Pacer's one of my fav five or so albums, probably. Always love listening to it. Only picked it up by chance, Back when vinyl wasn't selling much and The Amps had about 10% of the name recognition of The Breeders (iirc Deal once said not just calling it the third Breeders album was her biggest career regret).
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 06:48 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/2d3b889c52388030f964d7f499c6668b/tumblr_mzh29fBm411rlxwvfo1_500.gif
― nomar, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
haha how was that not the first post on this thread
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
"Bragging Party" looms over all other songs of the 90s, in my imagination.
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
otm that song is unbelievable.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
haha it's so good my band sampled it
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
lol it was never clear to me if she was singing "memorized breaths" (as a ref to the harmonies in the song) or "memorized breasts" (which is also funny)
all the static noise on the vocal obscures the phrasing
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
so I guess I need this Amps album, huh?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
yes!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
to quote the album itself, it's full of... mythic noise
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
I've always been a big Pod fan but somehow the Amps thing was never on my radar
― sleeve, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
Deal's probably otm that releasing the album under a different name from the Breeders was a colossal mistake. You'd think that a follow-up to a huge album would've gotten more attention but it really kind of disappeared.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
yeah, I'm a perfect example! already a fan, ready to hear more, missed it completely
― sleeve, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
Kim Deal is my favorite '90s musician, i think everything she touched that decade is gold and persona-wise she is just really appealing and admirable imo.
― nomar, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
sorry kurt
https://68.media.tumblr.com/61b3d6933e63ac5b895b85d27a420335/tumblr_n0rhc40yak1qctvzro1_r2_250.gifhttps://68.media.tumblr.com/4912b2321c92a83edef930690a7b5c83/tumblr_nnld0yKrJ41sbf4sbo1_400.gif
― nomar, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
It's always a pleasure to listen to Kim Deal sing.It's never a pleasure to listen to Kim Gordon sing.
Deal, then.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
another point of comparison:Amps and Free Kitten full-lengths both released 1995 around the same time, I got both, guess which one I held onto
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqhOQLD3t0
i just went through ohio and played a show in my hometown and this very short gbv cover warms my heart because it is so ohio and so of its timeand her voice, always
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
haha thx for that, never seen it before
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
i still think deal and pollard should've made at least four albums together (i guess they had a falling out?) http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llrzurjzPR1qcziuco1_1280.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
breeders played it when i saw them at pfork 2013 i remember freaking out (lol)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
^ That picture could not be any more '90s.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
could prob get a podcast episode out of it
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
I love the Breeders' version of Gloomtown. I remember first hearing it in Live in Stockholm
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
Fwiw I spoke to a woman in NYC in 2002 who claimed she interviewed Kim D backstage at a gig and she was openly smoking heroin but I think she went to rehab for alcoholism rather than heroin and that was before the Pixies reformed so suggestion she did the reformation to support her habit doesn't ring true. She admits to taking lots of drugs in the late 90s. Anyway both these women are icons to me and this thread kinda sucks but here I am adding to it so fuck me I guess.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
I assume she did the reunion for the money just like every band does
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
Pretty nice Kim Deal & Robert Pollard collab that flew under the radar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1_1ptzs0FM
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
Kim (& the OG Breeders) is/are still making great music as of 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb46UMdmGqY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
Freedom Cruise posted a couple posts up was:
Robert Pollard - guitar & vocalsTobin Sprout - guitarJim Pollard - guitarJim Greer - bassKim Deal - guitar & backing vocalsKelly Deal - drums & backing vocals
recorded circa Amps - Pacer & GBV - Alien Lanes
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
So glad Elijah Wood and you guys repped for Amps - Pacer. What a wonderful album I could have easily missed. Pollard only co-written a track but I kept imagining he had some bigger role because a bunch of songs sound a bit Pollardy to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 16 March 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
I love that 90s picture of Kim + Pollard + whoever those other people are. That guy at the end of the table was he in Pavement? Probably
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 17 March 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah that looks like Mark Ibold
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 17 March 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
Isn't Kim there with former rock journalist/former Mr. Kim Deal/former GBV member Jim Greer?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 March 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
Lol yeah... Ibold looks nothing like him.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 17 March 2018 05:39 (six years ago) link