Dennis Deep Cuts #60 Steve Albini Rest in Power. Diving into some of his great work.
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- Dennis Deep Cuts #60 On this episode I dive into the recording career of Steve Albini and I dig out some fantastic albums that he produced or engineered. Maybe not the most well known albums but some amazing music nonetheless.
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Great tribute! Would love to see a Manics best to worst episode, by the way
Hey well while you're still alive, your music has probably been the most influential on me of all the music I've heard. Been listening for almost 20 years since I first heard it. Never thought I'd get to see Refused live and I was so happy to be there for the reunion tour at the NYC stop. Saw you again when you came to Boston on another tour.
I'm so glad you mentioned Seamonsters, it sounds fantastic, the songwriting is some of Gedge's best and it is in my top three Albini produced (or should I say engineered) albums. Albini also produced a couple of great The Ex LPs.
Fin hyllning. Tack!
Times of Grace by Neurosis! Such a beautifully fantastic album.
MSP are an all timer for me. Absolutely 100% want to see you do a Manics best to worst video! Seeing Smash It Up from Survival Sickness (still a favourite) on MTV back in 2000 was my first taste of your music and I've devoured everything backwards and forwards from that point. But yeah, my first reaction when I saw that was "YES! These guys are giving me serious early MSP energy!"
Ok. Might do that list sooner than later.
And MSP were a big inspiration. Maybe not so much musically but the whole idea of the band. INC were actually supposed to tour with them on the know your enemy tour but it got cancelled 2 weeks before it was supposed to start.
Still a major bummer for me.
Saw Shellac in Stockholm in 2014 or thereabouts, as necessary and raw as you would expect. Albini was just the greatest and his death saddens me immensely - those Jesus Lizard records are easily some of my all-time favourites. A Manics episode would be neat - their catalogue is genuinely immense - one of the few bands who managed to swerve the rancid skidmark that was Britpop and not turn into their own miserable nostalgia tribute act.
First band I ever played in was called "The Good Frames", at the time I thought "good frames won't save bad paintings" was an old English saying, I only much later found out that you came up with it.
Re: Steve Albini, I really love McClusky do Dallas, bit of an obvious choice, but it just has this rare combination of totally unhinged and hysterically funny.
Thanks. Makes me happy to hear.
Music and inspiration should be passed on and used and abused. That’s the only way.
Great episode- great list! I especially agree about Flour ( but I have been a Rifle Sport fan since the early 1980's) the Wedding Present, and of course the Manics- and yeah, I'd love to see your opinion on best to worst ( especially the "worst" as they've never put out a truly bad record, as far as I'm concerned) As for "giving them their flowers" when still alive- I am grateful that I've been able to do that for some, recently passed, and it really sucks that I was never able to do that for others. So, in that spirit- know that you are among those who deserve those flowers.
Yea. Manics never really put out a ban album. Some not so great but never bad.
Love that Slapshot album he recorded Unconsciousness from 94 I think... really aggressive recording
Great video!! 👊
called 'bad' by most HC people, I loved it.
I just got a Jeanne Lee private press LP from Mats in the mail. Will be picking up that Fire! LP. Got to see Shellac at Primavera Sound in Barcelona in 2014. Jordi from BCore told me how much Albini loved playing in that City and they would normally play a smaller venue in town as well.
Todd was also in Breaking Circus with J. Christopher and Flour. Rifle Sport,Breaking Circus, and FLOUR are pretty much same group of guys.
Bloodsport were awesome too. Also from the same scene.
Cheap Trick re-recorded their second LP "In Color," with Steve Albini. It was never released but you can find it on TH-cam. He did great work with it as he did anything he touch. Bad Penny by Big Black is still one of my favourite tracks of all time and the absolute classic Prayer To God by Shellac. RIP
RIP
An absolutely fantastic engineer and a nice fellow later in life. With that said, even Steve wouldn't object to my pointing out that he was, for lack of a more erudite way to phrase it, an absolute dick when he was young. I was with Henry Rollins when we ran across a piece that Albini wrote that called Rollins a "rump plunger" that had to be "pulled of a young man." This was, of course, completely made up.
Yeah, I've heard as much and I think that he also acknowledge that he used to be a bit of an asshole when he was younger. The last couple of years he really did stand up for the less fortunate and was an ally to both trans and queer people.
But yeah, he did call his first band Rapeman so....
@Dennisdeepcuts Right. David Wm. Sims has calls the name "excruciatingly stupid" and largely pretends the band didn't exist.
High on Fire, Metz and made out of babies.