonist.
I think Charles was entitled to have a band that was "his" band, i.e. the Pixies. And I think he was entitled to be pissed when the pretty popular girl sold more records than the weird chubby guy 😇
Have you seen Loud, Quiet, Loud the documentary about the Pixies reunion? Even though they are getting back together after a long time apart, it does give you a sense (and I think Kim mentions it in the film) how communication was never particularly great in the band.
💯 It's one of those albums that's actually hard to NOT listen to all the way through. I give it a well deserved revisit every few months, even 30 years later.
I always said that the best part of the musical landscape, if not rock music in general, was when the weirdoes down the street were running things. That is what kept rock music afloat and made it relatable to the world over. Everyone who wasn't a superstar had something to offer music that hadn't been offered before in the mainstream. The Breeders, along with Pixies, definitely brought something in rock music that nobody expected.
But record companies gave bands/artists, time to develop and create their sound. They also didn't sign bands to copy what was big (not to the same degree they do now). Looking back now, you don't appreciate how great & different bands were.
Saw The Breeders in Lollapalooza 94. The Breeders, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, L7, Tribe Called Quest. Oh yeah a little band called Green Day started the show. Good times!!!!
Amazing video! I was a program director for WRIU (on campus only) and Tanya Donnelly was on my staff! I taught her how to work the board, etc! She was very sweet. Throwing Muses made it big shortly after. I also had an FM show, and got to play all the great 80s college radio banda. Such a blast. Love all the bands in your video, and will check out the newer ones. ✨💜✨
For 20 years now I've been telling folks that 'Last Splash' is one of the best records of its decade and I am *so effing happy* to hear people agree. 🥰
That "Kurt Recommends" montage was fucking awesome. Rumor is that Kelley was dressed as such in the Safari video because she literally had a job interview at an office right before the shoot.
That last bit was really sweet. I like how Kim had nothing but nice things to say about the bands that have followed in Breeders' footsteps (or that were perceived to be doing so like Veruca Salt). She's a real class act.
Absolutely love this tune. The irony being back in 93 I was a 16 year old metal and rock purist. I hated grunge, alt, anything that wasn't Maiden or G'n'R. Of course I now realise that was what older rockers said about my generation and it's music. I didn't really have any room to judge though because I also owned the entire ABBA and The Monkees discography. I just didn't tell my friends 🤣
Last Splash is an absolute Masterpiece... Kim is such a special person, she just exudes talent and good vibes....She deserves to be on somebodies top ten list of awesome humans.
The vocal harmony is just iconic. If you are gen x and you didn't have a total crush on the two Kims of alt rock and queens of cool, there was something wrong with you. I love how much self-confidence the sisters seemed to have, even when they really just trying stuff for the first time - it's a very punk attitude. It was interesting to learn how pissed Lou Barlow got at Jay Mascis - I always loved Dinosaur Jr and strangely enough I got to take them on a trip to the beach her in Perth several years ago. A girl I was friends with was a promoter and she had forgotten to book a driver for them and asked me if I would do it last minute. They enjoyed Fremantle and seeing alt rock icons from my youth just swimming around with the rest of the plebs at Cottesloe beach was surreal. We ended up getting in some shitty traffic on the freeway which they weren't too happy about. Murph was the friendliest of the bunch, I think Jay is just quite deaf now.
Yes, crush indeed. I'm Gen Jones (the one sandwiched between Boomer and X, born the same year as the Deals), and I thought they were hot as hell. 30 years ago there was so much less acceptance/appreciation of non-model non-skinny female body types (Sir Mix-A-Lot sang about this the year before Last Splash came out), and Kim was not afraid to be sexy and obviously comfortable and confident with flaunting her natural girl tomboy beauty. That's another way that they were pioneers: they showed you didn't have to look and dress like Kate Moss in order to be "hot." And since indie rock boys like me were usually less into the female attractiveness stereotype of the day, they were major sex symbols for us. Brainy, talented, scrappy, and solidly built, they threw all that right in the face of media-sanctioned tastes. Having a straight guy and an openly gay woman as their rhythm section was also a political statement, intentional or not. Kim has said that "Divine Hammer" is about wanting to find the perfect, um, certain part of the male anatomy, objectifying men right back. I love(d) them for that as well as their music. Siiiighhhh....
As a Cincinnati native this backstory on The Breeders is fascinating. Southwest Ohio in the early 90s was an indie music hotbed…Afghan Whigs, Over the Rhine, Guided By Voices, Brainiac, Morella’s Forest, etc. Edit: The Breeders threw out the first pitch at the Reds game!
@@patrickreichert1442 you should check out late 80s/early 90s SE PA bands The Ocean Blue, The Innocence Mission, Riverside, The Darrows….Cleveland I believe claims NIN
Yup, I was the drummer for Chrome Cranks back then in the Nati. Places like Sudsy Malone’s, Bogarts and a bunch of awesome hole-in-the walls hosted our bands. The zines were everywhere and bands like The Trash Brats we’re trekking here just to play with bands like The Buddy Bradley Experience. Ah, those were the days!
One of the most informative, and even-handed appraisals of this human, humanistic band; a band who've always known how to leave well enough alone, and sit still with their best work. So many bands leave their best work behind under a pile of their own dust, in their haste to chase their next hit. I'm glad they get to revisit their work and make a few bucks, support fellow artists, all on their own terms. Here's to The Breeders, a band who has never sullied their own legacy.
In the documentary about The Pixies reunion tour it is painfully obvious what their problem was: A total lack of communication. There’s a wonderful scene where Kelley Deal starts giggling uncontrollably at how silly their silence is. And that’s when they’ve supposedly grown up - imagine how it was in the 80s and early 90s. Anyone who’s ever been in a band for any extended period of time knows the issues that start to fester sooner or later. So while I agree Kim Deal was under-utilised in The Pixies, I find it hard to fault a young Charles for not handling it better. And we did get The Breeders, so…no harm, no foul. Imagine if Kim hadn't felt a need to branch out.
True enough. That contrast and tension really works well for the Pixies. Maybe not somuch on a personal level but definitely artistically. Charles dark and twisted songs are really great and Kims light subtle touches make them even better.
Another awesome video. Fun fact: after sampling "S.O.S." for "Firestarter" The Prodigy some 15 years later would sample The Breeders again, "I just want to get along" was used for "World's on fire"
Thanks. Been waiting for 30 years to hear the details in this video. Great example of how UA-cam is a much better venue for music journalism than yesteryear's NME etc.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Last Splash was literally the first CD I ever bought with my own money when I was 13. I was OBSESSED with the song, Cannonball and would play it at least 25 times a day when I got the CD. I then remember listening to the whole CD and realizing how much more there is to it. It still stands to me as one of the best 90's alternative albums of all time. I wish more bands would be as unique and experimental as this album does. And Cannonball remains one of my favorite songs of all time. I've always wanted a documentary done about this album and the song that made it iconic, my wish has come true. Again, THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Absolutely agree! We even got quality albums from Nirvana, Belly, A Tribe Called Quest, Saint Etienne, Yo La Tengo, Björk, and even all the breakbeat/rave singles that released in 1993 were top class. '93 was untouchable. 💯💯💯
@@itsjonathangray Emergency on Planet Earth, Automatic for the People, Songs of Faith and Devotion... the list of top-tier albums that came out in 1993 is extraordinary. Although 1994 gave it a good run for its money, too.
