![]() This approach mocked radio’s standards for fidelity. So which producer would be the anti- Butch Vig? Why, Albini, of course! The former Big Black mastermind made a niche for himself recording (he hated the term “producer”) loud rock bands in as vérité a fashion as possible-an audio snapshot that recorded the room as much as the music made within. A natural-born contrarian, Cobain would run in the opposite direction and try to make as uncommercial a record as possible. Certainly, the breaths of his bandmates, management and record label were especially baited. The entire planet was on tenterhooks, waiting to see what Kurt Cobain was going to do next. Of course, the follow-up to the Album That Changed The World (aka Nevermind ) was going to dominate 1993. Read more: 7 artists who were banned from ‘SNL’ for their badass performances Nirvana – In Utero Welcome to Alternative Press’ 15 best punk albums of 1993. Here’s some of the best, alongside the better bands gone major. They continued going their own way, producing unrefined, untamed music full of life. “Some of your friends are probably already this fucked.”īut for every band accepting that King Midas-in-reverse handshake, there were 10 more who spat in that feces-smeared mitt being offered. ![]() “The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month,” he concluded. Entitled “The Problem With Music,” it clearly yet sarcastically tallied every pitfall of dancing with the majors, right down to a typical ledger sheet for a be-flanneled signee. He was so repulsed at the clear-cut avarice of the major labels and the wide-eyed naivety of talent preyed upon, he penned an instructive essay for that December’s fifth issue of art/culture/politics periodical The Baffler. The man who recorded the latter’s In Utero, Steve Albini, was gagging. Major labels continued waving checkbooks at the underground, praying they’d find their Nirvana. Read more: 10 times punk rockers stole the show on American TV in the ’70s and ’80s
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