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Steve Albini
« on: July 20, 2021, 02:46:26 PM »
i'm too lazy to see if there is a similar thread...i know he--inevitably--comes up in some shape or form regularly in various threads...i can't imagine this thread will be a very long one, but i appreciate all that he has done/does, and this is my favorite for sure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYERtzcU6Y

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2021, 05:50:25 AM »
Steve Albini rules. One of the last events I went to before COVID lockdown as a talk he did at my wife's school. I always used to say Shellac was my favorite project of his but anymore Big Black is what ends up in rotation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ruuMh0fF5s

Also, this exchange was hilarious. I love dance music and think Albini's take is goofy, but it still makes me like him more.

https://pitchfork.com/news/61410-steve-albini-e-mail-about-how-much-he-hates-dance-music-turned-into-billboard-advertisement/

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2021, 06:32:43 AM »
I need to get into Rapeman, I think I listened to it the least out of all of Albini's projects.

I got to say I love Shellac and Big Black equally, but definitely love the rawness of Shellac's sound, especially with how they are live.

I wish more bands had that attitude.
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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2021, 07:00:31 AM »
Rapeman is a pretty embarrassing entry in his resume, but I have a lot of respect for Albini as a musician and an engineer. His dry wit is endlessly entertaining to me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vjn8u7HP1o

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2021, 07:33:28 AM »
^ How is Rapeman embarrassing? The dated lampooning of the gross Japanese fetish comic?

Personally, I’m a big fan of David Wm. Sims. Super nice guy and bassist for the best live band I’ve ever seen (Jesus Lizard). So Rapeman is a hit for me.

Albini has produced so many stellar projects, his no frills live band approach has yielded great results and pissed off several mainstream musicians and labels. Too many to name so here’s the list.

His innovations as a musician are nothing to sneeze at either. He knew real drummers weren’t as nearly helpful as one you could unplug and throw in a backpack. Plus, it was either him or Duane Denison who made Travis Beans “cool”. Songs about Fucking will always be in my top 5 albums.

https://youtu.be/MR-M7Uqi8FY

https://youtu.be/9ushiAXGAbg


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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2021, 07:34:27 AM »
pizza, old sport, the funny thing is, most of my old friends view Rapeman the same way, and i've often gotten shit for how much i've played it through periods growing up.

Shellac is definitely incredible to me, especially the first 7"s, and i'd be hard pressed to explain why Two Nuns and a Pack Mule does it for me to such a degree

and i know that this is ass-backwards in a lot of ways, but Big Black is the one i have explored the least...i know i need to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX_VQ8Hw6tA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVkGbgkYYZY




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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2021, 07:44:41 AM »
^ How is Rapeman embarrassing? The dated lampooning of the gross Japanese fetish comic?

Personally, I’m a big fan of David Wm. Sims. Super nice guy and bassist for the best live band I’ve ever seen (Jesus Lizard). So Rapeman is a hit for me.

Albini has produced so many stellar projects, his no frills live band approach has yielded great results and pissed off several mainstream musicians and labels. Too many to name so here’s the list.

His innovations as a musician are nothing to sneeze at either. He knew real drummers weren’t as nearly helpful as one you could unplug and throw in a backpack. Plus, it was either him or Duane Denison who made Travis Beans “cool”. Songs about Fucking will always be in my top 5 albums.

https://youtu.be/MR-M7Uqi8FY

https://youtu.be/9ushiAXGAbg

thanks for the link to that list--it's so long, that i only had time to go through about half of it, have to come back to it later...it's hard to grasp how much incredible music he has contributed to.

one band on the list that i forgot he worked with, is Mule, who have a strong history in and around Detroit. actually saw Mule and Shellac together back here before. it's easy to overlook Mule, and here's a couple from that album that i love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkJ3yAg0jLs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJWV1ykcrK8

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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2021, 07:51:40 AM »
In Albini's own words the band name is "indefensible and a flippant choice" and he compared it to getting a bad youthful tattoo so I don't think I'm really speaking out of line here. He is seemingly more embarrassed about it than anybody.

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2021, 07:59:23 AM »
In Albini's own words the band name is "indefensible and a flippant choice" and he compared it to getting a bad youthful tattoo so I don't think I'm really speaking out of line here. He is seemingly more embarrassed about it than anybody.

You’re not out of line at all. That comic is severely embarrassing and gross, bringing its name to the Western world wasn’t the best move. At ease, the_unknown_soldier.

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2021, 08:03:44 AM »
Rapeman isn't even the most poorly aged thing Albini has aligned himself with.

