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Big Black is a great band if you haven’t heard of them (sorry, not available on Spotify). There’s enough melody amongst the noise to keep it interesting, and t
by itqwertz 3y ago
Big Black is a great band if you haven’t heard of them (sorry, not available on Spotify).
There’s enough melody amongst the noise to keep it interesting, and the youthful finger-pointing aggression and characterization makes it unique.
- flobosg 3y agoRoland the drummer really does a great job there.
- singingfish 3y agoYep, combination of Steve and Roland totally defined what the "heavy" sound is for me, and mostly nothing since Big Black has come close. One of my favourite bands (The Crooked Fiddle Band - check them out) have a very dense acoustic heavy sound in that they're a traditionally instrumented folk band with other instruments. When I learned Albini was engineering one of their albums (he did two), I couldn't think of a better match.
- jghn 3y agoI see what you did there. :)
- tinyspacewizard 3y agoSonic Youth apologized that their release wasn't as good as Atomizer.
- ctrlp 3y agoSonic Youth were art school asslickers. Their "apology" was performative tribute to buy cred.
- tptacek 3y agoAlbini doesn't agree with you, or didn't at the time they were making the records anybody cares about. They were tight in the '80s. sec later (But, from your other comment on this thread, that might not make a difference to you! I'll note that this an artistic judgement though, not a moral one, and you seem to value his artistic output.)
- hackandthink 3y agoBig Black - Atomizer (Full Album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cDvRl3edo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cDvRl3edo
- rufus_foreman 3y agoThat was for their Master-Dik EP. Big Black made the same apology for their Headache EP. Both records had the same sticker: "Not as good as Atomizer, so don't get your hopes up, cheese!". True in both cases, I haven't listened to either of those in decades, while Atomizer remains essential listening.