The Breeders - Last Splash
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Free Music Notes for Last Splash
Free Music Review: An Acquired Taste
Hit: 5 Stars
When I first listened to this CD I hated it. Save for maybe a couple of songs, the rest I found boring. I listened to it for a while, and it still didn't grow on me. I put it away and then a few months later I took it out again. This time I fell in love. I can't explain why. 'Last Splash' is definately an album you must acquire a taste for. It's an album you won't love at first but instead find irritating, and that's what makes it challenging and a good album. The Breeder's (whom I have heard were ripped off by bands such as Veruca Salt) blow their copiers out of the water. They have a sound all their own, and they use great techniques and little sound effects you won't notice the first time. The lyrics are rather vague, and that's what makes them great because they are open to interpretation by anyone. 'No Aloha' gives me chills just listening to the middle of the song where the drums kick in. Everything about 'Last Splash' is weird, weird, weird, and that's what makes it such a compelling and unique album.Free Music Review: brilliant, hunt this down.
Hit: 5 Stars
i bought this album at a coconuts 4 years ago for $2. i bought more as a piece of 90's nostalgia, but i ended up spinning it far more often than i had imagined. I adore the pixies, but sometimes i find myself spinning this more than their later efforts. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle will always have their soft spots in my heart, but i find Last Splash to be more consistent than Trompe Le Monde or even Bossanova. i feel kind of strange that this was only $2. it is almost insulting to a brilliant band. I highly reccomend you get out there and look in the bargain bins for this one and dig in. you will not be disappointed. Especially if you find yourself enjoying Scout Niblett, Sleater Kinney, or the Fiery Furnaces these days. Free Music Review: Everything about this album is good
Hit: 5 Stars
You know an album is good when you sing along with every single note, including the baselines and the drums and the guitars, and the background noises...no bye, no...a-lo-ha ba-ow no-ow wh-ow-wow-wow -weee-owwFree Music Review: Shudda bought this 12 years ago...
Hit: 5 Stars
this album is awesome.
I was stuck in traffic on St Charles Ave in N'Awlins back in 1993, when a song came on the radio. The station didn't give the name of the song or the band, and I never heard it again... Until 4 days ago....
I saw Last Splash in a bargain bin and figured what the heck. Man what a pleasant surprise. The first song 'New Year' is a microcosm of the whole CD. It starts off one way, takes off in a total different direction, and somehow ends up exactly where it should. It really is amazing. Almost every song changes direction. For the most part the songs and the lyrics themselves are pretty simplistic, yet it is the simplicity that makes this album incredible.
Kim Deal is amazing on vocals, and she alone can carry all but the very weakest of the tracks (ie no aloha, mad lucas, hag and living on 9). Unlike other reviewers, I love ROI. Again not very intricit, but that is what makes it good.
Other favorites are 'I just wanna get a long' (..if you're so special why aren't you dead), invisible man, and Do you love me now (probably teh best lyrics on the album).
Even the instrumentals are good.
But by far the best song (even better then the commercially successful Cannonball) is Saints. The moment this song started I flashed back 12 years to the traffic jam on St Charles Ave. It's amazing how a person can hear a song once and remember it over a decade later.. Kim once again is amazing on vocals, and the lyrics (...Pony in the air.. it's a lot of face... crank air) while at first confusing are awesome. My only regret is that I let so many years go by without buying this CD.
Free Music Review: Suprisingly Good!
Hit: 4 Stars
Being a huge Pixies fan, I decided to look into Kim Deals other band The Breeders. I was expecting an "Alternative" sounding album and I got it. This album is really good if your into good Alternative music. Other than the hit single "Cannonball" there are many really cool songs here such as "Next Year", "SAints", "Do You Love Me Now?" and " I just wanna get along" to name a few. The only lowlights are "s.o.s." which drags the tempo of the album. Their two instrumental numbers are really good. I'm not going to compare the Pixies with the Breeders which isn't really fair. This album shows that Deal was something more than second banana to Frank Black during the Pixies. She really has a lot of talent (or did), whatever the case may be, too bad the band imploded after this great album.