That said, I'm a fan of just about all his musical projects and I like him more as a grumpy old man than as an edgelord young man. I like highly opinionated people like Albini, even if I don't agree with the opinions at times. That billboard is a great example of that, it's such a funny way of clearing a sample in the most unnecessarily mean way possible.
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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2021, 01:42:13 PM »
Rapeman is a pretty embarrassing entry in his resume, but I have a lot of respect for Albini as a musician and an engineer. His dry wit is endlessly entertaining to me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vjn8u7HP1o

well shucks, i actually hadn't seen that, and for some inexplicable reason i really didn't want it to end

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edit: i'm curious pizza, old sport, regarding Rapeman...band name notwithstanding, do you dislike their music, because it's easy to read in your comment that the actual music doesn't factor much into your assessment?

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2021, 02:05:09 PM »
Musically it has its moments but with Steve’s overall body of work I could take it or leave it.

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« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2021, 02:36:06 PM »
Musically it has its moments but with Steve’s overall body of work I could take it or leave it.

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2021, 02:50:26 PM »
Big fan of his work in Shellac


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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2021, 03:20:13 PM »
Check my sig (if you have sigs turned on).
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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2021, 03:33:53 PM »
i saw shellac open for the stooges in maybe like 2006 in their hometown of Chicago. They got booed off the stage and it was....really really funny.i think they enjoyed it too.

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2021, 06:18:54 AM »


It being 2021, it’s really difficult to separate the art from the artist. I’m not saying Steve Albini gets a pass by any means, but I do think his imprint on music is fucking immense and I think deserving of a separate conversation.

https://youtu.be/NnD0oX7Frhk
I know it’s a live and a cover, but this was my introduction to albini and still one of the best covers I’ve ever heard.

https://youtu.be/ewpYywzl8tM
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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2021, 07:25:11 AM »
Rapeman isn't even the most poorly aged thing Albini has aligned himself with.

 Buyer's Market is the most horrific set of recordings that I've ever listened to.

 Won't be linking that, but I will link some of my favourite Albini joints:

https://youtu.be/Q069AifFlYI
https://youtu.be/RYk19-loUOE
https://youtu.be/kPxsgxNFv64



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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2021, 08:41:02 AM »
i’ve always been more into the engineer side of steve. i really dig the whole workman’s vibe he has with bands he records. i think the fact that he doesn’t take points on albums from a moral standpoint is a really respectable decision.

https://youtu.be/fDaEb-7pEPQ

this documentary has a lot of really cool looks into the way steve works. “i’m really good at loading this tape machine. everything else - they did”

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #20 on: July 23, 2021, 11:21:52 AM »
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Rapeman isn't even the most poorly aged thing Albini has aligned himself with.
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 Buyer's Market is the most horrific set of recordings that I've ever listened to.

 Won't be linking that, but I will link some of my favourite Albini joints:

https://youtu.be/Q069AifFlYI
https://youtu.be/RYk19-loUOE
https://youtu.be/kPxsgxNFv64




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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2021, 04:13:08 PM »
I'll weasel a Wedding Present song in any chance I get. "Dalliance" from Seamonsters, produced by Steve Albini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2QKooUdW8I

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2021, 01:17:17 PM »
some of my favs of his music and production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S-fc-BTTO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ULiDkXf02Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOwiZYod0jo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZLK1DtPgHA

this was an absolute instant classic when it came out. i was still a young lad in school. my teenage emopunk friends and i all started obsessing over noise rock when this dropped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqOp70ZQdkk

my fav pixies song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYJoc-R2rkU&list=PLMxy067kbpQhJkOZtEDdjn97sir7HmzkQ&index=6

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #23 on: December 29, 2021, 05:38:12 PM »
What are your thoughts on Albini's recording of "In on the Kill Taker?"  You'd thing Fugazi and Albini would be a good match... alas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXN_EmhkQSM

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #24 on: December 29, 2021, 06:26:13 PM »
What are your thoughts on Albini's recording of "In on the Kill Taker?"  You'd thing Fugazi and Albini would be a good match... alas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXN_EmhkQSM

yeah sounds a bit rough. i still like it though. walken's syndrome EDIT: sorry, meant public witness program is kind of cool, has a wall of sound to it and it sounds they played it faster. the vocals sound pretty shitty over the whole session.

the sessions/producers they ultimately went with just sound better imo. 

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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2022, 08:26:02 AM »
I am a student of Steve but he doesn't know it. We have mutual friends irl. I've stolen or stumbled upon most of his engineering methods.

I wish more than anything to apprentice under him.
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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2022, 02:45:00 PM »
google steve albini and odd future


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Re: Steve Albini
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2022, 06:53:31 PM »
That sucks. Wtf is wrong with people
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