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Oh man, that’s terrible! I was waiting to hear when the next Shellac tour was going to be taking place, as they’ve got an album coming out next week. I’m a hug
by quickthrowman 2y ago
Oh man, that’s terrible! I was waiting to hear when the next Shellac tour was going to be taking place, as they’ve got an album coming out next week.
I’m a huge, huge fan of Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac, and Steve Albini’s production (Nirvana’s In Utero, Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, Jesus Lizard’s discography, PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, Brainiac’s Hissing Prigs in Static Couture, Songs:Ohia’s Magnolia Electric Company, plus hundreds more)
He could be a bit of a dick but he was an insanely talented musician and engineer/producer. I don’t think any single person has had as much of effect on the music I listen to as Steve did.
RIP Steve Albini, your impact on indie music will not be forgotten, and neither will your belt guitar strap. You will be dearly missed, there’s very few people cut from the same cloth you were.
A collection of Steve Albini band LPs
Big Black - Atomizer: https://youtu.be/03cDvRl3edo https://youtu.be/03cDvRl3edo
Big Black - Songs About Fucking: https://youtu.be/s0xCAZLE7c8 https://youtu.be/s0xCAZLE7c8
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule: https://youtu.be/JI4keToT1jM https://youtu.be/JI4keToT1jM
Shellac - At Action Park: https://youtu.be/AC7Pkwmllow https://youtu.be/AC7Pkwmllow
Shellac - Terraform: https://youtu.be/MueqsKUUlcE https://youtu.be/MueqsKUUlcE
Shellac - 1000 Hurts: https://youtu.be/7fXwbFxenC0 https://youtu.be/7fXwbFxenC0
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound: https://youtu.be/jQ_Logfsfuw https://youtu.be/jQ_Logfsfuw
Shellac - Dude, Incredible: https://youtu.be/Gh-SBGIx-2I https://youtu.be/Gh-SBGIx-2I
Shellac - To All Trains: (not on YouTube, this is set for released next week, posthumously)
- arp242 2y agoDidn't know Shellac had a new album coming out; they release stuff so infrequently I don't really keep up. Going to have some mixed feelings listening to that one...
- BoingBoomTschak 2y agoHis very close-miked sound still containing a tasteful (i.e. light) amount of reverb is such a recognizable signature... A true legend, and big coincidence since I discovered yet another of his production a week ago: Zeni Geva's last three LPs. Almost as important as the ubiquitous Dan Swano in my collection: $ find -L ~/Music -type f -name album.json -exec jqmusic '.credits | has("Steve Albini")' {} \; -print | awk -F/ '{print $5 " - " $6}' Big Black - (1986) Atomizer Big Black - (1982) Lungs Big Black - (1983) Bulldozer Big Black - (1987-1) Headache Big Black - (1987-2) Songs About Fucking Nine Inch Nails - (1999) The Fragile Om - (2007) Pilgrimage The Breeders - (1990) Pod Nirvana - (1993) In Utero The Jesus Lizard - (1990) Head The Jesus Lizard - (1989) Pure The Jesus Lizard - (1991) Goat The Jesus Lizard - (1992) Liar The Jesus Lizard - (1994) Down Pixies - (1988) Surfer Rosa PJ Harvey - (1993) Rid of Me Shellac - (1994) At Action Park Rapeman - (1988) Two Nuns and a Pack Mule Zeni Geva - (1993) Desire For Agony Zeni Geva - (1995) Freedom Bondage Zeni Geva - (2001) 10,000 Light Years To actually hear "In Utero" in all its Albini-esque glory, you must find the 2013 20th Anniversary Edition, it's on the 2nd disc.
- geoffeg 2y agoWhat are you using to generate album.json?
- adolph 2y agoAlso, what is this jqmusic executable with the jq style query?
- BoingBoomTschak 2y agoJust a jq wrapper that adds -e and includes some functions $ cat ~/bin/jqmusic #!/usr/bin/env bash exec jq -e "${@:1:$(($#-2))}" "include \"music\"; ${@: -2:1}" "${@: -1}" >/dev/null 2>&1 $ cat ~/.jq/music.jq def year: .released | match("[0-9]{4}").string | tonumber; def has_genre(str): .genres.primary | any(. == str); def match_genre(regexp): .genres.primary | any(match(regexp)); Together with https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/rymscrap https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/rymscrap to get the actual JSON.
- hipnoizz 2y agoZeni Geva is such a great band! Maybe you have already seen it, but I've always loved this live cover of 'Model' Kraftwerk by Zeni Geva & Albini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8R7c7XYmI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8R7c7XYmI4.
- quickthrowman 2y agoI will check out Zeni Geva, thanks for sharing!
- SourPatch 2y agoSteve also played with Zeni Geva as Superunit: https://www.discogs.com/release/876551-Zeni-Geva-Steve-Albini-All-Right-You-Little-Bastards https://www.discogs.com/release/876551-Zeni-Geva-Steve-Albin...
- singingfish 2y agoI'm going to put this here - The Crooked Fiddle Band - a Sydney folk band with major inspiration from Big Black and others had two albums produced by Albini - I couldn't think of a better match: https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/overgrown-tales https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/overgrown-tales https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/moving-pieces-of-the-sea https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/moving-pieces-o...
- fnordlord 2y agoI've always counted Prayer to God up there in my "best songs ever" list. What a huge bummer and loss.