Albums produced by Steve Albini - Page 2

Toxa · 04.28.2007, 04:58 PM

"Strap It On" by Helmet.

Dead-Air · 04.28.2007, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by swa(y)

i like steve.

but he did a terrible job producing that last stooges album, as if the songs werent bad enough as it is.

Haven't looked, but does it read "produced by", or "recorded by"? I'm actually surprised he'd put his name on such a piece of crap at all, but then I feel that way about everyone involved. I'm sure the money was good.

SonicSam · 04.28.2007, 07:03 PM

Dis- - the historically troubled third album is one of my favourite ever albums as is american Don by don cab as is tweez by slint!

the ikara cult · 04.28.2007, 07:13 PM

Isnt Mclusky Do Dallas a great album? Im going to kill with that album on in the background i swear.

fugazifan · 04.29.2007, 02:03 AM

hes recorded a lot of crap because he'll record anybody. and i'm sure a lot of bands hite him just to have steve albini written as engineer, or whatever. but its a job to him...

Dead-Air · 04.29.2007, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by swa(y)

i dont own the album (ive heard it) but ive read that it was produced by him.

albini is give or take. its just as easy to love him as it is to hate em. hes worked on some stuff that is utterly amazing (in utero comes to mind, that f-minus album wasnt bad for what it was either) but hes also worked on some shit that just sucked, not to mention some artists that are less than...anything worthwhile (bush..heh).

i like em...i like his music (esp shellac...yeah, even more than big black and rape man).

hes just odd.

its really not all that expensive to get him to record an album/...i cant remember how much exactly, but im pretty sure its somewhere around the ballpark of like 1200 bux.

im sure the stooges paid em alot more though.

In Utero technically is not "produced" by him since it just reads "recorded by". Still, that's just the credit, and the sound is so much better than the rest of their output, that I'm sure it's him. He just didn't tell them how to write the songs or bring in a pedal steel guitar player or the like. But then somebody procured a cellist, so who knows.

Albini claimed years ago that he charges proportionate to how much he likes the band. Nonetheless he got $100,000 for In Utero, and I'm sure he got something similar from the Stooges fiasco. At least back in the In Utero days he refused to take a royalties percentage as he's morally opposed to it.

Shellac is my favorite thing he's done musically too. I've seen both Shellac and Big Black and while both were great, the newer band really is superior in my book. Just more range overall, plus the other guys are every bit as talented as he is.

Iain · 04.29.2007, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Ha ha ha!

Albini also had a hand in recording Whitehouse's "Thank Your Lucky Stars" LP. Did he not record/produce a session for Tony Conrad as well? I can't remember what it was called (something to do with Pythagoras), but the CD was on Table Of the Elements.

It was called Slapping Pythagoras I think. Didn't know that Albini recorded it. Interesting.

NWRA · 04.29.2007, 07:29 AM

Seamonsters by The Wedding Present.

atsonicpark · 04.29.2007, 07:44 AM

space streakings - 7 toku
jawbreaker - 24 hour revenge therapy
shellac - at action park
the ghost - this is a hospital
godspeed - yanqui xo
helmet - strap it on
breeders - pod
fred from b-52's solo album
melt banana - scratch or stitch

are probably his best recorded works.

04.29.2007, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Dead-Air

You've pretty well listed mine. Incredible since the Nirvana, Low, Pussy Galore, and Palace albums are all my favorites by those groups.

Right, in that case i'll dedicate Shonen Knife's Little Tree to you.

04.29.2007, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Dead-Air

In Utero technically is not "produced" by him since it just reads "recorded by". Still, that's just the credit, and the sound is so much better than the rest of their output, that I'm sure it's him. He just didn't tell them how to write the songs or bring in a pedal steel guitar player or the like. But then somebody procured a cellist, so who knows.

Albini claimed years ago that he charges proportionate to how much he likes the band. Nonetheless he got $100,000 for In Utero, and I'm sure he got something similar from the Stooges fiasco. At least back in the In Utero days he refused to take a royalties percentage as he's morally opposed to it.

Shellac is my favorite thing he's done musically too. I've seen both Shellac and Big Black and while both were great, the newer band really is superior in my book. Just more range overall, plus the other guys are every bit as talented as he is.

The albums he produces, records or whatever you wanna call it, still sound like momentus taking place. He has an ability tyo make songs sound gritty like no other. Is he an arsehole? Who cares? Only people who still live with their parents really do.

pokkeherrie · 04.29.2007, 07:40 PM

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helmet - strap it on

I really love the way Strap it On sounds, but it was recorded by Wharton Tiers, not Albini.

