STEVE ALBINI

That's awesome.

http://twitpic.com/gnu7p

I guess my core idea of "Albini-isms" is colored by all the homophobic shit he said in interviews in the '80s, y'know, when that was still cool.

i was going to say "honestly more concerned about 40-something musicians determined to give lady gaga a fair shake" but then Morbz had to go and mention albini's less charming pigfuckery

I also don't think you get to play Chief Justice of Music when you produce Bush etc.

he did the nicest, most awesome thing for my friends who are huge shellac fans and was super gracious and nice and polite that I see him alot differently

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, October 4, 2011 10:00 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

details on this?

apparently he took the money from bush and gave it to poor mathcore bands or something

See I didn't become aware of Albini until the 90s, so I missed out on all those *charming* 80s years.

xpost cad:

not really my story to tell i guess? maybe i shouldn't have brought it up, but either way left a lasting impression

know ppl that recorded w/him as well and also their impressions seemed at odds w/his public image as an asshole

I also don't think you get to play Chief Justice of Music when you produce Bush etc.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:57 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how about 'expressing an opinion in response to a question asked to you by someone conducting a pre-arranged interview', do you get to do that

what is it with people's apparent inability to distinguish between the above and someone calling a press conference to announce their views to the assembled media

ppl should turn down interviews when they have nothing to say (99% of everybody)

surely what they have to say is dependent on the questions that they get asked, unless you're suggesting that they be vetted prior to the interview

*grabs coat, trots to door, SLAM*

kinda amazed people are still trotting out this "I can't BELIEVE you've never been heard/seen [insert pop star]" canard

been

Normally I'd otm you Shakey Mo, but not in this case. It seems like Albini spends a fair amount of time on the internet, which makes it really hard for me to believe he's never encountered Gaga. Considering every fucking site on the net, up to the most highminded highbrow sites, has a thinkpiece on her. I just don't buy it here.

jon you understand that most thinkpieces don't have mp3s attached to them???

and albini doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to read think pieces

He said he also wouldn't know what she looked like which, tbh, is the part I have trouble with. I find it easier to believe he's never knowingly heard her.

That does seem sorta implausible (and not because their are thinkpieces about her, but because there are a lot of pics of her about.)

we should go to his website and FLOOD his message board with pictures of lady gaga! that'll show him!

jon - ultimately who cares?

I also don't think you get to play Chief Justice of Music when you produce Bush etc.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 4, 2011 10:57 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Steve Albini is fairly shameless about being a "if there's money, I'll do it" kind of producer wrt bands of which he's not necessarily fond.

He's not a producer, he's an engineer.

Come on, that could be said about any of the minutia discussed ad infintum on this entire board. There's about 1000 other examples all over ILM of "OMG artist X said THIS crazy thing about pop culture", I'm not sure why this one is suddenly ranking. I wasn't intending to turn this into some 2-day discussion or w/e, I just thought it came across as a smug, bullshit pose.

(xxpost)

"rankling"

kind of want Gaga to cover "Kerosene" now

or maybe "Things To Do Today"

From the Sunday matinee Shellac Q and A:

Kim Deal or Kim Gordon?

For what purpose?

Ah, the LOLs we had.

gaaaaaaggaagaaaagaaagagaaagagagagagagaaaaa NOTHING TO DO BUT SIT AROUND AT HOME SIT AROUND AT HOME AND STARE AT THE WALLS STARE AT EACH OTHER AND WAIT TILL WE DIE STARE AT EACH OTHER AND WAIT TILL WE DIE gaaaa gaaa gaa ga ga ra ra ra il y kerosene

I support this ^

i mean, i suspect he's kinda bending the truth about not knowing what she looks like but who knows? i bet my mom doesn't know what she looks like, i bet other ppl i know don't know what she looks like

it's not that hard to not know things

i believe that he's not heard her

tbh the first time i heard "poker face" was some youtube of chris daughtry from american idol covering it

then i was like damn daughtry's giving gaga props, time for a thinkpiece, shit just got real

then i was like damn daughtry's giving gaga props, time for a thinkpiece, shit just got real

IRL LOL

Steve Albini is fairly shameless about being a "if there's money, I'll do it" kind of producer wrt bands of which he's not necessarily fond.

this isn't his position - his position is "I am an engineer; anybody can hire me to do what I do, I'm like a mechanic." he charges the same, whoever he's recording, and he doesn't care what kind of music he's recording, he doesn't consider engineering a visionary art like somebody like Lanois does.

my mechanic only works on cars he respects on an aesthetic level

he charges the same, whoever he's recording

I think that's only at his own studio.

I charge whatever the hell I feel like at the moment, based on the client's ability to pay, how nice the band members are, the size and directly proportional gullibility of the record company, and whether or not they got the rock.

must confess i also haven't heard a note of actual gaga or recognize what gaga looks like
but this is what i imagine her to look like:
http://i.imgur.com/KWAtd.jpg
(that's a chicken drumstick on her head)

so... you think Lady Gaga looks like a character from Squidbillies?

is it that far off?

not really, no

this is what i imagine bonnie prince billy looks like:
http://i.imgur.com/n6Rbf.png

His dad is a french tickler?

xpost I bet Lanois is a lot more hands off a producer than many people peg him for. Lots of his stuff (Peter Gabriel aside) is just people together in a room. Even a lot of his fabled sound is mostly just small old school amps cranked up, the odd delay pedal aside.

Anyway. Albini I imagine will pretty much do anything anyone asks him to in the studio. I doubt many people come and ask him to do stuff with drum machines, synths and sequences, though. He also has a pretty well established sliding scale, in that the more money a label has, the more he charges. Punk bands from podunk don't pay much at all. In many other regards, his infamous persona and reputation is pretty overblown. In my limited experience, he's a nice, hard-working guy.And like Ian MacKaye, he'll pick up the phone when you call.

braggin'

He himself had a pretty good drum machine band once upon a time iirc.

today i was listening to that Jarvis Cocker record he did, which is great and has a bit of synths and loops and stuff

tbf the guy seemed insufferable with all those dick-waving Forced Exposure articles

on ILM of all places people should understand that it's possible for someone to be really snarky and aggressive when writing about music online or being interviewed about music and yet a perfectly nice guy irl when dealing with people face to face about regular stuff

they meet!
http://i.imgur.com/kB7ZU.png