The Breeders -- Last Splash

u know, i really don't know about this one. i'm totally into Mad Lucas now, whereas i never used to be. And Do You Love Me Now and Drivin' on 9 are pretty stellar in that relaxed way that they do, which i love.

soo difficult. one vote for drivin on 9, one for no aloha. i'll need to register sockpuppets for divine hammer and do you love me now.

Man, this is hard. Cannonball just for the intro alone, maybe. Drivin on 9, though.

i know i kept thinking no aloha, it's so satisfying

divine hammer is a grower 4 me

Cannonball. Why deny the obvious?

Cannonball and Saints are both GREBT, but New Year is one of the best openers of any album ever made.

i know i love that

Saints AND Hag

Oh man. I haven't heard Cannonball in ages. Time to fire up YouTube! Surmounter you and I must by psychically in sync as I just revived a Throwing Muses thread!

Everyone on this thread OTM. Wd happily vote for anything mentioned so far, or indeed for anything except probably No Aloha. Maybe I'll go for Flipside, out of the reckoning nobody else will, and because it was the last track of side A for just about all my 90s mixtapes.

This is really tough ... I'm going to say "Divine Hammer", because it's so damn joyous and there was never a time when I got tired of it, which I can't say for "Cannonball", "Drivin on 9", or "Saints" (to name three tracks that have been mentioned a few times already). By those criteria, I'd vote "No Aloha" or "Invisible Man" next.

Summer is readyyyyyyyyyyyyy when you are

Had to go with No Aloha on this one, though Invisible Man ( and everything else on the goddamn LP!) runs it very close.

Cannonball and Therapy?'s Screamager pretty much defined student indie discos for me, back in the day.

do you love me now (although safari was the far better song on the EP)

wow, so long since I've played this tape, which ruled some roosts in about 1993. I am going to bracket 'Cannonball' as a sort of indie-rock standard, and go instead for the more discreet and less celebrated effervescence of 'Divine Hammer'.

had to go with "drivin on 9" because it constantly pops into my head, despite the fact that i havent heard it in years

but divine hammer is pretty damned perfect...and the one with the line "and i do not like dirt"...christ, seems ill have to dig up belly and the breeders this am

ditto!

ditto. damn this is a good album

i've always felt it's their lush album. pod is so clean, Title TK is so baked and this is just lush. the textures are so rich.

Saints is my favourite right now, but really it's a pretty much perfect album.

Pod is clean?!

(NB I lent Pod to a friend and never got it back and haven't heard it for too many years because I get stuck thinking about old friends every time I nearly re-buy it, so... maybe it is)

lime house is pretty crunchy

ugh lime house is so good.

it's still quite a paired-down style of production tho, on the whole thing. think when i was a painter

yeah, I'd say sparse and spacious rather than clean. Amazing how good the production on a lot of these early-90's albums sounds now, so dynamic and "real"-sounding. N1ck S0uth@11 to thread :-)

sparse. like on Glorious. i mean, who else has done anything like that song? i don't know.

I JUST WANNA GET ALONG. I JUST WANNA GET ALONG.

oh, i don't know i never seem to be able to tell the songs apart! i mean that in a good way though. and will vote for no aloha

xpost we need a Pod poll after this one

doe

my first breeders song

yes to the pod poll. i felt we shouldn't start w/ that tho

"Do You Love Me Now," in a squeaker. There's a tone of resignation in Deal's voice that gets me every time. Also, the way the ascending chord pattern in the chorus gets turned around at the end somehow adds to the poignancy.

I get stuck thinking about old friends every time I nearly re-buy it
haha I love the idea of you standing in the record shop, disc in hand, daydreaming a wistful reverie of friends gone by. Then snapping to, putting it back on the shelf and walking out.

Do You Love Me Now is one of the few songs that seem so emo-meaningful when you're a dumped 15-year-old that I can still bear to listen to

so sweet, but not too much.

but it could apply to many different kinds of relationships as well, which i like.

Invisible Man it is.

i feel like i'm drowning when it's on, it's so full.

drivin' on 9.

this is a 10/10 album, is it not?

no question

i love that's it's also the sell-out album

"Drivin on 9" is a cover of Ed's Redeeming Qualities. The writer of that song was named Dom Leone (!) and passed away of cancer in 1989.

