― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― David Raposa, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
What? I don't understand...
― Yancey, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But, then, hey, I have the Internet! Never mind me & my grousing.
― Daver, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Title TK is a blend of Pacer and Pod I guess. Actually, you already know what this sounds like. It sounds like everything else Kim has ever done, which is good for some, bad for others.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― wl (wl), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
But Yancey, Title TK sounds nothing like Pod!
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g (graysonlane), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g (graysonlane), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Was the last album we argued about the Teasers, Paula?
you've now convinced me that huge expectaions + mediocre result *should* tip the critical balance toward *suck*. In other words it's not just a mediocre album by any band, but by one that has all the advantages.
I TOTALLY think this is true. I'm always harder on bands that I love than bands that I have nothing invested in.
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
I just listened to "Off You" from Title TK a bit ago, and it is great, I cannot deny it.
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
This, interestingly, is a big critic-vs-fan divide. Critics move a little faster, I think, and thus are pretty unlikely to be impressed by a band that comes back years and years later doing basically the same thing. Casual fans, who aren't racing along down the road, are happier just to get more songs they like. Result: unprecedented numbers of "your reviewer is a stupid trendy snob this album is great" letters for comebacks like this, right?
I don't think Title TK was anything to be mad at. I'm not sure why anyone would have expected the Breeders to get massively amazing during years and years of problems and lineup changes and inactivity. I was just pleasantly surprised that it had some decent songs and didn't sound horribly dated.
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 14 February 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Eh, not so much. Actually, I hdan't heard the record yet and really liked your review. Still do. I disagree, tho'.
― wl (wl), Saturday, 15 February 2003 03:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 21 February 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
I might.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Friday, 21 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 22 February 2003 11:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Surmounter, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― President Evil, Monday, 14 May 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
i just broke this out again. every time i break it out it impresses me even more.
THE SHE TOO ALIVE SON OF THREE
basically the first 8 songs are absurdly great. and then u have sinister foxx which is like OK. and then the last 3 songs are beautiful.
i mean WHAT THE FUCK
THIS ALBUM FUCKING RULES. i feel a phase coming on.
― Surmounter, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
just saw that pixies reunion doc (what an awkward band!), featuring kim & kelley working on breeders demos in the tourvan -- never heard Title TK, but I should probably get it ... I think I love pretty much everything Ms. Deal does ...
― tylerw, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Kelly's matronly upper arms are so hott I'm confused
I'm confused, too. What does this mean?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 17 August 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
yea kim is def someone whose work i love in its entirity. not a song i don't.
― Surmounter, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i triedi even sent in friendsthey did it as a favor cuz i'm not that way
― janice (surm), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
my copy of this got nicked by an ex
i don't remember what it's like
― the mandelbrot cassette (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
u should probably get it
― janice (surm), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 05:02 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a wonder, though i wonder if it'll get the remaster treatment 15 yrs from now and i'll think 'that's what it ALWAYS shoulda sounded like'
― 156, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
been watching buffy and found myself very pleased to see them playing within an episode, unannounced and seemingly out of fucking nowhere
― oohhh weennnddddyyy weennnddyy what went wrrrooonnnnggg (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a great record & has always been a great record
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
favorite fucking breeders record. stark, chalky thing from the mouth of nowhere.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
also so loud and so sad.
^^ posts of truth
― janice (surm), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
this record sounds so so so perfect
― Chaki doesn't have beef with unicorn (stevie), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 09:08 (thirteen years ago) link
its a strange odd record. i liked it when it came out, havent listened to it in a long time (must dig it out again) and everybody i knew either hated it or was just befuddled by it. its all feel and mood i guess, like 'pod' in that sense. theres no 'cannonball' or 'drivin on nine' here.
― Michael B, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link
'mountain battles' even better i thought
My copy has been stuck in my car's CD player since 2002, so the album's legendary status has only grown.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
this record is weird. i love the way it ends Sinister Foxx/Forced to Drive/ T and T/ Huffer are all awesome. don't like much else aside from those and Off You, which is one of the most beautiful things ever.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Off You, with "I am the make-up on your eyes" and whatever that SOUND is (BEYOOOOOO), is classic.
― trippin lookin at my portfolio (billy), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Son of Three always smacks me in the face in the best way
― verhexen, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Great album, great band. Mountain Battles is just about as good, but different.I love the language exercise songs on Mountain Battles.Was there a tour video released around the time of Title TK?There's a video for Son of Three (for instance) on youtube and the song is a little faster and uh dirtier, I guess.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
this record has some really great songs on it...
― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of surprised to hear haerosmith likes it though...
― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
OFF YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
so good, i kind of never need to hear another Kim Deal song because it's perfect.
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't even really talk about it anymore
― janice (surm), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
My latest theory is that Title TK distills all the stuff I liked from Pod, and drops all the stuff I hated from Last Splash, which explains the divided response. I'm getting iffier and iffier lately about whether even Pod is better...
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
for some reason i have never checked the breeders about beyond this album. i love it a lot, but i've heard it's their worst? that's a lot of hype for their other music.
― marc iv, Thursday, 2 September 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so weird. this album's reception is like an enigma.
― janice (surm), Thursday, 2 September 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Imagine hating on an album that goes from "Off You" to "The She" to "Too Alive"
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link
God this record. Who could ever write and record "Sinister Foxx"? A ticket to the subconscious.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link
This is still probs my favourite Breeders LP.
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:38 (six years ago) link
How on earth is this thread 16 years old? This album still feels pretty new to me.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
hhhas anyone seen...the iguanaaaaaa?
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
dumb made for fuckingand missing from the partythat boy's spun out
― na (NA), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
GRINDCORE LITTLE FURY
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
super quotable album, tho you could say that about most deal records
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
DUMB MADE FOR FUCKING
― BĂȘnoit Balls (stevie), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
I KNOW I WILL HAVE SPUN OUT
torn(aaaaahh)toiled and troubled
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
Swingerrs
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
This record is incredible
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
you get an empty case of whippets and a boyfriend with a beeper
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
I picked up the 2018 vinyl reissue of this today--felt obligated bc "all wave"--and of course it sounds better than ever. Just an endlessly fascinating album for me, full of weird and wonderful ideas. Today the random bursts of violence on Put On A Side jumped out more than usual. I think Kim Deal has my favorite voice of any human
― J. Sam, Friday, 18 September 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
misery's fun i'm kissing everyone
― J. Sam, Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:08 (two years ago) link
slipping through the states to find the static yeah, there's something to believeAll time top 5 KD for me (so probably top 10 anyone)
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 10 April 2022 05:08 (two years ago) link