Awful news. I will spin Songs About Fucking while eating a fresh roast beef sandwich today in his honor.
Steve Albini has died
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#32Crazy to think all the GenX icons are way up there in age.
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#33Oh man, that’s terrible! I was waiting to hear when the next Shellac tour was going to be taking place, as they’ve got an album coming out next week. I’m a huge, huge fan of Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac, and Steve Albini’s production (Nirvana’s In Utero, Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, Jesus Lizard’s discography, PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, Brainiac’s Hissing Prigs in Static Couture, Songs:Ohia’s Magnolia Electric Company, plus hundr…
His very close-miked sound still containing a tasteful (i.e. light) amount of reverb is such a recognizable signature...
A true legend, and big coincidence since I discovered yet another of his production a week ago: Zeni Geva's last three LPs. Almost as important as the ubiquitous Dan Swano in my collection:
$ find -L ~/Music -type f -name album.json -exec jqmusic '.credits | has("Steve Albini")' {} \; -print | awk -F/ '{print $5 " - " $6}'
Big Black - (1986) Atomizer
Big Black - (1982) Lungs
Big Black - (1983) Bulldozer
Big Black - (1987-1) Headache
Big Black - (1987-2) Songs About Fucking
Nine Inch Nails - (1999) The Fragile
Om - (2007) Pilgrimage
The Breeders - (1990) Pod
Nirvana - (1993) In Utero
The Jesus Lizard - (1990) Head
The Jesus Lizard - (1989) Pure
The Jesus Lizard - (1991) Goat
The Jesus Lizard - (1992) Liar
The Jesus Lizard - (1994) Down
Pixies - (1988) Surfer Rosa
PJ Harvey - (1993) Rid of Me
Shellac - (1994) At Action Park
Rapeman - (1988) Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Zeni Geva - (1993) Desire For Agony
Zeni Geva - (1995) Freedom Bondage
Zeni Geva - (2001) 10,000 Light Years
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#34Another quote from the music industry's Diogenes: "Pop music is for children and idiots".
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#35One of the most fascinating men that worked in music production/recording. If you aren't familiar with him and his various idiosyncrasies, I highly recommend giving this a watch/listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKEzHie9tAI&ab_channel=SAEAu...
In my personal list of top 10 albums of all time, Albini recorded six of them. I say "recorded" instead of "produced" because this is more akin to his style: set up microphones and record the band as they sound.
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#36He had strong opinions regarding politics, art, and business and you may strongly disagree with him (or not, or maybe on some things) but he was never a hypocrite. He took his convictions to the grave.
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#37This 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?
I think this line of thinking is a casual example of survivorship bias.
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#38I became aware of Steve Albini via the PJ Harvey album Rid Of Me - for me this is the most impressive result of his visceral sound, that elevated the emotional rawness of the music perfectly. Currently revisiting another fave he engineered: Seamonsters by The Wedding Present.
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#40Posted this on BlueSky. Just gutted.