Index > What's Spinning - September 2024 > Steve Albini and cancel culture

I always hated what he said about Pixies, "Nevermind" and Liz Phair

Posted by Billdude (@billdude) on Oct. 5, 2024, 1:23 p.m.

so I’m glad he took back the Pixies remark, at least. He trashed Phair again when she made the cover of Rolling Stone in 1994, by which point he would have been a whopping 32 years old.

I also note that he described himself as “having the easiest job on Earth.” He talks about that Pixies album as if he barely had to do anything and isn’t that the case? He really did just basically set a band up to play live in a room didn’t he?

I remember his Odd Future encounter. Don’t look at me, I never liked those guys.

I have wondered what would happen if you were to plunk some modern day woke college kids down in 1987 and such. As a kid in the 90s I always found it a lot more fascinating when something offended people than now.