Cranberries' Everybody else Is Doing It So Why Can't We, Pearl Jam's Vs, Sepultura's Chaos A.D. and Tool's Undertow should be on the list outside of Smashing Pumpkins, Blur, Paul Weller & Radiohead
I just saw them Saturday in Brooklyn. They performed the whole album for its thirtieth anniversary. It was a glorious. Great performance and just such infectious enthusiasm. They just loved playing for us. It was a magical night.
Good work here. Just bought my ticket for the Detroit show on 9/9, which is my late best friend's birthday. We used to listen to this album constantly when it first came out and into the mid 90s.
During a decade of unforgettable great music Breeders Cannonball was my absolute favourite song. I wore out my gf's 7" single & was the 1st song I downloaded from Napsta. It's still on my playlist today in fact I listened to it this morning... Really enjoyed this presentation learnt a bit, loved it all! Great Job
My GOD. Pod was the sleeper queen of the 90’s: challenging even for Pixies and Muse-heads, psycho-sexual, thrilling and swampy, the quintessential solo road trip sound track. The twin in dual focus with “Loveless” in constant, magnetic polar orbit around my early 20’s aching.
I always see people saying that Kim deal is underrated, but it seems to me that she gets a lot of credit and is universally adored for her work in Pixies, Breeders, and The Amps. I never see anybody talking smack, so I can't really agree that she's underrated. I'd say she is rated appropriately.
Click on any video on UA-cam and everything/everyone is "underrated". It does my head in how lazy and cliched people are. As for Kim herself yes, she is far from "underrated".
@@Chief_Brody Word. Too many people claiming "underrated" is partly the result of too many people these days living in virtual bubbles in which they think everything they like is undervalued by others... (... internet etc. etc. )
100% ! I see people all over the YT comments claiming popular stuff is underrated. Like, umm, its popular though? The polar opposite of underrated. It's infuriating.
Pod is underrated, but Title TK is REALLY underrated. I bought the line about it being bad and never even gave it a full chance until recently. It is SO good. "The She" might be Kim's best song
Title TK might actually be the best - not most commercial - album they made. I look forward to it being rediscovered in the next decade. The She slaps, but Off you is just *chef's kiss *
@@trainsurfer7593 Actually, All Nerve has become my favorite of the later Breeders albums. But I think ALL of the Breeders albums are fantastic, and they each have their own feel. They all sound like themselves if that makes any sense. The perfectionist side of Kim I think makes for killer albums from top to finish, even if there isn't a lot of hits on most of them. That's my perspective, anyways, they're my favorite band.
@@cactaceous Oh, I though by drumming they meant the actual drumming and not the production lol. But yeah Steve Albini's production is great as always.
As a 16 year old back then (47 now) I ADORED 'Cannonball'!!! It was soo heavy one minute then sweet the next. And I REALLY had a thing for Kelly /blush :D SUPERB indepth video mate. Be proud of what you put together here!
I’ll always remember Cannonball being on the first Triple J Hottest 100 album. I can’t speak for everyone, but I think for a lot of people here in Australia it was a compilation album that, even if you didn’t listen to Triple J much, was such a huge influence going forward. Bands like Dinosaur Jr, Ween, and others, mixed with some of Australia’s best talent made the album so huge that everyone listened to it.
Damn straight my gf replaced her 7" with a new copy after I wore it out & wouldn't let me play it anymore, told me to get my own, I bought hottest 100 cd & hardly ever saw it as gf took it everywhere with her. I ended up buying a vinyl copy for myself, which I still have 🤙💯
Okay, here is the tracklist of "Triple J Hottest 100": Denis Leary - Asshole Radiohead - Creep The Cranberries - Linger The Breeders - Cannonball Atomic Swing - Stone Me Into The Groove Stone Temple Pilots - Plush Violent Femmes - I Held Her In My Arms (1993) Iggy Pop - Wild America Urge Overkill - Sister Havana The Cruel Sea - Black Stick Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song (Live) Björk - Human Behaviour Belly - Feed The Tree Tool - Sober Ace Of Base - All That She Wants U2 - Numb Paw - Jessie Porno For Pyros - Pets Us3 - Cantaloop Hoodoo Gurus - The Right Time Juliana Hatfield - My Sister Dinosaur Jr - Get Me Ween - Push Th' Little Daisies Yothu Yindi - World Turning Gabrielle - Dreams Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock Headless Chickens - Juice King Missile - Detachable Penis Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes - Night Of The Wolverine You Am I - Adams Ribs Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade Deborah Conway - Alive & Brilliant
That video was freaking amazing. I was suggested your Top Of The Pops Performances video a few days ago and really enjoyed. Saw a Breeders video come up on my feed and I'm all in. Loved that album so much when I discovered it in college, though I will humbly say I understood it less then. Learnt so many cool facts about the album from this video. Quite honestly one of the best videos I've seen on UA-cam.
I was in my late 20s, sick to death of hearing "Stairway to Heaven" and "Hotel California" for the 500,000th time on the radio, and then I heard these songs, "Feed the Tree" and "Cannonball". Much more than Nirvana, it was these ladies who showed me the way. The 90s were the greatest decade for rock, ever.
1993 was indeed a golden year. My favorite album of that summer was Urge Oerkill's Saturation: I had been a big fan since their old days, never missed a gig when they toured, and they finally got a glorious candy-colored fancy production on that album, which is just loaded with excellent songs. My boyfriend at the time and I actually even followed UO on tour for a few stops through the southwest, from our home in Austin, up the coast of California all the way to Berkley (if you've ever heard "Ticket to LA," it was our theme song, and we took pictures of all the 76 balls in tribute to them). We were going to make the drive anyway, so we figured, let's just make it about this band and this great album. The best moment was while we were waiting outside of Jabberjaw in LA (it was tiny, down in South Central, sold no booze and you had to wait outside for ages to get in, so people just bought 40s from the corner store and drank them on the sidewalk). We're standing there, drinking our 40s, and a van pulls up to the corner--and out jump all 4 members of Sonic Youth (who did not have to wait outside with us proles, but whatever--they still just drove up and walked in like the weird-but-normal folks that everyone seemed to be). That was the cherry on top of that whole 90s sundae. Then Blackie broke his leg (I think it was his leg . . . my memory is fuzzy and the trip had some Fear and Loathing going on) and the Berkley gig was relatively subdued. Oh, and Lucious Jackson, from the Beastie Boy's Grand Royal, were opening for them. Good times. (Then they came back *again* when Tarantino put their Neil Diamond cover in Pulp Fiction . . . that was such a confirmation of their coolness. I imagine he was at that 93 Jabberjaw show in LA. If ever meet him, I'm going to find out). Last Splash was its own jewel box of goodies--I still love every song on that album. There was one particular homeless guy that hung out near the UT campus I even named Mad Lucas ("I don't like dirt"). I was free, in Austin, and 23; it seemed like the good times had to last. Thanks for bringing back the charm and weirdness of my 20s. Your YT discussions are fantastic, and I always get excited when I see you in my feed.
Cannonball was so such a big hit! And Pixies were played non stop over my teenage years. So when the comeback came in 2004 i saw them here in Iceland. And again later but it was a bit like a tribute band, even though they were all there. Kims other projects have always been more likeable in latter days.
Just stumbled upon this Breeders gem. Having been a musi for 47 years and being there for the Breeders inception this is the most interesting and informative analysis of any rock recordings I’ve ever heard. Nice work.
You could say that about literally any year, but you just happen to be around fifty years old, so the early '90s was your "golden age". If you talk to a 60-year old, they'll say that the late 70s and early '80s had more exciting music.
