how does he know shes shit if he hasnt heard a note?
do you really have to ask?
― Logg \ O / Logg (crüt), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
I only know one Lady Gaga song and only know what she looks like because of the video for that song...Telephone?
― donut and the golden hen (admrl), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
there are thinkpieces all over the fucking place about her
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
i'm perfectly happy for albini to keep churning out these uh, albini-isms. dude seems destined never to mellow, and i'd argue that he simultaneously serves as a luminary for the cantankerous inner cynic in all of us and a bit of a reminder to keep our pessimism in check, so as to not take things quite as far as he has. in other words, the consistency of his message has been kind of comforting over the years and a rather noble counterpoint to the voice of those who take most everything at face value.
― charlie h, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 08:13 (twelve years ago) link
He should get a free pass forevermore for his Santa escapades with his wife.
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 10:07 (twelve years ago) link
OMG what are his Santa escapades? I thought I was pretty filled in on Albini's exploits!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
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, 4 October 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I have no doubt that he's a really nice dude, heard that a lot actually.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
he gave our chalet their beer stash at ATP one year, claiming they were "too old" to want to drink it. They were in the chalet next door to us.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
I once saw him silenced by a heckler, at the Garage in London.
He was introducing - I think - My Black Ass with a long spiel about Satchel Paige being the greatest ball player white people never saw play. Someone shouted: "What about Geoffrey Bloody Boycott, eh?"
Albini was baffled, started laughing and told the heckler: "Sir, you have the advantage."
― Viva Brother Beyond (ithappens), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
OMG what are his Santa escapades?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/dec/09/steve-albini-chicago-secret-santa
― lol-qaeda (am0n), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/the-problem-solver/2010/01/letters-to-santa-update.html
― lol-qaeda (am0n), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
That's awesome.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitpic.com/gnu7p
― lol-qaeda (am0n), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, October 4, 2011 10:00 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark
details on this?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
apparently he took the money from bush and gave it to poor mathcore bands or something
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
See I didn't become aware of Albini until the 90s, so I missed out on all those *charming* 80s years.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― the green manalishi (with the big boobies) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the green manalishi (with the big boobies) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
ppl should turn down interviews when they have nothing to say (99% of everybody)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the green manalishi (with the big boobies) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
*grabs coat, trots to door, SLAM*
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
kinda amazed people are still trotting out this "I can't BELIEVE you've never been heard/seen [insert pop star]" canard
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
been
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
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 /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
jon you understand that most thinkpieces don't have mp3s attached to them???
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
and albini doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to read think pieces
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
That does seem sorta implausible (and not because their are thinkpieces about her, but because there are a lot of pics of her about.)
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
we should go to his website and FLOOD his message board with pictures of lady gaga! that'll show him!
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
jon - ultimately who cares?
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― Logg \ O / Logg (crüt), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
He's not a producer, he's an engineer.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
"rankling"
kind of want Gaga to cover "Kerosene" now
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
or maybe "Things To Do Today"
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
From the Sunday matinee Shellac Q and A:
Kim Deal or Kim Gordon?
For what purpose?
Ah, the LOLs we had.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Logg \ O / Logg (crüt), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I support this ^
― Logg \ O / Logg (crüt), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
IRL LOL
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
my mechanic only works on cars he respects on an aesthetic level
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― dmr, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
must confess i also haven't heard a note of actual gaga or recognize what gaga looks likebut this is what i imagine her to look like:http://i.imgur.com/KWAtd.jpg(that's a chicken drumstick on her head)
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link