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Steve Albini was a great recording engineer.
(And he preferred being called an engineer, not a producer, hed remind you.)
The world will be worse now without Albini around to hold us all to account.
The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half.
If we assume 3 million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars or so.
Theres no fucking way I would ever take that much money.
I wouldnt be able to sleep.
Never have I seen four cows more anxious to be led around by their nose rings.
The Pixies, on the other hand,posteda very succinct RIP Steve Albini.
It makes everything sound like a beer commercial.
In 1993, Albini wrotea long piece forThe Bafflercalled The Problem With Music.
Trying just makes them seem even dumber.)
to why its bullshit that everyone with a little bit of knowledge is called a producer now.
Tube limiters which attenuate the dynamic range of a sound were absolutely not permitted.
Calling them the Dan.
Go trim your beard.
Touche, good sir.
On dance music
I detest club culture as deeply as I detest anything on Earth.
Still, he concludes, Powell can use the sample.
I wouldnt stoop to doing any of them myself, but horses for courses.
Its cheapness repainted as generosity and its gross, he told the publication.
