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Steve Albini discography

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Albini in 2007 playing with Shellac

Steve Albini was an American musician, audio engineer, and music journalist, whose many recording projects have exerted an important influence on independent music since the 1980s. Most of his projects from 1997 onwards were recorded at the Electrical Audio studios in Chicago. Albini is occasionally credited as a record producer, though he disliked the term to describe his work, preferring the term "recording engineer" when credited, and refused to take royalties from bands recording in his studio, as he felt it would be unethical to do so.[1]

As a musician, Albini fronted the bands Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac on guitar and vocals. He also played on other projects from time to time, notably as a bass guitarist in the touring incarnation of Pete Conway's solo project Flour whose records he also engineered.

The list is in chronological order by date of release, but is incomplete.

As a musician

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Just Ducky, 1979–1980 (Missoula)

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Year Release Label Note
1987 Don't Worry Bowta Theng Mister Cheese Cannon Records Various Artists compilation, "To and Fro"[2]
2022 Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 Lost Sounds Montana Various Artists compilation, "New Metro Stomp" and "Dog Food", recorded live at the Star Garage, Missoula, Montana, April 1980[3]

Big Black, 1982–87

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Year Release Label Format Notes
1982 Lungs Ruthless 12" Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 and 2012
1983 Bulldozer Ruthless 12" Reissued by Touch and Go in 1993 and 2012
1985 Racer-X Homestead 12", cassette Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 and 2013
1985 "Rema Rema" Forced Exposure 7"
1985 The Hammer Party Homestead LP, cassette, CD Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992
1985 "Il Duce" / "Big Money" Homestead 7" Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992
1986 Atomizer Homestead LP, cassette Reissued by Touch and Go in 2015
1987 Sound of Impact Blast First LP
1987 Headache Touch and Go 12", cassette Reissued in 2018
1987 "Heartbeat" Touch and Go 7"
1987 "He's a Whore" / "The Model" Touch and Go 7"
1987 Songs About Fucking Touch and Go LP, cassette, CD Reissued in 2004 and 2018
1988 The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape Homestead CD Reissued by Touch and Go in 2015
1992 Pigpile Touch and Go VHS, CD Recorded live in 1987

Rapeman, 1987–89

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Year Release Label Format Note
1988 "Hated Chinee" / "Marmoset" Touch and Go 7"
1988 Budd Touch and Go 12", cassette Live (first three tracks), reissued in 2007
1988 Two Nuns and a Pack Mule Touch and Go LP, cassette, CD
1989 "Inku's Butt Crack" / "Song Number One" Sub Pop 7" Singles Club release

Shellac, 1992–2024

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Year Release Label Format Note
1993 The Rude Gesture: A Pictorial History Touch and Go 7"
1993 Uranus Touch and Go 7"
1994 The Bird Is the Most Popular Finger Drag City 7"
1994 At Action Park Touch and Go LP, cassette, CD
1994 Live at Tokyo NUX Organization CD Japan-exclusive live album
1995 "Billiardspielerlied" / "Mantel" Überschall 7"
1997 Split with Mule Touch and Go 7"
1997 The Futurist n/a LP Private release, given out to friends and family
1998 Terraform Touch and Go LP, CD
2000 1000 Hurts Touch and Go LP, CD
2001 Split with Caesar Barbaraal 7"
2007 Excellent Italian Greyhound Touch and Go LP, CD
2014 Dude Incredible Touch and Go LP, CD
2019 The End of Radio Touch and Go LP, CD Includes recordings of their Peel Sessions in 1994 and 2004
2024 To All Trains Touch and Go LP, CD

Other

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  • Pray I Don't Kill You Faggot by Run Nigger Run (Steve Albini and Nash Kato of Urge Overkill) on Tellus, The Audio Cassette Magazine #10 - All Guitars! (compilation album, 1985)
  • Nutty About Lemurs by Steve Albini (solo) on Guitarrorists (compilation album, 1991)
  • Music from Girl on the Third Floor (with Alison Chesley and Tim Midyett) on Touch and Go (soundtrack album, 2020)[4]

Credits on other artists' releases

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1980s

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1984

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Various Artists The Middle of America LP H.I.D. Productions vocals, guitar, writer (tracks 13 and 14)[5]

1985

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Breaking Circus The Very Long Fuse LP Homestead Artwork

1986

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Artist Release Format Label Credits
Urge Overkill Strange, I... LP Ruthless Producer, credited as The Li'l Weed
Dark Arts A Long Way From Brigadoon LP Ruthless Artwork
Naked Raygun All Rise LP, CD Homestead Artwork
Various Artists God's Favorite Dog LP, cassette Touch and Go Performer (tracks 6 and 7)

