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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #10260 on: May 08, 2024, 12:16:31 pm »
Steve Albini, 61, heart attack
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #10261 on: May 08, 2024, 12:26:15 pm »
Steve Albini, 61, heart attack

Wow, just as Shellac gets the cover of The Wire.


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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #10262 on: May 08, 2024, 12:45:31 pm »
Well that's the worst

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #10263 on: May 08, 2024, 01:22:25 pm »
That sucks

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #10264 on: May 08, 2024, 02:03:50 pm »
There’s a great chapter in the book about Fugazi’s In On the Killtaker about Fugazi trekking to Chicago to cut the album and Albini botching it!!

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #10265 on: May 08, 2024, 02:13:50 pm »
The Breeders album the Pod is a great Albini recording.

Stooges The Weirdness was a complete failure and Albini must bear some responsibility.

Really he had great recordings and not so great.

Not sure what I think of his work on In Utero

Obviously Surfer Rosa is his definitive recording.

As far as his own music with Big Black and Shellac: not really my cup of tea.

Always thought it was awesome that if you could scrounge up just a little scratch he would record you.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #10266 on: May 08, 2024, 03:03:16 pm »
my favorite thing from Albini was this article on how signing to a major label is the probably worst decision most bands make
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/albini.html

He also did PJ harvey's break out album too
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #10267 on: May 08, 2024, 09:48:18 pm »
One of the better stories regarding Albini I saw today

https://x.com/mm6169/status/1788305947070214153?s=46&t=81bsTFbar0Jl_mHBl9WnuA
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