Steve Albini To Produce Next Album? - Page 5 - Forever Delayed

Donkey · #61 21-12-2007, 12:24

make an album with sound of This Is My Truth containing The Holy Bible-like songs and guitars. That would be perfect.

And if they want to talk about generation Terrorists again and play five GT songs a gig again then it would be better no to do anything

Paul · #62 21-12-2007, 19:37

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Originally Posted by TheSilentMan

Urgh, I hate it when people use his talents for the wrong reasons. Albini is best when he's making things sound raw, gritty, dirty and noisy. See: Oxbow, Big Black, Neurosis, Jesus Lizard, Whitehouse, Made out of Babies... http://youtube.com/watch?v=mZW0CZClXfA He's also good at making post-rock and bands with a 'sparse' sound sound big.

Getting him to produce a band like MSP, who at the end of the day are playing pretty standard sounding 'rock' seems like a waste of time, when most other decent producers would suffice just as well, and Albini could put his efforts into producing bands that more suit his style.
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Yeah, when I read the title of this I thought "Oh good, they're going to do an odd sparse-sounding, raw album then" but by the sounds of it they're not, so whats the point?

If they did an album which had the musical charm of something like After Murder Park that would be ace but I can't see it somehow. They'll always revert back to that polished half-punk guitar sound.

Porco · #63 21-12-2007, 20:10

An entirely possible* chain of events:

"Hi Steve it's James Dean Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers, we'd all, kinda like, LOVE to work with you!"
-"Oh hello. Aren't you the guy who was quoted as saying Nirvana "destroyed a generation of people - they gave them a gateway to an alternative world without getting a badge first and took them to that world which, at the end of the day, was just bad metal" ?
"um... kinda like... well, ... "
-"Bye then!"

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The New Manics album has a name! Sources close to the band have revealed it will be called 'Bad Metal'. What the name refers to is still, at this time, unknown.

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Nicky Wire has spoken about the Manic's New Album 'Bad Metal'. "It's a monster of a record, really amazing, the best thing we've ever done" said a typically coy Wire. "The name refers to our past in a way, that some might have said we were 'bad metal' and that we might have said others were 'bad metal'. It also harks back to our Motorcycle Emptiness days - the idea of a motorcycle, which is made of metal, and how emptiness is really bad, really undesirable and smelly."

'Bad Metal' is out at the end of the year.

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*possible, not probable. Apologies to all involved, only meant in jest.

(Seriously I love the idea of them working with Albini really)

Takk · #64 21-12-2007, 20:11

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Originally Posted by Intravenous_Agnostic

Yeah i thought it was one until this tour when nicky has reportedly said that there is in fact 2 left

didn't sean say 1 in an interview recently?

Takk · #65 21-12-2007, 20:12

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Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

But isn't No Manifesto coming out around September 2008? Or is that when it's finished (FINALLY)? I want a new Manics album as much as you lot, but I am worried if it's released too close to the film will it get overlooked? And if they only have one record left in their contract, how is the soundtrack going to be released?

Yeah, but no manifesto is actually nothing to do with them or the label.

#66 22-12-2007, 10:01

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Originally Posted by Porco

An entirely possible* chain of events:

"Hi Steve it's James Dean Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers, we'd all, kinda like, LOVE to work with you!"
-"Oh hello. Aren't you the guy who was quoted as saying Nirvana "destroyed a generation of people - they gave them a gateway to an alternative world without getting a badge first and took them to that world which, at the end of the day, was just bad metal" ?
"um... kinda like... well, ... "
-"Bye then!"

----

The New Manics album has a name! Sources close to the band have revealed it will be called 'Bad Metal'. What the name refers to is still, at this time, unknown.

-------

Nicky Wire has spoken about the Manic's New Album 'Bad Metal'. "It's a monster of a record, really amazing, the best thing we've ever done" said a typically coy Wire. "The name refers to our past in a way, that some might have said we were 'bad metal' and that we might have said others were 'bad metal'. It also harks back to our Motorcycle Emptiness days - the idea of a motorcycle, which is made of metal, and how emptiness is really bad, really undesirable and smelly."

'Bad Metal' is out at the end of the year.

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*possible, not probable. Apologies to all involved, only meant in jest.

(Seriously I love the idea of them working with Albini really)

Hahaha!

Jennie Wren · #67 22-12-2007, 10:10

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Originally Posted by MSPKYE

Channel 4 Planet Sound pg 341
We're into Quadrophenia too and we might write the songs in a different way."

Full Manics interview this weekend.

Oh I adore Quadrophenia!

Sounds really good

Bambi · #68 22-12-2007, 19:16

Steve Albini would politely consider their offer for oh, 0.3 seconds before telling them to stop wasting his fucking time.

Thomas · #69 22-12-2007, 19:21

if the songs are shit not the best producer in the world can save them. instead of already planning their next album, james should practice songwriting and nicky should go to a creative writing school.

clashfest · #70 22-12-2007, 20:51

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Originally Posted by Bambi

Steve Albini would politely consider their offer for oh, 0.3 seconds before telling them to stop wasting his fucking time.

Why would that be? The Manics are a massive band in comparison to some of the smaller artists he has worked with. And if the price is right he'd do it.

Albini's strength is not trying to make bands sound raw he focuses on trying to get a live feel from the sound.

Baz 80 · #71 30-12-2007, 19:16

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Originally Posted by Alan Too

Regardless of who produces, they'd be crazy not to follow up SATT fairly promptly.

I agree the next album should be released as soon as.

Phil C · #72 02-01-2008, 14:30

I do find it odd the way the band have started to dive into the concept of American production. One the EMG Deluxe Edition DVD interview, they talk about how Mike Hedges made them think of themselves as a very *British* band when they made EMG, and they seemed to agree with his summary. But at the same time they were having SATT made to sound as US rock FM as possible. And now they're talking of an American producer to ape the sound of a previous British band.

Personally I thought Albini's production of the Stooges album was far too quiet and thin. But then I think the sound of 'Heyday of the Blood' is pretty cheesy anyway, so I might as well prepare myself for hating the next album

burnleybassman · #73 07-10-2010, 12:35

Not Manics news, but just thought I would give a heads up that Steve Albini is giving a keynote speech in Leeds later this year for the annual 'Art of Record Production' conference:

http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/13555/

No idea how you would get tickets though! Would be interested in going to this if I wasn't getting married that weekend

Mr.Selfdestruct · #74 07-10-2010, 12:40

Tease

Beat Poet · #75 07-10-2010, 13:02

Christ's sake, I thought they were getting Albini in for the next album to get some blood, sweat and tears out of the music!