Steve Albini discography

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Steve Albini is an American musician and audio engineer whose many recording projects have exerted an important influence on independent music since the 1980s. Most of his projects from 1997 onwards were recorded at the Electrical Audio studios in Chicago. Albini is occasionally credited as a record producer, though he dislikes the term to describe his work.

As a musician, Albini has fronted the bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac on guitar and vocals. He also played on other projects from time to time, notably as a bass guitarist the touring incarnation of Pete Conway's solo project Flour whose records he also engineered.

The list is in chronological order by date of release, but is incomplete.

As a musician[]

Big Black, 1982–1987[]

  • Lungs EP – (1982)
  • Bulldozer EP – (1983)
  • Racer-X EP  – (1984)
  • Rema Rema 7"  – (1985)
  • The Hammer Party – (1985)
  • Il Duce/Big Money – 7" (1985)
  • Atomizer – (1986)
  • Sound of Impact live LP (1987)
  • Heartbeat – 7" (1987)
  • Headache – EP (1987)
  • He's a Whore / The Model – 7"
  • The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album – LP Touch and Go Records (1987)
(aka Talk About Fucking) (Blast First! UK)

Rapeman, 1987–1989[]

  • "Hated Chinee b/w Marmoset" 7" (1988)
  • Budd EP (1988) (UK Indie #2)[1]
  • Two Nuns and a Pack Mule LP (1988) (UK Indie #4)[1]
  • "Inki's Butt Crack b/w Song Number One" (Sub Pop Singles Club 7") (1989)

Shellac, 1992–present[]

  • The Rude Gesture: A Pictorial History 7 inch (1993, Touch and Go) #1
  • Uranus 7 inch (1993, Touch and Go) #2
  • The Bird Is the Most Popular Finger 7 inch (1994, Drag City) #3
  • At Action Park (1994) #4
  • Live in Tokyo Japan-only live CD (1994, NUX Organization) #5
  • "Billiardspielerlied" b/w "Mantel" 7 inch (1995, Überschall Records) #6
  • "95 Jailbreak" on the Sides 1-4 compilation 2x7 inch (1995, Skin Graft) #7
  • "Rambler Song" on The Soul Sound Single split 7 inch with Mule (1997, Touch and Go) #8
  • The Futurist/Movement LP (1997, private release) #9
  • Terraform (1998) #10
  • 1000 Hurts (2000) #11
  • "Agostino" split 7 inch with Caesar (2001, Barbaraal) #12
  • Excellent Italian Greyhound (2007) #13
  • Dude Incredible (2014) #14
  • ’’’’ (2019) #15

As an audio engineer[]

1980s[]

1985

  • Dark Arts – A Long Way from Brigadoon (1985) (released on Albini's Ruthless Records label)
  • End Result – Ward 12" E.P. (1985) (released on Ruthless Records)

1986

  • Urge Overkill – Strange, I... (1986) (credited as "Li'l Weed")
  • Blatant Dissent – Hold the Fat LP, Dreams 7" (1986) (credited as "Robert Earl Hughes")

1987

  • Slint – Tweez (1987) (credited as "some fuckin' derd niffer") [1]
  • The Membranes – Kiss Ass... Godhead! (1987)

1988

  • Pixies – Surfer Rosa (1988)
  • UrgeOverKilldozer a/k/a Kill and Kill Again – Evil Womyn (1988) (collaboration between Killdozer and Urge Overkill released on Tinnitus Records' Mondo Stereo compilation)
  • Urge Overkill – Jesus Urge Superstar (1988)
  • Bitch Magnet – Star Booty (1988) (mix only but credited as producer)
  • Tar – Play to Win 7" (1988)
  • Head of David – Dustbowl (1988)
  • Flour LP (1988)
  • Gore – Wrede (The Cruel Peace) (1988)

1989

1990s[]

