" Albini and Washam became " sort of obsessed " with the comic, and named their new group after the titular antihero.

Prior to recording with Albini, the band recorded a second session with John Peel on 22 September and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's " Highway 61 Revisited ," and two new songs " Me Jane " and " Ecstasy.

Albini began playing in college bands, including a short-lived " arty new wave " act called Stations that featured a drum machine.

The albums were remastered by Albini and Bob Weston and packaged with new liner notes and gatefold artwork.

These nine new songs were committed to tape by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio recording studio and released in the fall of 2000 as American Don.

Stations on the new line were designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg architecture studio, while Bob Noorda designed the famous signaling.

Afterwards, the two artists entered the studio with engineer Steve Albini to record Walking into Clarksdale, an album composed of entirely new material.

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.

Numerous other musical artists have cited Fun House as their favorite album, including Joey Ramone, Mark E. Smith, Jack White, Nick Cave, Henry Rollins ( along with The Velvet Underground's White Light / White Heat ), Buzz Osborne from the Melvins, Aaron North, Maciej Cieślak from the Polish band Ścianka, and musician / engineer Steve Albini.

It consisted of Steve Albini ( formerly of Big Black ) on guitar and vocals, David Wm.

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

Among others, Steve Albini ( Shellac, Rapeman, Big Black ), Panthére, Gang Gang Dance, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Sisters of Mercy, She Wants Revenge, Henry Rollins, Joy Division / New Order, Soft Cell, Nick Cave, Cassandra Complex, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Radiohead, Kap Bambino, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Angel Corpus Christi ( covers of Dream Baby Dream and Cheree with Alan Vega guest vocals ), Michael Gira, MGMT, Sonic Boom, Loop, The Fleshtones ( both of whom have recorded cover versions of " Rocket USA "), Ric Ocasek of The Cars, Mi Ami, R. E. M.

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.

Albini has fronted the bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac on guitar and vocals.

On the advice of a 4AD colleague, Watts-Russell looked to hire Steve Albini, ex-frontman of Big Black, as the record's engineer and producer.

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

A Roland TR-606 drum machine, the model Albini used to create Big Black's drum sound.

In early 1983 Albini met Naked Raygun singer Jeff Pezzati through mutual friends and convinced him to play bass guitar with Big Black.

According to Albini, " He ended up being absolutely crucial to Big Black.

Albini " sorta conned " small local label Fever Records into financing the next Big Black EP, bringing in drummer Pat Byrne of Urge Overkill to play on the sessions as accompaniment to the drum machine, which they dubbed " Roland " for album credits.

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.

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.

Big Black secured a European distribution deal for their records through Blast First, a label recommended to Albini by Sonic Youth, and met enthusiastic responses to their shows on a 1986 European tour.

As a result of the deception, Albini and Big Black severed ties with Homestead and Dutch East India.

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

Following Big Black's breakup, Albini formed and fronted Rapeman from 1987 to 1989 and Shellac from 1992 onward.

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.

" An example was " Something Against You ", where Albini filtered Black Francis ' voice through a guitar amp for " a totally ragged, vicious texture.

On September 9, 2006, Albini and Durango reunited with original bassist Jeff Pezzati for a Big Black reunion performance at Touch and Go's 25th Anniversary festival.

Albini explained that the performance was " not about Big Black wanting to get back together or even an audience wanting to see Big Black, it's that ... to not honor Touch and Go would be an insult by way of damning with faint praise ", describing the label as " just a benchmark for how a record label should behave, but how people should behave.

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

Albini also emphasized that the songs ' lyrics were not the focal point of Big Black, and that the vocals were only there out of necessity: " It seemed like, as instrumental music, it didn't have enough emotional intensity at times, so there would be vocals.

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

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.

Andrews argued that more can be done ( with greater ease ) with digital while Steve Albini argued that he can accomplish just as much with analog.

After sessions for a concept album entitled The Power of Suck were aborted, the band assembled Under the Bushes Under the Stars out of their first 24-track studio sessions, recorded with Kim Deal and Steve Albini among others, in 1996.

The word " darkie " appeared in the first line of the Lungs EP, but Albini defended its use as a comical term, saying " in a way that's a play on the concept of a hateful word.

The album was recorded by Steve Albini ( who was hired by Watts-Russell on the advice of a 4AD colleague ), completed in two weeks, and released in early 1988.

Albini later produced Nirvana's 1993 In Utero at the request of Cobain.

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.

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

Their sound gave center stage to the signature guitar style of Albini.

Albini launched an extensive and successful career as a recording engineer and played bass with Flour before going on to form Shellac.

The d ' Albini ( or d ' Aubigny ) family originated from St. Martin d ' Aubigny in Normandy.

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.

The Breeders were without a drummer, so Albini suggested Britt Walford of Slint join for the recording sessions.

" In July 2007, in a chat forum interview, Pod < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s engineer Steve Albini revealed that he considered the album to be amongst his best works.

In 2007, the band released an album of all-new material, The Weirdness, with Steve Albini recording, and mastering done at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.

A stop-gap EP recorded by Steve Albini, Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt, was released in 1996.

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.

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.

No Pocky for Kitty was recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini in 1991.

Island Records signed the trio amid a major label bidding war in mid-1992 and in December 1992, the trio travelled to Cannon Falls, Minnesota in the United States to record the follow-up to Dry with producer Steve Albini.

" The recording sessions with Albini took place at Pachyderm Recording Studio and resulted in the band's major label debut Rid of Me in May 1993.

Harvey describes herself as " an extremely quiet person, who doesn't go out much, doesn't talk to people " and has also acquired a reputation for eccentricity to match her music ; for example, Steve Albini claimed she ate nothing but potatoes while making Rid of Me.