1987

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Artist Release Format Label Credits
Various Artists Hog Butcher For The World LP Mad Queen guitar (track 7)
Various Artists Happiness Is Dry Pants LP Chemical Inbalance vocals, guitar (track 2)
Various Artists Head Over Ears (A Debris Compilation) LP Play Hard writer (track 6)
Various Artists The Wailing Ultimate! The Homestead Records Compilation LP, CD, cassette Homestead guitar, vocals (track 6)

1988

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Pixies Surfer Rosa LP, CD, cassette 4AD Producer, engineer
Head of David Dustbowl LP, CD Blast First Producer, credited as Steven Albini
Savage Pencil Angel Dust (Music for Movie Bikers) LP Blast First Liner notes
Gore Wrede- The Cruel Peace LP, CD Megadisc Producer
Various Artists The End of Music (As We Know It) LP, CD, cassette ROIR/Danceteria Liner notes
Pussy Galore/Black Snakes Split 7" Supernatural Organization Producer
Bitch Magnet Star Booty LP Roman Candle Producer
Flour Flour LP Touch and Go Engineer
The Membranes Kiss Ass... Godhead! LP, CD, cassette Homestead Recording engineer
Various Artists Mondostereo LP Tinnitus/Away From The Pulsebeat Engineer, producer (track 13)

1989

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Tar Handsome LP Amphetamine Reptile Engineer (tracks 2, 3, 5, and 6)
Wreck Wreck EP Play It Again Sam Producer
The Jesus Lizard Pure EP Touch and Go Producer
Tad "Wood Goblins" b/w "Cooking with Gas" plus "Daisy" 12" single Glitterhouse Recording engineer (tracks 1 and 2)
The Wedding Present Bizarro LP, CD, cassette RCA Engineer, re-recording of one song for single release
Ut Griller LP, CD Blast First Engineer
Poster Children Flower Plower LP, CD, cassette Limited Potential Producer, four songs
Sixteen Tons 4 Songs 16 Tons 7" No Blow Engineer, credited as S. Albini
Boss Hog Drinkin', Lechin' & Lyin' EP Amphetamine Reptile Recording engineer
Pussy Galore Dial 'M' for Motherfucker LP, CD Caroline Records Producer
Flea Circus Slingshot Cassette n/a Producer, recording engineer
Slint Tweez LP, CD, cassette Jennifer Hartman Records Engineer, credited as "some fuckin' derd niffer"
Band of Susans Love Agenda CD Torso Recording engineer (uncredited)

1990s

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1990

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
The Breeders Pod LP, CD, cassette RCA Engineer
Boss Hog Cold Hands LP, CD, cassette Amphetamine Reptile Recording engineer, mixer
Flour Luv 713 LP, CD, cassette Touch and Go Engineer
Sixteen Tons Headshot LP, CD Abstract Sounds Producer
The Jesus Lizard Head LP, cassette Touch and Go Engineer, producer
Tad Salt Lick/God's Balls LP, CD Sub Pop Producer
Whitehouse Thank Your Lucky Stars LP, CD Susan Lawly Producer, credited as S. Albini
Whitehouse Cream of the Second Coming LP, CD Susan Lawly Producer, credited as S. Albini
Wreck Soul Train LP, CD, cassette Play It Again Sam Producer
Pigface Gub LP, CD, cassette Invisible Engineer
Hum Is Like Kissing An Angel (She Said) Cassette n/a Recording engineer
Various Artists Rubáiyát (Elektra's 40th Anniversary) LP, CD Elektra Engineer
Tar Roundhouse CD Amphetamine Reptile Engineer
Mass "Pulling/Thinking" 7" No Blow Remixer
Sludgeworth "Sludgeworth" 7" Roadkill Producer
Theweddingpresent 3 Songs LP, 7", CD, cassette RCA Engineer
Big Trouble House "Watered Down" 7" Community 3 Engineer
Masters of the Obvious "She's Not Ready" 7" Feel Good All Over Producer
Poster Children "Thinner, Stronger" b/w "Pointed Stick" 7" Sub Pop Producer
Bitch Magnet Ben Hur LP, CD, cassette Glitterhouse Recording engineer, credited as Arden Geist
Theweddingpresent Brassneck LP, CD, cassette RCA Engineer

