The Breeders- Live 06/07/94 Metro Club, Chicago

This has MUCH better sound quality than the live Amps post below, must have been a soundboard recording. And another great performance (Last Splash era) by a band in top, if tipsy, form. Off kilter pop just doesn't get much better. One of the better live Breeders recordings I've heard...a must for fans.

1) SOS
2) New Year
3) Hellbound
4) When I Was a Painter
5) No Aloha
6) Flipside
7) Never Call Home
8) Iris
9) Lord of the Thighs (Aerosmith)
10) Fortunately Gone
11) Cannonball
12) Invisible Man
13) Roi
14) Hag
15) Divine Hammer
16) Safari
17) (Lime House) Saints
18) Doe

http://www.mediafire.com/?4b4zksvgwr11aa0

The Amps- Live in Hoboken, NJ 1995 07-01

The sound quality here may be less than spectacular but the performance definitely makes up for it. I still don't understand why the Amps aren't more well known, seeing the Breeders popularity...many people don't even know about their one amazing album. Maybe too direct...not quirky enough? No problem what-so-ever for me. No matter what the direction, Kim Deal writes some of the best songs on the market. Great, great stuff.

1) Pacer
2) Breaking the Split Screen Barrier
3) She's a Girl
4) Empty Glasses
5) Hoverin'
6) Bragging Party
7) Full on Idle

http://www.mediafire.com/?6idt2mraq7odc49

Guided By Voices- Sunfish Holy Breakfast

I find it strange that this E.P. was made of out-takes from "Under the Bushes Under the Stars." To me, "Sunfish Holy Breakfast" is vastly superior to that album which I see as the beginning of the end of GBV, where they gave up making more interesting music for themselves and thought they were rock stars that had to please a larger, more fickle, audience. This E.P. also benefits from a more lo-fi production...GBV just never sounded right on studio recordings to me, and "Cocksoldiers and Their Postwar Stubble" was produced by Dayton, Ohio's other lo-fi wonder, Kim Deal. Plus "Jabberstroker" ranks way up there in my GBV favorites.
If you prefer the early, lo fi, experimental over professional rock songs, this E.P. can represent the swan song for the old GBV where the music still had that extra something special that made so many people start paying attention to them in the first place.
And yes, one of the naked hippies on the front is Robert Pollard.
How many beers can you drink in under 23 minutes?

http://www.mediafire.com/?wnzynrgnjz1