@@AutPen38 the 70s and 80s objectively had more exciting music and I wasn't born at a time to know that from exposure. It was a fucking mind blowing era regardless of anyone's personal formative period or nostalgia etc. Taste is another matter though, being subjective, which is obviously fine and I love 90s shit too. I like early 90s better than later.
Best band ever. I too feel really fortunate to have grown up in that same era and feel super fortunate to have seen the band play live at the opera house in Oz.
Holy crap this was amazing! I absolutely loved the Breeders! And Belly! I had very little idea if any of this back story. I only knew Kim Deal was the real deal and loved her music,her voice, her band. I was going into my senior year when Cannonball dropped. It was one of my faves. Tonight I was at work and literally singing Cannonball in head, didn't even have my phone with me. Then a few hours later on some downtime I'm scrolling UA-cam, watching videos not at all related to music, and THIS amazing video pops up. THANK YOU!
"I was always an addict. The problem was that I was now in a band and no longer had to figure out a work week." That is phenomenal self awareness. Hope she's well.
As part of her recovery in the build up to recording Title TK, Kelley took up knitting. For a while you could order the assorted bags she made from a page on the band's website, and they even had some on their merch stand when they toured the UK in 2000.
Another great little music doc. Love it. Never knew about the Firestarter sample. I like the description of them being shambolic. I've seen them live 3 times ( small venue, big shed then an outdoor festival) and on the bigger stages they just played to the people near the front. I love this about them.
Damn, your very recent videos have been such a blast, I mean a blind jump into a past I used to feel like very recent, since a good chunk of my life ended back in February 1999, but it'a way more powerful than that, i feels like a long due reconnection and it's dope as fuck. Thank you for your work, cheers!
What I kove abiut these videos and this channel, is that you learn more about your favorite artists and then more importantly you discover new bands and artists. THANK YOU
I usually scoff at these kinds of video titles, but I have to say: Cannonball WAS the song of '93, you heard it everywhere, and when I hear that riff, takes me right back to the East Village, early-mid 90s. Great tune and I hated most of the music that was coming out during those years.
Kim Deal is one of my favorite songwriters of all time. As beloved as she is, I still think she's hugely underrated, especially her post-Last Splash albums. So much stuff got in her way -- sexism, introversion, egotistical bandmates, her own drug problems, other people's drug problems -- it makes every song we have from her feel precious. It's like one of those bands that had one great album and then split up, except that's every album.
I kind of feel like not being at some kind of superstar level has worked in their favor, though. Having an army of music industry enablers behind them could've been tragic and the pressure to crank out "product" would've been a disaster; everything they've put out since Last Splash has been great and absolutely unique and if it takes them seven years between albums then so be it. Undying love for the Deal sisters, glad they're getting the props they so richly deserve. PS Kelley's R. Ring project is amazing as well
i also love watching the videos of her playing with her other band the Amps, she wrote so many good songs on that album, she should perform them sometime again.
I saw The Breeders twice, around 2008-2009, when they were touring off “Mountain Battles”. Amazing shows, the best kind of vibes. They also played “Pacer” and a couple of other Amps songs, was awesome. I had forgotten about “Pacer”, it’d been at least 10 or more years since I’d listened to it, and it was like a flood of bliss. Euphoric. This was at The Paradise in Boston, small venue where even at the back of the room you’re like 20 feet from the band, but also had the best PA system and acoustics in the city.
@@fFringeE I saw them touring Title t/k, which was a great show but that was when the whole band except the Deal sisters had been swapped out. I'd love to see them with Josephine Wiggs and Jim McPherson as the rhythm section.
thanks for yet another great episode. 1993 had been the year of my live, starting to study in the UK (i am from germany). and this hat been the soundtrack of my life. well done thrash theory!
God damn I just did not realize how much good music was being released in 93!! Loved the Breeders and enjoying the new bands riffing of the sound to their own music! Loved Wet Leg's sound in 2021, but look forward to new music from these emerging bands.
90s music has such a trademark sound, Iove it & I desperately miss it. I was born in 82, so I only got into music in the early to mid 90s. This video reminded me of so many people I forgot, like Tanya Donelly & Kristen Hersh. Somehow, I never listened to Throwing Muses, but I liked both of their own projects. Belly especially.
Your documentaries are always great but this one was on my specialist subject and you knocked it out of the park. I can't believe you even included that the songs on Belly's "Star" album were originally supposed to make up the second Breeders album. Almost nobody knows that!
YES!!! You made a video for Cannonball! This is so great! I hope you'll make a video for Beck, Saint Etienne and Sonic Youth soon! Breeders forever! 🎸🎸🎸
@@alexhamilton6188 Absolutely! I adore ALL their music. Especially their songs Nothing Can Stop Us, Avenue, Spring, and Western Wind/Tankerville. They definitely deserve a video. 😁🤠✊
@@ThreadBomb Ooh, yes! From their Sister album. Spectacular music indeed. I almost listen to Teen Age Riot on a daily basis. It's like oxygen for me, lol. Sonic Youth are the alphas. I also ADORE Goo. Totally epic album. 🤠🎸
Congratulations on nailing this story. The research, script titling and visuals are like a great old school music documentary which is almost non-existent now
I loved Last Splash in HS back in 93. Listened to it incessantly. 30 years later I found the CD in a thrift shop and bought it. After all that time it is still one of the most badass albums I’ve ever heard. No one’s ever going to make an album like that again. Respect 🙏🤘
I hadn't heard Kim's telling of the "cannonball into hell" inspiration before. Great stuff. Would be fun to hear "Cool as Kim Deal" worked in somehow. I can't discuss Cannonball without bringing up the State "Pants" skit, which will always be the most enduring 1993 moment for me.
OMG at 29:29 there is my OTTER artwork on the NPR tinydesk concert shelf. and you featured a clip from their show? in your video? I am so excited to see it in one of my favorite youtube music theory channels. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
Just went on a road trip and my friend put this CD in the player because nothing else was working. I knew it was them from the first chord played even though I've never listened to their CD. Of course I'm a 90"s kid. Cant wait to watch the video. Perfect timing because I want to know more about this band.
This was so good! I've always been a Pixies fan, & I'm originally from Ohio, but somehow I knew little about the Breeders. I think I'm going to spend the rest of the week listening to them. Great work!
You've outdone yourself this time! Great commentary, well researched and very interesting with lots of golden nuggets in there I never heard of. The Firestarter connection blew me away. Some of the best content on all of UA-cam. Would love a full video about Kim's gold-top Les Paul. She loaned it to Santiago for at least the first few Pixies albums, then Kim, Kelley and Tanya all recorded and played it with the Breeders. I assume it was also used in the Amps and perhaps Belly as well?
Both The Breeders and Frank Black's albums were fan-fucking-tastic. Last Splash, Frank Black (ST), and Teenager of the Year made up the largest portion of my listening time from '93 to '95 (I was _obsessed_ with Teenager of the Year). I still regularly go back to those three albums, nearly as much as I go back to the Pixies material. I feel so lucky to have been a young adult in that era of quality music.
I also was utterly obsessed with Teenager! I must have played that 5 times a week during 1994/95. It took me a bit to get into it since there's 22 songs, but once it clicked, wow. It was just nonstop in my CD player and car stereo for months. Maybe even years. It really was my 90s album. I haven't run across too many others who also feel as strongly about Teenager, so I love your comment!
@@johnchedsey1306 Teenager is my favorite Frank Black solo work. There is nothing else like it (for as good as the ST album was). Hard to believe so many have slept on it, even many big Pixies fans are bizarrely unaware of it. Damn, all this talk about it is compelling yet another listen.
