For most of you, this was your first and only meeting with The Breeders. Which is all well and good. It was a great song - still is. It is a modern rock classic, with a great double guitar, a very distinctive bassline by the under-appreciated Josephine Wiggs, and a catchy vocal by Kim Deal.
For me, it was a letdown. I knew what they had been less than a year prior.
The Breeders were a modern rock supergroup, featuring the aforementioned Kim Deal (of The Pixies), Jo Wiggs (of The Perfect Disaster), and the woefully under-appreciated guitarist Tanya Donelly (at this point, of Throwing Muses). Their first album, Pod, was a very dark, sparsely-produced (by Steve Albini) classic. After that album, Kim's twin sister, Kelley, joined on guitar. And, for one EP - Safari - they all stayed together. And they rocked and rocked hard.
After the Safari EP, Tanya left to form Belly. And her absence was noted by people who were in the know. I mean, don't get me wrong - The Breeders were still really good. They just weren't the same band. The band even went on to re-record one of the Safari songs for the Last Splash album - "Do You Love Me Now?" - and it was good..... but a little bit of a letdown.
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