1991

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Cath Carroll England Made Me LP, CD, cassette Fantasy Guitar
Whitehouse Another Crack of the White Whip CD Susan Lawly Writer
Whitehouse "Still Going Strong" 7" Susan Lawly Writer
Chris Connelly Whiplash Boychild CD, cassette Wax Trax! Assistant engineer, guitar
The Jesus Lizard Goat LP, CD, cassette Touch and Go Producer
Poster Children Daisychain Reaction LP, CD, cassette Twin/Tone Engineer
Wreck House of Boris LP, CD, cassette Wax Trax! Producer
Theweddingpresent "Dalliance" 7", CD, cassette RCA Engineer
Theweddingpresent "Lovenest" LP, CD RCA Engineer
Cheer-Accident Dumb Ask CD, cassette Complacency Engineer
Scrawl Bloodsucker LP, CD, cassette Simple Machines Recording engineer
Cheeze TM Dancing with the Dead 7" Bob Records Engineer
Bewitched Harshing My Mellow CD, cassette No. 6 Recording engineer
Sandy Duncan's Eye Sandy Duncan's Eye CD Flipside Recording engineer
Zeni Geva Total Castration CD Public Bath Engineer
Sometime Sweet Susan Collide LP 5th & National Producer, engineer
Naked Vanilla Wooly Metal Cassette n/a Engineer
Dolomite Venus 7" Fiasco Recording engineer, credited as Steve
The Didjits Full Nelson Reilly LP, CD, cassette Touch and Go Credited as Reggie Stiggs
The Wedding Present Seamonsters LP, CD RCA Engineer
The Mark of Cain Incoming CD Dominator Engineer
Superchunk No Pocky for Kitty LP, CD, cassette Matador Uncredited
Tar Jackson LP, CD, cassette Amphetamine Reptile Recording engineer
Volcano Suns Career in Rock LP, CD, cassette Quarterstick Recording engineer, credited as Torso Man
Urge Overkill The Supersonic Storybook LP, CD, cassette Touch and Go Uncredited

1992

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Things That Fall Down Disbelief LP, CD, cassette Sonic Noise Engineer
Various Artists Follow Our Trax, Vol. 8: Another Disc, Another Planet CD Reprise
Bewitched Harshing My Mellow CD, cassette No.6 Recording engineer
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion LP, CD, cassette Caroline Recording engineer
The Jesus Lizard Liar LP, CD, cassette Touch and Go Uncredited
Helmet Meantime (song "In The Meantime" recorded by Albini; mixed by Andy Wallace) LP, CD, cassette Interscope Recording engineer
Mule Mule LP, CD, cassette Quarterstick credited as "Lenard Johns"
Thrillhammer Giftless LP, CD Rough Trade Recording engineer, credited as "Albini-San"
Failure Comfort LP, CD, cassette Slash Engineer
Braindamage Signal de Revolta CD G.L.C. Mixer
Zeni Geva Nai-Ha LP, CD Nipp Guitar Producer, engineer, guitar
Murder, Inc. Murder, Inc. LP, CD, cassette Invisible Recording engineer
Crain Speed LP, cassette Automatic Wreckords Recording engineer
Union Carbide Productions Swing CD, cassette Radium 226.05 Producer, Recording engineer
Whitehouse Twice Is Not Enough (track "Neronia" only; co-produced with William Bennett) CD Susan Lawly Producer, engineer
Dazzling Killmen Dig Out The Switch LP, CD Intellectual Convulsion Recording engineer
Distorted Pony Punishment Room LP, CD Bomp! Producer, Recording engineer, credited as "bespectacled wisp of a fellow from the midwest"
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker Unreleased N/A Recording engineer, unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producers for official release
Peter Sotos Buyer's Market CD AWB Producer

1993

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Murder Inc. Murder Inc. CD Futurist Recording engineer
Helmet Meantime CD Interscope Recording engineer
Theweddingpresent Hit Parade 3 CD, cassette RCA Producer
Big Boys The Fat Elvis CD
Dazzling Killmen "Medicine Me" 7"
Blues Explosion Crypt-Style CD Crypt
Various Artists The Beavis and Butthead Experience CD, LP, cassette Geffen
Shorty "Kaput!" 7" Skin Graft
Crow My Kind of Pain
Engine Kid Bear Catching Fish Producer, uncredited
Craw Craw Producer, uncredited
Don Caballero "Our Caballero" b/w "My Ten Year Old Lady Is Giving It Away" 7" Producer, a-side only, uncredited
Don Caballero "Andandandandandandandand" b/w "First Hits" Producer, uncredited
Don Caballero For Respect Producer, uncredited
Screeching Weasel/Pink Lincolns Split Engineer, credited as A Skinny Bespectacled Guy
PJ Harvey Rid of Me Recording engineer, all but one song
Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy CD, LP, cassette Producer, credited as "Fluss"
Nirvana In Utero CD, LP, cassette DGC Producer, mixer, engineer
Nirvana "Heart-Shaped Box" CD, 7", cassette Geffen
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Sport Fishin': The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook CD, LP, cassette Quarterstick Recording engineer
King Cobb Steelie n/a Unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producer
Shorty "Thumb Days" Mixer, credited as "Albhienni"
Urbn DK Denial Uncredited on release
Usherhouse Molting
Zeni Geva Autofuck 7"
Zeni Geva Alright You Little Bastards Guitar
Various Artists 1993 Mercury Music Prize: Shortlist Sampler
Various Artists Whip