1990

  • The Breeders – Pod
  • Boss Hog – Cold Hands
  • Flour – Luv 713
  • Sixteen Tons – Headshot
  • The Jesus Lizard – Head
  • Tad – Salt Lick/God's Balls
  • Whitehouse – Thank Your Lucky Stars (co-produced with William Bennett)
  • Wreck – Soul Train
  • Pigface – Gub (Albini also plays guitar, bass, and oscillator on some tracks)
  • Hum – Is Like Kissing an Angel (She Said) demo tape

1991

1992

  • Things That Fall Down – Disbelief
  • Various Artists – Follow Our Trax, Vol. 8: Another Disc, Another Planet
  • Bewitched – Harshing My Mellow
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  • The Jesus Lizard – Liar (uncredited)
  • Helmet – Meantime (song "In The Meantime" recorded by Albini; mixed by Andy Wallace)
  • Mule – "Mule" (credited as Lenard Johns)
  • ThrillhammerGiftless
  • Failure – Comfort
  • Braindamage – Signal de Revolta
  • Zeni Geva – Nai-Ha
  • Murder, Inc. – Murder, Inc.
  • Crain – Speed
  • Union Carbide Productions – Swing
  • Whitehouse – Twice Is Not Enough (track "Neronia" only; co-produced with William Bennett)
  • Dazzling Killmen – Dig Out The Switch
  • Distorted Pony – Punishment Room (credited as bespectacled wisp of a fellow from the midwest)
  • Fugazi – In on the Kill Taker (unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producers for official release)
  • Peter Sotos – Buyer's Market

1993

  • Crow – My Kind Of Pain
  • Engine Kid – Bear Catching Fish (uncredited)
  • Craw – Craw (uncredited)
  • Don Caballero – "Our Caballero" b/w "My Ten Year Old Lady Is Giving It Away" (a-side only, uncredited)
  • Don Caballero – "Andandandandandandandand" b/w "First Hits" (uncredited)
  • Don Caballero – For Respect (uncredited)
  • PJ Harvey – Rid of Me (Albini recorded all but one song)
  • Jawbreaker – 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (uncredited or credited as "Fluss")
  • Nirvana – In Utero
  • Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – Sport Fishin': The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook
  • King Cobb Steelie (unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producer for official release)
  • Mule – "Wrung EP"
  • Shorty – "Thumb Days"
  • Silkworm – His Absence Is a Blessing single
  • Tar – Toast
  • Urbn DK – Denial (uncredited)
  • Usherhouse – Molting
  • Zeni Geva – Desire for Agony
  • Zeni Geva – All Right You Little Bastards (live album, Albini plays guitar)
  • Various Artists – 1993 Mercury Music Prize: Shortlist Sampler
  • Various Artists – The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience
  • Various Artists – Whip

1994

  • Big'n – Cutthroat (credited as "Buck Naked")
  • Red Krayola – The Red Krayola (W/Bob Weston and Brian Paulson) not credited on album
  • Slintuntitled (uncredited)
  • Space Streakings – 7-Toku (mix only)
  • Dazzling Killmen – Face of Collapse
  • Whitehouse – Halogen (co-produced with William Bennett)
  • Silkworm – In the West
  • Various Artists – Insurgent Country, Vol. 1: For a Life of Sin
  • Silkworm – Libertine
  • The Jesus Lizard – Down
  • Melt-Banana – Speak Squeak Creak
  • Craw – Lost Nation Road
  • Crow – My Kind of Pain
  • Mule – "If I Don't Six"
  • Morsel – Noise Floor
  • Brise-Glace – When in Vanitas (uncredited)
  • Brise-Glace – In Sisters all and Felony 7"
  • Various Artists – You Got Lucky: Tom Petty Tribute
  • Six Finger Satellite – Machine Cuisine
  • johnboy – claim dedications
  • Breadwinner – Burner
  • Souls – tjitchhischtsiy
  • The Lizard Train – Everything Moves
  • The Lizard Train – Inertia

