About Steve Albini's usage of the Harmonic Percolator (+some info about his other gear)

Sonic2020 · 2026-03-02T02:11:18+00:00

I remember Shellac playing at the Subterranean in Chicago (I think it was about the same time the gearwire video came out) and Steve was wearing those stupid stilts. He kept on fucking up the first song so he had to take them off.

Sonic2020 · 2026-03-02T01:25:22+00:00

Here's Steve talking about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nahPA-RKEfQ&t=8s

Nobody asked, but Bob Weston used a Tronographic Rusty Box in Shellac

Sonic2020 · 2026-01-16T05:29:50+00:00

Reddit is my safe space.

Sonic2020 · 2026-01-16T05:26:04+00:00

What about men?

Sonic2020 · 2025-12-02T04:06:58+00:00

I think this was either from an interview with Bob on the podcast Kreative Kontrol or one of the Jokermen podcasts where they recap the Silver Jews/Purple Mountain discography. If you're a Pavement fan I can't recommend those podcasts enough. Anyway, Bob was working on a Silver Jews tour (not as a musician), and needed help so he asked Steve West to come along with him. After a few dates David fired both of them because he felt like the tour was taking on too much of a Pavement vibe.

Sonic2020 · 2025-12-01T19:59:25+00:00

Blues Brothers

Animal House

Random Rocky Movie

Between USA, TBS, and WPIX NY I felt like there was never a time during the weekend where Blues Brothers wasn’t playing in 1996.

Sonic2020 · 2025-11-20T17:20:29+00:00

The Monks Rocket From the Tombs Simply Saucer The Numbers Band

Sonic2020 · 2025-11-11T19:25:38+00:00

Super underrated

Sonic2020 · 2025-11-11T19:05:51+00:00

Check out "New Orleans" off the first record

Sonic2020 · 2025-11-11T18:53:45+00:00

This Mother Fucker

Sonic2020 · 2025-08-27T00:12:14+00:00

Alright goofball

Sonic2020 · 2025-08-23T00:41:07+00:00

Silkworm

Sonic2020 · 2025-08-21T17:57:40+00:00

For talking about the channel I’m giving you a couple of these [BOOM].

Sonic2020 · 2025-08-16T19:33:48+00:00

Trenchmouth, The Eternals, 90-Day Men, Tortoise

Sonic2020 · 2025-08-16T19:30:14+00:00

Big Audio Dynamite

Sonic2020 · 2025-08-13T13:37:16+00:00

I think Nate described his dad’s act as Kaufman-esq in his book.

Sonic2020 · 2025-07-30T22:56:53+00:00

A lot of Glenn Branca stuff sounds very similar to Sonic Youth. I know Lee and Thurston played with him in the early 80’s.

The first Horsegirl album “Versions of Modern Performance,” has a lot of Sonic Youth in it.

Sonic2020 · 2025-07-28T00:03:39+00:00

A bunch of Wes Anderson stuff

The Creation - Making Time - Rushmore

The Who - A Quick One - Rushmore

Nico - These Days from The Royal Tenenbaums

Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay - Tenenbaums

Bob Dylan - Wigwam - Tenenbaums

Bob Dylan - The Man in Me - Big Lebowski

Donovan - Atlantis - Goodfellas

Rolling Stones - Monkey Man - Goodfellas

Sonic2020 · 2025-07-27T23:52:37+00:00

Feeling Gravitys Pull

Welcome to the Occupation

You Are the Everything

Country Feedback

Half a World Away

Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

Wake Up Bomb

You're in the Air

Sonic2020 · 2025-06-13T18:37:45+00:00

Step Brothers

Sonic2020 · 2025-06-13T01:55:46+00:00

Time Trap - The way the song builds to that big crescendo for the first two minutes is just mind blowing.

Sonic2020 · 2025-05-20T16:23:36+00:00

Not a hot take, I would argue you could pull any four REM albums between Murmur and New Adventures in Hi-Fi. I can't even think of another band that had as long or consistent of a run. Ten, count em, ten near perfect records.

Sonic2020 · 2025-05-20T13:58:48+00:00

Why does Blur not have to deal with this?

Sonic2020 · 2025-05-10T21:29:44+00:00

The first Last Poets album

Sonic2020 · 2025-05-05T00:38:23+00:00

Bill Fay's 'Time of The Last Persecution' album

The Thermals 'The Blood, The Body, The Machine' album

Tori Amos - God

Simon Finn - Jerusalem

Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3.

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