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Originally Posted by keep poppin pimples
tthe bass sounds awful and it was always one of the best parts of nirvana
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Definitely want to reiterate this point, too, the bass -- what bass?! -- sounds like complete garbage on just about everything Albini produces. Unless it's distorted bass or something.
What I don't get is JESUS LIZARD's "Liar" album. That doesn't sound like Albini recorded it -- it sounds GREAT! Loud bass, great overdubbing guitar lines, etc. It really makes me think Albini loved that band so much that he probably spent a little more effort. Listen to the album that immediately followed "Liar" and it sounds like SHIT, though... supposedly this is when Jesus Lizard and Albini were having a falling out. Yow said he "sabotaged" the record; I think he just made it sound like all the other stuff he produces, which doesn't work for Jesus Lizard.
I think Albini would've done a great job on early Sonic Youth, something like "Confusion is Sex" (or even something later like "NYC Ghosts and Flowers"). But can you imagine him producing, oh... a song like "Cross the Breeze"? That would've been a mess.