Steve Albini: Why BIG BLACK Broke Up

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  • Steve Albini on Big Black's break up.
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  • @DanielSarkissian
    @DanielSarkissian  Před 3 lety +8

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    Cheers,
    Daniel

    • @davianforest2595
      @davianforest2595 Před 3 lety

      I know Im pretty off topic but do anyone know a good site to watch new movies online ?

    • @jamaljabari4577
      @jamaljabari4577 Před 3 lety

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

  • @Ryanbrio
    @Ryanbrio Před měsícem +87

    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
      @FUY735 Před 28 dny +1

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

  • @Racheltd67
    @Racheltd67 Před měsícem +77

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

  • @78deathface
    @78deathface Před 2 lety +40

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

  • @GabrielOjedaJr
    @GabrielOjedaJr Před 3 lety +69

    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.

  • @John-mf1sz
    @John-mf1sz Před rokem +23

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

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 Před 26 dny

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

  • @oliverhunt6813
    @oliverhunt6813 Před 2 lety +128

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

  • @cmeza1985
    @cmeza1985 Před 3 lety +40

    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
      @SinewRending Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @IHeartNoise
    @IHeartNoise Před 18 dny +3

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

  • @comicndn5169
    @comicndn5169 Před 2 lety +16

    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!

  • @Jacksmusicshack
    @Jacksmusicshack Před rokem +19

    Rest in peace Riley... Great bassist

  • @HBrooks
    @HBrooks Před 2 lety +22

    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

  • @mface3289
    @mface3289 Před 3 lety +13

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

  • @PotatoesMashedComedy
    @PotatoesMashedComedy Před 2 lety +7

    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!

  • @kickstartonly2527
    @kickstartonly2527 Před 3 lety +13

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

  • @shellac23
    @shellac23 Před měsícem

    Thanks for posting this. RIP Steve

  • @adamsrober
    @adamsrober Před 27 dny

    great overview / interview! thank you!!!

  • @davidanthonytaylorii6304
    @davidanthonytaylorii6304 Před 2 lety +8

    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

  • @sstaners1234
    @sstaners1234 Před 29 dny

    RIP Steve
    Thanks for posting this.

  • @MarshmallowCreep
    @MarshmallowCreep Před 3 lety +7

    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.

  • @GregGallagher
    @GregGallagher Před měsícem +1

    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.

  • @d_walsh
    @d_walsh Před 2 lety +5

    Cool interview. Never seen this before

  • @gianlucacupo533
    @gianlucacupo533 Před 3 lety +1

    Gold content as always !

  • @benmiller9854
    @benmiller9854 Před 2 lety +15

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

  • @greenyamo1321
    @greenyamo1321 Před měsícem +1

    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.

  • @OGGOAT23
    @OGGOAT23 Před 3 lety +49

    Can you get David Yow or Gibby Haynes

  • @user-vb3vf3sq2e
    @user-vb3vf3sq2e Před 3 lety +2

    wow, more Steve Albini

  • @NITE_SHIFTING
    @NITE_SHIFTING Před 3 lety +1

    Awesome.
    👍

  • @billyghostal
    @billyghostal Před 29 dny

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

  • @raimywinter2309
    @raimywinter2309 Před měsícem +2

    Rest in paradise

  • @arthurspringer2501
    @arthurspringer2501 Před 29 dny

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

  • @Juan-wo7zu
    @Juan-wo7zu Před měsícem +1

    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.

  • @timhall3575
    @timhall3575 Před rokem +3

    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:(

  • @liquiddevil7396
    @liquiddevil7396 Před měsícem

    A true man of principles.

  • @managerialelitetoaster3456

    Songs About Fucking - Excellent.

  • @snuffcore9686
    @snuffcore9686 Před měsícem +1

    RIP Steve

  • @simonetta-ta
    @simonetta-ta Před rokem

    BIG BLÄCK hit hard ‼💥
    Great band‼

  • @BobKnight-mm2ze
    @BobKnight-mm2ze Před 27 dny

    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
    @TipsterStu Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @wildhoneyandnoise
    @wildhoneyandnoise Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @BrutalistJr
    @BrutalistJr Před rokem +2

    RIP DAVE !!!

  • @squarebynature
    @squarebynature Před 3 lety +7

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

    • @JMarinelli
      @JMarinelli Před rokem +1

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

  • @NorthStarKnifeReviews
    @NorthStarKnifeReviews Před 28 dny

    A genius gone too soon. RIP.

