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| From | erhoek@comcast.net |
| Subject | songs about bashing |
| Date | Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:32:02 +0000 |
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I totally agree with Greg's view. Albini comes off consistently as the hipster insider sycophant to the Amphetamine Reptile and early Touch and Go scene and takes every given opportunity to take potshots at anything that offers a tinge of melody and doesn't sound like a garbage truck being driven off the Matterhorn by a gang of Hell's Angels..
This snobbery from someone who produced, among other things ,a Bush album doesn't add up.
I think Albini's output as Big Black was right up there in the emperor has no clothes category as Metal Machine Music with the exception of Big Black having maybe a bit more "melody" (using the word loosely). .
Slint,a band Albini produced, were much better for that genre.. i.m.o.
-r
> > Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:03:46 -0400
> > From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
> > To: <audities@smoe.org>
> > Subject: Re: Artists Surrender Their Favorite Power-Pop Songs
> > Message-ID: <000b01c59132$70bfaf90$1d02a8c0@Sparky>
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
> > > And it's nice to see via this *Magnet* survey that middle age has
> > > not changed Steve Albini's charming and winsome personality one
> > > iota.
> >
> > I know people who have recorded with Albini, and believe it or not,
> > word is that he's actually a perfectly nice guy in real life, when
> > he's not working his persona.
>
>
> Albini and I used to cross paths a lot back in '84 at the two-flat here on
> Chicago's North Side where Breaking Circus lived while they were recording their
> EP *The Very Long Fuse*. (Albini's mentioned in the liner notes of the EP via
> his nickname at the time, "the Little Weed". He weighed about 90 pounds soaking
> wet.) We were both friends with the guys in the band, and the band's apartment
> was something of a hangout. I also used to see Albini at a lot of Naked Raygun
> and Effigies shows, as they were part of that same scene. Believe me, that
> scabrous persona he cultivates in the press was the genuine article. Of course,
> that was over twenty years ago. Since then he may have actually figured out how
> to play nice when someone isn't pointing a microphone in his face.
>
>
> Gregory Sager
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