Album Rating: 4.5

"Honest question, why do we like Albini? Only thing I know about him was that he helped start grunge."



He fronted Big Black and produced Surfer Rosa, In Utero, Rid of Me, and a lot of Jesus Lizard albums



So he's kinda a music god tbh, but also kinda a douche

wow eg really shut his shit up there

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“So he's kinda a music god tbh, but also kinda a douche“



Probably the best description of Albini I’ve seen. He’s an incredible trailblazer and pioneer, especially in the fields of punk and noise rock, but also one of the biggest cunts in the music industry

Album Rating: 4.5

Thank you ars! But why is he a douche and/or a cunt?



Johnny seems really anxious for a fight today. Hope someone steps up.

there is an albini quote i want to post but i might get banned so i will abstain

perhaps that serves its purpose well enough

Album Rating: 2.5

Give us a hint

Album Rating: 2.5

On another note



Border Collie and the Never Ending Sheep Dog Trial >

My band shared an airport shuttle with [Odd Future] in Barcelona. They piled onto the shuttle late, after finally getting corralled by their minder, who was nursing a head wound with an ice bag wrapped in a towel. They piled in, n*****ing everything in sight, motherfucking the driver, boasting into the air unbidden about getting their dicks sucked and calling everyone in the area a f*****. Then one of them lit a joint (or a pipe, I didn't look) and told the driver to shut the fuck up n***** and smoked it anyway. A female passenger tried to engage one of them in conversation, but he just stared at her with a dead-to-me stare while his seatmate flipped double birds in her face.

The whole trip they complained about not being at a McDonalds and repeatedly shouted for the motherfucker to pull over so they could get some fucking McDonalds n*****. Interspersed with the McDonalds requests were shouted boasts about how often they masturbated and fucked bitches n***** and got paid like a motherfucker fifty grand like a motherfucker. They continued complaining that the trip was taking too long and insisted they be fed immediately all the way to the airport, where their minder presumably fed them.

albini 1: https://www.listenlistenlisten.org/stevealbini/
albini 2: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/three-pandering-sluts-and-their-music-press-stooge/
albini bonus: https://chicagoist.com/2011/08/09/steve_albini_on_odd_future_assholes.php
so yh the guy is ultimately a force for good and a master at gratuitously belittling inflated shitweeds (ergo Smashing Pumpkins tie-in) but he's got an omelette legacy if ever there was one

oh lol wow, we got to albini bonus faster than i expected. good quote.

it fucking kills me

no such thing as too many rereads
also would probs add that "incredible trailblazer and pioneer" is a misrepresentative description of his work as a producer; his entire methodology is based around facilitating whatever band X wants artistically and keeping his claws out (as opposed to your major label Rick Rubin sugar daddy supervisor control fucks)

Albini also produced Signal de Revolta by Braindamage, which was pretty surprising given the kind of album it was.

Album Rating: 4.5

Thanks everyone!



An artist who is an asshole, eh? Always a dilemma.

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“An artist who is an asshole, eh? Always a dilemma.“



More like commonplace 😅

Album Rating: 5.0

He produced In Utero which is easily a top 10 album all time for me, so he's got my admiration there.

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Sure, if you’re ok with the fact that he called Nirvana “R.E.M. with a fuzzbox”

Album Rating: 5.0

>albini 2: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/three-pandering-sluts-and-their-music-press-stooge/



Never seen this response before. Didn’t Albini mix, like, every Urge Overkill record?

lmao 5 secs of wiki says he produced The Supersonic Storybook and was apaz roommates with the group at some point; pogchampion anime betrayal ngl

Album Rating: 5.0

'Sure, if you’re ok with the fact that he called Nirvana “R.E.M. with a fuzzbox”



Haha i've heard this comment many a time and I'm ok with it.