Steve Albini: Why BIG BLACK Broke Up

Steve Albini on Big Black's break up.
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Daniel

[@DanielSarkissian]

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[@davianforest2595]

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[@jamaljabari4577]

@Davian Forest Lately I have been using FlixZone. Just google for it :)

[@Ryanbrio]

I can’t wrap my head around the fact that he’s gone. He’s really just one of those people who, for me at least, granted a certain safety just in knowing that he walked among us and was still doing things. I haven’t followed his recent work closely, but every time his name came up in an article or wherever else I would love to hear what he had to say. What’s for sure is that the world is lesser without Steve.

[@FUY735]

Losing people you admire really sucks. Some hunt worse than others but you just keep pushing forward my friend.

[@Racheltd67]

A sad day for Rock n Roll. RIP Steve Albini.

[@tonywatson9765]

Steve "big fan of pure fanzine" Albini

[@afterceasetoexist]

@@tonywatson9765 begone teenager

[@oliverhunt6813]

Pretty coy how he doesn't address some of Roland's more problematic behavior

[@jonathanwobesky9507]

it's all ac related.

[@Juan-wo7zu]

Real problematic

[@Ben-gr4zy]

Who is Roland?

[@Juan-wo7zu]

@@Ben-gr4zy look him up. He’s real problematic

[@xHeadcleanerx]

Nothing phases Roland.

[@78deathface]

Steve’s studio is the nicest studio I’ve ever been in, he has a CRAZY Italian espresso machine

[@John-mf1sz]

Santiago was indeed one of the most bad ass noise guitarists of the 80’s. That marching in place is iconic, man.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

It's terrifying, tbh. Dude's standing still but it always seemed like he was coming right for you.

[@GabrielOjedaJr]

Thanks a lot for sharing big black stories, there is not much info about this legendary band , I hope to see more about big black , shellac and rapeman too.

[@cmeza1985]

I've been on a Big Black trip lately. The show at CBGB's in 1986 is a great vid. Dave Riley had a killer bass tone.

[@SinewRending]

*I like it when Steve Albini says "Fuck you!" during the chorus of "Cables."

[@IHeartNoise]

RIP - still can't believe he's gone. Just tells you how unfair life can really be.

[@HBrooks]

big black was 'formative' to my early 'punk' experience in the 80's.. nihilistic, weird, trippy, but also a true audio assault of magic in your ears

[@Jacksmusicshack]

Rest in peace Riley... Great bassist

[@comicndn5169]

BIG BLACK have always been one of the greatest post-punk bands, in my opinion. I've been a fan since way back (Touch And Go era). It's awesome to see this interview! Music for a limited audience? Maybe, but I for one am still a fan of them. Thank you!

[@mface3289]

Thank you so much for this interview! Love Big Black! Steve Albini is a genius in his own right!

[@benmiller9854]

Okay's talkin about skinheads. He's right it really did suck on the scene, back then, when they would show up at shows.

[@kickstartonly2527]

So good to see someone talking to Steve about his music 🎶 huge big black, shellac fan hoping there’s more 🤞🏽

[@PotatoesMashedComedy]

Still sharing Big Black today! I learned about them when I worked in college radio fifteen years ago and this weekend I'm doing a drag number to Big Money and Kerosene in a show about the common worker. Thanks, Steve!

[@davidanthonytaylorii6304]

wtf :( this is for everybody. im so upset i just learned this.. you all helped me when i was sad. Songs about fucking made me feel better in my day to day

[@adamsrober]

great overview / interview! thank you!!!

[@shellac23]

Thanks for posting this. RIP Steve

[@OGGOAT23]

Can you get David Yow or Gibby Haynes

[@mommasbasement1955]

yow for sure

[@d.7868]

dude the world's not ready

[@sstaners1234]

Wow, mention Gary Floyd’s band name and KZbin deletes comment.

[@sstaners1234]

RIP Steve Thanks for posting this.

[@d_walsh]

Cool interview. Never seen this before

[@MarshmallowCreep]

I feel like I already know all there is to know about Big Black but I will never get tired of people talking about them.

[@gianlucacupo533]

Gold content as always !

[@greenyamo1321]

Also see Propagandhi - Back to the Motor League. Such an amazing guy that I’m lucky to have seen live a few times, rest in power Mr Albini, the legend will live on forever.

[@GregGallagher]

Really fucking bummed that Steve has passed away. His work on so many records and with his many bands have had such a huge impact and influence on me. May he rest in peace.

