Paul Weller v Steve Albini

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Underrated guitar players for sure! Both been in a couple of great bands. One of them had the good fortune to be American though which means their public profile is in direct correlation to their refusal to change their MO while the other was unfortunately English and had to deal with the pressure of having to grow up and conform or at least be a respectable 'eccentric' because the English are such a thick and stupid race of sheep that they immediately excommunicate anybody who doesn't have their eye on the Pop Scene - doubly ironic as Albini has had way more commercial success! (IE if Weller had actually made a gay porn Style Council video then he'd be a legend but that would've been TOO much for his pub pals and that's all stupid fat unambitious alcoholic Brits care about)

― dave q, Sunday, 17 November 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

(Just to offset all the bile, I should mention that not only do I really (still) like Weller's axe-slinging, but I even liked 'Heavy Soul'. Come on, it's not that bad! 'Stanley Road' was OK too)

― dave q, Sunday, 17 November 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

albini cz weller didn't have his eye on the pop scene and is thus excommunicated

― true patriot (mark s), Sunday, 17 November 2002 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Weller didn't have his eye on the pop scene? So what happened to SC's disco/club sounds while he MIRACULOUSLY got synchronised w/Ocean Colour Scene/Oasis/ETC?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 17 November 2002 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

OCS etc sell a shitload of records (altho not as many as Nirvana or Bush ha ha), was the point I was making

― dave q, Sunday, 17 November 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Albini is my favorite guitarist.

No matter how lowly PW is rated on that front he is overated. His negative effect on a generation of guitarists is a testament to their lack of taste and inability to avoid beong attracted to whatever is fashionable at that teenage moment, however poor.

― meirion john lewis (mei), Sunday, 17 November 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Albini has had more commercial success? As a guitarist? My entire high school wore black armbands the day the Jam broke up.

The vs. is a tossup though -- Weller makes better tunes with his strings, Albini makes the strings do more interesting things. So I sez Duane Denison and how's yer uncle.

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Sunday, 17 November 2002 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

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