Albini on his 60th birthday talking shit about the Doobie Brothers, Mutt Lange, Tom Waits, Pitchfork Media's habit of altering their ratings when they find out they were wrong, Star Wars, LOTR, Pequod's, Mr Beef, Orange amps, vintage gear vs modern revivals of said gear, Dino Jr, Pegboy, WGN, WTTN, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Husker Du, Spotify....Albini tells a great story about George Thorogood meeting Bob Dylan around the 52 minute mark:



Albini's take on Lange's work applies from about For Those About to Rock / Pyromania / Heartbeat City and especially Hysteria, where Lange goes completely off the reservation into pablum pop nonsense.

But the 2 AC/DC albums Lange did before For Those, Back in Black and Bon Scott's last album Highway + earlier blues-garage-sorta-punk albums from The Boomtown Rats/The Rumour/The Motors et al don't have the plastic pop sheen of his descent into producing Shania Twain/Billy Ocean/Michael Bolton/Bryan Adams later shite albums, Maroon 5 and even Nickelback crap ffs. Def Leppard's High-n-Dry retained some gritty blues rock feel their later records completely abandon. Foreigner 4's in there on the cusp.

Noah Kahan can fuck right off. We get it, Vermont is boring. Call us back when your balls drop.

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