there’s a new shellac album coming out next week, i was thinking of getting tickets to see the tour…
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damn. rip to a real one
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RIP. definitely a musical icon. generational force.
the stuff he engineered ended up being such a massive influence on me. interestingly, i never cared for his own output. vividly remember working a shitty foodservice job in athens, ga; during a conversation with a coworker i had a crush on, i mentioned that i didn’t care for shellac’s music which she did not take well and impugned my taste in reply
i went to their show later that week and they sounded… exactly like shellac. oops lol
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this is my Bowie + Prince combined
literally no other person has had a greater impact on my musical upbringing than this guy. i have literally known who Albini was since i was a kid and first started following music because of “In Utero” - and i also read “The Problem With Music” at a young age. from all the albums he worked on as producer (or artist), to his general perspective on the world, to the fact that i posted on his studio’s forums for many years… it’s just crazy how much he has had influence on everything.
now’s a great time read The Problem With Music if you haven’t
also i made this cursory chart of important albums/artists he has either worked on as a producer or directly made as an artist
tho someone said he worked on Slint’s Tweez by not Spiderland. but regardless.
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fuck!
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He gave me a hot dog once.
My life would probably be very different had I not read the Problem With Music when I was young. And the music too, that was important to me as well.
The hot dog is my #1 memory though.
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Yanqui U.X.O. remains probably my favorite Godspeed album, even if it is not technically the best one, i guess. guy had an immeasurable (or, hey, measurable if you take the time) impact on music, but it feels like an era that is outside the scope of reality these days, like a dream
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Tragic. It’s impossible to overstate his impact and the number of great records he worked on.
And he was a true poster till the very end.
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i saw shellac live a few times and they were great, the sense of real pleasure everyone seemed to have playing together was something that carried over every time i listened to one of their records after that. he seemed to end up at the rare aspirational “having fun with it” Good Ending for a crank punk rock guy which is even crazier to me remembering the whole electrical audio forum of weird little aspiring mini-albinis!! remember when they found his username on that world poker website and kept signing up to quote lyrics to the mounting exasperation of all the other poker guys.
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Man, just found out that Shellac has a new album out next week
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Before I knew he wasn’t the mean dude from all the old stories anymore one of my exes to my horror approached him to ask for a guitar pick after a show. They ended up talking about concert memorabilia and the Breeders for a bit and I missed out because I thought he’d throw a chair at her.
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have only been appreciating this guy’s works and thoughts more over the years, like if i ever get round to recording music i will be biting so many of his tricks
top lad
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i love so many albums he produced but Surfer Rosa in particular was like life changing.i got into Pixies and pretty much all those other bands in ellaguros chart from that point
im glad he eventually apologized to the band for the very scathingly mean things he said about them re: that album lol. and it was nice to see him generally mellow into rock dad and be willing to own that some of his past edgelord shit was exactly that
relatively young, seemingly in otherwise good shape and still working on music, what a fucking bullshit loss
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One of the few rock Bros of that era whose opinions and general persona aged relatively gracefully. Damn. Rip to a real one, was hoping this thread about some musical news (AI Cobain?) that would have simply killed him metaphorically, not literally.
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i didn’t even realise he did the Brainiac album mentioned in the obit, a bottomless list
it was always very sweet to me that so many noise rock ppl of different countries and generations would travel to chicago in sort of the same spirit that country singers in scotland save up to go to nashville just so they can say they were recorded by a real cowboy. passing the flame… and it was affordable enough that many of them got to!! the dream is real!
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Rip to a real one 
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I’m sorry but I need to be provided examples of this immediately
http://www.glasgowsgrandoleopry.co.uk/
It’s been a subvultre for decades. Classic Country is all my Dad ever listens to these days. Patys Cline is some of the only music I can think of that my mother has ever enjoyed. They’re not even big into it.
Tammi Wynette singing with the KLF came from Bill Drummond’s profound love for the music. A lot of the less good stuff Primal Scream as well.
Motown and Soul in general would be a similar thing
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Ok a fandom is slightly more explicable, but what I need is original music from Scots country singers
Damn, one of the kindest people in music. Real mensch on social media
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