On "Kerosene", Steve Albini commits what you can only assume are unspeakable acts against his guitar, wrenching clanging harmonics and screams out of it. Dave Riley's distorted bass and a pounding Roland drum machine serve as willing accomplices at the grisly scene.From Big Black's first proper album Atomizer, Albini's bludgeoning tune captures the gravest brand of small town isolation and te...
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THE ultimate grunge song!! If you've never heard this song before, you haven't really been living. No more need be said :)
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A "shrine":http://mog.com/Fedge/blog_post/43143, of sorts, to Steve Albini has popped up today here in the MOG-O-SPHERE. As such, I thought I would take this opportunity to post some things I once wrote to some other people about some of Albini's recordings. This is the first of three posts in a series.From Friday, December 19, 2003 at 05:31 PM:A couple years ago, a friend loaned to me a tape...
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BIG BLACK were born in 1982, instigated by Steve Albini, then a Sophomore at Northwestern University, a fanzine writer and a loudmouth. A six-song EP, LUNGS, was recorded on a borrowed 4-track for the price of one case of beer. Five years later, at the peak of their popularity, Big Black split. They never had a manager, a booking agent, a lawyer, or took an advance from their record company. Th...
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Blast First was a great label from the late 80's, started pretty much to give a UK release to Sonic Youth's Bad Moon Rising. It went on to be the UK home for a whole load of great, mostly American, bands including Sonic Youth, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr. and UT. You can find a few Peel Sessions and some rarer EPs from some of the Blast First bands "here":http://francksauzee.multiply.com/music. Enjoy!
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Big Black take an audio and visual stab at Cheap Trick's magnum opus.
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... the full moon got the better of me...
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On "Kerosene", Steve Albini commits what you can only assume are unspeakable acts against his guitar, wrenching clanging harmonics and screams out of it. Dave Riley's distorted bass and a pounding Roland drum machine serve as willing accomplices at the grisly scene.From Big Black's first proper album Atomizer, Albini's bludgeoning tune captures the gravest brand of small town isolation and te...
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A "shrine":http://mog.com/Fedge/blog_post/43143, of sorts, to Steve Albini has popped up today here in the MOG-O-SPHERE. As such, I thought I would take this opportunity to post some things I once wrote to some other people about some of Albini's recordings. This is the first of three posts in a series.From Friday, December 19, 2003 at 05:31 PM:A couple years ago, a friend loaned to me a tape...
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