http://i.imgur.com/UMveCfs.jpg
― octobeard, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
he would not be kissin' up to gays in his 20s; i was there
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
i think there is something sorta charming about having this position in 2015
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, September 29, 2015 8:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
really? what if Billy Corgan said the same thing? ... .... ... .. .
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
Wonder if he also hates metal for being similarly "stylistically rigid".
― Evan, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
probably!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
albini is a smart dude but smart dudes can still have some very dumb opinions too
― marcos, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
i do want to see bob mould and albini team up to form a rival wrestling league to billy corgan's.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
Mould wrote for WCW back in its heyday
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
I guess I don't really understand when we get surprised by stuff like this, I mean of course Albini wouldn't like dance music anymore than I would be shocked if I read an interview with BB King and he would slag off modern pop or when Keith Richards said he didn't like Metallica. A lot of people who have done great work are very tunnel vision and I don't necessirly think that's a bad thing, opposed to people like I dunno Beck who have super wide ranging influences
being miopic can advantages
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
Or like if you went to Chief Keef and said hey man you like Mission of Burma??? What's up? Cmoon man get with it
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
xp who is surprised by it? It's just an amusing interaction.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:57 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ill empty my bank account to make this happen
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
did anyone look at this? it was so funny!
this mostly made me lol but i'm sure someone will find a way to empathize with this well-told tale of SA's overzealous hero worshiphttp://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/marissa-paternoster-screaming-females-talks/
― La Lechera, Sunday, August 9, 2015 7:18 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
That is funny.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Powell doesn't seem upset about it
http://thequietus.com/articles/18897-powell-albini-interview
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
this fucking guy is the all-time <i>this fucking guy</i>
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xtZDkNAs0c
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
it's kind of interesting & indicative of the internet in 2k15 how no one appears to be really interested in powell's response here or on ned's facebook
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 October 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
pretty much, yeah
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 1 October 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
the flipside, though, is that a lot of people in 2015 have difficulty distinguishing between "appropriate for private conversation" and "appropriate for public conversation"
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 1 October 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
everybody forgot about this already.
― scott seward, Thursday, 1 October 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
it never happened.
― scott seward, Thursday, 1 October 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
RIP techno music & steve albini
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 October 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
i wasn't really following this 'controversy;' seemed pretty clear from me from reading the email exchange that there was no beef between these guys. is that what people were going with?
― goole, Thursday, 1 October 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
Apparently Steve Albini said something grumpy and rockist about music. News.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 October 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Just breaking
― Dinkytown Strutters' Ball (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 October 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
RIP, loved his work with Garbage and Shania Twain
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 1 October 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
I don't know who the fuck Steve Albino is
― circa1916, Thursday, 1 October 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
guitar player in Todd Trainer's band
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 October 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FYWcn8mL0
― Dinkytown Strutters' Ball (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 October 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
Come on though, Albini being all disco sucks in 2015 is like if Adorno wrote to Brotzmann in 1967 warning him of the perils of hot jazz and gramophone records: 'it might be the music of black liberation but I hate those men in spats, I hate their gin joints, I hate their Charleston dancing and their funny hair and their ukeleles, but most of all I hate their stupid zigga-zagga-zizzle singing!'
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Thursday, 1 October 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
I don't think Albini is saying "disco sucks" so much as "Information Society sucks"
― welltris (crüt), Thursday, 1 October 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
I always imagined he was thinking about early Ministry/Waxtrax stuff
― sleeve, Thursday, 1 October 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
His why-disco-sucked post is upthread a bit
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Thursday, 1 October 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=413&v=Oem6gEEajZU
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Saturday, 3 October 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
^^"song with the sample
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Saturday, 3 October 2015 05:06 (eight years ago) link
His why-disco-sucked post upthread is a bit ...
― the late great, Saturday, 3 October 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
anyway everybody otm itt
― the late great, Saturday, 3 October 2015 05:21 (eight years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-albini/why-i-havent-had-a-conventional-christmas-in-20-years_b_8614568.html?utm_hp_ref=impact&ir=Impact
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Disco hater
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
teared up a lil at that tbh
xp
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
Steve once did something incredibly sweet and thoughtful for me and I asked him " if yr such as asshole how come you do such nice stuff for people" and he said "I dunno...irony?"
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Damn, I kinda want to hug Steve Albini.
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 02:53 (eight years ago) link
If you haven't heard it, I implore everyone here to check out Helen Money's latest record, which was recorded by Mr. Albini. She's part of a wave of avant-garde cellists (see Julia Kent and Zoe Zkeating) who is really expanding my conception of what said instrument is capable of
― beamish13, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 04:07 (eight years ago) link
i take back whatever shit i said about fred armisen
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 06:21 (eight years ago) link
I first learned about his Letters To Santa tradition in the late 90s, too bad about the post office not letting them access that mail anymore. They should just redirect them to his house! Cool that Second City has done so much to raise funds.
Here's an excellent, long interview: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_650_-_steve_albini
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 06:38 (eight years ago) link
http://www.listenlistenlisten.org/stevealbini/
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 May 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
He's OK, then?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 May 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Oh, yeah, sorry - he's OK. But it's a fascinating interview, imo.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 May 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
Maybe the best of its sort since that Ian MacKaye one that went around last year.