Talk:Steve Albini discography

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Most of these are redlinks and a lot of the blue links are pointing to something unrelated to Albini. This needs some serious editing. --Richhoncho (talk) 19:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Split work as musician and work as engineer/producer

Albini's discography ought to be split into these two categories: recording he played on, and albums he redorded. Morganfitzp (talk) 19:10, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Spiderland

...missing from 1990/1991 122.150.114.44 (talk) 00:05, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spiderland was not recorded by Albini. TatSu (talk) 18:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Years in the discography as an audio engineer

Most entries are listed under the year in which the album was released, but a few others under the year in which the album was recorded (this also led to a duplicate entry, which I removed). In some of these entries there is a parenthetical comment about the year of release. This should be resolved to make the list as uniform as possible. TatSu (talk) 18:13, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misguided effort

This effort to list everything that Albini worked on as an engineer seems deeply, deeply misguided. He famously worked with an enormous number of bands and artists that are essentially unknown. Making this point by listing hundreds (thousands?) of non-notable acts in this article is not useful. It would be better to simply have a statement to this effect, and only including artists notable enough to have WP articles. It might be better still to limit the list only to instances where both artist and the album (or single, or whatever) are notable enough to have WP articles. That would rather more succinctly make the point that he was involved with a lot of notable works. (So, I guess my suggestion is that section start with something like, "Steve Albini worked on thousands of records as a recording engineer, and regularly worked with both famous acts and relative unknowns. Below is a list of some of the notable recordings that he worked on. This list is incomplete."

I'd also note that I'm guessing that A LOT of the bluelinks in this section are going to unrelated articles. At this point, the article would be better served by making it shorter than by making it longer. CAVincent (talk) 05:31, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As much as I would love to see a complete list, I think that you are right and Wikipedia is not the place for this kind of thing. TatSu (talk) 16:12, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I partly agree and partly disagree. What is misguided is two things: 1) including band discographies under Albini, when those should be under the respective band discography articles. 2) not putting production and engineering into their own Steve Albini production discography article. There are plenty of production discography lists, I don't think it's a problem to have one for Albini, even if it's thousands of entries. Not every entry in a list has to be notable, so long as it is verifiable. But that should be a separate article from albums released by Steve Albini as the artist.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 01:17, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]