Albums produced by music journalists

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I'm thinking Jon Landau and Springsteen. Any more you can muster?

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Monday, 6 October 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

lenny kaye's produced several albums

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 6 October 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

SR's garage rap kru, the Melismatic Miasmics (or was it the Miasmic Melismatics?)

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 6 October 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

charlie rich chronicler peter guralnick was "executive producer," whatever that means, of rich's last album, "pictures and paintings."

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 6 October 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS805121525&sql=Amgivad3kl8w3

I'm not sure what it means, either.

― chuck, Monday, 6 October 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Albini?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 6 October 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

And then there's Steve Albini. And probably other obvious people.

― chuck, Monday, 6 October 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

guess that was a cross-post, or whatever they call them around here.

― chuck, Monday, 6 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Lake - has produced a few for ECM (incl. two(?) of Robin Williamson's solo records) as well as for smaller labels.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 6 October 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck Eddy in pretending not to know what a cross-post is shockah

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 6 October 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Robinson -- Flamin' Groovies "Teenage Head," I believe.

Lisa Robinson -- can't remember the acts, but she pushed a couple through the major labels in the late Eighties.

― George Smith, Monday, 6 October 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Landau also did the second MC5 LP.

― VMP, Monday, 6 October 2003 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

robert palmer (the ny times/insect trust guy, not the power station guy) produced a bunch of blues albums, including r.l. burnside's "too bad jim," the "deep blues" comp, and sundry others.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 6 October 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

John Corbett supplements his journalism and liner-note-penning with a number of producer credits on various avant-garde jazz recordings.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 6 October 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Tennant and Chrissie Hynde never had producer's credit on any of their stuff?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 October 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Good point, Geir. Or Patti Smith, for that matter. Or Deborah Frost (on Brain Surgeons albums?) Or Richard Meltzer (on Vom, um, EPs). Or Lester Bangs (on Delinquents albums). Or Frank Kogan (on Red Dark Sweet albums). Or Metal Mike Saundersa and/or Gregg Turner (on Angry Samoans and/or Mistaken albums). Or George Smith (on Dick Destiny and albums). Or etc. etc. etc. And wait, what about Sandy Pearlman, who produced *Give Em Enough Rope,* among other things (including Blue Oyster Cult if my memory's good) . Does he count as a journalist? He's quoted all through *Aesthetics of Rock.* He used to write, right?

And do people who write for *Tape Op* count?

― chuck, Monday, 6 October 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

And Falling James Moreland. And Stephen Merritt. Etc.

― chuck, Monday, 6 October 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm. Wadda'bout Greg Tate & Burnt Sugar?
Isn't Tate listed as producer on some of their records, perhaps? (I haven't seen a BS record myself, but ...)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 6 October 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I think he is.

And John Petkovic (Death of Samantha, Cobra Verde), too.

― chuck, Monday, 6 October 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

David toop has made several good albums - "Pink Noir" especially is excellent.

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

What about British people, more recently? Is it a dying phenomenon?

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

And yeah, forgot about Landau and MC5.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy McDonough gets a production credit on one of those somewhat recent Jimmy Scott albums

― gentlemanfriend, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

No doubt Mark Knopfler produced something

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

st etienne obv
that guy from high llamas does lots of writing, altho not all music writing

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(Knobbfler a has-been music journo? Tell me you're kidding, mentalist!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe we should just have a thread where we all affirm that people who work in the music bizz (or the whole entertainment/arts industry for that matter, IN FACT why not just PEOPLE/PEOPLE???) tend to be multi-taskers/brown-nosers/easily-bored/buck-hustlers.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Knopfler was a journalist alright. Not sure though if he was music one.

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

So was Ian Hunter, I think. But ditto. (Unless you count *Diary of a Rock and Roll Star* as music journalism, in which case you could rope in everybody musician who's ever written an autobiography.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Apart from his own stuff (which he'd usually co-produce with Neil Dorfsman), Knopfler did at least produce every album Bob Dylan released from "Slow Train Coming" through "Infidels". And he also produced "Private Dancer" (the track, not the entire album) for Tina Turner.

Good jobs most of them. Knopfler is not to be blamed for the mad lyrical content of "Slow Train Coming" and "Saved".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah Knopfler started his career as a journo, have to admit i'm not sure if he was a music journo.

― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

And wait, what about Sandy Pearlman, who produced *Give Em Enough Rope,* among other things (including Blue Oyster Cult if my memory's good) . Does he count as a journalist? He's quoted all through *Aesthetics of Rock.* He used to write, right?

yup. he wrote for crawdaddy and wrote songs for BOC (in addition to producing them.) he's a hilarious dude (i met him once at a conference.)

― geeta, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Landau also did the second MC5 LP.

Correction: Landau also ruined the second MC5 LP.

Uwe Nettelbeck (Ulrike Meinhof's old mate) produced Faust, expect it turns out he didn't

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

>"that guy from high llamas does lots of writing, altho not all music writing" Robin Goad

Nah, different Sean O'Hagan.

I was gonna add: Greg Shaw. Will Birch.

― harveyw (harveyw), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. never knew there were so many...

presmuably not all journalists who take a band under their wing though, like maybe landau did.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. never knew there were so many...

This reminds me, sort of, of Clive Bell(s).
There are two, as far as I know - both of them Clive Bell's, curiously enough, playing a variety of Eastern wind instruments. One Clive Bell also writes regularly for Ver Vire, the other one does not.
I suspect Bell the Wireist has produced a few records as well.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Catwalk to thread....

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody's mentioned whichever Ira is in Yo La Tengo -- Robbins or Kaplan, I swear I can never remember which one. I've always mixed up those guys. I assume Ira produces some of his own records, either way.

― chuck, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, ira (kaplan, not robbins) has always worked with outside producers on yo la albums, but he did share a production credit on one of the early albums, so i guess that counts. and he and georgia produced at least one antietam album, which definitely counts.

ira (robbins, not kaplan) has, or had, his own band called utensil, with michael azerrad on drums. they did an ace version of "our lips are sealed." don't know if they ever recorded anything. or if either ira or michael would've produced it.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There are two, as far as I know - both of them Clive Bell's, curiously enough, playing a variety of Eastern wind instruments. One Clive Bell also writes regularly for Ver Vire, the other one does not.

Well blow me down (or blow down a Vietnamese bamboo noseflute) but I'd always assumed they were one and the same.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(Dada, the Wire-ist Clive has admitted himself that this situation appears rather bizarre.
His short 'rough guide' advice for distinguishing between the recordings of the two Bell's, in case such questions should arise, was basically, (")if it's anything 'mainly Indian', then most probably it isn't me(").
I've got only one CD by the other Bell, and that sounds quite, quite new age-y really.)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Catwalk, mwahahahaha.

(erk Nick C writing for Vice, Indez, Black Book, Studio Voice and Relax plus a few NME things in past and is also producer of himself/others since year dot)

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever you do, under this heading, don't forget the exquisite Chicago blues (Johnny Shines et al.) as recorded and produced by Pete Welding, who was also a writer and "musicjournalist". These are phenomenal records just being released again in CD format.

― bflaska, Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Cook has co-production credits on two Guy Barker albs. Art Lange writes for the Wire and other rags, and has produced avant albs for HatArt and others.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

blow down a Vietnamese bamboo noseflute

hahaha!

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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