1994

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Gastr del Sol Mirror Repair CD, LP Drag City Recording engineer
Slint Untitled 10", CD, cassette Touch and Go Engineer, uncredited
Nirvana In Utero CD, LP, cassette Geffen Records Recording engineer
Mount Shasta Put The Creep On CD, cassette Skin Graft Producer
Dazzling Killmen Face of Collapse CD, LP, cassette Skin Graft Producer
Various Artists The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience CD, LP, cassette Geffen Records Producer (on track 1)
The Jesus Lizard Down CD, LP, cassette Touch and Go Producer, uncredited
Zeni Geva Desire for Agony CD, LP, cassette Alternative Tentacles Engineer
Brise-Glace "In Sisters All And Felony" 7" Skin Graft Engineer
Space Streakings 7-Toku CD, LP, cassette Skin Graft Engineer, recording engineer
Silkworm Libertine CD, LP El Recordo Recording engineer
Silkworm In the West CD, cassette C/Z Records Recording engineer, uncredited
Nirvana "All Apologies"/"Rape Me" CD, cassette Geffen Records Recording engineer
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion CD, LP, cassette Caroline Records Recording engineer, mixer
Nirvana "Pennyroyal Tea" CD Geffen Records Recording engineer
Craw Lost Nation Road LP Choke Engineer
Various Artists Wohlstand CD Human Wrechords Producer (on track 10)
DQE But Me, I Fell Down CD, LP Hoppel Di Hoy Producer
Steel Pole Bath Tub Some Cocktail Suggestions CD, 10" cassette Boner Records Featured
Shorty Fresh Breath 10", cassette Skin Graft Recording engineer, producer, credited as "Albhienni of Francisco"
Balloon Guy Boogie, Rock 2x7" Generator Recording engineer (tracks 1–3)
Morsel Noise Floor CD Choke Recording engineer (tracks 1–4, 6, 8–10)
Nirvana In Utero Demos CD Collectors Pleasure Producer, unofficial release
Souls Tjitchischtsiy (Sudêk) CD, LP Telegram Records Engineer, producer, mixer
Various Artists You Got Lucky: A Tribute to Tom Petty CD, cassette Scotti Bros./Alleged/Backyard Recording engineer (track 6)
Slapshot Unconsciousness CD, LP We Bite Records Recording engineer
Stinking Lizaveta "Refinery"/"Crooked Teeth" 7" Tolotta Records Recording engineer
Brise-Glace When in Vanitas... CD, LP Skin Graft Engineer
Bubble Gum Thunder "Coward"/"Cheater" 7" Model Rocket Recording engineer
Various Artists Rock and Roll Super Highway CD God Damn Right! Recording engineer (track 9)
Gaunt Sob Story CD, LP Thrill Jockey/Crypt Records Recording engineer, credited as "Steve"
Fiddlehead The Deaf Waiter CD, 10" Allied Recordings Recording engineer
Jack 'o' Nuts On You CD, LP, cassette Radial Records Producer, engineer, credited as "S Albini"
Various Artists For a Life of Sin CD Bloodshot Records Recording engineer (track 6)
The Breeders "No Aloha" CD 4AD Engineer (track 2)
Deerheart "Male" 7" Goldenrod Records Engineer
Union Carbide Productions The Albini Swing CD Radium 226.05 Producer, mixer, recording engineer
Stinking Lizaveta "Sink" 7" Egg Yolk Records Recording engineer
Nirvana Heart-Shaped Box Vol. 2 4xCD Kiwi Records Recording engineer (tracks 2.5-2.19), unofficial release
Whitehouse Halogen CD, LP Susan Lawly Co-producer
Sissy Hunky Cop CD n/a Producer
Flac "Pilot"/"Toothbrush" 7" Hybrid Music Co. Recording producer