1995

  • Uzeda – 4
  • Faucet – Bleeding Head
  • Lizard Music – Fashionably Lame
  • Zeni Geva – Freedom Bondage
  • Killdozer – God Hears Pleas of the Innocent
  • Various Artists – Homage: Lots of Bands Doing Descendents's Songs
  • Gaunt – I Can See Your Mom From Here
  • Superchunk – Incidental Music 1991–95
  • Various Artists – Insurgent Country, Vol. 2: Hell-Bent
  • Screeching Weasel – Kill the Musicians
  • 18th Dye – Tribute to a Bus
  • The Fleshtones – Laboratory of Sound
  • The Drovers – Little High Sky Show
  • Martians – Low Budget Stunt King
  • Various Artists – A Means to an End: The Music of Joy Division
  • Gastr del Sol – Mirror Repair EP
  • Tar – Over and Out
  • The Amps – Pacer (Not credited, not all songs)
  • Sloy – Plug
  • Man or Astro-man? – Project Infinity
  • Whitehouse – Quality Time (co-produced with William Bennett)
  • Tony Conrad – Slapping Pythagoras
  • Palace Music – Viva Last Blues
  • Oxbow – Let Me Be a Woman (recorded 1993)
  • Yona-Kit – Yona-Kit
  • Melt-Banana – Scratch or Stitch
  • Thrush Hermit -The Great Pacific Ocean EP

1996

  • The Auteurs – After Murder Park
  • Laurels – L
  • Palace Music – Arise Therefore
  • Oxbow – Serenade in Red (European release)
  • Rosa Mota – Bionic
  • Robbie Fulks – Country Love Songs
  • Big'n – Discipline Through Sound (credited as "Inibla Nevets")
  • Silkworm – Firewater
  • Bodychoke – Five Prostitutes
  • A Minor Forest – Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993–1996) (about every other track)
  • Phono-Comb – Fresh Gasoline
  • Brainiac – Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
  • Dis- – Historically Troubled Third Album
  • Splendorbin – Stealth
  • Stinking Lizaveta – Hopelessness & Shame
  • Various Artists – In Defense of Animals, Vol. 2
  • The Union – In Terminus GA, 1997 (some vocals recorded and some songs mixed by David Barbe)
  • Various Artists – Jabberjaw Compilation, Vol. 2: Pure Sweet Hell
  • Fred Schneider – Just Fred
  • Smog – Kicking a Couple Around EP
  • Mandingo – Macho Grande
  • Cheer-Accident – Not a Food
  • Ativin – Pills vs. Planes
  • Sloy – Planet of Tubes
  • Bush – Razorblade Suitcase
  • Dazzling Killmen – Recuerda (three songs only)
  • The Mark of Cain – Rock & Roll
  • Various Artists – Shots in the Dark
  • Nirvana – Singles
  •  – Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta
  • Les Thugs – Strike
  • Bush – "Swallowed" single
  • Hubcap – Those Kids Are Weirder
  • Low – Transmission EP (Albini also contributed some illustrations)
  • Scrawl – Travel On, Rider
  • Guided by Voices – Under the Bushes Under the Stars (two songs only, credited to "Fluss")
  • Vent 414 – Vent 414
  • Killdozer & Ritual Device – When the Levee Breaks
  • Veruca Salt – Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
  • Burning Witch – Towers...
  • Wuhling – Extra 6

1997

  • Souls – Bird fish or inbetween
  • Bokomolech – Jet Lag, LP
  • Cheap Trick – "Baby Talk" b/w "Brontosaurus" single
  • Cheap Trick – unreleased re-recording of In Color
  • Craw – Map, Monitor, Surge
  • Darling Little Jackhammer – Criminally Easy To Please
  • Ein Heit – Lightning and the Sun
  • Great Unraveling – Great Unraveling
  • Oxbow – Serenade in Red (US release; recorded 1996)
  • Pegboy – Cha Cha Damore
  • Pixies – Death to the Pixies
  • P. W. Long's Reelfoot – We Didn't See You on Sunday
  • Silkworm – Developer
  • Solar Race – Homespun
  • Spider Virus – Electric Erection
  • Storm & Stress – Storm & Stress
  • Various Artists – Guide to Fast Living, Vol. 2
  • Various Artists - The Jackal
  • DianogahAs Seen from Above
  • La Gritona – Arrasa Con Todo (1997)

