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Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 10:42 pm
by Jorge
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."
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 10:43 pm
by Jorge
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
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 10:48 pm
by run2death
Great, another Weezer/Pinkerton thread.
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 10:59 pm
by Norah
Doesn't Stone hate Binaural?
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 11:03 pm
by Jorge
cutuphalfdead wrote:Doesn't Stone hate Binaural?
I know he's talked about No Code not being "as great as it could've been", but I don't know about Binaural
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 11:03 pm
by epilogue
cutuphalfdead wrote:Doesn't Stone hate Binaural?
And Vitalogy. And probably No Code.
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 11:35 pm
by Jorge
Grimes on Art Angels
The last album was a piece of crap. I feel like people really misread it and it feels like a stain on my life
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 11:36 pm
by LoathedVermin72
That’s sad. I love that album.
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 1:34 am
by PHATJ
LoathedVermin72 wrote:That’s sad. I love that album.
Clearly you have terrible taste.
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 1:39 am
by Chris_H_2
theplatypus wrote:Grimes on Art Angels
The last album was a piece of crap. I feel like people really misread it and it feels like a stain on my life
link?
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 1:40 am
by Chris_H_2
PHATJ wrote:LoathedVermin72 wrote:That’s sad. I love that album.
Clearly you have terrible taste.
that was the best album that year by far
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 2:57 am
by spike
"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."
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 9:39 pm
by Jorge
Chris_H_2 wrote:theplatypus wrote:Grimes on Art Angels
The last album was a piece of crap. I feel like people really misread it and it feels like a stain on my life
link?
https://www.culturedmag.com/grimes-claire-boucher-c/
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 10:32 pm
by bart
dammit, I was going to change my name to C++ but now it just seems derivative
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 10:43 pm
by epilogue
bart wrote:dammit, I was going to change my name to C++ but now it just seems derivative
C+- ?
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 11:17 pm
by BurtReynolds
She mostly sounds mad that people misunderstood it.
Re: Musicians who hate their own albums
Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 11:47 pm
by Jorge
Yeah I think that's most of it. But she does call it a piece of crap