So great to see other fans of Teenager of the Year. Dude, I wore that CD out in '93. Some music critics said the album was too long and they didn't like the last five tracks on it. But the whole album is an absolute masterpiece.
@@franktortorellajr5953 Didn't like the last five tracks??? LOL That's bonkers. The last four are some of my favorites, and there isn't a bad tune on the whole album. I guess that shouldn't surprise me though, most critics have their heads firmly planted up their ass.
Kim saying, of Cobain, that she had him "apologize every fuckin' night" cracked my heart. I saw the Breeders & Nirvana in Denver in '93 and his suicide hit my teenage world hard. This was a marvelous video, thanks for the dive.
What a great piece on the Breeders and the sisters Deal!! thank you for this... nearly made me cry... I remember those days quite fondly. Warm summer days and great songs coming out. The Pixies, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.. And then THE BREEDERS! I was really happy for Kim having such success! I remember seeing throwing muses warm up for REM in the late 80's and never imagined someone from that band working with someone from the Pixies. Wow. Glad I got to be there for the late 80's, early 90's. It won't happen again, and now us Gen Xers are all old, hahaha... well I am, anyway! lol.. But I can keep listening to these songs that were the soundtrack of my youth and into adulthood. thanks again! LOVE your channel! @TrashTheory !!
Every now and then I get people asking for a playlist of every song mentioned in my videos: Well here's a Spotify link for this one:
open.spotify.com/playlist/6cnHYUkEiGu9WWib5GR15k?si=6feee730004e4d25
UA-cam Music link:
music.ua-cam.com/play/PLooaZ33lSaleHDYgwVOwCJqfhVNvHPYSx.html&si=RWTrRqIHNn9AKleX
God tier pinned comment. Thank you so much!
This is great! Thanks for taking the trouble.
great story....i love them even more now
It would be great if you could do a UA-cam Music one in the future too! It'll work seamlessly between the two platforms. 🙂
Excellent as always
This channel has strung together the best produced and most factually rich musical documentary that's ever been in a long long time. Every episode could be it's own DVD when i was growing up. Stuff that Rolling Stone or MTv would kill for. 10/10
A surprising amount of this channel's content falls into my tastes across a lifetime, most of which was obscure here in Australia (including The Pixies and the Breeders, but also some British bands that I thought were alternative but turned out to be quite mainstream in their home country, such as Echo and The Bunnymen).
But the other cool thing about this channel is that it puts together documentaries that I have enjoyed listening to, on groups that I never took any real interest in, and would not otherwise consider listening to documentaries on anywhere else (such as the Spice Girls)
Fully agree. It's always such a treat when a new video drops, and they always seem to be about a band or era I like.
Exactly, I told my son to watch these He was 14, 16 now. Explains everything about our Alternative music, in so precise way.
It's a great channel, such a shame they can't play songs any longer than brief snippets due to copyright 😕
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I guess I am one of 25,000 people that bought The Amps’ album in the 90s! Great album.
This is a great video, thanks dude.
2/25,000. It's still one of my all-time favorites.
@@ms.glorimar me too 3/25,000. Bragging Party 🤟🏽
I think it’s funny how the Breeders started off wanting to make a hit dance song and ended up being sampled for motherf***ing Firestarter. Actual full circle
The band was also sampled by Mirwais on "Disco Science".
Took the words right out of my mouth!
I never knew that… I’ll have to listen out for it next time
Liam Howlet does take some good alternative band samples, he does have a good ear. His Dirtchamber Sessions mixtape is a great listen, mashing up old skool hip hop with The Charlatans, Sex Pistols, Jane's Addiction to mention a few. If you've not heard it, we'll worth checking it out.
Definitely. 😂
can i mention one thing i love about your videos mr. theory? i love that the last segments of your videos often talk about how these bands/artists influenced the current generation of bands/artists. i know it's a small thing but it's great for discovering new/current bands.
I agree. It often gives me new bands to check out. I added several that he mentioned in this video to my playlist.
Agreed. As an old bastard, I need help finding cool new stuff amongst the mountain of absolute SHITE!
good point, i love that
I love it for the same reason - especially the mention of Bully, which is from Nashville, where I live.
@@robertdouble559 haha, agreed, I'm 42 and there's so much shite.
My parents were working security at a breeders show in Chicago, and Kim deal was extremely drunk and wanted to play a cheap trick song for the encore and my mom had to write the lyrics on a napkin because Kim couldn’t remember them. (Kim also insisted that my parent brought home all the catering from the venue)
What a great anecdote!!
What a BS story ...
She doesn't drink anymore. Sober. Remember Pixies Sell Out Tour? Like 20 something years ago when they got back together. When she kept drinking zero alcohol beer. I was watching closely. Oh goodness, that was a while ago...praying that kid is still sober.
"I taunt you to taunt me"
@@TTGTO288My grandparents live in Dayton, Ohio. When my grandparents moved there, my Uncle told them that the writer of Cannonball, Kim Deal, was living nextdoor. She came to a neighborhood party one time, and mentioned that she DID get drunk a LOT when she was younger. If you want proof, Kim lives on Oakwood, Dayton, Ohio.
Tanya Donelly is such a strange musician, leaving bands right before they went big before finally hitting big herself in Belly. And then she just started doing her own thing after having a family. Love her.
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Throwing Muses didn't get any more popular after she left, as far as I could tell.
@@robgronotte1 I thought they did, but I could be wrong.
@@robgronotte1 I dunno. Their two biggest albums were after she left.
@@daviebananas1735 They sold better? I don't know about sales numbers. They seemed to get less publicity in the US after she left.
The summer of 1993. All I did was watch MTV and rode my bike to buy baseball cards. Was one of the best years of my life.
Dude, totally. I started high school that fall, and I watched MTV all summer (when MTV was perfection) and the Kids in the Hall on Comedy Central.
When MTV played music. 120 minutes was a great watch to see the new bands and songs.
It was magic the gathering for me that and nirvana. I was in seventh grade.
This is a song about a superhero named Patrick, it's called "Patrick's Theme"
Same! Mtg, nin and bmx
Thank you for saying out loud that Kim was underutilized in Pixies. Charles’ fatal flaw imho and I love Pixies. But Kim is probably one of my favorite singers and The Breeders are one of my favorite bands. I feel so fortunate to have grown up with all of this incredible music.
The “All Apologies “ moment in this video… 🥺😭
It was his band. He wrote nearly all of the music for Pixies. She was allowed to join the band to play bass. Not play bass and write half the songs.
It all worked out for the best for all parties. Pixies didn't burn out and become irrelevant, and Kim got her own band where she was the protagonist.
@@StuTheDon17she was still a member of the pixies, who contributed a lot - but it’s absolutely fair to say she was underutilised
I think Charles was entitled to have a band that was "his" band, i.e. the Pixies. And I think he was entitled to be pissed when the pretty popular girl sold more records than the weird chubby guy 😇
@@duckfield2520 Covered in the video here: 25:53
Have you seen Loud, Quiet, Loud the documentary about the Pixies reunion? Even though they are getting back together after a long time apart, it does give you a sense (and I think Kim mentions it in the film) how communication was never particularly great in the band.
I purchased "Last Splash" when out came out in '93 and it was one of the few albums that had no skips on it. It is still amazing.
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It's one of those albums that's actually hard to NOT listen to all the way through. I give it a well deserved revisit every few months, even 30 years later.
it's one of my favorite albums of all time.
I was ten and it was my third album I owned. I played it all the way through over and over.
Same...I had it on.. on the building site I work on a couple of weeks ago...not a bad tune on it..First heard "cannonball" on snub TV, I think?
