From Scott@KISW.com Thu Jan 29 16:51:47 1998 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id QAA37796 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:51:46 -0800 Received: from accessone.com (soda.accessone.com [198.68.191.24]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id QAA23092 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:51:44 -0800 Received: from kisw-82.kisw.com (kisw-82.kisw.com [207.153.161.82]) by accessone.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/PIH) with SMTP id QAA18813 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:51:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.16.19980129165459.46876c0e@accessone.com> X-Sender: scott@accessone.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (16) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:54:59 To: failure@u.washington.edu From: Scott Vanderpool Subject: Re: FAILURE digest 510...READ THIS!!!!! In-Reply-To: <199801292353.SAA10507@your-net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" "Greatest Gift" by Scratch Acid could very well be the song that started that whole stinking grunge thing. At 06:37 PM 1/29/98 -0800, you wrote: >yeah, shellac and big black are both great bands, and if you like them you >should check out scratch acid > > > adam > >---------- >> From: Matt McGuyer >> To: FML [failure mailing list] >> Subject: Re: FAILURE digest 510...READ THIS!!!!! >> Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 10:00 AM >> >> >> ************************* READ THIS********************** >> involving Steve Albini, >> Steve Albini IS VERY amazing of a producer and Engineer!!!!BUT.....i >> felt that he was at a LOW low when he did Comfort.....the snare is TOO >> damn loud and punchy....it absorbs the whole mix ......and the guitars >> are too thin!!!!!he went overboard with his many room mikes on that >> album...... >> >> *******SHELLAC(Steve Albini's band)***** >> >> HAS ANYONE HEARD SHELLAC?!?!?its Steve Albini's band!!!!they have an >> album called "Live at Action Park" ...its not a live album.....just a >> studio album.......SHELLAC is one of the COOLEST bands....its >> neat!!!Steve is a fucked up singer!!!all the guitar sounds are REAL >> treble oriented....very scratchy and hair-brain sounding....the drums >> are all room sound......and the bass is thick ......its COOL!!!!he >> sounds like a psycho!!!!!its COOL!!!!i say BUT IT!!!!cool packaging >> too!!!he also did his own thing a WHILE back called Big Black!!!!another >> REALLY cool album!!!!hmmm...some lyrics from it!!! >> >> " theres nothing to do in this town >> nothing to do >> theres kerosene around >> nothing to do in this town >> kerosene around >> nothing to do >> so SET ME ON FIRE >> SET ME ON FIIIIRRREE!!!!!!!!!!!" >> i think its cool!!!ok ok...you just have to hear Steve singing >> it...again...he sounds like a crazed maniac!!!!its very......fun!!! >> >> >> ______________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > .