Steve Albini

What a discog.

Favorites please?

I'll go Liar and Goat from Jesus Lizard.

goat is def GOAT

I noticed they just put out all the Shellac peel sessions on vinyl. Probable payday treat.

Rapeman 

  On 6/26/2019 at 6:40 AM, bendish said:

I'll go Liar and Goat from Jesus Lizard.

 

 +1

Liar is way up there for me.

Love this Shellac song:
 

The whole first album is all killer. But yeah Crow is a high watermark 

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Slint - Tweez

PJ Harvey - Rid of Me

Shellac - 1000 Hurts

Great natural sound. My favorite "producer"

Everyone on here has to have a least a few albums they love on this list

^ one of my favorite songs and it was even more special when I found out he produced it - you can tell it's one take because there's a moment you can hear someone turning a page in the studio during a quiet moment

great recent interview

At Action Park for me!

And though I’m not a huge Nirvana fan, Scentless Apprentice is one of the greatest tunes ever recorded. That monolithic punk/metal/industrial riff is face ripping, and the band is just firing on all cylinders. Lyrically it’s based upon Perfume by Patrick Suskind which is one of my favourite books. So the perfect formula for a track which still blows me away today. 

Some slightly more obscurist ones:

Dysrhythmia - Pretest

Bellini - Snowing Sun

Been going through a lot of the Touch and Go back uncatalogued and feel old...music just isn't as good nowadays 

  On 6/27/2019 at 10:15 PM, sidewinder said:

PJ Harvey - Rid of Me

It's good, but I think her 4 track demo versions of those songs are better.  The Albini recording lacks the same immediacy.  Wouldn't be surprised if he preferred her versions too - way more punk.  It's a good album though, don't get me wrong.

Not a full album produced by Albini but this track was and is definitely a highlight.

At Action Park and Atomizer have to be some my favourite thing he’s done tho.

  On 7/1/2019 at 8:07 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

It's good, but I think her 4 track demo versions of those songs are better.  The Albini recording lacks the same immediacy.  Wouldn't be surprised if he preferred her versions too - way more punk.  It's a good album though, don't get me wrong.

Gonna have to revisit those demos, I think I've only listened to them once.

Nirvana - Tourettes is just insane...my favourite off that album.

Aye, so good.

  On 7/1/2019 at 8:07 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

It's good, but I think her 4 track demo versions of those songs are better.  The Albini recording lacks the same immediacy.  Wouldn't be surprised if he preferred her versions too - way more punk.  It's a good album though, don't get me wrong.

I think the same is true for The Breeders - Pod: the demo sounds better than Albini's version. Albini seems to have filtered too much low end off the guitar parts (or recorded them with less low end) 

I'm really glad he worked with Neurosis for so many albums and brought out the best in them. It took me a bit to get into the band but it clicked and now I see them like a great distinctive film director or something.