The Breeders, “Happiness is a Warm Gun” and “Oh”
08/01/2004
Forget “If You See Kay.” Forget “Touch Me I’m Sick.” Forget “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or, indeed, any Nirvana song–or even any Pixies song. For me, the Breeders’ version of “Happiness is a Warm Gun” was the ultimate in “grunge,” if you’ll agree with me that grunge’s greatest (and at-that-time-not-grossly-overutilized) tool was the quiet/loud dynamic. [...]
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