Misconstruing Albini

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by Antero » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:46 pm

I read Pitchfork regularly, primarily as a way to hear about bands and albums that I wouldn't normally encounter. I find them to be pretentious as fuck, and this is coming from a guy who could well be considered to be pretentious.

But yeah, compression? Albini? Hello? He talks about compression, and then mentions McLusky, whose last album was basically defined by massive dynamic shifts?
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Post by I'm Painting Again » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:55 pm

Misconstruing Albini should be happens at post 6000..

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by TapeOpLarry » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:08 pm

I heard that new High On Fire CD in a bar on a shitty sound system and asked my clients (who I was out having beers with post session) "Who recorded this?" Why did I ask this? Because I'd seen the band live twice and figured their records would suck because it'd be really hard to capture all that energy. Turns out Steve Albini recorded it. Hot damn. I'm gonna buy it tomorrow so I can peel the paint of my walls. Occasionally we have to admit Steve is pretty damn good at what he does.

Previous to this the band I was with played a couple of the mixes we'd just done of their album. Sounded pretty darn good. Not as good as High on Fire though...
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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by soundguy » Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:48 am

wow, now Im REALLY excited to hear the new high on fire record, holy hell! I just saw them the other night, first night of the tour, Matt Pike has sort of taken a turn from the weedian to the doomian, but I guess thats cool. After Jerusalem he knows he did the coolest shit possible, so kudos to him for trying something new. Watching that guy play guitar is really special. The last guy to wear out the finish on the top of their guitar like that was richie havens.

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by joel hamilton » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:07 am

Antero wrote:I read Pitchfork regularly, primarily as a way to hear about bands and albums that I wouldn't normally encounter. I find them to be pretentious as fuck, and this is coming from a guy who could well be considered to be pretentious.

But yeah, compression? Albini? Hello? He talks about compression, and then mentions McLusky, whose last album was basically defined by massive dynamic shifts?
Why is it that people think that you cant have dynamics in a recording if you use compression?

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by MT » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:13 am

dynomike wrote:These are, after all, the same reviewers who believe that Bryce Goggin ruined Nada Surf's "Let Go"...

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-re ... t-go.shtml

Idiots! That album sounds gorgeous!
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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by MT » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:15 am

TapeOpLarry wrote:pretty damn god
Freudian slip there, maybe :D

[actually I'm just a bad typist. Steve ain't no god, his shit stinks like anyone else.] -LC

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by maz » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:26 am

You know, I wouldn't care if someone ripped me in a review as long as they used this sentence:

Still, Albini remains the preferred penis pump of underground rock acts of all stripes

The alliteration is mind-blowing!

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by syrupcore » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:24 pm

MT wrote:
TapeOpLarry wrote:pretty damn god
Freudian slip there, maybe :D

[actually I'm just a bad typist. Steve ain't no god, his shit stinks like anyone else.] -LC
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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by vvv » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:45 pm

Based on this thread, I bought the High on Fire record.

Although I hate cookie monster vocals, this might be the best heavy record I've heard lately, and certainly the best heavy thing I've heard Albini (who is credited as "co-producer"!) do. (Well, then there is Rapeman and even Shellac, but that's a different heavy...)

Awesome guitars, cool drums, the bass is kind of low (guitars are so big), and those stupid vocal sounds.

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by Bear's Gone Fission » Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:11 pm

When I was in college, some wanker in an REM cover band who wrote for the school paper wrote a review for a pretty crappy band playing in a cafe, who I happened to be doing sound for - a couple 58's, a 57, old Biamp board, Crown amp, Yamaha Speakers, pretty damned simple stuff. Anyway, the wanker wrote it up and complained about too much compression on the vocals. There was no compression on the vocals, and the system was nowhere near peak. Wanker.

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by cassettefetish » Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:25 pm

Why can't the staff at Pitchfork keep their girlfriends?



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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by pk » Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:51 pm

Holy fucking shit, cassettefish, that's gotta be the best avatar I've ever seen, too fucking funny.....

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by maz » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:18 pm

pk wrote:Holy fucking shit, cassettefish, that's gotta be the best avatar I've ever seen, too fucking funny.....
http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=27518

UTFSF! :lol:

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Re: Misconstruing Albini

Post by pk » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:26 pm

Well I'll be damned, I missed that entire thread. Must have been sick that day.

Cheers.

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