The Breeders Lyrics
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From the Album
1. New Year
2. Cannonball
3. Invisible Man
4. No Aloha
5. Roi
6. Do You Love Me Now?
7. Flipside
8. I Just Wanna Get Along
9. Mad Lucas
10. Divine Hammer
11. S.O.S.
12. Hag
13. Saints
14. Drivin' on 9
15. Roi (Reprise)
From the Single
Cannonball
Other Songs All Nerve Archangels Thunderbird Bang On Blues at the Acropolis Cro-Aloha Dawn: Making An Effort Do You Love Me Now Jr? Doe Dont Call Home Drivin On Freed Pig German Studies Glorious Happiness is a Warm Gun Head To Toe Hellbound Howl at the Summit I Cant Help It Iris Little Fury London Song Lord of the Thighs MetaGoth Nervous Mary Night Of Joy Off You Oh! Regalame Esta Noche Safari Shocker in Gloomtown Skinhead #2 So Sad About Us Spacewoman Wait In The Car Walking with a Killer Walking with the Killer Were Gonna Rise
From the Single
Other Songs All Nerve Archangels Thunderbird Bang On Blues at the Acropolis Cro-Aloha Dawn: Making An Effort Do You Love Me Now Jr? Doe Dont Call Home Drivin On Freed Pig German Studies Glorious Happiness is a Warm Gun Head To Toe Hellbound Howl at the Summit I Cant Help It Iris Little Fury London Song Lord of the Thighs MetaGoth Nervous Mary Night Of Joy Off You Oh! Regalame Esta Noche Safari Shocker in Gloomtown Skinhead #2 So Sad About Us Spacewoman Wait In The Car Walking with a Killer Walking with the Killer Were Gonna Rise
The Breeders are an American alternative rock band based in Dayton, Ohio, consisting of members Kim Deal (rhythm guitar, lead vocals), her twin sister Kelley Deal (lead guitar, vocals), Josephine Wiggs (bass guitar, vocals) and Jim Macpherson (drums).
The earliest incarnation of the band was formed by Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly in 1989 as a side-project alongside their full-time bands Pixies and Throwing Muses respectively. To record their debut album, 1990's Pod, Deal and Donelly recruited bassist Josephine Wiggs of the Perfect Disaster and drummer Britt Walford of Slint. Kim's sister Kelley was brought into the band as a third guitarist (though at the time, Kelley had never played guitar before) in 1992 to record the Safari EP, and shortly thereafter Tanya Donelly left to concentrate full-time on her own new band, Belly, leaving Kelley Deal as the sole lead guitarist; Britt Walford left as well around the same time. While the band's first record was not initially a commercial success, the band had developed a following among indie rock fans and praise from people such as Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who cited Pod as one of his all-time favorite albums. Meanwhile, the band prepared to record their next album.
In 1993, the Pixies broke up, leaving Deal to concentrate on The Breeders as her full-time band. Kim recruited local Dayton musician Jim Macpherson (previously a member of indie rock band the Raging Mantras) to replace the recently departed Walford on drums, cementing the Breeders' best-known line-up. The band's most commercially successful album, Last Splash, was released in 1993 during the early 1990s alternative rock boom. The album went on to be certified platinum by the RIAA, and is best known for its hit single "Cannonball".
A year after the success of Last Splash, drug and alcohol issues forced the band into hiatus in 1994, while both the Deal sisters did separate stints in rehab in the following years. During the band's hiatus, Kim Deal formed the short-lived alternative rock band The Amps, recording a single album, Pacer, in 1995. In the late 1990s, Kim and Kelley reformed The Breeders with a new line-up (including members of the band Fear) and released two more albums, Title TK in 2002 and Mountain Battles in 2008. In 2013, Kim and Kelley had announced that the "classic" line-up (including Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson) had reunited for the first time since the 1990s for a new series of tours celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band's hit album Last Splash.
They released their fifth album All Nerve in 2018, the first "classic" Breeders line-up's full-length album together since 1993's Last Splash.
Members:
The earliest incarnation of the band was formed by Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly in 1989 as a side-project alongside their full-time bands Pixies and Throwing Muses respectively. To record their debut album, 1990's Pod, Deal and Donelly recruited bassist Josephine Wiggs of the Perfect Disaster and drummer Britt Walford of Slint. Kim's sister Kelley was brought into the band as a third guitarist (though at the time, Kelley had never played guitar before) in 1992 to record the Safari EP, and shortly thereafter Tanya Donelly left to concentrate full-time on her own new band, Belly, leaving Kelley Deal as the sole lead guitarist; Britt Walford left as well around the same time. While the band's first record was not initially a commercial success, the band had developed a following among indie rock fans and praise from people such as Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who cited Pod as one of his all-time favorite albums. Meanwhile, the band prepared to record their next album.
In 1993, the Pixies broke up, leaving Deal to concentrate on The Breeders as her full-time band. Kim recruited local Dayton musician Jim Macpherson (previously a member of indie rock band the Raging Mantras) to replace the recently departed Walford on drums, cementing the Breeders' best-known line-up. The band's most commercially successful album, Last Splash, was released in 1993 during the early 1990s alternative rock boom. The album went on to be certified platinum by the RIAA, and is best known for its hit single "Cannonball".
A year after the success of Last Splash, drug and alcohol issues forced the band into hiatus in 1994, while both the Deal sisters did separate stints in rehab in the following years. During the band's hiatus, Kim Deal formed the short-lived alternative rock band The Amps, recording a single album, Pacer, in 1995. In the late 1990s, Kim and Kelley reformed The Breeders with a new line-up (including members of the band Fear) and released two more albums, Title TK in 2002 and Mountain Battles in 2008. In 2013, Kim and Kelley had announced that the "classic" line-up (including Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson) had reunited for the first time since the 1990s for a new series of tours celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band's hit album Last Splash.
They released their fifth album All Nerve in 2018, the first "classic" Breeders line-up's full-length album together since 1993's Last Splash.
Kim Deal - lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1989-1995, 1996-2003, 2008-present), lead guitar (1996-1998)
Josephine Wiggs - bass, vocals (1989-1995, 2012-present)
Kelley Deal - lead guitar, vocals (1992-1995, 1998-2003, 2008-present), rhythm guitar (1992)
Jim Macpherson - drums, percussion (1992-1995, 1996-1997, 2012-present)
Former members
Tanya Donelly - lead guitar, vocals (1989-1992)
Carrie Bradley - violin (1989-1993, 1996-1997)
Britt Walford - drums, backing vocals (1989-1992)
Jon Mattock - drums (1992)
Richard Presley - rhythm and lead guitar (2000-2006)
Mando Lopez - bass (2000-2006, 2008-2012)
Jose Medeles - drums (2001-2003, 2008-2012)
From: Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Genre(s): Alternative rock
Active From: 1989-1995, 1996-2003, 2008-present
Associated Acts: Kim Deal, Pixies, The Perfect Disaster, Slint, Throwing Muses, The Amps, Belly, The Last Hard Men, The Kelley Deal 6000