Episode 650 - Steve Albini

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Steve Albini had his hands and fingers on the mixing board for some of the greatest albums ever, like Nirvana’s In Utero and the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa. But don’t call Steve a producer. He hates that. As Steve tells Marc, he sees himself as an audio engineer and a musician with his own bands, not as someone who should take credit for other people’s albums.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.6	How are you, what the fuckers?
0:11.9	What the fuck buddies?
0:12.9	What the fucksters?
0:14.5	What the fuck in years?
0:17.0	What's happening?
0:18.0	It's Mark Marin.
0:19.0	This is WTF, my podcast.
0:20.4	Thank you for listening.
0:21.8	Welcome.
0:23.0	Welcome to the newcomers who are here for the Steve Albini episode.
0:28.6	Same thing happened with the last episode, Aaron James Draplin from Draplin Design Company.
0:33.2	It seems like there was a tremendous amount of momentum and feedback about that episode.
0:38.9	There's something almost exciting to me about the idea that people may actually be getting
0:45.5	sick of show business.
0:47.8	Culturally, perhaps we're starting to get sick of the exhausting desperation of show business.
0:56.9	Look, there's a lot of different versions of show business.
0:59.8	I believe I'm operating in somewhat of a show business adjacent situation of my own
1:04.7	making.
1:06.2	And I'm happy with that.
1:08.5	But after a certain point, there's an intensity to it all, to all the options, all the channels,
	...

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