Damn you Jerry!

that's a good point. my guess is that steve's capable of backing-up that statement with a well-articulated and thoughtful response.

I've followed his music since the mid-late 80s, and have always enjoyed the interviews he's done and the essays he's written. He had a reddit ama which I liked. He replied with the following when someone asked about his political views:

I won't google it at work but I think the band's wiki page goes into detail about the name choice. From Steve's wiki page: "The band was named after a popular Japanese comic book that garnered Albini and Washam's interests."

I'm fairly certain we're going to get an Eminem musical thrown at us in our lifetimes. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.

These guys are from England and who gives a shit.

Skunk bait, that's what the world is full of. That's what it's based on. That's what this economy is based on.

Bonus trainspotter prize: he wears the same awful shirt in a scene from Five Easy Pieces. Shirt pictured below:

Ah, I should have guessed.

I saw this tonight and loved it because it was very human in its horror. We had passes, and I might go again in order to make out more of the dialogue, especially the matter-of-fact bits between Patrick Stewart and his underlings. The movie thankfully doesn't dumb down anything in their back-story for the viewer.

Hmmm. I just saw this tonight and I always sit through the credits. Wonder what the AHA credit was about.

I think he had a lot to do with the sound of that album. From what I've heard/can tell, the drums are samples, and so the drum parts are "performed" by Dolby. Dolby even describes the studio experience as being essentially "Mutt Lange and a singer."

I always liked how the two parts were linked by the spoken word bit: "Isn't this where we came in?" Nice circularity to that.

I always appreciated the spoken bit linking the two songs: "Is this where we came in?"

I would welcome to see what Neil would do if he were to get Crazy Horse into Steve Albini's studio. Can we kickstart something like that? Can you kickstart something for someone who doesn't wish to participate? I don't see why not.

WHY?
HOW MANY MORE (times will he skip that fair state)?

Nice, will look again!

I was always curious how they were able to film the kids getting tossed out of the van onto the side of the road.

Those are good tunes! But a better, rawer version of "The One" had been released in Boston a few years earlier on a local label compilation (which I cannot locate online or on youtube, unfortunately). So when this album came out with a big Hollywood sheen and overdubbed drums from Josh Freese, it just paled a bit from…

I think Blink the Brightest is Tracy's strongest album, but I haven't heard anything after that one.