Kim Deal of The Breeders

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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With a little help from the smash hit "Cannonball" on their 1993 album "Last Splash," The Breeders became one of the biggest names in early '90s alternative rock. In 2018, we chatted with the band's lead guitarist and singer Kim Deal. She talked about the music scene in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio, how unintended her success was, transitioning from the Pixies to The Breeders, and what it felt like the first moment she realized that she had written a song that people wanted to dance to. She also talked about The Breeders reuniting for "All Nerve," their first project in almost a decade, which dropped in 2018.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jessie Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jessie Thorn.
0:21.0	My first guest this week is Indy Rock legend Kim Deal.
0:25.5	In the mid-80s, she got married, moved to Boston, and after she got settled in, she replied to a classified ad looking for a bassist.
0:47.5	Before long, she was in the band for Pixies.
1:00.5	Later, when the band was on hiatus, Kim started to record her own music again.
1:04.9	She formed the breeders in 1989 and the band put out POD, their first record in 1990.
1:12.0	In the 28 years that have passed since the breeders have broken up and reformed a handful of times,
1:25.2	they toured sporadically through it all, Kim's had a knack for writing honest sincere rock songs.
1:31.8	When we talked in 2018, the breeders had just released their first new record in a decade, All Nerve.
1:38.0	Here's a song from that record, it's called, Wait in the Car.
1:42.0	Good morning!
2:10.0	I'm D.L. Welcome to Balls Eye, it's so great to have you on the show.
2:14.0	Thanks for having me.
2:16.0	Can you grow up in and still live in Dayton, Ohio, or at least the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio?
2:22.0	Did you like it when you were a kid?
2:26.0	Did I like Dayton, Ohio when I was a kid? Yes, I did.
2:30.0	It would flood. I was born, I grew up in Hubert Heights.
2:36.0	There were a lot of kids around, it was the 60s, there was a lot of neighborhoods,
2:42.0	there were new houses, new suburbs, buildings, it wasn't super fancy, super middle class.
2:50.0	When it rained, the bottom of the streets would flood and we'd all get down there and walk around in the water, the sewer water,
3:00.0	which seemed like a great fun thing to do, and now I just go gross.
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