1998

  • Pansy Division – Absurd Pop Song Romance
  • Pedro, Muriel & Esther – The White To Be Angry
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Acme
  • BallydowseThe Land, The Bread, And The People
  • Young Dubliners – Alive Alive O
  • Silver Apples – Beacon
  • Uzeda – Different Section Wires
  • Silkworm – Even a Blind Chicken Finds a Kernel of Corn: 1990–1994
  • Eclectics – Idle Worship
  • Will Oldham – Little Joya
  • Pansy Division – More Lovin' from Our Oven
  • Plush – More You Becomes You
  • Whitehouse – Mummy and Daddy (track "Private" only)
  • Dirty Three – Ocean Songs
  • The Sadies – Precious Moments
  • Various Artists – Smash Your Radio: Jump Up! Sampler
  • Bert – Bert (Pinebox Records)
  • Cordelia's Dad – Spine
  • The Ex – Starters Alternators
  • The Traitors – Traitors
  • Dirty Three – Ufkuko
  • Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio – 3
  • Jimmy Page & Robert Plant – Walking into Clarksdale
  • Mount Shasta – Watch Out (credited as "Debbie Albini")
  • Vandal X – Songs from the Heart
  • Bedhead – Transaction de Novo
  • .22 – Watertown EP

1999

  • Teenage Frames – 1% Faster
  • Fun People – The Art(e) of Romance
  • Chisel Drill Hammer – Chisel Drill Hammer
  • Early Lines – Are Tired Beasts
  • Filibuster – Deadly Hifi
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Emergency Call from Japan
  • Neurosis – Times of Grace
  • The Bollweevils – History of the Bollweevils, Vol. 2
  • Distortion Felix – I'm an Athlete
  • Ensimi – BMX
  • Murder, Inc. – Locate Subvert Terminate: The Complete Murder Inc.
  • Nina Nastasia – Dogs (re-released 2004)
  • Neutrino – Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • Chevelle – Point #1
  • Various Artists – Poor Little Knitter on the Road: A Tribute to the Kni
  • The Sadies – Pure Diamond Gold
  • Low – Secret Name
  • Don Caballero – Singles Breaking Up (Vol. 1) (uncredited, five songs only)
  • Ativin – Summing the Approach
  • Pezz – Warmth & Sincerity
  • Hosemobile – What Can & Can't Go On
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Xtra Acme USA (seven songs only)
  • Dragbody – Flip The Kill Switch
  • New Brutalism – A Diagram Without Scale Or Dimension
  • Pugs – Chimato Kubiki

2000s[]

2000

2001

  •  – Hate the Living, Love the Dead
  • Zeni Geva – 10,000 Light Years
  • Robbie Fulks –
  •  –
  •  –
  • Robbie Fulks –
  • Whitehouse – Cruise (track "Public" only)
  •  –
  • The Ex – Dizzy Spells
  • Shannon Wright –
  •  –
  • Ballydowse – Out Of The Fertile Crescent
  • Danielson Famile – Fetch the Compass Kids
  • Labradford – Fixed::Context
  • Cinerama – "Health and Efficiency"
  •  –
  • XBXRX – Gop Ist Minee
  •  –
  • Mogwai – "My Father My King"
  • The New Year – Newness Ends
  • Owls – Owls
  • Hero of a Hundred Fights –
  • Various Artists –
  • Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
  • Low – Things We Lost in the Fire
  • Sonna – We Sing Loud Sing Soft Tonight
  • Edith Frost – Wonder Wonder
  •  –
  •  –
  • Rye Coalition –
  •  –
  •  – (three songs only)
  • The Black Lungs (Michigan band, not the Canadian band of the same name) – unreleased album
  •  –

