Filling another self-inflicted wound in my record collection from my great record purge of yore. I guess my thinking was it’s not my favorite Minutemen record… anyway. Glad to have it back. #vinyl#vinylCollection#nowPlaying
Someone on here recommended some music on Bandcamp saying it was in the same vein as GAS (and a couple other names that I don’t remember). Checking it out now and it is really REALLY like GAS. Now, I’m big fan of GAS and this is a fairly inventive facsimile but still. It’s pretty funny how indebted it is.
Over on the digital lo-fi I wrote up a post about Steve Albini and what he meant to me as a musician, writer, aging GenX punk rocker. This all still feels unreal to me.
@jake4480@kevin@puffer Naturally, I've always respected Albini for his engineering and activist work. I certainly did not agree with all of his opinions, though. I've always thought that Spot from SST was a more significant producer. As an artist, I think Steve's work is amusing at best. Nevertheless, it's sad when anyone dies, especially so young and suddenly...
@wendigo@kevin@puffer he had strong opinions, he shit on Don Fleming and Al Jourgensen as producers, neither sentiment I agree with, I mean Don produced God Save the Smithereens, just a fucking KILLER of an album. And Al I've always found to be a genius. So like, the opinions about that, I take with a grain. But he did some cool records in his own way, I mean there's a ton of producers I dig a little more maybe but I can't deny Surfer Rosa and In Utero. In Utero is a better sounding album than Nevermind in almost every way. And it didn't get a fraction of the recognition haha
This is a real bit nostalgia for me. Without getting in to my whole musical evolution, this was one of the most influential records from when I first began almost exclusively listening to punk/hardcore/post-punk. One of those records I’d been kicking myself for getting rid of. Found this sealed for like $10 and snappped it up. Gonna do a blog post at some point.
On the blog last year I wrote about celebrating D. Boon's birthday, which is today. If you have a Minutemen record join us in recognizing one of the greats. If you drink you could do a shot of tequila.
I know I’m not blowing anyone’s mind with these records but holy shit! This 2011 pressing! I had a copy of Quadrophenia I got about a year ago, and it was a fine copy. Somebody had played it a lot. But this pressing showed up at Next Chapter Records in Putney #Vermont, and it is near mint. It sounds so good. A perfect version of this tremendous record.