[@user-vb3vf3sq2e]

wow, more Steve Albini

[@billyghostal]

I love that it appealed to me. Thank you Steve RIP

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

Awesome. 👍

[@timhall3575]

From a strictly Anglo/EU perspective... If they'd kept going and stayed with Blast First in the UK for the next album / follow up to 'Song's About Fcuking' and say this album was released in late 1988 early 1989 (in this alternate fantasy timeline) I think a few things 'could' have happened. They'd have been properly 'Alternative Music'.. 'huge'. Kind of Sonic Youth 'Daydream Nation' - MBV 'Isn't Anything' style late 80s - pre-1991 Grunge huge. Front cover of Sounds / Melody Maker (NME wouldn't have 'got it' - the squares) huge.. Getting offered the new groovier Reading Festival early evening slots live huge - the pre-grunge kids getting into them 'huge'. Bigger tours - appearing on Snub TV - doing longer / bigger tours across Europe etc etc. They'd have stayed a 'cult' concern in the US playing club shows whilst filling theatres here - and Europe would have become their 'main market'. Albini would have hated it all and would have quickly burnt out by the growing commodification / homogenisation of the 'underground' - and broken the band up and we'd have seen no R***man fiasco etc etc. Subsequently 1991 happens - Nirvana still get big - but Albini doesn't form Shellac, doesn't do 'outside' production work as he started doing with the Pixies etc, doesn't work on In Utero and Electrical Audio is never built. I think he'd potentially just turned his back on the whole 'scene'... but then.. this is my fantasy historical timeline and TBH this timeline isn't as great in the long run. I'm glad that BB broke up when they did as look what came after - despite never getting to see them... boo:(

[@raimywinter2309]

Rest in paradise

[@BobKnight-mm2ze]

I think the Latin phrase is Tempus Fugit. I guess I didn't realize they started in 81 since I saw Steve pretty much with just the drum machine at the Metro a few times that year. But I'd see him with Naked Raygun a lot, so I guess I figured it was just him doing like a side project "one man show" in between other bands. I was super duper young (14?) Last time I saw him...maybe it was my 3rd year in high school, sitting on the curb/on my skateboard with my girlfriend, around the corner from the skate shop, Tom Thumb, up in Evanston since that was the only shop where you could get parts if you lived in Chicago. I guess he knew I was a guy who came to shows--since I had a mohawk and skate clothes-so he caught my eye. I nodded at him and his (maybe) wife in their Volvo. By that time he was famous, but that moment always made me realize he was REALLY a pragmatic, humble and what-you-see-is-what-you-get person, and history proved that to be the case.

[@TipsterStu]

This guy made a great job of DAZZLING KILLMEN's Dig Out The Switch and HELMET's Strap It On :)

[@arthurspringer2501]

"There was no point in entertaining any notions of popularity" might be one of the most honest, and greatest lines ever uttered

[@liquiddevil7396]

A true man of principles.

[@snuffcore9686]

RIP Steve

[@simonetta-ta]

BIG BLÄCK hit hard ‼💥 Great band‼

[@managerialelitetoaster3456]

Songs About Fucking - Excellent.

[@wildhoneyandnoise]

yeah, I wanted non nirvana Albini content Thanks for this. off topic, I miss the PRF.

[@Juan-wo7zu]

I can’t get over the fact that he’s dead. I first got obsessed with big black only a few months ago but I was obsessed with albums he produced for years before. It feels like punk and noise rock are now truly dead.

[@Juan-wo7zu]

@@redlineeliminator7146 huh?

[@jamesjennings-yd2bc]

I remember going out to buy Songs about fucking the day it came out. Only saw them once but it was great.

[@BrutalistJr]

RIP DAVE !!!

[@squarebynature]

So... Santiago...was the man.

[@JMarinelli]

Great guitar player -- his work in Naked Raygun and Arsenal was pretty amazing as well.

[@tom66909]

My eyes roll hard every time I hear Albini speak. I love BB btw

[@LicksoftheLegend]

Lol a bit pretentious of a guy

[@Cairo98_]

Lol.

[@robwalsh9843]

I actually find Steve much less pretentious for a guy from an underground avant garde punk scene than a lot of his contemporaries. For example, I grew up in Washington DC thinking Ian MacKaye was just the greatest person ever, but he's a massive prick and a diva compared to Steve.

[@tom66909]

@@robwalsh9843 he’s irritating but his ‘sound’ is fantastic. I’m from Chicago and in the city (not the suburbs) everyone’s a dick there. So I get it...

[@robwalsh9843]

@@tom66909 Haha. Only spent a little time in Chicago but most of you seemed alright, at least at the time.

[@NorthStarKnifeReviews]

A genius gone too soon. RIP.

[@tian7728]

You should interview butch vig

[@Bazukosoniko]

I think he´s unreachable. Like Dave Grohl

[@dannyurena7409]

@@Bazukosoniko Reach Daves Agent.

[@blindvisions3015]

In this context I'd like to quote Phillip Boa: When you sell records to more than 10,000 people, you sell records to idiots.

