STEVE ALBINI

Wtf

wtf!

I'm in shock

Holy fuck. Assumed revive was for the Guardian reader questions interview which I saw today.

Fuck. RIP.

what the fuck. RIP

WHAT

ahhhh what the hell

gutted. what the fuck.

this is just horrible

awful news

fucking hell :(

WHAT?? jesus christ

Fuck. Shocking news.

SHOCKED! AWFUL NEWS. :(

what the hell

Aw man. R.I.P. to a legit legend. A complex legend, but jeez.

Jesus. That's awful.

Genuinely shocked

Was just reading the Shellac cover story in the new Wire. Terrible news.

Fuck, how terribly sad :(

Heart stuff is scary. Just a lurking hidden menace.

Guardian just posted this AMA question request with him. Truly shocking news. https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/post-your-questions-for-steve-albini

what the FUCK

well this sucks

I feel like I have been punched in the gut

The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, August 15, 2023 4:02 AM (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

worth re-reading. hits different today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fa05wFS0q8

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— 💜💜🎀 ɮɨɢ ɮǟʟʟօօռ ǟɖʋɛռȶʊʀɛ🎀 💜💜 (@NickPinkerton) May 8, 2024

Shocking. Just read the interview in the Wire and then saw the news.

it'd be a shock regardless but this happening in the middle of a press cycle for the new Shellac album/tour is hitting me

i'm just stunned. this was a guy who was still very present in the scene and he is just gone in a heartbeat

indeed. hard to listen to this now -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj04MDHq4UY

and this -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=malJUMz2A9Y

listen

I just cranked Heartbeat really loud

this brings back the feeling of loss when John Peel died - such a force for so much music for so long, and assumed there was longer to go.

Well said. https://t.co/qrzccMzVTk

— LOW (@lowtheband) May 8, 2024

it's honestly hard to think of many equivalent figures who are left

xp

Aw man, my friend Emily had just interviewed him for that Wire story, posted something about what a sweet person he was to interact with.

PSF: Who's the most replaceable member of Shellac?
Steve Albini: OK, so in the Shellac death pool, who do you think is going to go first?
Bob Weston: Maybe I'll flip a coin...Steve's the one who's already had a heart attack, so he's most likely to die!
SA: Todd, you don't eat enough, so your heart might explode one of these days.
BW: I have genetic heart disease.
SA: But I've already had a heart attack.
Todd Trainer: I'm sure I had a heart attack in Scotland.
SA: You need to eat more!
PSF: Have you really had a heart attack?
SA: Yes, I had a heart attack when I was twenty-five. I had a viral infection of the pericardium.
BW: He had some worms in his heart.
SA: I had the dropsy! I had consumption!
BW: We slipped some pills in his food, and it cleared right up.
TT: If Steve goes first, Bob and I are in for some royalties.

https://www.furious.com/perfect/shellac.html

😞

been blasting this one in tribute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3GGzIP7sU0
Pop Negatif Wastad - Kerosene

Aliases: A Skinny Bespectacled Guy, Arden Geist, Buck Naked (4), Ding Rollski, Don Moist, Engineer (8), Fluss, Frank Francisco, Harry Schnell, King Barbecue, Lenard Johns, Mr. Billiards, Reggie Stiggs, Robert Earl Hughes, Some Fuckin' Derd Niffer, Terry Fuckwit, The Li'l Weed, The Proprietor, Torso Man, Whodini (2)

he will always be some fuckin' derd niffer to me

Should poll those aliases

Fluss was Steve Albini's cat, who died at age 23 in 2003, whom he routinely credited to his own production work as a joke.

Variations: Fluss, World Famous Record Producer And Rocket Scientist

Shame that Fluss, World Famous Record Producer And Rocket Scientist produced one of the horrible ones. Bad Fluss!

The way John faced his mortality was inspirational. When my time comes, I hope I can follow his example. I hope when I die I go like John, embroiled in the middle of things, surrounded by people I love, doing the things that matter most. I hope I leave a mountain of shit unfinished, that I have a pan on the stove, a phone call waiting and a pencil in my hand. I hope I'm man enough to be thinking about tomorrow.

For all of us, the living, the dying and the someday dying, John Grabski III, you are a hero.

-steve albini

Listening to Labradford's Fixed::Context right now and wondering if Albini had anything to say about working with them and found this from labradford poll

i want to love the first song on Mi Media Naranja but the high-frequency tone drives me absolutely INSANE. i feel like an old man but it seriously ruins the song for me. at first i thought it was some sort of mistake or weird pressing issue but apparently they did it on purpose?

It's on purpose. I actually asked Steve Albini in person about it once (he engineered Fixed::Context, where a high pitched thing shows up again in the song 'David'). He shrugged and said 'those guys liked adding weird sounds.'

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 8:25 PM (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Uz6BO8QO0