The Explosive Story of The Breeders & Last Splash

1993 was quite the year for Alternative Rock. Still in the afterglow of Nevermind changing everything, weird and wonderful music that only a couple of years prior would’ve gone unheard, then a product of the underground, now controlling the airwaves and taking over MTV. [“Start Choppin’,” “Today,” “Creep,” “No Rain,” “Low,” “Loser”] But perhaps the best and most unexpected example of subterranean chart pop was The Breeders and their joyously bizarre hit “Cannonball.” Songwriter Kim Deal had made her name as the underutilised bassist in alt rock pioneers Pixies, but here she teamed up with with her twin sister Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, and conceived an album of surf-rocking noise-popping goodness. Bursting with more creative left-turns and oddball hooks than many bands fit into a whole career. Explosive and shambolic in equal measure, This is how The Breeders made Last Splash. #thebreeders #alternativerock #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner. 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Kim & Kelly Before The Breeders 05:39 Pod - "Inside Legs of Corduroy I've Been" 13:17 Last Splash - "No Bye, No Aloha" 19:13 "Cannonball" - In The Shade" 24:28 And Everything Afterwards Bibliography Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston, 2013, The Friday Project Fool The World: The Oral History of A Band Called Pixies: An Oral History of The Pixies by Caryn Ganz, 2005, Virgin Books LSXX Liner Notes, 4AD, 2013 "The Real Deal" (2002) dir. Lotje IJzermans "Last Splash Turns 20" by Tom Breihan, Stereogum, Aug 2013 "'No Lazy Choices'" by Sam Richards, Uncut, Oct 2023 "Sister Act" by Martin Aston, Mojo Magazine, Jun 2013 "The Breeders - 'Cannonball'" by Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain The '90s, Jan 2021 "The Pixies: Tyranny And Mutation" by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, Aug 1990 "The Breeders: A New Breed of Women in Rock" by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, Jul 1990 "INTERVIEW: BREEDERS" by Chris Robin, Slug Mag, Nov 1992 "The Breeders interview 1993 - Kim Deal" by Steve Harris, Aug 1993 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9USJOHxjrqg) "Kim Deal & Tanya Donelly: A conversation about Belly, the Breeders, Throwing Muses, the Pixies & alternatives" by Evelyn McDonnell, Musician, Sep 1993 "The Breeders: The real new deal" by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, Oct 1993 "Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal: Sleepless In Seattle" by Everett True, Melody Maker, Dec 1993 "Ordinary People: The Breeders on the Bus and Back Home" by Charles Aaron, Spin Magazine, Mar 1994 "A Breed Apart" by Karen Schoemer, Rolling Stone, May 1994 "The Breeders" by Johnny Cigarettes, NME, Jul 1994 "Kim Deal: The Breeders Leader Gets P..." by Charles Aaron, Spin Magazine, July 1995 "My (Or) Deal" by John Apanites, Moo Magazine, Jun 1995 "Raw Deal" by David Holthouse, Tweak, 1996 "Kelley Deal Interview" by Keith Phipps, AV Club, Nov 1997 "The addict family" by Maddy Costa, The Guardian, May 2002 "The SPIN Interview: Kim Deal" by Kari Wethington, Apr 2008 "The Breeders: Sister Bliss" by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, Mar 2008 "Splashdown! The Breeders’ Cannonball-Like Re-Entry" by Amanda Petrusich, Spin Magazine, May 2013 "The Breeders’ Last Splash is a rallying cry for the weirdos and stereotype-flouters" by Annie Zaleski, AV Club, May 2013 "Interview: The Breeders" by Steve Palopoli, SantaCruz.com, Aug 2013 "20 Years On: The Breeders' Last Splash Revisited" by Emily Mackay, The Quietus, August 2013 "20 Years On: The Breeders – Last Splash" by Claire Francis, Tone Deaf, August 2013 "The Breeders' 'Last Splash' At 20: Do You Love Me Now?" by James Montgomery, MTV News, Apr 2013 "LSXX The Breeders - Review" by Lindsay Zoladz, Pitchfork, May 2013 "Kim Deal: 'Misogyny is the backbone of the music industry'" by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, Mar 2018 "Kim Deal" by Ann Friedman, The Gentlewoman, Spr/Sum 2018 "The Remarkable Persistence of the Breeders" by Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, Mar 2018 "Kim Deal: The Breeders frontwoman on their fifth album, Pixies and touring with Nirvana" by Kevin EG Perry, NME, March 2019 "Pod The Breeders - Review" by Judy Berman, Pitchfork, Sep 2020 "The Genius Of… Last Splash by The Breeders" by Cat Woods, Guitar.com, Oct 2022 Soundtrack Luar - Citrine (https://soundcloud.com/luarbeats) Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present Luar - Anchor (https://soundcloud.com/luarbeats) You can also follow me here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrashTheory Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrashTheoryYT Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theorytrash Or support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TrashTheory

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