STEVE ALBINI

I think Albini's response is pretty spot on, actually, although obviously I love a lot of dance music. He let the guy do what he wanted to do, and gave him material for a video and ad out of it to boot (albeit inadvertently). I'm just amused by the fact that it's a story that Albini hates club music and club culture: of course he does, he's got one of the most dyed-in-the-wool aesthetics of any musician ever, and he's been a crotchety old man about what he believes in since his 20s.

http://i.imgur.com/UMveCfs.jpg

he would not be kissin' up to gays in his 20s; i was there

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? ... .... ... .. .

Wonder if he also hates metal for being similarly "stylistically rigid".

probably!

albini is a smart dude but smart dudes can still have some very dumb opinions too

i do want to see bob mould and albini team up to form a rival wrestling league to billy corgan's.

Mould wrote for WCW back in its heyday

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

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

xp who is surprised by it? It's just an amusing interaction.

i do want to see bob mould and albini team up to form a rival wrestling league to billy corgan's.

― 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

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 worship
http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/marissa-paternoster-screaming-females-talks/

― La Lechera, Sunday, August 9, 2015 7:18 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

That is funny.

Powell doesn't seem upset about it

http://thequietus.com/articles/18897-powell-albini-interview

this fucking guy is the all-time <i>this fucking guy</i>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xtZDkNAs0c

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

pretty much, yeah

the flipside, though, is that a lot of people in 2015 have difficulty distinguishing between "appropriate for private conversation" and "appropriate for public conversation"

everybody forgot about this already.

it never happened.

RIP techno music & steve albini

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?

Apparently Steve Albini said something grumpy and rockist about music. News.

Just breaking

RIP, loved his work with Garbage and Shania Twain

I don't know who the fuck Steve Albino is

guitar player in Todd Trainer's band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FYWcn8mL0

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!'

I don't think Albini is saying "disco sucks" so much as "Information Society sucks"

I always imagined he was thinking about early Ministry/Waxtrax stuff

His why-disco-sucked post is upthread a bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=413&v=Oem6gEEajZU

^^"song with the sample

His why-disco-sucked post upthread is a bit ...

anyway everybody otm itt

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

Disco hater

teared up a lil at that tbh

xp

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?"

Damn, I kinda want to hug Steve Albini.

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

i take back whatever shit i said about fred armisen

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

http://www.listenlistenlisten.org/stevealbini/

He's OK, then?

Oh, yeah, sorry - he's OK. But it's a fascinating interview, imo.