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

  • AlokeI Moved Here to Live
  • Tiger
  • The BreedersMountain Battles
  • My DiscoParadise
  • Gagging and Swallowing
  • We're Alive And We're Not Alone
  • Scott Weiland"Happy" in Galoshes
  • Memphis and Chicago
  • – If It Swings, We've Got It!
  • The Pitch
  • Trash TalkTrash Talk
  • Good 1
  • The Wedding PresentEl Rey
  • Haymarket RiotEndless Bummer
  • I'm not fine thank you, and you?
  • Long Distance Runner
  • Vitamin XFull Scale Assault
  • I Don't Like The Smiths EP
  • Norwegian Wood
  • Sick
  • street music, 13 Rebellions and a Song of Consolation
  • EVOLYM (released April 2009)

2009

  • MonoHymn to the Immortal Wind
  • Manic Street PreachersJournal for Plague Lovers
  • Umphrey's McGeeMantis
  • Stella Peel
  • Jarvis CockerFurther Complications
  • Lay It On Me
  • Delby LNine Skies
  • The ThingBag It!
  • PREHope Freaks
  • Magnolia Electric Co.Josephine
  • Drug Mountain
  • MotorpsychoChild of the Future
  • Berri Txarrak
  • OmGod Is Good
  • PixiesMinotaur (box set of Pixies previous albums)
  • Sound Buffet (released January 2011)
  • ÅrabrotThe Brother Seed
  • Slug
  • Dark Joan
  • Men's Ruin EP

2010s[]

2010

  • Before The Revolution
  • Scout NiblettThe Calcination of Scout Niblett
  • The Craic
  • The ExCatch My Shoe
  • Nina NastasiaOutlaster
  • The Bats Pajamas
  • Why I'd Try
  • My DiscoLittle Joy
  • None Hundred
  • AvitiaWindowsmashers and Safecrackers
  • Ferocious Fucking Teeth
  • TubelordTezcatlipōca

2011

  • El Camino
  • Let's WrestleNursing Home
  • Such Progress
  • Azimyth
  • Refuse This Gift
  • Overgrown Tales
  • The Milk Has Gone Sour
  • Joan of ArcLife Like
  • MonotonixNot Yet (album)
  • WeedeaterJason...The Dragon
  • Heart Mutter (released February 2013)
  • Clockpunchers (released May 2012)

2012

  • We Are Knuckle DraggerTit for Tat
  • Cloud NothingsAttack on Memory
  • China – Pussy LP
  • The CribsIn The Belly of the Brazen Bull
  • Screaming FemalesUgly
  • Younger – TBA
  • A Banquet – Breath
  • Teeth – The Strain
  • (ex Rye Coalition & The Want) – Altamont Every Night
  • Colin Tyler – Live From Studio A
  • Bonnie 'Prince' BillyNow Here's My Plan (EP)
  • Self titled (EP)
  • – TBA
  • NeurosisHonor Found in Decay
  • Vitamin XAbout To Crack
  • Hugh CornwellTotem And Taboo
  • Thinning the Herd – Freedom From the Known
  • Alexi Martov – Scent of a Wolf

2013

  • Man or Astro-man?Defcon 5 4 3 2 1
  • – 10" (with Giraffes? Giraffes!)
  • Moving Pieces Of The Sea
  • Nonsense
  • Olympia
  • STNNNGEmpire Inward
  • American Loser
  • P.K.14 – 1984

2014

  • Hot Blood
  • Albino
  • D3AD BY MONDAY – Memento Mori
  • Captain Blood – Captain Blood
  • Esben and the WitchA New Nature
  • Foxy ShazamGonzo
  • Screaming FemalesLive at the Hideout
  • ValinaContainer'

