STEVE ALBINI

if he would've made a masterpiece with Backstreet Boys, he was now the truly the god of all producers lol

of course he is a great producer, but it's easier to be good with Jesus Lizard than with Bush

He would probably admit that!

i don't really care about notions of "good bands" and i don't think it's relevant to Albini's process - he worked with whoever he chose, whether that be for financial or aesthetic reasons

i always dreamed about a collaboration between SY and Albini. that could have been their last masterpiece..

i guess he fucked it with that Rapeman song..among other stuff..

true, i'm talking about the result
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The 18th Dye record sounds fantastic!

I imagine that letter being typed out live on a sturdy but analog typewriter with no edits and no click track.

lol

my faves would probably be pod, surfer rosa, goat, songs about fucking, rid of me. and the first shellac album. kinda glad he didn't do helmet's meantime and spiderland. oh and dial m for motherfucker. i like how that sounds. too far into the 90's and i probably didn't hear whatever he did.

I don't like how the jawbreaker record sounded but apparently during the recording process the console caught on fire so good excuse?

i'll add Man Or Astro Man, and some more i probably forgot..
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seamonsters, dogs...

silkworm

All of the Silkworm albums he worked on sound amazing but especially "Firewater." My favorite drum sound.
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Nina Nastasia's records, those are good.

oh yeah! those are some recent records i love. don't know how much of that is albini and how much of that is liking her a lot though. they sound fine. he is good with strings on some of those records.

taking a good band and not fucking it up is harder than it sounds -- there are plenty of crappy-sounding or overworked records by good bands

if you listen to the recent nina albums they don't scream albini or anything. which is a good thing. they shouldn't. i like tar's jackson too. forgot that one. just a great rock guitar sound.

i still dream of a new orleans brass band recording with albini.

or great punk guitar sound anyway. you have to dig albini drum sound to like the tar album though.

every time i hear a shittily digitally recorded metal album i kinda wish i could hear it recorded by someone like albini. just to get some sort of room sound and some contrast.

From outside the world of rock, he did a really good job on The Thing's Bag It! a few years ago.

Wonder if he's still insisting on the no royalties with the 2013 mix and all that.

I wish more jazz artists hired him cuz yes that Thing record sounds great.

Steve is a genius at documenting what bands actually sound like, which seems like it would be really easy to do but is not. I am in a band that made a record with him and he was a pleasure to work with and I think it sounds closest of all of our records to what we actually sound like live & in the practice space.

obligatory post where i say that razorblade suitcase sounds pretty damn good.

chr1s I figured out what band that is and I'm listening to the record now and it sounds pretty great!

albini has a thing with kick and snare -- when he does anything on the hard side his kick and snare always really stand out to me

i guess he fucked it with that Rapeman song..among other stuff.

Kim Gordon: Big Black were playing in Amsterdam, it was their last tour, and we happened to be there. In the train stations they have machines where you can buy women’s underwear. It was Steve’s birthday, so I bought some to throw at him so he would feel like a rock god on his birthday.

These are all some great records, but Neurosis "Times Of Grace" is the best album Albini ever recorded

I agree with the "no royalties" ideology and put it into practice by working pay-what-you-can with all clients. The rest of that letter is a terrific, dogmatic method but it's a good method. I've heard lots of shitty Albini records by bands that really should've used Protools (or practiced more) ((or ceased to exist))

yeah, what bands actually sound like + an amazing larger-than-life roomy drum sound.

yeah tbf I don't think many bands can claim that their drums sound like that in the practice room

Ha, well the drums actually do kind of sound that way in the practice pad when yr standing right in front of them.

i'm usually behind them so maybe i don't realize ha. but I'm also not a heavy-hitting drummer.

taking a good band and not fucking it up is harder than it sounds -- there are plenty of crappy-sounding or overworked records by good bands

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but taking a shitty/mediocre band and recording with them a record with a good production - no one will give a fuck anyway.

i think by definition "shitty/mediocre" bands who are recording an album have a number of people who will give a fuck

Right
But not the one's who liked the "good" bands.
Plus,people who like shitty band usually don't enjoy the "production"..

Assuming we all agree Pixies were good and Bush was shit lol

"Hey,that Bush record sounds great but I hate the band. I think I'll buy it"
A sentence that was never told

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here to rep for 'Ocean Songs' which i think is one of the most beautiful sounding records i've ever heard.

It's interesting to compare Seamonsters, which he recorded, against The Wedding Present's Hit Parade stuff which is of a similar style but sounds pretty terrible largely. Seamonsters sounds incredible; not austere at all with its soaring guitars and, yes, Albini drums. In this one example I do think he added so much that he should possibly deserve royalties.

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

This line on the thread got me to chuckle as I pictured one of those mechanics that works on just BMWs or Jaguars.

Albini gets a great live drum sound, Unfortunately, that same sound seems to be what he gets out of everything else, too.

Anyway, his work with Low and Bedhead show what he can do in mellower circumstances. In some ways, the lack of a pounding drummer in those situations forced him to do better with everything else.

If you don't know, Lil BUB is the latest deformed kitty to take the inter-tubes by storm, following in the paw-prints of the now-legendary Grumpy Cat. The gal has no teeth so her tongue constantly hangs out and has some kind of drawfism so she remains an eternal kitten with tiny, unbelievably adorable front paws. Here she is:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Lil_Bub_2013.jpg/800px-Lil_Bub_2013.jpg

Yeah, well Lil BUB has a YouTube show. In what might one day culturally rival Alice Cooper on the Muppet Show or the punk rock episode of CHiPS, the guest in the third episode is famed funnyman Steve Albini. Here is the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn0GvRpthJ4

I cannot wait for the whole episode in two days...

lil bub's owner is an electrical audio board guy i think

i wonder if there is video of albini interviewing nate silver

Always a good reason to repost this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWrVQTlonc

"They're HUGE in the world of math rock."

i wonder if there is video of albini interviewing nate silver

I went to this last December. Albini asked Silver something along the lines of: "Why go into election stats instead of going to Wall Street and becoming a billionaire?" And Silver talked about how high the bar was for Wall Street quants, and how he was more excited to be in a field where doing a B+ job felt like an A-grade job, where there was that kind of skill gap.

(Also played cards with them that evening.)

I hear Nate Silver is a good poker player.