RIP Steve Albini

[tragabigzanda]

[daft twat]

I just remembered Local H recorded Hey, Killer at Albini’s Electrical Audio studio. I don’t know how involved he was personally. Andy Gerber produced and just fucking killed it. I love how that record sounds. Listen to “The Misanthrope” for a taste.

[Jammer XCI]

https://vsmusick.wordpress.com/2024/05/ ... -10-works/

This is a list of the top 10 albums of his that I have and listen to regularly, it's probably a bit different from most of the stuff I've seen published, I tend to prefer the heavier works. Check it out.

[zeb]

Last night on John Mulaney’s Netflix show Everybody’s in LA, he thanked all the guests, and then thanked Steve Albini.

wow tasteless joke from him, maybe he is still a drunk?

No, I think it was genuine.

It absolutely was.

hi zeb

Hey 96583UP

[tragabigzanda]

[Malloy]

as an inveterate, glorified errand boy, i mostly interact with doormen, assistants & the variegated handlers of the rich. today my errands took me to a familiar, unremarkable mug, advanced in age and intimate with the ways of the supplicant: dave. he was distracted when i entered the lobby of the building he works in and apologized, "Reading about Albini." turns out dave was steve's mechanic back when steve was at northwestern. he drove a 1978 mercury bobcat that he referred to as "the thinking man's pinto". he'd stick pepperoni & olives on the antenna. when dave would invoice steve, he'd write him up as "bob avellini," who at the time was ably quarterbacking the bears into the middle of the pack. steve got a kick out of that, apparently.

dave said steve wasn't up to much, likely just working at wnur and playing music. but dave said even then, if you met steve, you knew he was going to do something.

[wtfisaledbetter?]

https://vsmusick.wordpress.com/2024/05/10/9-nuns-and-a-pack-mule-steve-albinis-top-10-works/

This is a list of the top 10 albums of his that I have and listen to regularly, it's probably a bit different from most of the stuff I've seen published, I tend to prefer the heavier works. Check it out.

Awesome list! I love High on Fire and yes the new one is a banger

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[96583UP]

listened to At Action Park and Terraform today

monster bike ride into a strong northern wind

[96583UP]

now onto 1000 Hurts

Qrj doesn’t fk around

[tragabigzanda]

[coptheriotact]

I dreamt I got to work/learn from steve in a empty classroom, but I was distracted trying to scrape dried caked avocado out of a beer glass

Steve told me one of my songs was like a dirty toilet bowl inside a refrigerator

[tragabigzanda]

[Ms Harmless]

if "trying to scrape dried caked avocado out of a beer glass" doesn't describe the PRAMG fan experience I don't know what does

[Simple Torture]

On The Watch podcast this week, Chris Ryan spoke pretty eloquently about the loss of Albini and why it’s hit so many people like a punch in the gut this week, and one thing that stuck with me was him comparing it to when a folk artist or the last speaker of a language dies—that there will be people who are disciples of Albini and those who are inspired by him, but the singular mind that knew how to capture sound the way he did is gone forever. Brutal.

Also, in his rundown of the artists Albini worked with, CR mentioned Songs: Ohia right next to Nirvana and The Pixies, so he may be a secret Molina-head.

[tragabigzanda]

[zeb]

Also, in his rundown of the artists Albini worked with, CR mentioned Songs: Ohia right next to Nirvana and The Pixies, so he may be a secret Molina-head.

I reckon he would have been - how many records did they make together? Four?

JM was obviously a fan.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Simple Torture]

Also, in his rundown of the artists Albini worked with, CR mentioned Songs: Ohia right next to Nirvana and The Pixies, so he may be a secret Molina-head.

I reckon he would have been - how many records did they make together? Four?

JM was obviously a fan.

Oh sorry, unclear antecedent—I meant that Chris Ryan might covertly be a fan of Molina.

And yeah, the four were: Magnolia Electric Co, What Comes After the Blues, Nashville Moon (on the Sojourner boxset), and Josephine. One has to imagine they would’ve continued working together. Bob Weston of Shellac mastered the Molina & Johnson record, but it was recorded in Texas, which is Will Johnson’s home turf (we can dream about a follow-up record recorded in Chicago).

[zeb]

And yeah, the four were: Magnolia Electric Co, What Comes After the Blues, Nashville Moon (on the Sojourner boxset), and Josephine. One has to imagine they would’ve continued working together. Bob Weston of Shellac mastered the Molina & Johnson record, but it was recorded in Texas, which is Will Johnson’s home turf (we can dream about a follow-up record recorded in Chicago).

A second M & J record would have been a true gift. I've been down the WJ rabbithole for the last couple months, he is incredibly prolific and I find his work increasingly comforting, much like Molina. It's a shame they didn't get to work together again.

I know you know this, but there's so much great material across those four Molina & Albini records/sessions. I just made myself a playlist:

01 Steve Albini's Blues
02 Farewell Transmission
03 Knoxville Girl
04 Nashville Moon
05 Almost Was Good Enough
06 Don't Fade On Me
07 Map of the Falling Sky
08 Give Something Else Away Every Day
09 Shiloh
10 John Henry Split My Heart
11 Heartbreak at Ten Paces
12 Texas 71
13 Hold On Magnolia