#31

I remember reading a large screed on Songs about Whoops-Mrs-Miggings-Where’s-My-Trousers! about how much Steve hated CDs and he’d done his best to abuse the master tapes before they sent them off to be turned into CDs or something. It was a while ago. He REALLY did not like CDs.

Ironically my vinyl version of the last Shellac album came with a CD included as well.

#32

yeah same here, albeit unlabelled and just chucked into the package. i think all the Shellac albums do, maybe it’s an incentive to direct people towards the vinyl.

he popped up briefly on some BBC4 music documentary i was watching last year, where they got him to listen to a bit of an mp3 of Dude Incredible through standard Apple earphones or something and he said it was unrecognisable. It’s not really, Steve.

#33

Not unrecognisable no, but it must be really irritating if you’re so absorbed and immersed in the whole sound design thing and you’re a complete perfectionist. If when people absorb your work in the real world the thing that you’ve laboured long and hard over sounds terrible I can see why that would be annoying.

I guess it would be like producing the world’s greatest beer for someone to make a shandy out of it. Or something. I’m not great at analogies.

#34

this is the first Drive Like Jehu album

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#35

That’s the one. I knew Albini was involved anyway.

#36

One of my favourite albums comes with a sticker on the front advising you to listen to it ‘while driving through tunnels in europe’. Quite like that.

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#37

Which album is that??

#38

The apostrophe irritates me to high fuck.

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#42

I do like that album a lot (and I love to think of ‘noise purists’ frothing at the gills every time I put it on :slight_smile: )

#43

I dont think noise purists really care tbh man

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#44

I can think of plenty of counterexamples to this.

For example, Nickelback.

#45

On the assumption that I’m listening to things that I like…

#46

How bout in the song title?

#47

Head on the Door

#48

I’ve read that it’s to get it sounding closer to the original mix before Scott Litt did his stuff

I leave the bass and treble flat. I’ve never bothered with graphic equalisers, too much hard work.

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#50

I feel every record you alive you , Always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS! must turn on the volume! Don’t you agree?

#51

How about in the song title?

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