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injuredreserve
i am convinced that this album was made for the sole purpose of destroying your ears when played at unsafe volumes in your car. and i'm all for it
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Bruhington
To think this album got on the top 200 albums on the hot billboards charts is insane to me
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MisterJunior
Just to add to the debate that's cropped up periodically in the shoutbox here, "Kerosene" is the ultimate Big Black song, but overall I think Songs About Fucking is superior. SAF is just one ass kicking blast of energy after another but it retains the interesting, otherworldly guitar tones, the lyrics are terrific and the songs tend to be catchier. Atomizer is awesome but just doesn't quite have the consistency Songs About Fucking does, although like I said, "Kerosene" is their greatest single achievement and is better than any one track on Songs About Fucking. But there are a few tracks here that I don't really care for ("Big Money," "Bad Houses," "Fists of Love"), whereas on Songs About Fucking I like (mostly love) everything. I also think "Jordan, Minnesota" had so much potential but is ultimately kind of underwhelming.
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Wrath99
Atomizer>Songs About Fucking[12] Not just from passing over SAF, Colombian Necktie was my introduction to Big Black. SAF was the first album i found and made me want to hear more from Albini & Co. But Atomizer was simply a better sounding, put together, and more cohesive start to finish. Yeah both albums are incredible but one is clearly superior to the other.
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MisterJunior
One of my favorite guitar albums, along with Songs About Fucking. The sounds Albini coaxes out of his six-string barely sounds like a guitar a lot of the time, and it's wonderful.
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SeventhTime
Great album, as is Songs About Fucking. Not sure why Songs About Fucking has so many more listeners than this one, the quality of both is similarly high.
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AprilPhantom
rapes songs about fucking. holy jeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuussssssssss
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substancex
I'd also recommend that anyone who loves this album get ahold of an actual vinyl copy. The analog-to-digital mastering on "The RIch Man's Eight Track Tape" is some of the worst I've ever heard. I'm not being anal; I actually think cds sound perfectly fine if they're mastered correctly. Independent punk labels in the 80s didn't have the resources to do proper digital masters, so reissues sounded harsh and two dimensional and lost a lot of fidelity.
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substancex
Most people who say "Songs About Fucking" is better probably only started listening to Big Black a couple years ago and are going along with the consensus among clueless ponytailed Spin critics. "Songs About Fucking" is a great razor sharp record, but "Atomizer" has astonishing headfuck guitar from start to finish. It's possible that Albini later shit on this record simply because its sound was the entire basis for the late 80s Ministry/NIN/etc "industrial metal" scene that sprang up in Chicago.
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thecowman
Sound engineer/producer of Atomizer Iain Burgess passed away 11th Feb 2010. This record one of his finest (I like Fizzjob by the Didjits too). durango said, "i'd really like to be playing this two octaves higher," and burgess said, "no problem." http://www.last.fm/music/COWMAN
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