The Breeders' Kim Deal & Raoul Peck

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

First up, a Bullseye fav: Jesse chats with Kim Deal of The Breeders about their new album "All Nerve," which drops this week. Also discussed: the Pixies' breakup, best Italian restaurants for live music in Dayton, Ohio, advancements in personal amplification technology in live music. Then, Raoul Peck. The director of "The Young Karl Marx" talks about bringing the personal story of the writer of "The Communist Manifesto" to life. Plus: how to make a narrative film about one of the most consequential philosophies in recent history. Finally, on this week's Outshot, Jesse talks about the work of Curtis Mayfield on his brilliant, underrated debut solo record "Curtis."

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.8	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.8	You know it's a great song, Cannonball by the breeders.
0:19.1	He can't even press play on that.
0:30.0	It's fun, it's weird, it's catchy.
0:33.3	Kim Deel, the leader of the band, wrote it when she was on hiatus from her other band,
0:38.3	The Pixies.
0:39.6	And the Pixies never made it into the hot 100.
0:43.4	Cannonball was a blockbuster.
0:46.2	If you're my age, you remember that the video was basically on repeat on MTV.
0:52.5	And there was one other big difference from any of the other records that Kim Deel had
0:56.1	ever made.
0:57.1	I wouldn't want one thing that was different about it.
0:59.0	I was in a bar and regular bar.
1:04.0	And this had never happened with the Pixies.
1:06.6	And there was a dance floor in the bar.
1:09.0	And the DJ, there was a DJ and the DJ played Cannonball and people rushed to the floor.
1:16.0	And it was the first time that I had ever been in a band where people actually danced to
1:21.5	this song, any song that the band had ever done.
1:25.8	It was like, oh my God, people are dancing to this.
1:28.8	It's crazy.
1:29.8	It was really exciting.
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