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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: songs about bashing |
| Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:05:29 -0500 |
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> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:56:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@ameritech.net>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: songs about bashing
> Message-ID: <20050726185627.39149.qmail@web81403.mail.yahoo.com>
>
> Ryan --
>
> I agree with the first half of your post. Albini
> definitely is a snob who frowns on mainstream rock,
> unless it gets him a paycheck. He quit working with
> Jesus Lizard, just because the band agreed to release
> a live album on Giant Records, a disc that provided
> critical cash flow to a great band. Yet, it must be
> said, Albini has done so much for indie music bands,
> recording a lot of records for next to nothing.
All true, but while he's one of the most vehement opponents of major labels among anyone with a recognizable name in the industry, he's also not averse to pointing his spray can of vitriol at an indie figure and pressing the nozzle. I'll never forget that snarky letter he wrote to the *Chicago Reader* in a fit of high dudgeon back when Liz Phair was the new indie darling on the block, calling her the next Ricky Lee Jones. It was terribly unfair (no pun intended), but I'll admit that it was also a very funny insult.
>
> I will have to disagree with the second half of the
> post. Big Black was a great post-punk band, who, for
> better or for worse, were a major influence on
> industrial (Ministry's Land of Rape and Honey is
> practically a tribute album) and noise rock. Atomizer
> and Songs About Fucking are great albums.
Can't stand either one, and I can't stand his stuff with Rapeman, either. But I certainly acknowledge how influential his particular brand of extra-dry guitar skronk turned out to be.
Gregory Sager
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