Okay, so, like, this is the first #Shellac album I've ever listened to. I honestly didn't know until he died that #SteveAlbini was also actually in bands. I must've heard them before at some point, I just didn't know the connection. Wtf, RIP, tattoo the names of the dead on your hands, etc. etc.
@buffyleigh This might be the first Albini post that doesn't pretend to already know everything he ever did. Thank you.
A friend of mine asked me if I was a fan and I told him the truth: I'm a fan of the maybe eleven records I'm familiar with. The rest, maybe I'll get around to them someday.
@other_ghosts I'm sure a couple people on here know everything (there are a LOT of music nerds here), but, like, the guy has over 1400 credits listed on Discogs! Also, part of the joy of being a music nerd is going down rabbit holes and finding out about all the random connections, at your own pace. There's no exam, so I'm not cramming...
He began the article with an image: “I imagine a trench, about four feet wide & five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying [excrement]. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen & a contract waiting to be signed.”