Every track on it is a gem.
I always said that the best part of the musical landscape, if not rock music in general, was when the weirdoes down the street were running things. That is what kept rock music afloat and made it relatable to the world over. Everyone who wasn't a superstar had something to offer music that hadn't been offered before in the mainstream. The Breeders, along with Pixies, definitely brought something in rock music that nobody expected.
But record companies gave bands/artists, time to develop and create their sound. They also didn't sign bands to copy what was big (not to the same degree they do now). Looking back now, you don't appreciate how great & different bands were.
Record companies were the biggest a$$holes back then and gave no one time, thousands of fantastic bands ignored and little means to go it alone
Saw The Breeders in Lollapalooza 94. The Breeders, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, L7, Tribe Called Quest. Oh yeah a little band called Green Day started the show. Good times!!!!
I was too young, only 11, to go but that was and still is the dream festival to me.
if time travel is ever perfected, I will follow Lollapalooza for the entirety of 1994 lol
I won tickets to this show and went with my best friend. This was my senior year of high school and the coolest concert ever. ❤
@@RescueNinjaKris10 Class of 95
I saw Dallas. Good show!
Yes! One of the greatest and most criminally underrated songwriters and vocalists of all time. Kims' catalog is a master class in songcraft.
Oh here we go…the token “so underrated…” comment…🙄
Well said my friend. Well said. ❤
Her pure solo material, just her and guitar, is really special stuff.
Pacer and Tittle TK are just as good as last splash in their own way and its a damn shame they've not "performed" as well
@@partyguinness "Guys, can take the time to appreciate such a gem..."
Amazing video! I was a program director for WRIU (on campus only) and Tanya Donnelly was on my staff! I taught her how to work the board, etc! She was very sweet. Throwing Muses made it big shortly after.
I also had an FM show, and got to play all the great 80s college radio banda. Such a blast.
Love all the bands in your video, and will check out the newer ones. ✨💜✨
For 20 years now I've been telling folks that 'Last Splash' is one of the best records of its decade and I am *so effing happy* to hear people agree.
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I dunno about that but it's a great fucking album...
Last Splash is such a fantastic album, it’s an album with no skips on it.
That "Kurt Recommends" montage was fucking awesome. Rumor is that Kelley was dressed as such in the Safari video because she literally had a job interview at an office right before the shoot.
Literally all of my favorite music.
It wasn't a job interview. She had just left work (Analyst Programmer at Edwards AFB) and gone straight to the studio.
That last bit was really sweet. I like how Kim had nothing but nice things to say about the bands that have followed in Breeders' footsteps (or that were perceived to be doing so like Veruca Salt). She's a real class act.
Thank you so much for this. I love Kim Deal, as a singer, songwriter, and bassist. And I absolutely love Cannonball. It's such an excellent song.
The Breeders have always, ALWAYS brought me utter joy!
Thank you ladies and gents ❤️
Absolutely love this tune.
The irony being back in 93 I was a 16 year old metal and rock purist.
I hated grunge, alt, anything that wasn't Maiden or G'n'R.
Of course I now realise that was what older rockers said about my generation and it's music.
I didn't really have any room to judge though because I also owned the entire ABBA and The Monkees discography.
I just didn't tell my friends 🤣
I hear ya
Last Splash is an absolute Masterpiece... Kim is such a special person, she just exudes talent and good vibes....She deserves to be on somebodies top ten list of awesome humans.
The vocal harmony is just iconic. If you are gen x and you didn't have a total crush on the two Kims of alt rock and queens of cool, there was something wrong with you. I love how much self-confidence the sisters seemed to have, even when they really just trying stuff for the first time - it's a very punk attitude. It was interesting to learn how pissed Lou Barlow got at Jay Mascis - I always loved Dinosaur Jr and strangely enough I got to take them on a trip to the beach her in Perth several years ago. A girl I was friends with was a promoter and she had forgotten to book a driver for them and asked me if I would do it last minute. They enjoyed Fremantle and seeing alt rock icons from my youth just swimming around with the rest of the plebs at Cottesloe beach was surreal. We ended up getting in some shitty traffic on the freeway which they weren't too happy about. Murph was the friendliest of the bunch, I think Jay is just quite deaf now.
I’m an elder millennial, and I did. Does that count? 😂
I was Class of '93, big Pixies fan, and I had a thing for those twins. Still do actually..
Yes, crush indeed. I'm Gen Jones (the one sandwiched between Boomer and X, born the same year as the Deals), and I thought they were hot as hell. 30 years ago there was so much less acceptance/appreciation of non-model non-skinny female body types (Sir Mix-A-Lot sang about this the year before Last Splash came out), and Kim was not afraid to be sexy and obviously comfortable and confident with flaunting her natural girl tomboy beauty. That's another way that they were pioneers: they showed you didn't have to look and dress like Kate Moss in order to be "hot." And since indie rock boys like me were usually less into the female attractiveness stereotype of the day, they were major sex symbols for us. Brainy, talented, scrappy, and solidly built, they threw all that right in the face of media-sanctioned tastes. Having a straight guy and an openly gay woman as their rhythm section was also a political statement, intentional or not. Kim has said that "Divine Hammer" is about wanting to find the perfect, um, certain part of the male anatomy, objectifying men right back. I love(d) them for that as well as their music. Siiiighhhh....
Kim Deal is everything
As a Cincinnati native this backstory on The Breeders is fascinating. Southwest Ohio in the early 90s was an indie music hotbed…Afghan Whigs, Over the Rhine, Guided By Voices, Brainiac, Morella’s Forest, etc.
Edit: The Breeders threw out the first pitch at the Reds game!
The Breeders of course covered GBV's Shocker in Gloomtown.
Not to mention Slint being formed just across the border in Kentucky !
I feel the same way about SE and central PA! Live, Fuel, NIN. The decentralized music world was way better than today’s centralized one.
@@patrickreichert1442 you should check out late 80s/early 90s SE PA bands The Ocean Blue, The Innocence Mission, Riverside, The Darrows….Cleveland I believe claims NIN
Yup, I was the drummer for Chrome Cranks back then in the Nati. Places like Sudsy Malone’s, Bogarts and a bunch of awesome hole-in-the walls hosted our bands. The zines were everywhere and bands like The Trash Brats we’re trekking here just to play with bands like The Buddy Bradley Experience. Ah, those were the days!
I love when you list the musical influences of said bands. Ive discovered so much great music that way! Thank you!
One of the most informative, and even-handed appraisals of this human, humanistic band; a band who've always known how to leave well enough alone, and sit still with their best work. So many bands leave their best work behind under a pile of their own dust, in their haste to chase their next hit. I'm glad they get to revisit their work and make a few bucks, support fellow artists, all on their own terms. Here's to The Breeders, a band who has never sullied their own legacy.
In the documentary about The Pixies reunion tour it is painfully obvious what their problem was: A total lack of communication. There’s a wonderful scene where Kelley Deal starts giggling uncontrollably at how silly their silence is. And that’s when they’ve supposedly grown up - imagine how it was in the 80s and early 90s. Anyone who’s ever been in a band for any extended period of time knows the issues that start to fester sooner or later. So while I agree Kim Deal was under-utilised in The Pixies, I find it hard to fault a young Charles for not handling it better. And we did get The Breeders, so…no harm, no foul. Imagine if Kim hadn't felt a need to branch out.
True enough.
That contrast and tension really works well for the Pixies. Maybe not somuch on a personal level but definitely artistically.
Charles dark and twisted songs are really great and Kims light subtle touches make them even better.
