Dead Pop Stars

[TQR 14,384]

Perhaps not a household name himself (in the UK, anyway), by my god this one paragraph from his Wiki lays out one heck of a career. 

 

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In 2004, Albini estimated that he has engineered the recording of 1,500 albums, mostly by underground musicians. By 2018, his estimate had increased to several thousand. More prominent artists that Albini has worked with include: Nirvana, Pixies, The Breeders, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, the Jesus Lizard, Don Caballero, PJ Harvey, The Wedding Present, Joanna Newsom, Superchunk, Low, Dirty Three, Jawbreaker, Neurosis, Cloud Nothings, Bush, Chevelle, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant(as Page and Plant), Helmet, Fred Schneider, The Stooges, Owls, Manic Street Preachers, Jarvis Cocker, The Cribs, the Fleshtones, Nina Nastasia, The Frames, The Membranes, Cheap Trick, Motorpsycho, Slint, mclusky, Labradford, Veruca Salt, Zao, The Auteurs, Spare Snare, Foxy Shazam,  etc.

 

[lilham 752]

I don't know if he was a household name in America either: my parents would know who he was though. His essays (rants) are one thing that inspired me to be interested in the music industry. I think I cited him in my highschool thesis.

[Sly Ronnie 878]

49 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

RIP to a legendary dietician

 

 

Didn't do him much good, did it?

[Bestparolanto 37]

8 minutes ago, Sly Ronnie said:

 

Didn't do him much good, did it?

Red meat, fat and carbohydrate are not a healthy meal... 

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

1 hour ago, Spade_Cooley said:

RIP to a legendary dietician

 

 

Like to know where he could buy a loaf of bread, cheese AND roast beef for less than £8.

[lilham 752]

Satire of Steve Albini in the afterlife: https://thehardtimes.net/music/steve-albini-standing-outside-gates-of-heaven-telling-everyone-how-much-he-hates-the-smashing-pumpkins

[Toast 16,129]

33 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Like to know where he could buy a loaf of bread, cheese AND roast beef for less than £8.

 

Sainsburys. 

Sliced deli beef, £2 - £3

Sandwich loaf, £1.40

400g mature cheddar cheese, £3 (other cheeses are available)

 

And you'll get more than one meal out of that lot.

[DoltonMoney 306]

Among the greatest to ever come from Chicago. Rest in peace.

[Slackhurst Broadcasting 374]

One for the passed punks and no-wavers thread, I'd have thought.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

11 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Sainsburys. 

Sliced deli beef, £2 - £3

Sandwich loaf, £1.40

400g mature cheddar cheese, £3 (other cheeses are available)

 

And you'll get more than one meal out of that lot.

 

Is that with Nectar Card savings? 

Can't help feeling his meal is a little dry. Probably  needs some spread which would push the cost up over a Big Mac meal deal.

[Toast 16,129]

8 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Is that with Nectar Card savings? 

Can't help feeling his meal is a little dry. Probably  needs some spread which would push the cost up over a Big Mac meal deal.

 

One of the beef options had a Nectar discount, otherwise no. 

Spread? well, you could buy a jar of spread or a pack of butter but it's going to do for several meals.

You wouldn't need any if you made a toasted cheese sandwich.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,684]

17 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

Is that with Nectar Card savings? 

Can't help feeling his meal is a little dry. Probably  needs some spread which would push the cost up over a Big Mac meal deal.

Steve Albini needs no spread! Even when he was alive he would scoff at such a preposterous idea; spreads are for the morally weak!! Billy Corgan eats spreads, food of the corporate cocksuckers!!!

[FinalChapter 75]

3 hours ago, lilham said:

I don't know if he was a household name in America either: my parents would know who he was though. His essays (rants) are one thing that inspired me to be interested in the music industry. I think I cited him in my highschool thesis.

Probably not a household name but anyone can just read his list of credits and gain a sense of how major his impact on the sound of the 90’s was. 

[Ulitzer95 12,573]

19 hours ago, Clorox Bleachman said:

Holy badly timed article:

 

Guess we'll never know.