I voted for "Divine Hammer".

glitter on water

rly?? i didn't know that. i'd been told to check them out (ERQ)

should i?

it's a cover? shit, that technically disqualifies it in my head. (also, how did i not know that?) divine hammer it is then.

ERQ reunion shows playing Drivin' on 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7NncQbvtao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuR-wL5sh_M

I thought this would be an easy decision - until I read the whole thread and fully remembered how awesome this album is. (yeah, I'm getting all kinds 'o 93/94 flashbacks, too)

I'll go with "No Aloha," tho "Saints" is a big fave because it reminds me of wasting time at the Maryland State Fair with friends I didn't realize were assholes, yet.

i cant figure out why im familiar with erq...

"I'm just looking for a faith, waiting to be followed..."

Great song, great fuc*ing album even all these years later. "Divine Hammer" was the soundtrack to some of the best times I've ever had.

"Drivin on 9" is a cover of Ed's Redeeming Qualities. The writer of that song was named Dom Leone (!) and passed away of cancer in 1989.

you can see ERQ on screen if you can find a copy of "ed's next move," a romantic comedy about a farmboy who comes to the big city and meets an indie-rock chick. ERQ play the IRC's band and perform a couple of very cute songs.

ERQ's carrie bradley has played violin with the breeders.

o ya!

i just wanna get along!

After that --> new year, drivin on 9, cannonball, divine hammer.. um.. I love the whole thing really. got this as a birthday gift for a friend in 94.. still great

this is and Mellow Gold are the only "alternative" albums from my high school years that i can still listen to front to back.

this is a 10/10 album, is it not?

'Tis.

I voted "Cannonball." Always wondered -- is it really a reggae song? Discuss.

yeah whenever I get embarrassed about stuff I liked in high school I try & remember I was a big fan of the breeders

i like pod a little better but yeah this album roolz

A real toughie

'No Aloha' or 'Divine Hammer' - or 'Invisible Man' . Shit, the whole lot, really.

i like Pod a little better too but still, ya.

Pod is 10/10 too. for SURE.

"Cannonball" kicks ass, but "Divine Hammer" by itself can redeem all the sins of alt-rock. My god what a beautiful, sweet, foamy recording.

The carpenter goes Bang! - bang, bang.

would this album have been stronger or much the same had safari been included?

'Cannonball' will win it (or should win it), so I'm going for 'I Just Wanna Get Along '

Thinking "No Aloha"'ll win it actually. Could've voted for Saints or New Year too, I don't know.

"Cannonball" is an embarrassment of riches, so much better than it needed to be.

Clockcleaner's cover of "Divine Hammer" is A++.

ugh i kno. one of those you forget how good it is cuz everyone thought it was so good to begin with

(cannonball)

it's kind of uncanny how poppy this album is! in the best way possible

sorta shocked at love for "No Aloha" because it's always been a momentum killer on this record when I'm playing it (am listening to the album currently), especially after "Roi", but "Do You Love Me Now" picks things back up. I voted for "New Year" which is such a great opener.

oh No Aloha always a highlight 4 me... when it kicks in

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

get em in folks

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

poor roi

iiinteresting

I feel like "Cannonball" got victimized by the "Cannonball is my favorite but will obviously win so I'm voting for No Aloha / Divine Hammer / other idiosyncratic fave" vote.

I legitimately enjoy Divine Hammer the best, which is why I voted for it. I can't speak for everyone though.

etc.^^^ absolutely otm with Clockcleaner above.

Please, I urge you to seek out their take on Divine Hammer.

There are days when this is the greatest album ever made. EVER I SAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avVCCg5X0JA

Makes me sad seeing Hag with no votes. I like that song. Yeah this is a good record.

they still absolutely smoke live, with "divine hammer" and "cannonball" remaining highlights (along with the new "overglazed"!)

That Breeders/Cypress Hill/Nirvana concert is one of the best things ever shown on television.

audio quality on that youtube making me sooooo sad atm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSPS1u63JTM&feature=related

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