  • @jamesjennings-yd2bc
    @jamesjennings-yd2bc Před 26 dny +1

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

  • @tom66909
    @tom66909 Před 3 lety +11

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

    • @LicksoftheLegend
      @LicksoftheLegend Před 3 lety +4

      Lol a bit pretentious of a guy

    • @Cairo98_
      @Cairo98_ Před 3 lety

      Lol.

    • @robwalsh9843
      @robwalsh9843 Před 3 lety +6

      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
      @tom66909 Před 3 lety +1

      @@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
      @robwalsh9843 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @Semprini537
    @Semprini537 Před měsícem +2

    KEROSENE is everybodys favorite BIG BLACK song

    • @wsplatinum
      @wsplatinum Před měsícem +1

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

  • @tian7728
    @tian7728 Před 3 lety +6

    You should interview butch vig

  • @markusweiler3121
    @markusweiler3121 Před měsícem +1

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

    • @greenyamo1321
      @greenyamo1321 Před měsícem +1

      What question

    • @markusweiler3121
      @markusweiler3121 Před měsícem

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

    • @greenyamo1321
      @greenyamo1321 Před měsícem

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

    • @greenyamo1321
      @greenyamo1321 Před měsícem

      @@markusweiler3121 how do you explain this
      czcams.com/video/7rCEVeHyBOI/video.htmlsi=O6KzCHk18Lkn8Pk7

    • @greenyamo1321
      @greenyamo1321 Před měsícem

      @@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?

  • @puppapalooza
    @puppapalooza Před 5 měsíci

    677

  • @Rompler_Rocco
    @Rompler_Rocco Před 3 lety +10

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

    • @BrodyLuv2
      @BrodyLuv2 Před 3 lety +7

      Me, on cassette tape to tape 😁

    • @xsisterwifex
      @xsisterwifex Před 3 lety +1

      Rocco M Kurt's Aunt

    • @sstaners1234
      @sstaners1234 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @kristopherguilbault5428
      @kristopherguilbault5428 Před 2 lety

      @@xsisterwifex Aunt Mari is cool as hell lol

    • @nicholasfaith8999
      @nicholasfaith8999 Před 27 dny

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

  • @MrPioneerlight2011
    @MrPioneerlight2011 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @christiancassanova2104
    @christiancassanova2104 Před 3 lety +4

    Fish fry!!!

  • @billofbton4502
    @billofbton4502 Před 26 dny

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

  • @blindvisions3015
    @blindvisions3015 Před měsícem

    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.

  • @billofbton4502
    @billofbton4502 Před 26 dny

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

  • @effdonahue6595
    @effdonahue6595 Před rokem +2

    Who’s afraid of the big black group 🤓✌️

  • @monroewhite9698
    @monroewhite9698 Před 25 dny

    "johnny hit&run pauline"? anybody?

  • @liquidsnake6879
    @liquidsnake6879 Před 7 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @DR-xt9ux
    @DR-xt9ux Před měsícem

    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

  • @millennial_bug
    @millennial_bug Před rokem

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

  • @jsmith10170
    @jsmith10170 Před 22 dny

    Turned from a simple question into 8 minutes of yappery

  • @dhollongstreet4725
    @dhollongstreet4725 Před 4 měsíci

    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
      @snuffcore9686 Před měsícem +4

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

    • @dhollongstreet4725
      @dhollongstreet4725 Před měsícem

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

    • @snuffcore9686
      @snuffcore9686 Před měsícem

      @@dhollongstreet4725 I've done both. Since1984.

    • @snuffcore9686
      @snuffcore9686 Před měsícem

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

  • @husq48
    @husq48 Před 2 lety +4

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

    • @JhonNye96
      @JhonNye96 Před měsícem +2

      He's talking about racist skinhead types

    • @cluecumber
      @cluecumber Před 25 dny

      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
    @thomgwarrior Před 3 lety +9

    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
      @nickmoran1 Před 3 lety +14

      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
      @danielpirone8028 Před 3 lety +46

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

    • @gr00veh0lmes
      @gr00veh0lmes Před 3 lety +5

      Nazi punks, fuck off.

    • @cardigansarecool
      @cardigansarecool Před 3 lety +27

      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
      @nameless646 Před rokem +8

      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".