History Trivia / SteveAlbini

* GenreAdultery: He's known for his harsh production for loud indie and punk bands, so this is what happens when he departs from his stereotypical production style, and works with people like Music/JoannaNewsom, Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor, and Music/CheapTrick.

* GenreAdultery and PlayingAgainstType: He's known for his harsh production for loud indie and punk bands, so this is what happens when he departs from his stereotypical production style, and works with people like Music/JoannaNewsom, Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor, and Music/CheapTrick.

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* QuoteSource: A quote from Steve is the quote source for The Invisible Producer in the RecordProducer index:
-->'''Steve:''' It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me. [...] So, I made up my mind when I started engineering professionally that I wasn't going to behave like that.

* ReferencedBy: The band Songs:Ohia named their song "Steve Albini's Blues" after him, although his name does not appear within the song itself. Albini would later work with the band and its successor, Magnolia Electric Co.

* ReferencedBy: Band Songs:Ohia named their song "Steve Albini's Blues" after him, although his name does not appear within the song itself. Albini would later work with the band and its successor, Magnolia Electric Co.

'''Steve:''' It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me. [...] So, I made up my mind when I started engineering professionally that I wasn't going to behave like that.

* GenreAdultery and PlayingAgainstType: He's known for his harsh production for loud indie and punk bands, so this is what happens when he departs from his stereotypical production style, and works with people like Music/JoannaNewsom and Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor.

* DoingItForTheArt: He works for a flat fee and accepts no royalties, believing it to be an insult to the artist. In addition, he exclusively records in analog, does work for a lot of unknown/underground bands, charges artists on major labels more than those on indie labels, called the CD "The rich man's 8-track." and doesn't like to be credited on albums, only agreeing if the label insists and even then as "engineered/recorded by" instead of "produced by".
* GenreAdultery and PlayingAgainstType: He's known for his harsh production for loud indie and punk bands, so this is what happens when he departs from his stereotypical production style and works with people like Music/JoannaNewsom and Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: From 1982 to 1987, the man notorious in alternative rock for his BrutalHonesty and dark subject matter had a day job as, of all things, a photograph retoucher; he was paid to take photos of car crashes and death scenes and remove or obscure too-graphic details so that they could be published in a newspaper. Yes, he was once paid to ''tone things down''.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: From 1982 to 1987, the man notorious in alternative rock for his BrutalHonesty and dark subject matter had a day job as, of all things, a photograph retoucher; he was paid to take photos of car crashes and death scenes and remove or obscure too-graphic details so that they could be publishable in a newspaper. Yes, Steve Albini was once paid to ''tone things down''.
** The flipside of this was that he spent much of his time staring at photographs of things that would turn most people's stomachs, making him something of a ShellShockedVeteran.

** The flipside of this was that he spent much of his time staring at photographs of things that would turn most people's stomachs, making him something of a ShellShockedVeteran.
* PlayingAgainstType: He's known for his harsh production for loud Indie and Punk bands, then he produces music for Joanna Newsom.

* PlayingAgainstType: He's known for his harsh production for loud Indie and Punk bands, then he produces music for Joanna Newsom.

* DoingItForTheArt: He never does things for money, accepts bargain-basement rates and never takes royalties.