Another awesome video. Fun fact: after sampling "S.O.S." for "Firestarter" The Prodigy some 15 years later would sample The Breeders again, "I just want to get along" was used for "World's on fire"
This is like a UA-cam channel created just for me thank you this is unreal man
Thank you for spotlighting how important a figure Kim Deal is to musical world. This is absolutely the best......
Thanks. Been waiting for 30 years to hear the details in this video. Great example of how UA-cam is a much better venue for music journalism than yesteryear's NME etc.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Last Splash was literally the first CD I ever bought with my own money when I was 13. I was OBSESSED with the song, Cannonball and would play it at least 25 times a day when I got the CD. I then remember listening to the whole CD and realizing how much more there is to it. It still stands to me as one of the best 90's alternative albums of all time. I wish more bands would be as unique and experimental as this album does. And Cannonball remains one of my favorite songs of all time. I've always wanted a documentary done about this album and the song that made it iconic, my wish has come true. Again, THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Yep, it was a great time to be alive and a music fan during those years.
100%
Yep
As someone who was there, 1993 was the best year for music. Siamese Dream, Modern Life Is Rubbish, Wild Wood, Pablo Honey and so many more 👍🏼
Absolutely agree! We even got quality albums from Nirvana, Belly, A Tribe Called Quest, Saint Etienne, Yo La Tengo, Björk, and even all the breakbeat/rave singles that released in 1993 were top class. '93 was untouchable. 💯💯💯
@@itsjonathangray Emergency on Planet Earth, Automatic for the People, Songs of Faith and Devotion... the list of top-tier albums that came out in 1993 is extraordinary. Although 1994 gave it a good run for its money, too.
Rid of Me: P J Harvey.
The early 1990s, what a time, best years of my life
Cranberries' Everybody else Is Doing It So Why Can't We, Pearl Jam's Vs, Sepultura's Chaos A.D. and Tool's Undertow should be on the list outside of Smashing Pumpkins, Blur, Paul Weller & Radiohead
I just saw them Saturday in Brooklyn. They performed the whole album for its thirtieth anniversary. It was a glorious. Great performance and just such infectious enthusiasm. They just loved playing for us. It was a magical night.
Thanks for including The Wipers (from Portland). They were an incredibly influential band who came along 10-15 years too soon.
Wipers, not The Wipers.
I adore the Pixies and the Breeders. Last Splash was one of the finest albums of the 90's.
Really great. Loved cannonball when I was a kid. Had no idea about breeders history, band member changes etc etc. Thanks so much!
Good work here. Just bought my ticket for the Detroit show on 9/9, which is my late best friend's birthday. We used to listen to this album constantly when it first came out and into the mid 90s.
Tanya Donelly is the most under appreciated songwriter of the 90s. One of the all time greats
100% agree! Tanya Donelly rules! ✊✊✊
She... Colourblind, tired eyes...
And the duet she did on Catherine Wheel's "Judy Staring at the Sun"? Amazing!!!
Started my senior year in HS in 1993. Last Splash was the main theme of our Highschool video montage, which ironically is on UA-cam.
During a decade of unforgettable great music Breeders Cannonball was my absolute favourite song. I wore out my gf's 7" single & was the 1st song I downloaded from Napsta. It's still on my playlist today in fact I listened to it this morning... Really enjoyed this presentation learnt a bit, loved it all! Great Job
My GOD. Pod was the sleeper queen of the 90’s: challenging even for Pixies and Muse-heads, psycho-sexual, thrilling and swampy, the quintessential solo road trip sound track. The twin in dual focus with “Loveless” in constant, magnetic polar orbit around my early 20’s aching.
I always see people saying that Kim deal is underrated, but it seems to me that she gets a lot of credit and is universally adored for her work in Pixies, Breeders, and The Amps. I never see anybody talking smack, so I can't really agree that she's underrated. I'd say she is rated appropriately.
Click on any video on UA-cam and everything/everyone is "underrated". It does my head in how lazy and cliched people are. As for Kim herself yes, she is far from "underrated".
@@Chief_Brody Word. Too many people claiming "underrated" is partly the result of too many people these days living in virtual bubbles in which they think everything they like is undervalued by others... (... internet etc. etc. )
100% ! I see people all over the YT comments claiming popular stuff is underrated. Like, umm, its popular though? The polar opposite of underrated. It's infuriating.
He didn’t say she was underrated. He said she was underused.
@daviebananas1735 OP didn't say *he* said Kim Deal was overrated, he said "I always see people saying she's overrated," or the like.
Pod is underrated, but Title TK is REALLY underrated. I bought the line about it being bad and never even gave it a full chance until recently. It is SO good. "The She" might be Kim's best song
The album is so good. I think "Off You" is probably the most beautiful song Kim's ever written. "The She" I agree is amazing.
Mountain Battles is a damn good record too, yet only gets a passing mention in this video.
Title TK might actually be the best - not most commercial - album they made. I look forward to it being rediscovered in the next decade. The She slaps, but Off you is just *chef's kiss *
@@trainsurfer7593 Actually, All Nerve has become my favorite of the later Breeders albums. But I think ALL of the Breeders albums are fantastic, and they each have their own feel. They all sound like themselves if that makes any sense. The perfectionist side of Kim I think makes for killer albums from top to finish, even if there isn't a lot of hits on most of them. That's my perspective, anyways, they're my favorite band.
@@rexxraul yeah, I get it. All the albums are amazing, and they all create their own atmosphere.
Pod is such a underrated album. Not a bad song and the drums sound so amazing
That's 'cause the drummer was Britt Walford, the drummer of Slint.
If you never gave Title TK a shot, I think it's better than last splash and almost as good as pod
Drumming was brilliant
@@psych4003The sound has to do with the producer who was Steve Albini. As you know he also had produced Surfer Rosa.
@@cactaceous Oh, I though by drumming they meant the actual drumming and not the production lol. But yeah Steve Albini's production is great as always.
As a 16 year old back then (47 now) I ADORED 'Cannonball'!!! It was soo heavy one minute then sweet the next.
And I REALLY had a thing for Kelly /blush :D
SUPERB indepth video mate. Be proud of what you put together here!
Pod is a masterpiece. So minimalist but I never get sick of it
What a lovely documentary, from start to end. Especially good was the "to listen" listen at the very end. Thank you for the band recommendations!
Amazing! 1993 was indeed a great year to be 19 years old! Thanks for a brilliant, nostalgic vid!
1893 and 1793 and 2023 were great years to be 19-years-old too, because being 19-years-old is better than being 49-years-old.
I’ll always remember Cannonball being on the first Triple J Hottest 100 album. I can’t speak for everyone, but I think for a lot of people here in Australia it was a compilation album that, even if you didn’t listen to Triple J much, was such a huge influence going forward. Bands like Dinosaur Jr, Ween, and others, mixed with some of Australia’s best talent made the album so huge that everyone listened to it.
