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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:22:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SamBoga]
 Steve Albini, an icon of indie rock as both a producer and performer, has died of a heart attack, staff at his recording studio, Electronic Audio, confirm to Pitchfork. As well as fronting underground rock lynchpins including Shellac and Big Black, Albini was a legend of the recording studio, though he preferred the term "engineer" to "producer." He recorded Nirvana's In Utero, Pixies' Surfer Rosa, PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, and countless more classic albums, and remained an outspoken critic of exploitative music industry practices until his final years. Shellac were preparing to tour their first album in a decade, To All Trains, which is scheduled for release next week. Steve Albini was 61 years old. https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/ |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:27:01 PM EDT
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Damn, RIP. He recorded a lot of great bands over the years. One of the more interesting engineers in the business.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:27:39 PM EDT
[#2]
In before the Sovereign Citizens of conspiracy theories.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:27:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Crazyascanbe]
[#3]
I guess you have to be in the business to know who he is
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NV, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:29:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:30:11 PM EDT
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Surfer Rosa says "Gracias y vaya con Dios."
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IA, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:30:33 PM EDT
[#6]
a giant in American underground music
saw him play bass for Flour many years ago, never saw Big Black, Rapeman or Shellac |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:31:02 PM EDT
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I am at the age now that when I see something like this I go, "Well, I beat him."
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:31:33 PM EDT
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He had a band called Big Black for those who don’t know:
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:32:14 PM EDT
[#9]
 big black - kerosene |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:37:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: totalabuse]
[#10]
That’s awful
He was a true original uncompromising asshole and a personal hero.
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IA, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:37:16 PM EDT
[#11]
 Shellac: Crow - Oakland, 10/22/11 |
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MN, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:39:44 PM EDT
[#12]
RIP
Besides producing many classic albums, he was the guy who demonstrated how major labels took advantage of artists. The labels made millions, the artists, nothing. See: The trouble with music |
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IN, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:40:46 PM EDT
[#13]
Didn’t seem like he was that old. Then again in not that far behind him.
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IA, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:41:44 PM EDT
[#14]
 Shellac - Dude Incredible |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 1:18:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Crazyascanbe: I guess you have to be in the business to know who he is |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 1:39:14 PM EDT
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Be sure and read his famous Nirvana producer pitch letter from '93(?) or so. He was not a bull-shitter.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 2:06:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By California_Kid: In before the Sovereign Citizens of conspiracy theories. Never heard of the dude and I don't know who you're referring to with CC, but the dead dude was probably vaxxed. |
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HI, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 2:32:32 PM EDT
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Sucks, seemed like a good dude. Charged a flat fee for producing a record instead of a percentage. Remember playing big black on campus radio.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 2:35:01 PM EDT
[#19]
vaxxecuted more than likely
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Posted: 5/8/2024 2:36:51 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Crazyascanbe: I guess you have to be in the business to know who he is It's Harry Potter. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 2:46:38 PM EDT
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No clue who that is.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 2:54:33 PM EDT
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 I still remember the shock of hearing Songs About Fucking when it was released in 1987. It was intense. From the liner notes:  It was that kind of album. Highly recommended if you like that sort of thing. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 2:55:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: ontime1969]
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Yeah he was solid, only 61 I believe. No drinking, no drugs he was all in with the music. He was about to drop an album and start a tour with a project side band. He was really a fantastic sound guy. If it was not for him, I don't think we would have gotten as good a follow up of Nevermind with the Nirvana album In Utero as we did. I was shocked to read this news this morning.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:49:11 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/8/2024 3:53:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: zukguy]
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By California_Kid: In before the Sovereign Citizens of conspiracy theories. Go be a troll someplace else. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 4:04:05 PM EDT
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Wow. Didn’t see that coming.
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USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 4:10:36 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By totalabuse: That’s awful He was a true original uncompromising asshole and a personal hero.People who hate capitalism that much can eat a bag of dicks. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 4:11:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mgwantob: He had a band called Big Black for those who don't know:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQDintUwUWYI was just a country boy from Iowa when I started exploring this shit. It was shocking and I loved it. Big Black was Flipper with a drum machine. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 4:12:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zukguy: Go be a troll someplace else. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zukguy: Originally Posted By California_Kid: In before the Sovereign Citizens of conspiracy theories. Go be a troll someplace else. That would be funny if his posts didn't add more value than just about anyone else in GD. And if he wasn't smarter than most of us. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 4:20:27 PM EDT
[#30]
GF knew him pretty well. She is going to be very unhappy.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 4:36:05 PM EDT
[#31]
Who?
