In an interview, Albini reported that "' Rapeman ' is ... the title character in a Japanese comic book that I had come across through a friend of mine.

in 1990 after Albini had an argument with the label over the release of a Big Black record.

While recording the Pixies ' album Surfer Rosa, producer Steve Albini recognized the Pixies ' references and realized that he and Black both " had an affection " for Norman's music.

4AD gave the band an $ 11, 000 budget and recruited Steve Albini, who had worked with Deal on the Pixies ' 1988 album Surfer Rosa, to record in Edinburgh, Scotland for two weeks in December 1989.

Bush's albums include the aforementioned Sixteen Stone, Razorblade Suitcase ( recorded by Steve Albini ), Deconstructed, The Science of Things, and Golden State, all albums had much success in terms of albums sales, which led Bush to be one of the best selling rock groups to come out of the nineties.

That same year, the band spent time in the studio recording with Steve Albini, who had produced the Baby Talk / Brontosaurus single.

In 2004, Lightning Bolt played on the doorstep of radio DJ John Peel's chalet at noon during the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, about which neighbor Steve Albini of Shellac and Big Black commented " Best alarm clock I've ever had.

" Paul Kolderie, who had worked at Fort Apache Studios with Smith, recommended the Boston recording studio Q Division to Albini.

Gerard Cosloy, who had befriended Albini through writing for Matter and gone on to work at Homestead, negotiated an unorthodox deal for the band: Big Black merely licensed their recordings to Homestead for specific lengths of time, rather than the label retaining the rights to the recordings as was typical.

Albini believed that Big Black had nothing to gain by adopting the usual corporate trappings of rock bands: " If you don't use contracts, you don't have any contracts to worry about.

Michael Azerrad comments that " by this time Big Black had both refined the ideas first suggested on Lungs and exploded them into something much huger than anyone but Albini had ever imagined ", while Mark Deming of Allmusic states that the album " upped the ante on the musical and lyrical ferocity of Big Black's previous body of work, an unrelenting assault of guitar sounds and imagined violence of all sorts.

" Albini later remarked that " we just had a higher-than-average percentage of really good songs.

The band agreed on the condition that the single was not to be offered for sale, since the song had already been released as a 7-inch single in 1985 and, according to Albini, " We didn't want our audience milked for extra money to buy an alternate format.

Another problem facing the band was that Riley was now in college and both Albini and Durango had to keep day jobs, which limited Big Black's ability to tour.

Albini explained that the band strove for intensity, stating that their goal was to make " something that felt intense when we went through it, rather than something that had little coded indicators of intensity.

Some, such as " Cables ", " Pigeon Kill ", and " Jordan, Minnesota ", were based on real events, or things that Albini had witnessed during his midwest upbringing.

4AD gave the band a $ 11, 000 budget and recruited Steve Albini, who had worked with Deal on the Pixies ' 1988 album Surfer Rosa, to record in Edinburgh for two weeks in December 1989.

The band had originally recorded demos for the album in Chicago with producer Steve Albini at Chicago Recording Company studios, with the intention of releasing a two or three song EP.

We did a lot more pre-session demos, not just with Albini, but also using an 8-track reel-to-reel that we had bought to record our practices.

Wanting to record locally they met with Chicago-based producer Steve Albini, who had previously worked with artists such as PJ Harvey, The Pixies, and Nirvana.

The Breeders allowed Deal to become more active in songwriting, and their debut album, Pod ( 1990 ), containing mostly Deal-written songs, was recorded in Edinburgh, Scotland by Steve Albini.

Moving to Evanston, Illinois the following year to pursue a journalism degree and fine art minor at Northwestern, Albini immersed himself in the fledgling Chicago punk scene and became a devoted fan of the post-punk band Naked Raygun.

Albini was a fan of punk rock bands including Suicide, the Ramones, The Stooges, and Naked Raygun.

Raygun fan Steve Albini was forming a band called Big Black and asked both Durango and Raygun lead singer Jeff Pezzati to join.

Albini has described such criticisms as idiotic, arguing that punk ideology is generally very sympathetic to feminism.

Part of Big Black's local unpopularity stemmed from Albini and the vitriol he regularly directed at Chicago's rock scene: by 1985 the Metro Chicago was the only club in the city that was booking punk rock shows and was also large enough to accommodate Big Black, but after performing there Albini badmouthed the club in an interview and found himself banned from it permanently.

" Both Albini and Riley described Big Black as a punk rock band.

Swagger is the first album by the Celtic punk band Flogging Molly, mixed by Steve Albini.

Many alternative rock artists, including Billy Corgan and PJ Harvey, have cited the album as inspirational ; Nirvana's Kurt Cobain frequently acknowledged that Surfer Rosa was a strong influence on Nevermind, and in 1993 hired the album's producer Steve Albini to produce his band's album In Utero.

Albini claimed to be aiming for a " big, massive, slick rock sound " with Racer-X, which was less frantic than Bulldozer, but ultimately felt that the EP was " too samey and monolithic.

On many songs Albini programmed it to accent the first and third beats of the bar, rather than the second and fourth beats typically accented in rock music.

Albini was determined to avoid the " standard rock stud guitar sound ", and achieved a signature " clanky " sound by using metal guitar picks notched with sheet metal clips ; the notch causing the pick to hit each string twice, creating the effect of two simultaneous guitar picks.

" Albini typically kept vocals " low in the mix ," or much less prominent than was typical of rock and roll recordings.

In an interview with Steve Albini for his Matter column in 1983, singer and guitarist Bob Mould told Albini: " We're going to try to do something bigger than anything like rock & roll and the whole puny touring band idea.

This lineup began extensive world tours, catching the eye of such noteworthy rock figures as Steve Albini, who produced their 1991 album Total Castration, and Jello Biafra, who signed them to his Alternative Tentacles record label.

Big Black was founded by Steve Albini in 1981 during his second year of college at Northwestern University.

The final version was recorded by Steve Albini at Pachyderm Studios in 1993 during the In Utero sessions and released as the final, unlisted track on the No Alternative compilation.

In 1138, three years after Henry's death, she married William d ' Albini II ( aka d ' Aubigny, the first Earl, of the d ' Aubigny family of Saint-Martin-d ' Aubigny in Normandy ).

They recorded 17 songs with Steve Albini in January 2008, some of which have been played live at gigs in recent years.

Other popular musicians from Montana include Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, and guitarist / producer Steve Albini.

Albini handled much of the band's logistics himself, setting up rehearsals, booking studio time, and arranging tours.

" Albini himself later considered the album's first side as Big Black's best output.