i picked the futurist, only because its the only one i never listen to anymore. over the past three months the one ive listened to most is "1000 hurts". i love how melodic it is, but its still just as pounding-ly agressive as their other records. "at action park" is probably my favorite record by them though.
shellac is albini's best band. big black was his most influential, and rapeman had mountains of potential, but shellac to me is the type of music he does best. very raw, very technical and math-y, ocassionally noise-y, minimal, punk rock. albini's guitar playing is waaaay better on the shellac records than it was on the rapeman and big black records, and todd trainer is just a fantastic fucking drummer, prolly one of the best playing these days. i dont wanna knock big black or "two nuns and pack mule", because its all fantastic shit. but shellac has been consistently one of the great underground rock bands now for well over a decade and is responsible for some amazing records.
