Top 5 of the year?

It won't even be in my top 500 of the year in all likelihood.

It seems whenever a band has been around for a while and just reformed and released an album, people will hate it, even if it's good. (Like beyond)

I might be there too....and drunk.

they never broke up

I know this isn't the best record of the year, but you guys are just exaggeratingly hating on it. Did you really expect another Pod or Last Splash? Im glad that they're at least looking forward with their music and not just trying to rehash the past. It seems like a lot of you guys have way too high standards for a breeders record and if its not a masterpiece then its fucking garbage.

The new record is a huge improvement on Title TK. Thats probably their worst record yet. Although im a fan of mountain battles im not gonna say its great, but it is good. I love that opening track "overglazed" it has this great divine feeling like you're in the air. "Regalame esta noche" is such a beautiful romantic song that drifts my mind away to some hot spanish night where i have an affair with some gorgeous spanish woman. That german punk song was great as was their little comeback anthem "we're gonna rise".

The album definetly has some weak points on it, especially the title track. I can never understand why bands name albums after one of the weaker songs. Kim sounds like she's struggling to get back on her feet after dealing with her alcoholism sounding lonley and bitter on some tracks. I think this is like an average record. 3/5

I don't "expect" anything from a band, but I HOPE that their songwriting progresses at some point over the course of, uh, 17 years or so (!). This is just a lazy, bad, half-written (maybe quarter-written) record. Nothing else to say really. Title TK was at least more INTERESTING than this, if not really "good".

I like it. the rest of you can fuck off.

i think it's shit
and the fact that i think that it's shit makes me feel really bad...

then lie to yourself dude

Why feel bad about it being shit?

They're just a really inconsistent band who doesn't know how to write songs. There's a million bands like that.

I just got the new Secret Chiefs 3 album -- now there's an album!

Haven't heard it yet. I totally forgot about it. I can't wait to hear it though, one of my favorite bands ever as a kid. Last Splash is one of the best albums of the 90's

Silver's probably my favorite Pixies' song.
Mountain Battles' title track may be my favorite off the album (however, I can't deny Spark...)
If Glorious is a gem, then Mountain Battles isn't half-written but rather double-written if that were anyway possible.
I think if you're a Breeders fan, then you'll like the album. It's neither better nor worse then Title TK, Last Splash, or Pod. It's something different, new, and admirable. It was recorded all wave, no computer generations or enhancements. It's real.

*Feels a lump in his throat*

I'm not keen on this one either.

i think this record is really good, i think you lot are all paedos

actually, it did blow.


true but they did go on to make a thousand leaves, nycg&f, murray street and sonic nurse in the last ten years.

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i never saw the appeal on the breeders, i was never fond of kim in the pixies and "cannonball" is one of the most annoying songs ever. i do like her backing vocals in the pixies and "gigantic".

cmon, beyond could have been so so so so so so much worse. its an enjoyable listen.

like i said before though, the only real recent reunion thats produced excellent records in my opinion is mission of burma.

i'm pretty tolerant to guitar solos, and i love pretty much everything dino has done (including hand it over); but the beyond is just 5 minutes solos with some mumbling in between, i at least expected decent chorus with those solos.

and burma, i really didn't like the obliteratti and onoffon, although i only listened to onoffon once.

My child sex slaves don't like it either.

the breeders were an interesting pixies side project in 1991.

is this the longest thread ever about something very very mediocre......

i still dont like this album and god ive tried to like it but sorry, nope...... it bores me and if that makes me cooler than thou then i apologise for stroking my chin.