History Music / TheBreeders

After a break to record with their full-time bands, Deal and Donelly returned to the Breeders, this time permanently - Donelly resigned from Throwing Muses shortly thereafter, while the Pixies went on a two-year hiatus and disintegrated. A short Breeders EP followed, ''Safari''. This marked the debut of Kim's twin sister Kelley, who has remained the other constant member of the band since, despite never having played guitar in her life before being hired as The Breeders' lead guitarist. By the end of the year, Donelly and Walford had left the band, the former starting her own band Music/{{Belly}}, the latter replaced by [=Jim MacPherson=] behind the drumset. With the new Kim-Kelley-Josephine-Jim lineup, The Breeders became a full-time band, supporting Music/{{Nirvana}} on their 1992 European tour.

* StartMyOwn: How the band began. Also, Donelly went on to form Belly and left The Breeders to focus on her own group.

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "S.O.S." features Kelley playing an amplified sewing machine. The sewing machine was originally being used by Kelley to work on a quilt during studio downtime - Kim decided it'd be interesting to mic it up and incorporate it into a song.

** They would also frequently cover the theme from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' live.

* NoTitle: ''Title TK'', sort of - "TK" is a journalism abbreviation for "to come", meaning content that will be added to an article later, so the album name effectively means "we haven't come up with a title yet".

At first, The Breeders were a collaboration between Deal (who switched to guitar) and Music/ThrowingMuses guitarist/vocalist Tanya Donelly, augmented by The Perfect Disaster bassist Josephine Wiggs and Music/{{Slint}} drummer [[GenderBlenderName Britt "Oh wait, that's a guy?" Walford]]. In this incarnation, the band got signed to Creator/FourADRecords (also home of The Pixies) and recorded an album with Steve Albini. The album, ''Pod'', represented a variation on The Pixies' catchy AlternativeRock but with rawer production values, and was well-received upon its release.

* Josephine Wiggs - bass, cello (1990-1996, 2018)i

Kim Deal's answer: "{{Start my own}} band! And become just as popular!".

After Music/ThePixies broke up for good in 1993, The Breeders went into the studio to record ''Last Splash''. Produced by Kim and Mark Freegard, ''Splash'' has slightly better production values (but not by much) and [[EarWorm way catchier melodies]]. It quickly became the band's biggest success, spawning a hit single with "Cannonball" and selling well in excess of a million copies.

* SoloSideProject: During the Breeders' hiatus in the mid-90s, Kim and Kelley started bands of their own - The Amps and The Kelley Deal 6000, respectively.

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "S.O.S." features Kelley playing an amplified sewing machine.

After a break to record with their full-time bands, Deal and Donelly returned to the Breeders, this time permanently - Donelly resigned from Throwing Muses shortly thereafter, while the Pixies went on a two-year hiatus and disintegrated. A short Breeders EP followed, ''Safari''. This marked the debut of Kim's twin sister Kelley, who has remained the other constant member of the band since. By the end of the year, Donelly and Walford had left the band, the former starting her own band Music/{{Belly}}, the latter replaced by [=Jim MacPherson=] behind the drumset. With the new Kim-Kelley-Josephine-Jim lineup, The Breeders became a full-time band, supporting Music/{{Nirvana}} on their 1992 European tour.