Pod
by The Breeders
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The Breeders bestography
Pod is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by The Breeders on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Breeders is Last Splash which is ranked number 652 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,628.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Pod track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Pod rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 19/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 72 Music Albums of 1990 | 65/72 | 1 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1990 | 22/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 71 Music Albums of 1990 | 13/71 | 4 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 26 Music Albums of 1990 | 19/26 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Kalos | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 92/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 86 Music Albums of 1990 | 14/86 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 90 Music Albums of 1990 | 85/90 | 0 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 21/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1990 | 32/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 199 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 848 | |||
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Pod ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/18/2026 10:40 | markl73 | 637 | 78/100 |
| ! | 04/18/2026 10:35 | gmessian | 385 | 60/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2026 06:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,700 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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Pod forum mentions
Romanelli 03/07/2026 00:13 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
dihansse 01/09/2022 17:57 in My discoveries per yearPod comments
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Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/22/2018 10:20 | #221479 | TOP COMMENT
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As a Pixies devote I got in on the ground floor with this one purchasing the vinyl album the week it came out & it did not disappoint , it fact it blew me away how superb it was and remains so today in 2018 some 28 years on
So where does 'Pod' sit in the Pixies / Breeders chronology ?
1989: 'Doolittle' released
1990 May: 'Pod' released
1990 August: 'Bossnova' released (it's easy to forget these 2 releases came out within weeks of each other )
The Safari EP wouldn't appear for 2 more years in 92 and Frank Blacks 1st solo album incredibly until 1993
'Pod' has what I call the classic and best Breeders line up in Kim Deal on lead vocals and guitar , Tanya Donelly on guitar and backing vocals and Josephine Wiggs on bass and backing vocals . Also it was produced by Steve Albini who's DNA fingerprints are all over this album
One of the very small percentage of albums I could argue is 100% perfect from top to bottom , there's not a single poor or average track , every note every lyric feels in its place and most importantly stands the test of time after hundreds of listens
90/100
Great showing. Kim Deal beat Frank Black in 1990 from an album standpoint. Saw The Breeders play Last Splash and Pod live. It was fantastic.
Nothing awful on here, although nowhere near as good as Last Splash. I have a bit of trouble with the balance of the vocals, they seem a little lost, particularly on the first few tracks, but tracks 5,6 and 7 are the best of the bunch, followed by Doe and Lime House. Pretty good overall, it just takes a few listens.
teague TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/28/2020 06:46 | #256340 | TOP COMMENT
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The production of this record is fantastic, but pretty much every other aspect of this album isn't anything special. Besides the amazing cover of Happiness Is a Warm Gun (unpopular opinion alert: this version is better than the Beatles' version) and the song Doe of course.
philbutrin 08/31/2014 18:07 | #120866 | TOP COMMENT
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4ad has issued remastered versions of numerous albums over the years (some good, some not), and i keep hoping for a remastered version of this one.
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