The Breeders - Last Splash
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Free Music Review: Girls who rock are awesome
Hit: 5 Stars
This band is just cool, plain and simple. Just look at the awesome album cover, its probably worth buying just for that.Cannonball is the addictive hit single you'll be playing over and over, but the rest of the songs are great too. One even has a sewing machine in it. And there's this flavor of weirdness to the whole album that I really like. Like the first song New Year, which has a chorus that just doesn't sound like any other sort of chorus I've ever heard. None of the other songs are as addictive as Cannonball, and they're not really all that memorable, but they're all solid. Its the kind of CD you can listen to straight through. Oh, and as many of the other reviewers point out, this one is definately a "summer album."
They really don't sound like anybody else out there, a major plus in rock music. There's hints of the Pixies, sure, and sometimes they remind me of Sleater-Kinney, so if you love those bands I'm sure you probably already own this album or plan on getting it someday. Even if you were turned off by Cannonball and its little Spike Jones video, give the album a listen anyhow, becuase the rest of the songs sound nothing like it and you'll probably be surprised by how creative this disc is.
Free Music Review: Its still not too late to get infected
Hit: 4 Stars
by the Breeders, even though they have been silent since this. Tee-riffic summer album with the charm of wind in your hair with the top down, just like on the back cover. The amazon editor has taken my word. Coy is exactly what Kim Deal is, a plainjane alterna-sex symbol with a gravelly but coquettish come hither delivery that turns on every loser (in the Beck sense) within the radius of it. Her exhortation to the wild one, "Cannonball" was a smash in 93. The rest of the album is class, its all about sex and sun, rescue by love, and being who you are because girls like Kim Deal dig that. Too different from "Pod" to say which is better, because this is a shift of mood and volume. "Pod" was eerie, minimal, suffocating...Last Splash is none of these things, except maybe on "Mad Lucas". Get happy...get Last Splash.Free Music Review: "he's the invisible man, catch him if you can......"
Hit: 5 Stars
Though I feel their album "Pod" is better, I dig "Last Splash" and I think the Deal sisters are so awesome with their strange voices and beautiful obtuse lyrics. The tubesocked ones rock out on such great tunes as "do you love me now?", "flipside", "mad lucas", the fabulous "invisible man"
"he's the invisible man, count the buckles in your hand"
"no aloha"is also an exceptional pretty tune that grabs you immediately and runs rampant through your mind at odd times
"i know i saw and now may die
ohhhhhh the treats
saw it on the wall
motherhood means mental freeze"
i love the dreamy poetic songs and this cd has a high loveable content, a classic that you will listen to for years, and years and years.
Free Music Review: a good, if not indispensible album.
Hit: 3 Stars
Kim Deal, of the Pixies, lends an interesting mood to this album; it can't quite decide if it wants to be pop, grunge, or electro-punk; so, it decides to be a little bit of each. Sometimes it fails, "Roi", sometimes it succeeds, "Drivin' on 9 (a superior cover of an ed's Redeeming Qualities song (one of my favorite bands)), and Cannonball; sometimes it surprises "Invisible Man". However, the single most beautiful song on this album is unquestionably "Mad Lucas".. brilliant, sad, disturbing, and like nothing I've ever heard. One of my favorite songs, period. If nothing else, buy Last Splash for this song.. you can get it cheaply enough now, that's for sure. Make sure to pick up the cannonball single, also... 900 is the Breeder's second best song ever, next to Mad Lucas, and available only on that single, if I'm correct.Free Music Review: Motherhood means mental freeze!
Hit: 5 Stars
Those and other lyrics in these blissfully original tunes defy any translation. You're a nuisance and I don't like dirt? Yes!This is pure pop begging to be played LOUD. Was the title meant to be taken literally? Tell me it ain't so!