In my opinion At Action Park has some of his finest recording work. I like the way PJ Harvey's Rid of Me sounds compared to her other work, as opposed bands who keep going back to Albini for every new album. A little less Albini wouldn't have hurt The Jesus Lizard for instance. And although I think Starters Alternators and Turn are two of the best sounding albums by The EX, after having Albini three times in a row it'd be nice if they picked someone else for their next one.

demonrail666 · 04.29.2007, 08:29 PM

Didn't he produce PG's Right Now as well?

deathbombarc · 04.29.2007, 10:11 PM

4 of my favorite albums were produced by albini:

* A Minor Forest "Flemish Altruism" (2x12" on Thrill Jockey) http://www.discogs.com/release/798309
* ________ "________" (12" picture disc on Breathmint) http://www.breathmint.net/catalog.htm
* XBXRX "Gop Ist Minee" (CD on 5rc) http://5rc.com/discography/ger012/index.htm
* Wedding Present "Seamonsters" (on rca???)

more albini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini

Everyneurotic · 04.29.2007, 10:34 PM

neurosis, from times of grace to given to the rising. brutal!
low - things we lost in the fire
jawbreaker - 24 hours revenge therapy

tons more.

ohh, and i know it's pretty unpopular, but i like the job he did on chevelle's first album, that song mia is really good, in my opinion. same for razorblade suitcase.

andrei · 04.30.2007, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Dead-Air

...Nonetheless he got $100,000 for In Utero, and I'm sure he got something similar from the Stooges fiasco...

As far as i know he doesn't recieve royalties for any recording / mixing session. He just charges a daily fee, but it is possible to get more when his is not recording at his studio.

el duderino · 04.30.2007, 04:42 AM

All the Neurosis albums he did. Greatest band to walk this planetoid

PAULYBEE2656 · 04.30.2007, 08:53 AM

sufer rosa
rid of me
shellacs
battles mirrored
in utero
tweez
mcluskys do dallas and the difference between me and you.....
the wierdness (its a grower, im beginning to love it)
didnt he do a godspeed you black emporer album, yanqui uxo????
boxes, bad blood (irish band)

electrical studios rule. love th albini sund he produces, sorry, engineers!

nicfit · 04.30.2007, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

battles mirrored

not sure about this...

PAULYBEE2656 · 04.30.2007, 10:01 AM

actually nicfit, neither am i come to think of it!!!!!!

actually i am wrong!!!

04.28.2007, 04:58 PM	#21
Toxa 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Evil Empire Posts: 847	"Strap It On" by Helmet.
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SonicSam children of satan Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 269	Dis- - the historically troubled third album is one of my favourite ever albums as is american Don by don cab as is tweez by slint! __________________
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the ikara cult invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London sink Posts: 4,576	Isnt Mclusky Do Dallas a great album? Im going to kill with that album on in the background i swear.
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fugazifan invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,816	hes recorded a lot of crap because he'll record anybody. and i'm sure a lot of bands hite him just to have steve albini written as engineer, or whatever. but its a job to him... __________________ If there's been a way to build it, There'll be a way to destroy it, Things are not that out of control www.myspace.com/dellilahtheband www.myspace.com/lecirquedesvampiresmusic
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NWRA children of satan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Leeds Posts: 367	Seamonsters by The Wedding Present.
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atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	space streakings - 7 toku jawbreaker - 24 hour revenge therapy shellac - at action park the ghost - this is a hospital godspeed - yanqui xo helmet - strap it on breeders - pod fred from b-52's solo album melt banana - scratch or stitch are probably his best recorded works. __________________
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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	Didn't he produce PG's Right Now as well?
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04.29.2007, 10:11 PM	#34
deathbombarc bad moon rising Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 106	4 of my favorite albums were produced by albini: * A Minor Forest "Flemish Altruism" (2x12" on Thrill Jockey) http://www.discogs.com/release/798309 * ________ "________" (12" picture disc on Breathmint) http://www.breathmint.net/catalog.htm * XBXRX "Gop Ist Minee" (CD on 5rc) http://5rc.com/discography/ger012/index.htm * Wedding Present "Seamonsters" (on rca???) more albini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	neurosis, from times of grace to given to the rising. brutal! low - things we lost in the fire jawbreaker - 24 hours revenge therapy tons more. ohh, and i know it's pretty unpopular, but i like the job he did on chevelle's first album, that song mia is really good, in my opinion. same for razorblade suitcase. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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el duderino bad moon rising Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: NZ Posts: 120	All the Neurosis albums he did. Greatest band to walk this planetoid
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PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	sufer rosa rid of me shellacs battles mirrored in utero tweez mcluskys do dallas and the difference between me and you..... the wierdness (its a grower, im beginning to love it) didnt he do a godspeed you black emporer album, yanqui uxo???? boxes, bad blood (irish band) electrical studios rule. love th albini sund he produces, sorry, engineers! __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	actually nicfit, neither am i come to think of it!!!!!! actually i am wrong!!! __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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