2015

  • Conduct – Fear and Desire
  • The Conformists – DIVORCE
  • Raketkanon – RKTKN#2
  • KEN modeSuccess
  • WOMPS – Live a Little Less/Dreams on Demand
  • Steve Taylor and the Danielson FoilWow to the Deadness
  • Weedeater – Goliathan
  • Screaming Females – Rose Mountain
  • Subsurfer – La La La
  • Hex Horizontal– Electric Fence
  • Yonatan GatPhysical Copy

2016

  • Alpha Strategy – Drink the Brine, Get Scarce
  • Womps – Our fertile forever
  • Cocaine Piss – Sex Weirdos 7"
  • Cocaine Piss – The Dancer
  • Valina – In Position
  • Peter Squires – When I Couldn't Move
  • Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories
  • NeurosisFires Within Fires
  • The Conformists – Divorce
  • Kapitan Korsakov – Physical Violence is the Least of My Priorities
  • Vomitface – Hooray for Me
  • Descartes a Kant – Victims Of Love Propaganda
  • Malojian - This Is Nowhere
  • Mono – Requiem For Hell
  • Dazzling Killmen – Face of Collapse: Special Edition (25th Anniversary reissue)
  • Chris Cobilis (performed by Spektral Quartet and Kenneth Goldsmith) – This Is You
  • Sex Snobs – Emotional Stuffing
  • KEN mode – Nerve (ep) track 1-4

2017

  • Ty SegallTy Segall
  • Meat Wave – The Incessant
  • The Oxford Coma - Everything Out of Tune[2]
  • STNNNG – Veterans of Pleasure
  • Descartes a Kant– Victims Of Love Propaganda
  • METZ - Strange Peace
  • Andy Pratt — Horizon Disrupted [3]
  • Ben FrostThe Centre Cannot Hold

2018

  • The BreedersAll Nerve
  • Spare Snare - Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini
  • Signal the Launch - Dance Like a Vampire
  • Elias Black - Reclamation
  • GEZAN — Silence Will Speak[4]
  • Super UnisonStella
  • Alpha Strategy - The Gurgler
  • Meat Wave - The Incessant
  • Andy Pratt - Further Disruption (EP)[5]
  • Control Group - It's the year 2000!

2019

  • Mono - Nowhere Now Here
  • Sunn O))) - Life Metal
  • Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
  • Triliteral - Flying Snake's Claw
  • Frank Iero and the Future Violents - Barriers
  • Doblecapa - La Felpa
  • Uzeda - Quocumque jeceris stabit
  • Décibelles - Rock Français
  • Asylums - Genetic Cabaret
  • DBOY - (Unknown)
  • Ty Segall & Freedom Band - Deforming Lobes
  • Black Orchids - Sakura Sorrow
  • Austero - Austero
  • Local H - Lifers

2020s[]

2020

  • Medusa - In Bed with Medusa
  • - Glasgow EP (Mix Only)
  • - Degenerate National Anthem
  • - Slob Stories
  • Fuzz - III
  • Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive
  • Lil BUB: The Band - Lil BUB (EP)[6]

2021

  • - Epidemic of Love

References[]

  1. ^ a b Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980–1989, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4
  2. ^ Belino, Vince (2017) Full Album Stream: The Oxford Coma – “Everything Out of Tune”. https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/10/10/full-album-stream-oxford-coma-everything-tune/
  3. ^ DeGrechie, Eric (2017) New Trier grad collaborated with famed engineer Albini on ‘Horizon Disrupted” album. http://www.glencoeanchor.com/new-trier-grad-collaborated-famed-engineer-albini-horizon-disrupted-album
  4. ^ "GEZAN 4th full album 「Silence Will Speak」発売決定。". gezan.net.
  5. ^ Werksman, Hans (6 June 2018). "Here Comes The Flood - a weblog about music: Andy Pratt: Further Disruption".
  6. ^ Lil BUB (EP) (label copy). Joyful Noise. 2020.
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