Pod is the debut album by American alternative rock band the Breeders,
released by 4AD records on May 29, 1990. Engineered by Steve Albini, it
features band leader Kim Deal (pictured) on vocals and guitar, Josephine
Wiggs on bass, Britt Walford on drums, and Tanya Donelly on guitar. The
Breeders formed in 1988 when Deal, a member of the Pixies, befriended
Donelly of Throwing Muses during a European tour. They recorded a
country-infused demo in 1989, leading to 4AD co-founder Ivo Watts-
Russell funding an album, Pod, recorded that year at the Palladium
studio in Edinburgh, Scotland. The album became a critical and popular
success, reaching number 22 in the UK. Critics praised its dark,
sexualized lyrics, and compared it favorably to the Pixies. Nirvana's
Kurt Cobain said it was one of his favorite records, and Pitchfork
ranked it number 81 on its list of the best albums of the 1990s. The
cover art was designed by Vaughan Oliver and portrays a man performing a
fertility dance while wearing a belt of eels.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_%28The_Breeders_album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1416:
A squadron of the Venetian navy captured many Ottoman ships at
the Battle of Gallipoli, confirming Venetian naval superiority in the
Aegean Sea for the next few decades.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gallipoli_%281416%29>
1900:
N'Djamena (monument pictured), now the capital of Chad, was
founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Djamena>
1954:
Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than
five minutes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Leather>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nick:
1. (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor
way.
2. (transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches
in; to deface, to mar.
3. (transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of
(the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
4. (transitive, obsolete) To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of
nicks; to tally with.
5. (transitive) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike
at the precise point or time.
6. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and
produce a fine deflection.
7. (transitive, gaming) To throw or turn up (a number when playing
dice); to hit upon.
8. (transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
9. (transitive, Australia, Britain, slang) To steal.
10. (transitive, Britain, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nick>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I believe in an America with a government of men devoted solely
to the public interests — men of ability and dedication, free from
conflict or corruption or other commitment — a responsible government
that is efficient and economical, with a balanced budget over the years
of the cycle, reducing its debt in prosperous times — a government
willing to entrust the people with the facts that they have — not a
businessman's government, with business in the saddle … not a labor
government, not a farmer's government, not a government of one section
of the country or another, but a government of, for and by the people.
--John F. Kennedy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy>