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.
#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... 🤙
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.
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.
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.
Todestag Kurt Cobains: "Er wird noch Jahrzehnte bleiben"
Heute vor 30 Jahren nahm sich Nirvana-Sänger Kurt Cobain das Leben. Seine Musik lebt nach wie vor weiter. Nicht nur bei über 40-Jährigen, auch bei Jüngeren. Warum ist das so? Von Nils Dampz.
Vor 30 Jahren nimmt sich Kurt Cobain das Leben. Damit endet auch die Ära einer der erfolgreichsten Bands aller Zeiten. Doch Nirvana inspiriert und prägt Musikschaffende immer noch.