Steve Albini has produced two of my favorite records, Surfa Rosa by The Pixies, and Pod by The Breeders. I also quite enjoy Rich Man's 8 Track which is a collection of some of the best Big Black songs. Albini's band Big Black is not for everyone, but if you're a fan of angry punk catharsis you owe it to yourself to check them out.
Steve Albini has died
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#12Hard to overstate Albini's influence, both as a musician and producer. Big Black? No one was doing stuff like that in the mid-80s. His production on PJ Harvey's Rid of Me took her compositions to a new level. He also produced a lot of very fine albums in the 80s and 90s by the Pixies (Surfer Rosa), Nirvana (In Utero) and various albums by The Jesus Lizard, Superchunk, and others. Yes, he was cantankerous. Marched to…
Yo-yo tricks could be pretty punk I imagine
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#13I feel very sad! Everything I loved about music had always ties with him, his style and his type of production. I was so excited about the upcoming Shellac album and tour. This hits so heavy... :(
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#14His recounting of the recording of “In Utero” on Conan O’Brien’s podcast (along with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic) is a fantastic hour of storytelling and rock history. Can’t recommend it enough.
https://www.earwolf.com/episode/dave-grohl-krist-novoselic-a...
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#15His recounting of the recording of “In Utero” on Conan O’Brien’s podcast (along with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic) is a fantastic hour of storytelling and rock history. Can’t recommend it enough. https://www.earwolf.com/episode/dave-grohl-krist-novoselic-a...
Also this being his last social media post is peak Albini:
https://bsky.app/profile/electricalwsop.bsky.social/post/3kr...
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#16Only 61 years old! Stunning to think that he was mixing some of alternative rock's most influential releases 30-35 years ago.
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#17"I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it's worth. The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half. If we assume three million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars or so. There's no fucking way I would ever take that much money. I wouldn't be able to sleep."
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#18RIP. I just bought Shellac's debut album recently, and they have another set to release soon.
I recommend the Kreative Kontrol podcast episode with him and Fred Armisen from last year where they talk about their experiences in the Chicago music scene.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1BeHekAjVm72b9Sc9FlCtu?si=6...
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#19Whether he considered himself one or not, Steve Albini will always stand out to me as the epitome of the Punk value system. Here are two of my absolute favorites:
* "I would like to be paid like a plumber" - https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana
* "The Problem with Music" - https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music
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#20This is hugely surprising. 61 is not old man. Is it me or does seem like the Gen Xers in the so-called counter culture are less long lived than their Boomer counterparts?