I think its kind of beautiful that so many copies of The Futurist are just now being sent. Being a friend is a life’s work.

losthighway wrote: Wed May 08, 2024 11:14 am What the fuck you guys?

https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini ... ies-at-61/

Shit. It's been a year.

*sad*

#thankyoustevealbini
Still worth posting memories on the socials.

Salute Captain

jfv wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 2:29 pm Shit. It's been a year.

*sad*

Jeez, that year went fast.

Steve's review of John Zorn / Naked City came up in a Zorn FB group https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1698KaGNKm/

Here's a screenshot of the review: https://i.ibb.co/9knm6Ng3/Albini-reviews-Naked-City.jpg

While the discussion was mostly about Steve's taste in music, one weirdo tried to find what I can only assume he thinks is antisemitism in Steve's word choice. It was in reference to Zorn's methods of assembling artists from a variety of backgrounds and drawing from these diverse genres, which Steve called "parasitic." While I don't agree with Steve's assessment, I can't believe he was trying to say anything subversive or "playing with hate" as the commenter says. Am I missing something?

ChudFusk wrote: I can't believe he was trying to say anything subversive or "playing with hate" as the commenter says.

If 'jazz' ever becomes a protected characteristic Steve's comments are going to look very bad.

(I think he said similar things about Laswell, didn't he?)

jfv wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 2:29 pm Shit. It's been a year.

*sad*

For a couple of weeks leading up to his untimely and upsetting passing I was considering starting a Thunderdome with "Kerosene" and "Percolator" battling it out. In my head I think the pairing is sublime: both songs are by Chicago underground heroes of sorts with higher learning degrees - journalism and engineering respectively - while both songs are also easily identifiable to their creators. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that both songs are murder on a dancefloor.

I think of this thunderdome often.

ChudFusk wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 2:02 am While the discussion was mostly about Steve's taste in music, one weirdo tried to find what I can only assume he thinks is antisemitism in Steve's word choice. It was in reference to Zorn's methods of assembling artists from a variety of backgrounds and drawing from these diverse genres, which Steve called "parasitic." While I don't agree with Steve's assessment, I can't believe he was trying to say anything subversive or "playing with hate" as the commenter says. Am I missing something?

That was a kinder review than I would have expected! At worse it seems like Steve was calling him a bit of a dabbler. I like some Zorn music alright but the dude seems a bit up his own ass.

Anyway.. I didn’t think to make some big tribute/memorial posts yesterday because these kind of ‘anniversaries’ are weird, and SA comes up in my life all the time. It is still weird to acknowledge that he’s physically gone, because his impact hasn’t diminished at all.

Facebook assholes are the worst. RIP, Steve.

ChudFusk wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 2:02 am While I don't agree with Steve's assessment, I can't believe he was trying to say anything subversive or "playing with hate" as the commenter says. Am I missing something?

I agree with you. Someone's really trying to read something that isn't there, I think.

I couldn't help but read the other reviews in that clip and was amused by the following statement:

"Unplugged to me is such a sodomizing of rock music. I really can't stomach it."

(I don't know the full context since it's only one paragraph of the review, so I'm unsure if Steve was talking about a specific Unplugged album or Unplugged albums in general.)