Damn straight my gf replaced her 7" with a new copy after I wore it out & wouldn't let me play it anymore, told me to get my own, I bought hottest 100 cd & hardly ever saw it as gf took it everywhere with her. I ended up buying a vinyl copy for myself, which I still have 🤙💯
Okay, here is the tracklist of "Triple J Hottest 100":
Denis Leary - Asshole
Radiohead - Creep
The Cranberries - Linger
The Breeders - Cannonball
Atomic Swing - Stone Me Into The Groove
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Violent Femmes - I Held Her In My Arms (1993)
Iggy Pop - Wild America
Urge Overkill - Sister Havana
The Cruel Sea - Black Stick
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song (Live)
Björk - Human Behaviour
Belly - Feed The Tree
Tool - Sober
Ace Of Base - All That She Wants
U2 - Numb
Paw - Jessie
Porno For Pyros - Pets
Us3 - Cantaloop
Hoodoo Gurus - The Right Time
Juliana Hatfield - My Sister
Dinosaur Jr - Get Me
Ween - Push Th' Little Daisies
Yothu Yindi - World Turning
Gabrielle - Dreams
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Headless Chickens - Juice
King Missile - Detachable Penis
Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes - Night Of The Wolverine
You Am I - Adams Ribs
Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade
Deborah Conway - Alive & Brilliant
Back when the Hottest 100 meant something.
@@ThreadBomb wow, thank you! My copy is long lost but now I can hunt down some songs 🎧
I saw them play at the Big Day Out in Melbourne 1994.
It's been 30 years and I finally learned the lyrics to one of my favourite songs from Trash Theory.
Yah half the time we didn’t get lyrics on albums and you had to make up your own.
That video was freaking amazing. I was suggested your Top Of The Pops Performances video a few days ago and really enjoyed. Saw a Breeders video come up on my feed and I'm all in.
Loved that album so much when I discovered it in college, though I will humbly say I understood it less then. Learnt so many cool facts about the album from this video.
Quite honestly one of the best videos I've seen on UA-cam.
I was in my late 20s, sick to death of hearing "Stairway to Heaven" and "Hotel California" for the 500,000th time on the radio, and then I heard these songs, "Feed the Tree" and "Cannonball". Much more than Nirvana, it was these ladies who showed me the way. The 90s were the greatest decade for rock, ever.
This was amazing! I knew the Pixies and the Breeders from my youth, but this took my understanding to another level.
Thank you!
Last Splash was so damn freaking 1993. Amazing time for ears 💙
Such a brilliant song, timeless. Still sounds absolutely incredible.
1993 was indeed a golden year. My favorite album of that summer was Urge Oerkill's Saturation: I had been a big fan since their old days, never missed a gig when they toured, and they finally got a glorious candy-colored fancy production on that album, which is just loaded with excellent songs.
My boyfriend at the time and I actually even followed UO on tour for a few stops through the southwest, from our home in Austin, up the coast of California all the way to Berkley (if you've ever heard "Ticket to LA," it was our theme song, and we took pictures of all the 76 balls in tribute to them). We were going to make the drive anyway, so we figured, let's just make it about this band and this great album. The best moment was while we were waiting outside of Jabberjaw in LA (it was tiny, down in South Central, sold no booze and you had to wait outside for ages to get in, so people just bought 40s from the corner store and drank them on the sidewalk). We're standing there, drinking our 40s, and a van pulls up to the corner--and out jump all 4 members of Sonic Youth (who did not have to wait outside with us proles, but whatever--they still just drove up and walked in like the weird-but-normal folks that everyone seemed to be). That was the cherry on top of that whole 90s sundae. Then Blackie broke his leg (I think it was his leg . . . my memory is fuzzy and the trip had some Fear and Loathing going on) and the Berkley gig was relatively subdued. Oh, and Lucious Jackson, from the Beastie Boy's Grand Royal, were opening for them. Good times. (Then they came back *again* when Tarantino put their Neil Diamond cover in Pulp Fiction . . . that was such a confirmation of their coolness. I imagine he was at that 93 Jabberjaw show in LA. If ever meet him, I'm going to find out).
Last Splash was its own jewel box of goodies--I still love every song on that album. There was one particular homeless guy that hung out near the UT campus I even named Mad Lucas ("I don't like dirt"). I was free, in Austin, and 23; it seemed like the good times had to last. Thanks for bringing back the charm and weirdness of my 20s. Your YT discussions are fantastic, and I always get excited when I see you in my feed.
Another fantastic mini doco. Your research is so thorough and there's not a hint of pretence in your presentation. I love this channel!
Cannonball was so such a big hit! And Pixies were played non stop over my teenage years. So when the comeback came in 2004 i saw them here in Iceland. And again later but it was a bit like a tribute band, even though they were all there. Kims other projects have always been more likeable in latter days.
1991 and 1993... at 19 and 21! What a years... and I was there when it happen. Time flies, 30 years.
Much love for the Breeders. A huge fan of their newer output too, still has the spirit of the 90s in its sound imo.
Just stumbled upon this Breeders gem. Having been a musi for 47 years and being there for the Breeders inception this is the most interesting and informative analysis of any rock recordings I’ve ever heard. Nice work.
I saw these guys during the "Mountain Battles" tour. The Deal sisters made everyone feel like they were playing to their friends.
What a gem of an album, top ten, desert-island record for sure. Great video, thanks for producing/posting.
I miss those days, back in '93. Music was still challenging, new and creative.
You could say that about literally any year, but you just happen to be around fifty years old, so the early '90s was your "golden age". If you talk to a 60-year old, they'll say that the late 70s and early '80s had more exciting music.
@@AutPen38 Hey buddy, I got a few years left!!
@@AutPen38 the 70s and 80s objectively had more exciting music and I wasn't born at a time to know that from exposure. It was a fucking mind blowing era regardless of anyone's personal formative period or nostalgia etc. Taste is another matter though, being subjective, which is obviously fine and I love 90s shit too. I like early 90s better than later.
What a wonderful love letter to Last Splash!! Grew up around Dayton and Dayton loves you!!! ❤❤❤❤
A definitive year for music for sure. Good memories associated with this album.
Thanks for putting this video together. It was a great trip down memory lane!
Best band ever. I too feel really fortunate to have grown up in that same era and feel super fortunate to have seen the band play live at the opera house in Oz.
Holy crap this was amazing! I absolutely loved the Breeders! And Belly! I had very little idea if any of this back story. I only knew Kim Deal was the real deal and loved her music,her voice, her band. I was going into my senior year when Cannonball dropped. It was one of my faves.
Tonight I was at work and literally singing Cannonball in head, didn't even have my phone with me. Then a few hours later on some downtime I'm scrolling UA-cam, watching videos not at all related to music, and THIS amazing video pops up. THANK YOU!
"I was always an addict. The problem was that I was now in a band and no longer had to figure out a work week."
That is phenomenal self awareness. Hope she's well.
As part of her recovery in the build up to recording Title TK, Kelley took up knitting. For a while you could order the assorted bags she made from a page on the band's website, and they even had some on their merch stand when they toured the UK in 2000.
Another great little music doc. Love it. Never knew about the Firestarter sample.
I like the description of them being shambolic. I've seen them live 3 times ( small venue, big shed then an outdoor festival) and on the bigger stages they just played to the people near the front. I love this about them.
Damn, your very recent videos have been such a blast, I mean a blind jump into a past I used to feel like very recent, since a good chunk of my life ended back in February 1999, but it'a way more powerful than that, i feels like a long due reconnection and it's dope as fuck. Thank you for your work, cheers!
Your YT channel has me grinning from ear to ear. Love it!
I saw them live in Bloomington, Indiana along with the Faith Healers and John Spencer Blues Explosion. Unbelievable show.
What I kove abiut these videos and this channel, is that you learn more about your favorite artists and then more importantly you discover new bands and artists. THANK YOU
Automatic like for vids from this channel.
1993 was something else. The Last Splash, Siamese Dream, Fuzzy, American Caesar, In Utero.... so many great albums!
Thank you for talking about this immensely underrated band.
I usually scoff at these kinds of video titles, but I have to say: Cannonball WAS the song of '93, you heard it everywhere, and when I hear that riff, takes me right back to the East Village, early-mid 90s. Great tune and I hated most of the music that was coming out during those years.