1995

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Whitehouse Quality Time CD Susan Lawly Co-producer
Tortoise Rhythms, Resolutions, & Clusters CD, LP Thrill Jockey Remixer (track 4)
Jim O'Rourke, Richard Youngs, Faust, & Keith Rowe "In God We Trust" 7" Table of the Elements Engineer
Man... or Astro-man? Project Infinity CD, LP Estrus Records Recording engineer (tracks 2, 6, 8)
Zeni Geva Freedom Bondage CD, LP Alternative Tentacles Producer
Los Crudos/Spitboy Viviendo Asperamente LP Ebullition Records Recording engineer, mixer, credited as Steve (tracks 12–18)
Screeching Weasel Kill the Musicians CD Lookout! Records Engineer (track 12)
Various Artists A Means to an End: The Music of Joy Division CD, LP Virgin Records Recording engineer (track 11)
Palace Music Viva Last Blues CD, LP Domino/Drag City/Palace Records Producer
Oxbow Let Me Be a Woman CD, LP Brinkman Records Recording engineer
Tony Conrad Slapping Pythagoras CD Table of the Elements Recording engineer
Palace "Mountain" 7", CD Palace Records Recording engineer (track 1)
Uzeda 4 CD, LP Touch and Go Recording engineer
Pixies Rough Diamonds (Studio Sessions 1987-1991) CD Blue Moon Records Engineer (track 23), uncredited, unofficial release
The Auteurs Back With The Killer E.P. CD, 7", cassette Hut Recordings/Virgin Recording engineer (track 1)
God Bullies "Millenium" 7" Radial Records Mixer
Various Artists Bad Sun Rising II CD Nipp Guitar Producer (tracks 1–7, 9), featured (track 8)
Various Artists Homage: Lots of Bands Doing Descendents's Songs CD Coolidge Records Recording engineer (track 14)
18th Dye "Play w/ You" b/w "Gout S.F."/"F" CD, 7", cassette ché Producer (track 1)
Gaunt I Can See Your Mom From Here CD, LP Thrill Jockey Recording engineer, credited as "Steve"
Yona-Kit Yona-Kit CD, LP Skin Graft Recording engineer
Various Artists Does The Word Duh Mean Anything To You?: Another Che Compilation CD ché Producer (tracks 3 & 4)
18th Dye Tribute to a Bus CD, LP, cassette ché/Matador/Cloudland Recording engineer
The Effigies Remains Nonviewable CD, cassette Touch and Go Liner notes
Killdozer God Hears Pleas of the Innocent CD, LP, cassette Touch and Go Recording engineer, mixer
Superchunk Incidental Music 1991–95 CD, cassette Merge Records Recording engineer (track 15)
Melt-Banana Scratch or Stitch CD, LP Skin Graft Recording engineer
Cheer-Accident Dumb Ask CD, LP, cassette Neat Metal Co-Producer
Thrush Hermit The Great Pacific Ocean CD, LP, cassette Murderecords Recording engineer
The Martians Low Budget Stunt King CD Allied Recordings Recording engineer (tracks 1–8)
Various Artists Dad, Are We Punk Yet? CD, LP Harmless Records Recording engineer (track 5)
Skippies/Sloy/Cut The Navel String "On Tourne (Hot)" CD Roadrunner Records Producer (track 2)
Sloy "Pop" CD Roadrunner Records Producer, uncredited (tracks 1 & 2)
Absolute Grey Broken Promise: An Absolute Grey Anthology ...1984-87 2xCD Strange Ways Records Liner notes
Grind Creampetal CD AGM Music Recording engineer
Quint "Blueprint to a Blackout"/"Sawtooth" 7" Southern Records Engineer
Les Thugs Strike CD, LP, cassette Roadrunner Records Recording engineer, mixer
Table Table Humble
The Fleshtones Laboratory of Sound Ichiban International
Lizard Music Fashionably Lame World Domination Recordings
Jaks Hollywood Blood Capsules Choke
Hamlet Idiot "Don't Let Them" 7" Chunk Records
Hegoat "Edict" 7" Allied Recordings
Lizard Train Everything Moves CD Shagpile
Various Artists Hot Rock Action Vol. 1 7" Reptilian Records
Dis-/Panel Donor "Suddenly, Everyone Is A Smoker"/"L.T. Weightman" 7" Lombardi Recordings
Nirvana Singles 6xCD Geffen Records
Various Artists Bad Sun Rising CD Nipp Guitar
Various Artists TDK's Ultimate Guide to Great Sound TDK
Various Artists Socket CD Lombardi Recordings
Sloy Plug Roadrunner Records
Fix Your Wagon Pillow Talk CD Crank Records
Funhouse Poet Is Dead Nipp Guitar
Lizard Train Inertia CD Shagpile
Lizard Music Is Coming CD World Domination Recordings
Mound "Drag The River"/"Sweet Occasion" 7" Transmission Recordings
D.O.P.E. Resination CD Anti-Gravity Records