Is it too late for me to sign up and ask one? 
 

“Hi Steve, Ulitzer here. Big fan (not really, never heard of you). Tell me Steve, how likely is it that you’ll drop dead from a heart attack without ever reading this?”

[Toast 16,129]

2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Is it too late for me to sign up and ask one?

“Hi Steve, Ulitzer here. Big fan (not really, never heard of you). Tell me Steve, how likely is it that you’ll drop dead from a heart attack without ever reading this?”

 

And me please.

"Hi Steve, are they letting dogs in?"

[En Passant 3,740]

21 hours ago, Toast said:

 

One of the beef options had a Nectar discount, otherwise no. 

Spread? well, you could buy a jar of spread or a pack of butter but it's going to do for several meals.

You wouldn't need any if you made a toasted cheese sandwich.

 

I even stopped buying burgers to cook, Tesco's rather than Sainsbury's but same thing. Burgers were 6 -8 quid a kilo, those minute steaks (thin things) are 9-10 quid a kilo and aren't 'eyeballs and arseholes'.

In honesty I've tried to cut down on red meat altogether.

To be fair, I'll still get McD on occasion if I'm in a rush or just cba.

 

Now that everyone's comfortably asleep, 'here's Steve with the weather'.

[TQR 14,384]

3 minutes ago, En Passant said:

I even stopped buying burgers to cook, Tesco's rather than Sainsbury's but same thing. Burgers were 6 -8 quid a kilo, those minute steaks (thin things) are 9-10 quid a kilo and aren't 'eyeballs and arseholes'.

 

Hey, Tesco burgers aren't eyeballs and arseholes! They're 100% British horse beef brisket and chuck.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

21 hours ago, Toast said:

 

One of the beef options had a Nectar discount, otherwise no. 

Spread? well, you could buy a jar of spread or a pack of butter but it's going to do for several meals.

You wouldn't need any if you made a toasted cheese sandwich.

 

Very true, I bow to your toast knowledge... er.. Toast

[En Passant 3,740]

1 minute ago, TQR said:

 

Hey, Tesco burgers aren't eyeballs and arseholes! They're 100% British horse beef brisket and chuck.

 

So they say. .

 

And anyway, they're going to make burgers out of the leftovers of everything else because 'why wouldn't they?' they're in it for the money not the food quality. Even if technically it's not offal.

 

I'm boring myself now. And fkin miles off topic.

[lilham 752]

Since Albini's death, I've been listening to Silkworm and getting into fights over whether Steely Dan suck (they do). Albini-approved pasttimes.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

On 23/10/2023 at 09:05, DevonDeathTrip said:

Hedkandi dance label vocalist Kathy Brown suffering from stage 4 cancer.  

 

Edit - better link here.  Breast cancer which has spread to the brain 

 

Kathy Brown is performing again - she'll be doing her first gig since been diagnosed with cancer. Looks pretty good (if it's a recent video). Either way, maybe someone near Bexhill can do some form spotting - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1356717388350352

[YoungWillz 21,023]

Peggi Blu, US actress, singer and American Idol judge and vocal coach, reportedly dead: https://www.soultracks.com/story-peggy-blu-dies

 

Backing singer who came front and centre and had a few US hits, nothing in the UK afaik.

[Cerberus 302]

How the hell have you all missed Frank Ifield?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0vv1ngrq5yo

 

Seems like one who ought to have been in the Fifty. 

[Sleepiestpeep 158]

1 hour ago, Cerberus said:

How the hell have you all missed Frank Ifield?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0vv1ngrq5yo

 

Seems like one who ought to have been in the Fifty. 

not missed - just posted over in the country thread: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/6842-country-for-old-men-and-women/?page=23&tab=comments#comment-641356

[Cerberus 302]

As one of the biggest Pop Stars of his day, it wasn't unreasonable to find him in the Pop Stars thread. I would never have considered him a country singer, though he may have recorded some music in that style.

 

Anyways, I'll leave it for someone else to cross-post in the Singles Chart section.