Kim Deal is one of my favorite songwriters of all time. As beloved as she is, I still think she's hugely underrated, especially her post-Last Splash albums. So much stuff got in her way -- sexism, introversion, egotistical bandmates, her own drug problems, other people's drug problems -- it makes every song we have from her feel precious. It's like one of those bands that had one great album and then split up, except that's every album.
I kind of feel like not being at some kind of superstar level has worked in their favor, though. Having an army of music industry enablers behind them could've been tragic and the pressure to crank out "product" would've been a disaster; everything they've put out since Last Splash has been great and absolutely unique and if it takes them seven years between albums then so be it. Undying love for the Deal sisters, glad they're getting the props they so richly deserve.
PS Kelley's R. Ring project is amazing as well
i also love watching the videos of her playing with her other band the Amps, she wrote so many good songs on that album, she should perform them sometime again.
@@steve_22xy Yes! "Pacer" is actually my favorite album of hers.
I saw The Breeders twice, around 2008-2009, when they were touring off “Mountain Battles”. Amazing shows, the best kind of vibes. They also played “Pacer” and a couple of other Amps songs, was awesome. I had forgotten about “Pacer”, it’d been at least 10 or more years since I’d listened to it, and it was like a flood of bliss. Euphoric. This was at The Paradise in Boston, small venue where even at the back of the room you’re like 20 feet from the band, but also had the best PA system and acoustics in the city.
@@fFringeE I saw them touring Title t/k, which was a great show but that was when the whole band except the Deal sisters had been swapped out. I'd love to see them with Josephine Wiggs and Jim McPherson as the rhythm section.
thanks for yet another great episode. 1993 had been the year of my live, starting to study in the UK (i am from germany). and this hat been the soundtrack of my life. well done thrash theory!
God damn I just did not realize how much good music was being released in 93!! Loved the Breeders and enjoying the new bands riffing of the sound to their own music! Loved Wet Leg's sound in 2021, but look forward to new music from these emerging bands.
90s music has such a trademark sound, Iove it & I desperately miss it. I was born in 82, so I only got into music in the early to mid 90s. This video reminded me of so many people I forgot, like Tanya Donelly & Kristen Hersh. Somehow, I never listened to Throwing Muses, but I liked both of their own projects. Belly especially.
Your documentaries are always great but this one was on my specialist subject and you knocked it out of the park.
I can't believe you even included that the songs on Belly's "Star" album were originally supposed to make up the second Breeders album. Almost nobody knows that!
Thanks for the excellent video on one of the greatest albums ever produced!
YES!!! You made a video for Cannonball! This is so great! I hope you'll make a video for Beck, Saint Etienne and Sonic Youth soon! Breeders forever! 🎸🎸🎸
Saint Etienne needs a vid 👌
@@alexhamilton6188 Absolutely! I adore ALL their music. Especially their songs Nothing Can Stop Us, Avenue, Spring, and Western Wind/Tankerville. They definitely deserve a video. 😁🤠✊
I was thinking about Sonic Youth's "Pacific Coast Highway" just the other day.
@@ThreadBomb Ooh, yes! From their Sister album. Spectacular music indeed. I almost listen to Teen Age Riot on a daily basis. It's like oxygen for me, lol. Sonic Youth are the alphas. I also ADORE Goo. Totally epic album. 🤠🎸
Congratulations on nailing this story. The research, script titling and visuals are like a great old school music documentary which is almost non-existent now
Last Splash is one of my favorite albums of the 90s, brings back the best memories from my younger years, the Breeders loomed big in my life ❤
I loved Last Splash in HS back in 93. Listened to it incessantly. 30 years later I found the CD in a thrift shop and bought it. After all that time it is still one of the most badass albums I’ve ever heard. No one’s ever going to make an album like that again. Respect 🙏🤘
I hadn't heard Kim's telling of the "cannonball into hell" inspiration before. Great stuff. Would be fun to hear "Cool as Kim Deal" worked in somehow.
I can't discuss Cannonball without bringing up the State "Pants" skit, which will always be the most enduring 1993 moment for me.
If you want to meet girls…
OMG at 29:29 there is my OTTER artwork on the NPR tinydesk concert shelf. and you featured a clip from their show? in your video? I am so excited to see it in one of my favorite youtube music theory channels. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
Just went on a road trip and my friend put this CD in the player because nothing else was working. I knew it was them from the first chord played even though I've never listened to their CD. Of course I'm a 90"s kid. Cant wait to watch the video. Perfect timing because I want to know more about this band.
This was so good! I've always been a Pixies fan, & I'm originally from Ohio, but somehow I knew little about the Breeders. I think I'm going to spend the rest of the week listening to them. Great work!
You've outdone yourself this time! Great commentary, well researched and very interesting with lots of golden nuggets in there I never heard of. The Firestarter connection blew me away. Some of the best content on all of UA-cam. Would love a full video about Kim's gold-top Les Paul. She loaned it to Santiago for at least the first few Pixies albums, then Kim, Kelley and Tanya all recorded and played it with the Breeders. I assume it was also used in the Amps and perhaps Belly as well?
This brings me back to my favorite time growing up. Excellent video my man!
Both The Breeders and Frank Black's albums were fan-fucking-tastic. Last Splash, Frank Black (ST), and Teenager of the Year made up the largest portion of my listening time from '93 to '95 (I was _obsessed_ with Teenager of the Year). I still regularly go back to those three albums, nearly as much as I go back to the Pixies material. I feel so lucky to have been a young adult in that era of quality music.
I also was utterly obsessed with Teenager! I must have played that 5 times a week during 1994/95. It took me a bit to get into it since there's 22 songs, but once it clicked, wow. It was just nonstop in my CD player and car stereo for months. Maybe even years. It really was my 90s album. I haven't run across too many others who also feel as strongly about Teenager, so I love your comment!
@@johnchedsey1306 Teenager is my favorite Frank Black solo work. There is nothing else like it (for as good as the ST album was). Hard to believe so many have slept on it, even many big Pixies fans are bizarrely unaware of it. Damn, all this talk about it is compelling yet another listen.
So great to see other fans of Teenager of the Year. Dude, I wore that CD out in '93. Some music critics said the album was too long and they didn't like the last five tracks on it. But the whole album is an absolute masterpiece.
@@franktortorellajr5953 Didn't like the last five tracks??? LOL That's bonkers. The last four are some of my favorites, and there isn't a bad tune on the whole album. I guess that shouldn't surprise me though, most critics have their heads firmly planted up their ass.
Great video! Mountain Battles is SEVERELY underrated! It has some of my favorite all time Breeders tracks on it.
Kim saying, of Cobain, that she had him "apologize every fuckin' night" cracked my heart. I saw the Breeders & Nirvana in Denver in '93 and his suicide hit my teenage world hard. This was a marvelous video, thanks for the dive.
What a great piece on the Breeders and the sisters Deal!! thank you for this... nearly made me cry... I remember those days quite fondly. Warm summer days and great songs coming out. The Pixies, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.. And then THE BREEDERS! I was really happy for Kim having such success! I remember seeing throwing muses warm up for REM in the late 80's and never imagined someone from that band working with someone from the Pixies. Wow. Glad I got to be there for the late 80's, early 90's. It won't happen again, and now us Gen Xers are all old, hahaha... well I am, anyway! lol.. But I can keep listening to these songs that were the soundtrack of my youth and into adulthood. thanks again! LOVE your channel! @TrashTheory !!