1996

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
The Auteurs After Murder Park CD, LP, cassette Hut Recordings Recording engineer
Laurels L CD Thick Records Recording engineer (tracks 2, 3, 7, 10, 13)
Palace Music Arise Therefore CD, LP Domino Recording engineer
Oxbow Serenade in Red CD, LP Pop Biz Recording engineer
Rosa Mota Bionic CD 13th Hour Recordings Recording engineer, mixing
Rosa Mota "Space Junk" CD, 7" 13th Hour Recordings Recording engineer, mixing
Whitehouse "Just Like A Cunt" CD Fanatics Recording engineer
Tortoise A Digest Compendium of the Tortoise's World CD Thrill Jockey Remixer (track 10)
Gold Blade "Black Elvis" CD, 7" Ultimate Recording engineer
Bodychoke Five Prostitutes CD Freek Records Recording engineer
Various Artists Shots In The Dark CD Donna Producer (track 12)
Various Artists Cloud 9 Cassette Select Magazine Recording engineer, mixning
Various Artists The Lounge Ax Defense & Relocation Compact Disc CD Touch and Go Guitar, vocals (track 2)
Oxbow "Insylum" 10" Crippled Dick Hot Wax! Recording engineer (track 2)
Robbie Fulks Country Love Songs
Big'n Discipline Through Sound CD, LP Skin Graft Records/Gasoline Boost Records Recording engineer, credited as Inibla Nevets (Steve Albini backwards)
Various Artists Direction CD, LP Polyvinyl Record Company Recording engineer, credited as Steve
Silkworm Firewater LP, cassette Matador Recording engineer
Bodychoke Five Prostitutes
A Minor Forest Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993–1996) CD, LP Thrill Jockey Recording engineer (even-numbered tracks)
Various Artists Ground Rule Double CD, LP Divot/ActionBoy300 Records Recording engineer (tracks 12, 20)
Various Artists Ox-Compilation #24: Bombenleger CD Ox Fanzine Producer (track 7)
Man...Or Astro-Man? The Sounds of Tomorrow 7" Estrus Records Recording engineer, credited as Professor S. Albini
Phono-Comb Fresh Gasoline
Brainiac Hissing Prigs in Static Couture CD, LP Touch and Go Recording engineer (track 5)
Dis- Historically Troubled Third Album
Splendorbin Stealth
Stinking Lizaveta ...Hopelessness and Shame. CD Compulsiv Music Recording engineer, mixing
Various Artists In Defense of Animals, Vol. 2 CD Play It Again Sam Records Recording engineer (track 10)
The Union In Terminus GA, 1997 Vocals, mixing
Various Artists Jabberjaw Compilation Vol. 2: Pure Sweet Hell
Fred Schneider Just...Fred CD, LP, cassette Reprise Records Producer
Smog Kicking a Couple Around CD, LP Drag City Recording engineer (tracks 2–4)
Mandingo Macho Grande
Cheer-Accident Not a Food
Ativin Pills vs. Planes CD Polyvinyl Record Company Recording engineer (tracks 1–4)
Sloy Planet of Tubes CD, LP, cassette PIAS France Producer (uncredited)
Bush Razorblade Suitcase CD, LP, cassette Trauma Records/Interscope Records Recording engineer
Dazzling Killmen Recuerda CD Skin Graft Records Recording engineer (tracks 1–3)
Pixies "Debaser" LP 4AD Producer (track 3)
The Mark of Cain Rock & Roll
Various Artists Shots In The Dark
Shakuhachi Surprise Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta CD, LP Skin Graft Recording engineer, credited as Steve Albinary
Bush "Swallowed"
Hubcap Those Kids are Weird LP ActionBoy300 Records Recording engineer (all but last song)
Low Transmission CD Vernon Yard Reordings Artwork, credited as Steve
Scrawl Travel On, Rider CD Elektra Recording engineer (tracks 2, 5–7, 9–12)
Scrawl Travel On Scrawl CD Elektra Recording engineer (tracks 2 and 4)
Guided by Voices Under the Bushes Under the Stars two songs, credited as Fluss
Vent 414 Vent 414 CD, LP Polydor Recording engineer (tracks 2, 3, 5–13)
Vent 414 "Life Before You" CD, 7" Polydor Recording engineer
Various Artists Audio CD CD Audio Magazine Producer (track 14)
Killdozer & Ritual Device When the Levee Breaks
Veruca Salt Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
Burning Witch Towers...
Wuhling Extra 6
Cord Easy Living On 101

1997

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Souls Bird Fish or In Between
Bokomelch Jet Lag
Cheap Trick "Baby Talk" b/w "Brontosaurus"
Cheap Trick unreleased re-recording of In Color
Craw Map, Monitor, Surge
Darling Little Jackhammer Criminally Easy To Please
Ein Heit Lighting and the Sun
Great Unraveling Great Unraveling
Pegboy Cha Cha Damore
Pixies Death to the Pixies Recording engineer
P.W. Long's Reelfoot We Didn't See You On Sunday
Silkworm Developer
Solar Race Homespun
Spider Virus Electric Erection
Storm & Stress Storm & Stress
Various Artists Guide to Fast Living, Vol. 2
Various Artists The Jackal
Dianogah As Seen from Above
La Gritona Arrasa Con Todo
Wuhling Extra 6 Touch and Go
Bush "Greedy Fly" CD, cassette Trauma Records

