What are some musicians (or producers) who hate some of their own work?
I started thinking about this after reading this quote from Gus Dudgeon, the man who produced Elton John's Caribou:
[It's] a piece of crap . . . the sound is the worst, the songs are nowhere, the sleeve came out wrong, the lyrics weren't that good, the singing wasn't all there, the playing wasn't great, and the production is just plain lousy."
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
There's also this Rivers Cuomo quote about Pinkerton, from 2001
It's a hideous record... It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people and continues to happen on a grander and grander scale and just won't go away. It's like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself.
He's probably changed his mind, considering that they've played the whole album a few times since then
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
"I'd love to remix Ten," Ament told Spin in 2001. "Ed, for sure, would agree with me. Three, four years ago, I picked out a cassette, and it had the rough mixes of 'Garden' and 'Once,' and it sounded great. It wouldn't be like changing performances; just pull some of the reverb off it."
In 2009, Ament said that—unlike their other albums—Ten had a "little bit more of an '80s production." When Gossard was promoting the 2009 reissue of the album, featuring a remix of the original songs, he said that, "I think Ten's still good, but I don't put it on."
