We’re still on a break from posting spotlights on albums from our 1001 Other Albums list, but I’m stressed and sad, and therefore I need a little list-making therapy. And so, in honor of the late great Steve Albini who suddenly left us this week, here is a (possibly incomplete) list of the albums from The List that he had a part in, in one way or another:
I think those make a nice little tribute playlist to keep us going for a bit. And, if you want to look up more, here is a (likely very incomplete) list of other bands/artists on The List that Albini worked with, on albums of theirs not on The List: Ben Frost, Cheap Trick, Don Caballero, Esben and the Witch, Fugazi, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gogol Bordello, Jim O’Rourke, Jimmy Page, Joanna Newsom, Low, Manic Street Preachers, Mogwai, Nine Inch Nails, Pussy Galore, Richard Youngs, Robert Plant, Songs: Ohia, The Ex, The Stooges, and Yonatan Gat.
Feel free to share your favorite Albini-ed album below (and, if it’s not already in The List, let me know if you want me to add it).
RIP Steve Albini. So many of my favourite albums were recorded by him, and so in a way he shaped so much of what I've loved. At 61, he has left us far too soon, but his mark on our culture is indelible and undeniable, and in that sense he will live on forever.
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Thirty Years Later, Kurt Cobain’s Death Reminds Us That Success Doesn’t Mean You’re Okay
It's not too late to get help.
#KurtCobain died 30yrs ago today. It seems more recent than that.
By the 10yr mark, I was nearly halfway through a year in Iraq. Heavier Than Heaven, bio on Kurt, and the With The Lights Out box set were part of my deployment inventory.
Mentioned in the bio, one of the happiest times of his short and volatile life was in Hawaii. Even one of the greatest singer/guitarists of our lives can agree: Hawaii truly is heaven on Earth.
Here's a lesser known #Nirvana song to mark this day... 🤙
I’ve seen several post marking the 30th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death with songs from Nirvana’s unplugged set.
Unplugged is fine and good, outstanding even, but I offer for your consideration an In Utero era version of Drain You, my personally fave song from Nevermind, on a French TV show when Kurt’s guitar malfunctioned midway. RIP.
Kurt Cobain died 30 years ago today. The Independent's Mark Beaumont looks back at Nirvana's live performances, from their first Seattle shows in 1988 to the final gig on March 1, 1994. "Many shows in Nirvana’s brief seven-year existence were true rock’n’roll riots: scenes of wild, cathartic release – not only for the punk and rock fans enthralled by Cobain’s pain-wracked strain of melodic grunge but also the band themselves, who attacked every set as if fighting their way out of a tumble dryer," he writes. Did you ever see Nirvana live? Share your memories in the comments.
Courtney Love published his journals that he kept in spiral bound notebooks. the book may be out of print but the copy i read showed how he was unschooling himself in feminism, antiracism, anticolonialism but most interesting, capital S and A socialism and anarchism.
"The capitalists are finally allowing supposedly subversive, alternative thinking bands to have a loan of money to expose their crusade. Obviously they aren't forking out loans for this reason, but more because it looks to be a money making commodity. But we can use them!! We can pose as the enemy to infiltrate the mechanics of the system to start its rot from the inside. Sabotage the empire by pretending to play their game."
Es ist wie es ist. #KurtCobain hat mit seiner Band #Nirvana mich in eine neue Musik-Welt gestoßen.
Und er war eben auch die Identifikationsfigur der Kids, die eben nicht so in die damaligen Rollen passten. Und das ist er noch heute für die, die erst weit nach seinem Tod erst geboren wurden. Das Vermächtnis geht über die Musik hinaus.
Can’t believe it’s been 30 years since we lost #KurtCobain He was the voice of my generation & someone I still think or and miss regularly We were gifted so much but I can’t help but think of how much more he would have created
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After years of misogynistic hair bands and mindless pulp I vividly remember watching MTV and seeing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time and I knew the music world was about to change and I was 100% ready for it #Nirvana#KurtCobain#IWantMyMTV
30 anni sono passati da quel terribile giorno, oggi mi piace ricordarli così con il documentario della BBC che ripercorre il primo scalcagnato e divertente tour dei #Nirvana in UK quando ancora non erano nessuno:
Due date che, forse, alcuni di voi ricordano bene: 26 novembre 1989 e 17 novembre 1991. Sono le serate in cui una band rock, ancora poco conosciuta, si esibiva live per la prima volta in Italia scegliendo la #Brianza come tappa.