1998

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Pansy Division Absurd Pop Song Romance CD
Various Artists Music From and Inspired by The Jackal CD n/a Recording engineer
Whitehouse Mummy and Daddy CD Susan Lawly Recording engineer ("Private")
Pedro, Muriel, & Esther The White To Be Angry
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Acme CD, LP, cassette Matador Mixer
Ballydowse The Land, The Bread, and The People
Young Dubliners Alive Alive O
Silver Apples Beacon
Uzeda Different Section Wires
Silkworm Even a Blind Chicken Finds a Kernel of Corn: 1990-1994
Eclectics Idle Worship
Will Oldham Little Joya
Pansy Division More Lovin' from Our Oven
Plush More You Becomes You CD, LP Domino Recording engineer
Dirty Three Ocean Songs
The Sadies Precious Moments
Various Artists Smash Your Radio: Jump Up! Sampler
Bert Bert Pinebox
Cordelia's Dad Spine
The Ex Starters Alternators
The Traitors Traitors
Dirty Three Ufkuko
Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio 3
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Walking into Clarksdale
Mount Shasta Watch Out Credited as Debbie Albini
Vandal X Songs from the Heart
Bedhead Transaction de Novo
.22 Watertown
Bedhead Lepidoptera 10" Trance Syndicate
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Magical Colors

1999

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Teenage Frames 1% Faster
Fun People The Art(e) of Romance
Chisel Drill Hammer Chisel Drill Hammer
Early Lines Are Tired Beasts
Filibuster Deadly HiFi
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Emergency Call From Japan
Neurosis Times of Grace
The Bollweevils History of the Bollweevils, Vol. 2
Distortion Felix I'm an Athlete
Ensimi BMX
Murder, Inc. Locate Subvert Terminate: The Complete Murder, Inc.
Nina Nastasia Dogs
Neutrino Motion Picture Soundtrack
Chevelle Point #1
Various Artists Poor Little Knitter on the Road: A Tribute to the Kni
The Sadies Pure Diamond Gold
Low Secret Name
Don Caballero Singles Breaking Up (Vol. 1) Recording engineer (uncredited)
Ativin Summing the Approach
Pezz Warmth & Sincerity
Hosemobile What Can & Can't Go On
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Xtra Acme USA Recording engineer (seven songs)
Dragbody Flip The Kill Switch
New Brutalism A Diagram Without Scale or Dimension
Pugs Chimato Kubiki

2000s

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2001

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2002

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2003

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2004

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2005

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2006

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2007

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2008

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2009

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2010s

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2010

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2011

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2012

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2013

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  • Man or Astro-man?Defcon 5 4 3 2 1
  • Goddard – 10-inch (with Giraffes? Giraffes!)
  • Candelilla – Heart Mutter
  • The Crooked Fiddle BandMoving Pieces Of The Sea
  • Saything – Nonsense
  • The Seething Coast – Olympia
  • STNNNGEmpire Inward
  • Robert Rolfe Feddersen – American Loser
  • The New Trust – Keep Dreaming
  • Barb Wire DollsSlit
  • P.K.14 – 1984
  • Thom Bowden - Searching The Brittle Light

2014

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2015

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2016

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  • Alpha Strategy – Drink the Brine, Get Scarce
  • Womps – Our fertile forever
  • Cocaine Piss – Sex Weirdos 7-inch
  • Cocaine Piss – The Dancer
  • Valina – In Position
  • Peter Squires – When I Couldn't Move
  • Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories
  • NeurosisFires Within Fires
  • The Conformists – Divorce
  • Karabas Barabas – Return of the Sexy Demon
  • Kapitan Korsakov – Physical Violence is the Least of My Priorities
  • Vomitface – Hooray for Me
  • Descartes a Kant – Victims of Love Propaganda
  • Malojian – This Is Nowhere
  • Mono – Requiem For Hell
  • Dazzling Killmen – Face of Collapse: Special Edition (25th Anniversary reissue)
  • Chris Cobilis (performed by Spektral Quartet and Kenneth Goldsmith) – This Is You
  • Sex Snobs – Emotional Stuffing
  • KEN Mode – Nerve EP (tracks 1–4)

2017

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2018

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2019

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  • Fastriser – Type III
  • MonoNowhere Now Here
  • Sunn O)))Life Metal
  • Sunn O)))Pyroclasts
  • Triliteral – Flying Snake's Claw
  • Frank Iero and the Future Violents – Barriers
  • Doblecapa – La Felpa
  • UzedaQuocumque jeceris stabit
  • Décibelles – Rock Français
  • Asylums – Genetic Cabaret
  • Flat Worms – Antarctica
  • DBOY – New Records in Human Power
  • Ty Segall & Freedom Band – Deforming Lobes
  • Black Orchids – Sakura Sorrow
  • Austero – Austero
  • Local H – Lifers (one song only)
  • Down The Lees – Bury The Sun
  • Psihomodo Pop - Digitalno Nebo (engineer on tracks 10 and 12)