[@Semprini537]

KEROSENE is everybodys favorite BIG BLACK song

[@wsplatinum]

well i like The power of independent trucking the best, it's short and sweet ;-)

[@markusweiler3121]

When you started your question about Kerosene, I thought you would ask the ultimate question...but you didn't. RIP Steve

[@greenyamo1321]

What question

[@markusweiler3121]

@@greenyamo1321 if he knew, that kerosene doesn't burn (fact)

[@greenyamo1321]

⁠@@markusweiler3121millions of homes and commercial buildings are heated by kerosene boilers in the UK, Europe and the USA but it doesn’t burn?

[@greenyamo1321]

@@markusweiler3121 how do you explain this kzbin.info/www/bejne/baOmdombfd51hassi=O6KzCHk18Lkn8Pk7

[@greenyamo1321]

@@markusweiler3121 I repair kerosene boilers for a living, the waste I collect from changing filters I collect and use at home to start fires, where’s your information from?

[@Rompler_Rocco]

I wonder if anyone *not* awesome ever recorded Nirvana 🤔

[@BrodyLuv2]

Me, on cassette tape to tape 😁

[@xsisterwifex]

Rocco M Kurt's Aunt

[@sstaners1234]

I’m super awesome. I burned a copy of In Utero.....to uhh, cassette. Pretty cool huh?

[@kristopherguilbault5428]

@@xsisterwifex Aunt Mari is cool as hell lol

[@nicholasfaith8999]

Lies, She was supportive of Kurt and helped him record his first demos​@@xsisterwifex

[@puppapalooza]

677

[@MrPioneerlight2011]

Interview the dudes from Squirrel Bait or Bitch Magnet....

[@christiancassanova2104]

Fish fry!!!

[@gerrypeacemaker9407]

Love Fish fry 🐠

[@billofbton4502]

Woohoo Dave Riley sounds cool. Every band needs a drunk.

[@monroewhite9698]

"johnny hit&run pauline"? anybody?

[@DR-xt9ux]

Law school ?? Damn I find this shyt out now just replace Santiago keep the band going fk the audience they will change as time goes on but whatever

[@effdonahue6595]

Who’s afraid of the big black group 🤓✌️

[@billofbton4502]

I'm cool and I'm here for the wrong reasons.

[@liquidsnake6879]

Roland is responsible for breaking up BIG BLACK, Roland went into business for himself and this is why there is no more BIG BLACK. We could still be enjoying BIG BLACK if not for Roland, F### Roland.

[@millennial_bug]

What is the kind of people ge didn't want to be associated with? People like Columbine school shooting? That kind?

[@Zettel9016]

Racist skinheads.

[@jsmith10170]

Turned from a simple question into 8 minutes of yappery

[@dhollongstreet4725]

These people that come out with this "I suffered for the music" BS. They made that type of music to get attention, make sales. You do not make music for your friends, they do not put food on the table or pay the electric bill.

[@snuffcore9686]

You don't know much about this scene, do you?

[@dhollongstreet4725]

@@snuffcore9686 So you have never been in a band, or even made attempts at promotion.

[@snuffcore9686]

@@dhollongstreet4725 I've done both. Since1984.

[@snuffcore9686]

@@dhollongstreet4725 I've done both, off and on, since 1984.

[@husq48]

Never realized you had to "qualify" to see any band...

[@JhonNye96]

He's talking about racist skinhead types

[@cluecumber]

dude we can see from your playlists you're one of those people who don't get it. maybe try to evolve and confront your own stupid opinions (like Steve did) instead of whining about about not 'qualifying'. you did this to yourself.

[@thomgwarrior]

He has that uber hipster mentality. Not liking people who were into his band, because they didn't really get it, and for the wrong reasons. Totally pretentious. Good thing they broke up. No one needs this narcissistic, holier-than-thou attitude. I respect his work, but that hipster bullshit is ridiculous.

[@nickmoran1]

It's pretentious when a person finds it more important to be seen as a fan, rather than even being fan at all. It's that person who appears to have the problem.

[@danielpirone8028]

He is talking about racist skin heads, not pretentious scensterism.

[@gr00veh0lmes]

Nazi punks, fuck off.

[@cardigansarecool]

Big Black explored society’s worst people often from a “first person” perspective. It was intentionally ugly but not meant to be a glorification of these people. Admittedly, they pushed it pretty far so I can understand the confusion and in a way it’s their own fault, but I’m sure when racists and sexual deviants and other horrible hate-filled creeps started thinking they found kindred spirits, you’d kinda wanna put a stop to it. Especially in the 80s when things weren’t so transparent. I remember an interview with Sonic Youth saying early on they would get the creepiest fan mail, with stuff like dead flies and much worse things, because they thought SY were these like extreme sex-death rockers. Some people don’t understand art and satire and take things too literally

[@nameless646]

Steve took on a certain perspective in his lyrics to go along with the overall tone and atmosphere of the music. He's referring to people in the audience who actually supported and/or engaged in those types of behaviors and mindsets; they saw the band as "one of them".