I love the backing vocals high in the mix, the looseness around the original melody, Kelley's guitar-tone, the look across at 3:03, Jo's indifference.....so much to love about this version.
Fuck yes. It disappeares this near. Genius band. The Deal sisters are not to be fucked with. I just ended a sentence with a preposition. That's how serious am I. I'm just looking for one divine hammer. One Divine Hammer.
Fuck yeah! That was the year in which Brazil won the world cup in the US, and the year I first fell in love and first ever got nookie!!! I will never forget 1994. Oh, yeah, the music of that year absolutely rocked!
Divine hammer is my favorite from them.man I really miss being 17 or 18 in the 90s. Everything then was so real and pleasant. Nowadays I get nauseous in the time we live in.sad...really sad.
I kinda like how she says "We've got five minutes" at the beginning, then they fart around for a minute and a half. In the words of Frank Zappa, "GOOD GOD, WE'RE SO PROFESSIONAL!".
@jimebenhoh "Just waitin' for ...like that...I have to use... spe- ... supposed to... We're gonna do Divine Hammer." She was waiting for the guitar tech to bring her the black Tele with the capo, that's what she was trying to articulate. Stoned on spacecakes. Goodtimes
growing up in 1990s as a very young kid, I was born in 1986, so to give u an idea my first CD I owned was Nirvana + nevermind, I believe it was the next year I got Last Splash by the breeders. by the end of 93 I owned alot of alternative/grunge CD and Lo records. during this time I relied heavily on MTV and the local modern rock station for music. herrs my unique point: I was readily exposed to the breeders but never the pixies! I had to go back and rediscover them in high school. see the pixies back then had little fm radio play, but the breeders hit Cannonball was always on. for. short period of time they were showing up everywhere...my live n loud, other MTV concerts, and although thier major commercial success came from Cannonball, I absolutely loved the Last Splash album and the fast short poetic songs like New year and saints . o fell in love with the shape the band after seeing Live n Loud. they were just so freaking good! mind u I still had no idea who the pixies were. now that I'm older and a fan of the pixies as well, I would rather go see Kim w the Breeders than the pixies, don't get me wrong I love the pixies, I just love the breeders more. I just wish there was more material.
I also didn’t know the Pixies’ music before I knew the Breeders. How could I? I was 14 when Last Splash came out. Pixies weren’t on my radar in my podunk town in the middle of nowhere when I was 9 years-old. Didn’t hear a note of their music until I was at least 19 and someone put “Debaser” on a mix tape for me.
@ragexcage So true, I guess thats what happens when you start getting old. I think the Deal sisters are turning 50 this year. OMG. Seems like only yesturday that teeange boys (including myself) all accross America were having pleasant dreams about them. Oh well, good things don't last forever.
Kelley was busy with her job, Kim got married and she and her husband moved to Boston, and once she was there she wanted to join a band, so she did. I don’t think she really had many songs written (that were any good) until after she joined the Pixies.
...and Josephine's standing there thinking: "F-this, these two clowns can's even get their harmonies right. They're looking weirder and weirder as the days go by!"
Yeah theh both have that Nordic, semi Mongolian, semi Caucasian Germanic, semi Native American like high Cheekbones and pretty Heart shaped faces... 💗💕💗💕💕💕 So sad that they struggled with Drugs, especially Kim. 💗💓💕💓
I still get chills hearing this. I had never heard of them and saw this on MTV or something. Whenever I hear a song I love I desperately write it down so I don't forget. What is this song about anyway?
It’s about Kim’s search for evidence of god or “divinity” - but she had concluded that there just isn’t any. It’s her “making fun of religious folk songs, like ‘If I Had A Hammer’.” Direct quote.
This is almost the only Breeders song I know, and I love it. I don't even know what it means, exactly. I just love the way it starts off with the bass, and then the drums explode, and then there's a beautiful melody. That's enough for me.
I was a 26-years-old Vietnamese living in Berekley, CA when this song came out; I had a crush on Kim for her girl-next-door looks---I still love you, Kim! ...LIVE 105! 105.5 FM San Francisco, Caliornia---Rockin' the bay to the bones!!!...
Cool song and show, except it was Pinkpop 1994 (not 1993), the 25th jubilee edition. My first festival day ever (16 y/o at the time), and a great one at that, with also Rage Against The Machine, Smashing Pumpkins (when Billy still had a full set of hair), Therapy?, The Levellers, Soul Asylum and Urban Dance Squad.
@plxplxkthx hmmm, i dont know man, kim and kelly look kinda dried out, but thats typical after years of using heroin, god, look at Iggy. i wonder what kurt cobain wouldve looked like by now.
I must say I never realized from this clip that Tabitha tinndale reminds me a lot of Kim deal in a lot of diff ways. I know tab but never had the opportunity to meet Kim. love both of them!
I hate it when they try to get all fancy when singing the chours "One divine hammer", they can never sing it in key! Kim is singing in one key, and Kelley another. It sounds awful! And they do it a lot! When they just sing it straight, like on the record, it sounds fantastic! Actually I think it's Kim who's messing it up.
You don't think that they are consciously pushing against the sweetness of their harmonies? They know how traditionally euphonious they can sound, so they push and pull at the beat and intonation to cause the melody to rupture and buckle at the seams. This is a loose performance, sure, but if you pay attention to Kim's compositional approach, you see again and again this habitual play of sweetness and dissonance.
