Chords for The Breeders - Interview and performance - Here No More - The Culture Show 2008

Now, two weeks ago, ex-Pixies frontman Black Francis took up the busking challenge.
Well, more from another former Pixie now, Kim Deal, who used to be the bassist.
She went on to form The Breeders with her twin sister Kelly.
They've been around now for 20 years and are about to release a new album, only their fourth.
So, Nihal went along to find out, among other things, what they've been doing all this time. _
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[Am] Kim Deal is best known as frontwoman of [C] the Pixies,
who [F] found global success with hits such as Debaser and [F] Gigantic.
_ During time off from [Bb] the Pixies, she formed her own [Eb] band, The Breeders,
and together with her twin sister Kelly, [Bbm] became figureheads [Eb] for the Riot Grrrl [Bb] movement.
Their [Eb] first album, [Bbm] Pod, was a [Eb] critical success, but The Breeders still remained a side project. _ _
1993's album, Last Splash, sold a million [Bb] copies and produced the hit single, Cannonball.
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[Bm] _ [Bb] Next month, they release their [Ab] first album in [Bb] six years, Mountain Battles, and are [Eb] about to tour Britain.
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_ [Eb] I've come to a basement bar in London to meet them.
In a [Bbm] minute, they're going to be playing a track from the [Ebm] album exclusively [F] for the Culture Show,
but first, I wanted to find out more about their songwriting process.
Why does it take you guys so long to record an album?
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It's like, there are gaps of years in between albums.
Now, why is this?
When people ask me that, they're basically saying, _ unacceptable.
_ This is the album.
It's 2008.
[Bb] _ _ [Gm] Too late. _ _
Well, I mean, it's wild.
We work on it constantly, honestly.
[Em] I think I'm just really picky.
I don't know.
I feel a little silly doing the verse, chorus, verse, chorus, you know, and I'm not saying_
I enjoy it when people do that, but I have a hard time doing_
being that guy.
It's not as spiky and malevolent as some of the music of your past, I think.
It's just very beautiful.
Upon us all, tall timbers fall.
Hear no more, hear no more.
No, but it's just beautiful.
Well, I know lyrically_
Rock and die and rot.
I know lyrically it's not the first dance at a wedding, I know, but I mean_
But I [A] think that's nice that it's done so pretty and stuff, and it's got such a sad message.
I think it's nice.
I like it. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ It's no surprise [A] that the Breeders don't do shiny, happy lyrics.
The sisters have had dark times in the past, both ending [Em] up in rehab for alcohol [A] abuse and drug addiction at various points in their lives.
I have to bring up the D word.
_ [Ab] She's divorced. Divorced?
Yeah, she had divorced.
I have to bring up the D word.
Oh, drugs!
Deutschland.
And you're in command of the German language, but we'll get on to that in a bit.
But the whole drug situation_
You really do need to explain yourself and the [Bb] drug thing.
I don't know what got into her.
Now you can ask the question.
What, were you being so straight edge and everything?
I mean, you must have been, like, so disappointed in your sister.
Tell me how unglamorous it got to with you.
_ Let's see, was I running around?
Cited Bible verse.
Being in prison, I can imagine, was particularly_
Yes, I did get put in jail, but I only spent one night in there.
You stole your sister's_
Oh my God.
What was it?
An eclectic complex.
You can't get them anymore.
I mean, I haven't seen [Gm] one.
How much did you get for it? _
What did you do with the money?
What did you spend it on?
Yeah, what did you do with the money?
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We're [F] the last [Bb] of [Ab] the Dane's of [Db] the year.
Although [C] Kim reached [Bb] the low point of stealing [Ab] her sister's guitar equipment to feed her addictions,
[Fm] her musical highs have [Ab] been cited as a [Db] major inspiration [Fm] to legends such as Nirvana,
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Radiohead, _ _ _ _ _
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and Elastica.
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_ [G] _ _ [Am] _ Lots of [C] people cite you, guys, as being kind [G] of heroes to them,
and not being kind of pop monkeys, but serious musicians.
Who were your inspirations?
I'd go with some Led Zeppelin in there.
You've [Bb] got to throw some Led Zeppelin in there, because I [Gm] really like that.
Like Laurie Anderson doing _ _ this art, [Cm] performance art stuff.
Ha ha ha. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Why?
_ [Gm] _ _ Or [G] Tate Bush, you know, the early_
that stuff was new.
Because you didn't hear it on the radio, [Db] and we didn't [Gb] have access to fan scenes.
He feeds [Ebm] _
[Ab] me a caffeine cup, [Db] _
[Gb] _ so _ cold.
You were [Db] the center of the whole grunge [Dbm] thing.
Looking back on that, [Gm] what do you think of that?
I didn't know I was thought to be grunge.
Obviously it's a marketing term made up to sell advertising.
Is it because I don't brush my hair?
_ Pretty much.
It is, isn't it?
No, I didn't want to say.
It is. _
See?
I told you we should brush our hair!
_ _ Who's to say the breeders are mellowed with age?
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And now that exclusive track for the Culture Show from the new album Mountain Battles, Hear No More.
Not lost, but gone before.
_ _ _ [B] Hear no [E] more, _ _ [A] hear no more. _ _ _
Each day [D] the long [A]
light dims and fades.
[E] Not lost, but _ [A] gone before. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Creation _ sings, _ _ mountains bring.
_ Age [E] is born to [E] memory [A]
and lore. _ _ _
Upon a [A] soft, tall _ timber's fall.
Hear [E] no more, [E] _ _ hear [A] no more. _ _ _ _
_ _ The light shines close, _ _ echoes low.
_ Of your [E] sweet voice I weep [A] and mourn.
_ _ _ Upon _ [D] a soft, [A]
tall timber's fall.
Hear [E] no more, _ _ hear [A] no more. _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ Not lost, but gone before.
_ _ Hear [E] no more, _ _ hear [A] no more.
_ _ _ Each day the [D] long [A] light _ dims and fades.
[E] Not lost, but gone [A]
before.
_ _ _ Each day the long light dims and fades.
Hear [E] no more, _ _ [A] hear no more. _ _ _ _