Just cause ya'll shit in a rap thread. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 5:07:47 PM EDT
[#32]
Literally was just thinking of Steve today. The man was an interesting character. His interviews all over YouTube got me thinking of him differently than what I thought of him back in the Big Black days.
 Dude Incredible |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 5:10:41 PM EDT
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FUCKING KILL HIM
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MO, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 5:26:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Crazyascanbe: I guess you have to be in the business to know who he is I thought he was Cyndi Lauper's dad. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 5:30:56 PM EDT
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Damn.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 10:07:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Crazyascanbe: I guess you have to be in the business to know who he is Songs About Fucking and the Rich Man's Eight Track Tape were two of the best albums of my teenage years. Found him through his music, read a lot about his recording work and his studio.. Some of the Shellac shit is awesome, a lot of it is probably more technically than musically brilliant but....I'm really fucking sad about this. I was actually talking to my nephew about trying to get his band recorded at Electrical Audio. Steve Albini was a warrior monk of independent music. His politics were crap but I bet he was shitty at a lot of things that weren't music. I miss him already. Him and his crazy band of Chicago lunatics will always be a bulwark of my playlists.  The Power of Independent Trucking |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 10:08:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By totalabuse: That’s awful He was a true original uncompromising asshole and a personal hero.Well said. |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 10:10:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: WinstonSmith]
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Quote HistoryAnd fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck those recordings are incredible on good media and speakers. No. Effort. Spared.  Shellac - 1000 Hurts - 01 - Prayer To God (2000) RIP STEVE 5-7-24 |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 10:19:10 PM EDT
[#39]
His work with Jesus Lizard was excellent
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Posted: 5/8/2024 11:00:23 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoudLyle: His work with Jesus Lizard was excellent If you have a favorite artist that recorded an album with Steve Albini, I bet you like that album.  
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Posted: 5/9/2024 12:39:40 AM EDT
[#41]
Damn, RIP Gonna spend the rest of the night listening to Big Black…
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AR, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 1:33:09 AM EDT
[#42]
Dude liked good clean punk. Fuck the world.
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CHN
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Posted: 5/9/2024 2:27:57 AM EDT
[#43]
Damn. R.I.P.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 3:09:53 AM EDT
[#44]
I'll hit you with a wrench.
If making a record takes more than a week someone fucked up. Dude had a no BS philosophy to production. He could have negotiated royalties, but he didn't want that to interrupt the process. He knew he would make it up on the back end. He was a Chicago guy. Our paths crossed when I worked venues in Chicago. It was decades before I realized he did In Utero. |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 3:18:14 AM EDT
[#45]
RIP Steve.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 6:15:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WinstonSmith: If you have a favorite artist that recorded an album with Steve Albini, I bet you like that album. Whitehouse reinvented themselves (for the much better) with the help of Steve. I would love to know the details of those initial meetings, wouldn't surprise me if it was all his idea. |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 6:23:43 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/9/2024 7:57:34 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/9/2024 8:03:00 AM EDT
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Besides being an amazing producer, he also was a very good poker player.
Albini was an avid poker player and ranked in 12th place at the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Seniors Championship.[96] Albini won his first WSOP gold bracelet at the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud at 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP); he beat out Jeff Lisandro to win $105,629.[97] He won his second gold bracelet at the 2022 WSOP in the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event.[98] |
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Posted: 5/10/2024 6:08:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AR15thur: Well....  https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/comments/115l1d8/today_i_learned_steve_albini_is_a_pedophile/ You ever read the lyrics to a Big Black album? Listened to one?!  I don't actually think he was a pedophile. Or a wife beater. Or a murderer. I don't think he huffed kerosene. Pretty sure he never drove a truck.  Jordan, Minnesota Dude's followup band was called Rapeman after a particularly sick rape fantasy comic series in Japan.
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