12 March 2023
‘Cannonball’ by THE BREEDERS
The smashing single from the sisters Deal‘s
1993 hit album The Last Splash.
Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell, crash
I’m the last splash
I know you, little libertine
I know you’re a real cuckoo
Want you cuckoo cannonball
Want you cuckoo cannonball
In the shade, in the shade
In the shade, in the shade
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Back in time
11 December 2022
Artist: PJ HARVEY
Album: RID OF ME
Her second LP
Released: 4 May 1993
Pitchfork said: “The brilliance of Rid of Me is in the vividness and detail with which it captures that Boschian panorama using only blues rhythms, loud-quiet-loud dynamics, Harvey’s voice.”
TUTV Pick: Rid Of Me
Stream the album HERE
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Band: THE AFGHAN WHIGS
Album: GENTLEMEN
4th longplayer
Released: 5 October 1993
Pitchfork wrote: “This major-label debu is a harrowing song cycle chronicling the death
throes of a relationship. That cycle implies a romantic fatalism, as though every relationship is doomed to end painfully. Gentlemen is both personal and unknowable, cocksure yet deeply troubled.”
TUTV Pick: Debonair
Stream the album HERE
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Band: SUEDE
Album: SUEDE
Debut LP
Released: 29 March 1993
BBC Music: “Suede’s main sources were Bowie (in Anderson’s wonderfully fey delivery) and
the Smiths. Ironically, Mike Joyce of the Smiths was a member for a short spell, but their bleak chronicles of urban dysfunction, modern love and sexual confusion were never a million miles away from Morrissey’s home ground.”
TUTV Pick: Animal Nitrate
Stream the album HERE
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Band: THE BREEDERS
Album: LAST SPLASH
Second longplayer
Released: 30 August 1993
AllMusic: “Its best moments — and the Deal sisters’ megawatt charm — end up
outweighing its inconsistencies to make it one of the alternative rock era’s defining
albums.”
TUTV Pick: Cannonball
Stream the album HERE
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Band: BLUR
Album: MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH
Second LP
Released: 10 May 1993
Rolling Stone wrote: “Blur‘s second LP is their secret classic. Coming between the pop-psych shimmer of 1991’s Leisure and the cool Britannia of 1994’s Parklife, the brittle jangle and bitter observations on Modern Life Is Rubbish were near-career-killers.”
TUTV Rick: For Tomorrow
Stream the album HERE
Band: RADIOHEAD
Album: PABLO HONEY
Debut LP
Released: 22 February 1993
NME: “One of rock’s brightest hopes.
British teenagerhood has never been grumpier.”
TUTV Pick: Creep
Stream the album HERE
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Band: MORPHINE
Album: CURE FOR PAIN
Second LP
Release: 14 September 1993
AllMusic said: “With their cult following growing, Morphine expanded their audience even further with their exceptional 1994 sophomore effort, Cure for Pain. Whereas their debut, Good, was intriguing yet not entirely consistent, Cure for Pain more than delivered. The songwriting was stronger and more succinct. Cure for Pain was unquestionably one of the best and most cutting-edge rock releases of the ’90s.”
TUTV Pick: Buena
Stream the album HERE
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Band: NIRVANA
Album: IN UTERO
Third LP
Release: 21 September 1993
Rolling Stone wrote: “The album is a lot of things – brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it’s a triumph of the will.”
TUTV Pick: All Apologies
Stream the album HERE
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Band: THE VERVE
Album: A STORM IN HEAVEN
Debut full length
Released: 21 June 1193
GuitarCom said: “A Northern Soul may have more choruses, Urban Hymns may have shifted 10 million copies and made them Wigan’s only global superstars, but Verve‘s (the ‘The’ came later) celestial debut A Storm In Heaven is the guitarist’s choice. Nick McCabe’s enveloping waves of reverb and tape delay, in turn soothing and savage, moved producer John Leckie to conclude “To some extent, A Storm In Heaven is his record”.
TUTV Pick: Slide Away
Stream the album HERE
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Band: MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Album: GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL
Second LP
Released: 21 June 1993
AllMusic said: “The rage is more articulate and the sound is stronger,
making Gold Against the Soul a flawed but worthy step forward.”
TUTV Pick: La Tristtese Durera
Stream the album HERE
14 November 2022
JOE WALSH (74) is best known as the guitarist of country rock legends
Eagles. Before joining those superstars he had his own band called James Gang.
Walsh founded a charity fund for military veterans’ in 2017. Yesterday he played
with the James Gang members at VetsAid in Columbus, OHIO. It was Walsh himself who organised the event and he invited some big-name acts such as The Black Keys and NIN.
The Breeders with the Deal twins also took part in the 6-hour show.
One of the songs they played was Gigantic. A Pixies classic from their
1983 Surfer Rosa album, sung by Kim Deal. The omnipresent Dave Grohl
joined them on guitar.
Watch them rock out…
VetsAid: Website
Watch out Kelley.
Kim (on the left) and Kelley (on the right)
10 June 2021
Kimberley Ann Deal was born in
Dayton, Ohio on 40 June 1961.
Happy 60!
Original member and stellar Pixies bassist.
Made classic LP Last Splash with The Breeders
(with her twin sister Kelley) and a top one
with The Amps (‘Pacer’ – 1995).
Left Pixies in 2013 to reunite The Breeders
Simply one of the most genuine, most
outspoken, and coolest ladies ever in rock.
COOL AS FUCK!
Three knockouts to start
Kim‘s birthday party…
– GIGANTIC –
(With Pixies)
(With The Breeders)
– CANNONBALL –
– TIPP CITY –
(With The Amps)
Kim about the Internet (actually about women vs dudes)…
The other side of the A…
13 October 2020
Band: The Breeders
B-side: Cro-Ahola
A-side: Cannonball
Released: 9 August 1993
No bye, no Aloha
Gone with a rock promoter
Freezehead
A rock promoter
I know I saw
And now may die…
Here’s B…
The rollicking A…
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Memorable live moments…
THE BREEDERS at their best. Crackling, raw and rolling. Watch the band play steamy ripsnorter ‘HUFFER‘, a glorious but overlooked single from their third album ‘Title TK’
on American TV in 2002…
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You can stream the album here
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
30 August 2018
Band: THE BREEDERS
Album: LAST SPLASH – second LP
PITCHFORK wrote: ” ‘Last Splash’ is a noise-pop record in the fullest sense of both of those words: It is a symphony of feedback but the melodies holding it all together are sweet enough
to rot your teeth… ‘Last Splash’ is a tight record that’s also alive with happy accidents. Perhaps the most famous example: the bassline’s hesitant entrance on “Cannonball”– and we’re talking about one of the most iconic basslines of the 90s– was actually the product of a fortunate mistake. In a rehearsal, Wiggs played the last note of the riff flat (twice in a row) but everybody thought it sounded cool, so it became a part of the song…”
Score: 9/10 – Full review here
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: Without a shadow of a doubt The Breeders’
best longplayer. Crackling pop songs, turbulent electricity.
Top Tracks: Cannonball / Saints / No Aloha
* CANNONBALL
* SAINTS
* NO ALOHA
SPLASH in full…
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