Steve Albini
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Sep 28, 2026
John HeilemannHOST
Lori Blackford is our guest wrangling guru.
John HeilemannHOST
And Bob Tabador is our very own Rick Rubin, Brian Eno, Steve Albini, and the Bomb Squad, all rolled into one.
John HeilemannHOST
Flawlessly producing, editing, mixing, and mastering the show, all by his lonesome and in no time flat.
John HeilemannHOST
From all of us to all of you, a little mashup of a pair of late greats, my mom and Bob Marley.
Mysterious ManNARRATOR
The Bald Sasquatch was played by special guest Vaden Todd Lewis of the band The Toadies.
Mysterious ManNARRATOR
The Toadies have a new album released this year called The Charmer, recorded by Steve Albini in his Chicago studio Electrical Audio.
Mysterious ManNARRATOR
They'll be on tour in support of the album all year.
Mysterious ManNARRATOR
And let's see, he wrote here, Remember that song, Do You Wanna Die? We still play that one as well.
Ali WilliamsHOST
yeah
Kim ScottGUEST
which melodic then We did some shows with Big Black and Steve Albini and that kind of introduced his drum machine, you know, playing kind of went, wow, that's a new sort of style of tightness and so forth.
Kim ScottGUEST
And we were already playing really complex rhythms and stuff.
Ali WilliamsHOST
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Dustin WhiteGUEST
Wanna see if JD wants to do it? 'Cause it was also a thing where like, let's do it with somebody that n- neither of us have worked with before.
Dustin WhiteGUEST
'Cause like, you know, Alex has actually, you know, had made a record with Albini years ago, and all sorts of stuff between the two of us, so it was kind of like the idea of like a new professional relationship with someone that neither of us already had a familiarity with.
DanHOST
Yeah.
Dustin WhiteGUEST
Yeah.
Conor LastowkaHOST
record.
StinGUEST
It's produced by Steve Albini, who is the like de facto King of the genre.
StinGUEST
Um, Kurt Cobain was heavily inspired by bands like scratch acid, um, Jesus lizard, who are also like Kings of the genre as well.
StinGUEST
Um, so I would start there and then, yeah, maybe go to like the Jesus lizard would be the next step that I would do.
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Dave ClarkeHOST
That was the Limonianas and Pascal Camalada with Sleaford before that Femme Cell, 20 hours before that Daniel Ashe, Into the Future, before that Alien Tears, Visions of Me, before that French Police, Dance to Play, and after Depeche Mode, Charm School, Simulcra, Steve Albini Mix, and they've done a really, really nice version of The Damn New Rose, which I will play in a future episode of The Saga.
Dave ClarkeHOST
This is Rosetta Stone, Incubus Soccubus
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KennedyHOST
Even if you had that major label support who, you know, had... chips to be called in at mtv
Greg PratoGUEST
right yeah yeah so so he was one also i think i did one of the last ever interviews with steve albini
KennedyHOST
oh
Greg PratoGUEST
yeah he just died like about one or two months after i spoke with him
Bill WymanGUEST
And, um, and just with a little bit more perspective, you see that train wreck coming.
Bill WymanGUEST
And then of course, we haven't even talked about the whole Steve Albini angle to it.
Bill WymanGUEST
Sure.
Bill WymanGUEST
And, um, And so that kind of, you know, Albini, you know, kind of used to attack me a lot and I would kind of make fun of him a little bit.
Bill WymanGUEST
And I've always been a little skeptical of his production talents on like on Sound Opinions.
Bill WymanGUEST
I always used to say that Steve Albini is a better writer than he is a producer.
Bill WymanGUEST
and and so and of course you know steve albini passed away which is incredibly sad because you know i actually knew when i first came to chicago we were kind of pals you know we would hang out together and stuff like this and then we kind of drifted apart um so that was kind of a little sad for me and um and just how did the production sound on in utero when you went back to it That's the thing.
Bill WymanGUEST
I mean, it's very weird because that whole imbroglio, as I say in the piece, it was so stupid because, you know, he what people might not understand is that Steve Albini, this famous underground producer, produced the second studio album of Nirvana.
BrandHOST
It was also their first album through the one you're mentioning.
BrandHOST
Not, not recorded by Steve Albini, 'cause he died two years ago.
ScottHOST
Oh, man.
ScottHOST
I don't see it on my list of records I listened to.
Dylan HensleyHOST
But he knows how to do things cheaply.
Dylan HensleyHOST
And it's not too far off from like a Steve Albini mentality as well about gear where it's just like this is this is not a fancy piece of equipment, but it does what I need it to do.
Dylan HensleyHOST
And I know it in and out and it didn't cost me a lot of money.
Dylan HensleyHOST
So I'm going to keep it and use it forever.
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