2020s

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2020

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Medusa In Bed with Medusa
Glasgow Glasgow EP
Karabas Barabas Degenerate National Anthem
dave the band Slob Stories
Fuzz III
Laura Jane Grace Stay Alive
Living Things Shapeshifter
Asylums Genetic Cabaret
Lil BUB Lil BUB: The Band [11]
Chief Tail Chief Tail
Brainiac Transmissions After Zero DVD Featured
Fotocrime South of Heaven Recording engineer[12]
Local H LIFERS
Metz "Acid" / "Slow Delay"
Former Utopia Magnetar
Failure 1992-1996 Recording engineer
Pylon Pylon Box
Get Smart! Oh Yeah No

2021

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Racing The Sun Epidemic of Love
Mono Pilgrimage of the soul
Ativin Austere
Prince of Lilies Vent

2022

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
CREEPSCIENCE Shift the Paradigm
Cat's Eyes Night and Soul
Nina Nastasia Riderless Horse
Corduroy Cat 10% Hopeful
Black Midi live at electric audio Recording engineer
Mikey Erg Love at Leeds
Meet Cute "Party Mind"

2023

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Spare Snare The Brutal
Liturgy 93696[13]
No Men Fear This
MX-80 Sound Better Than Life CD, LP Klanggalerie Mixer
Snailbones "Erroneous Harmonious"[14]
Laurel Canyon Laurel Canyon
Ativin Austere
Code Orange The Above[15][16]
CRYAMY World[17]

2024

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Artist Release Format Label Credit
Cheer-Accident Vacate CD, digital Cuneiform Recording engineer[18]
Fire! Testament CD, LP, digital Rune Grammofon Recording engineer, mixing[19]
Facs "North American Endless" 7", digital Sub Pop Engineer[20]
The Conformists Midwestless CDr, LP, digital Computer Students Recording engineer[21]
Didjits Strictly Dynamite: The Best of The Didjits LP, digital Touch and Go Engineer, producer (tracks 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, and 33)[22]
Mono Oath CD, LP, digital Pelagic/Temporary Residence Recording engineer, mixing, producer[23]
The Ergs! Dorkrockcorkrod (20th Anniversary Steve Albini Remix) LP, cassette Don Giovanni Mixing[24]
Chin Music Chin Music 7" Nitty Kitty Guitar, artwork
Dream Skills, GW Sok As We Speak LP Sleeping Giant Glossolalia Recording engineer
DJ Dust Melting Pot: Songs from the Furnace CDr Misadventures in Media Mixer (track 3)
...Of Death Discography Cassette R.I.P. In Peace Records Recording engineer
Slowly "Prayer to God" Digital Lossleader Records Writer
Basically Nancy Wounds LP Graveface Records Recording engineer, mixer
Mono The Unforgettable EP 7" Temporary Residence Limited Recording engineer, mixer, producer
The Effigies Est. 1980 Chicago LP BFD Transferring
Prince Of Lilies Hurst
Redshift Headlights If You Are Around Still

Spoken word

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  • "Spoken Word Thing" - Sub Pop 100 (Sub Pop, 1986) – compilation by various artists

References

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  3. ^ "Various - Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave + Hardcore 1979-1991 (2022)". Discogs. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
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  5. ^ "The Middle of America Compilation (1984, Vinyl)". Discogs. 2008. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
  6. ^ "Joe 4 – Njegov Sin". Discogs.
  7. ^ "Full Album Stream: The Oxford Coma – "Everything Out of Tune"". Decibelmagazine.com. October 10, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  8. ^ DeGrechie, Eric. "New Trier grad collaborated with famed engineer Albini on 'Horizon Disrupted" album". Archived from the original on September 12, 2017.
  9. ^ "GEZAN 4th full album 「Silence Will Speak」発売決定。". Gezan.net. July 15, 2018.
  10. ^ Werksman, Hans (June 6, 2018). "Here Comes The Flood – a weblog about music: Andy Pratt: Further Disruption". Werksman.blogspot.com.
  11. ^ Lil BUB (EP) (label copy). Joyful Noise. 2020.
  12. ^ "Fotocrime - South Of Heaven | Releases". Discogs. March 10, 2020. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
  13. ^ "Register". Instagram. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  14. ^ "Register". Instagram. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  15. ^ Hudson, Alex (July 19, 2023). "Code Orange Get Steve Albini for New Album 'The Above,' Share Single with Billy Corgan". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  16. ^ Kennelty, Greg (July 19, 2023). "Code Orange Teams Up With Billy Corgan For New Single "Take Shape", Announces New Album". Metal Injection. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
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  18. ^ "Cheer-Accident - Vacate (2024, CD)". Discogs. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
  19. ^ "Fire! - Testament (2024, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
  20. ^ "Facs - North American Endless (2024, White, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
  21. ^ "The Conformists - Midwestless | Releases". Discogs. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
  22. ^ "Didjits - Strictly Dynamite: The Best Of Didjits (2024, Green, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
  23. ^ "Mono - Oath | Releases". Discogs. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
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