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The Breeders are not, by any stretch of the imagination, better than the Pixies. Hell, a lot of Frank Black's solo stuff is better than the Breeders! Though completely boring and there's too much of it, there are some classic albums ("Teenager of the Year" for example) that stomp all over anything the Breeders, the Martinis, or whatever other bullshit ... To me, it's all pretty boring now, because I already went through that phase of wearing all this stuff out years ago. All I know is today, Mountain Battles doesn't sound the least bit pleasing to my ear. "Pod" still does, but even it gets a little too much praise in most circles.
Bam Thwok isn't a very good song, but it's better than this album.
And if the Pixies did do another album (which they probably won't), it'd probably be great, since Frank would be writing all the songs. See, the thing is, even the stuff on his solo releases that I don't like (the boring country shit he does.. actually, anything he's released past a certain point in his career), you can still tell he's a good songwriter -- all he needs is Joey Santiago over top and it's going to be more interesting. And before anyone says "BUT JOEY DID PLAY IN FRANK'S SOLO STUFF!", Frank's band had as many as 4 (!) guitar players at one point, so it's not like Santiago's contributions really meant anything.
But yeah, I think a new Pixies record would be pointless. They made a bunch of really great albums (and the decent "Bossanova") -- they have nothing to prove. But who knows.
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