If memory serves, I’ve heard from a few different sources that Steve Albini and his legendary hatred for synthesizers were a big reason for Gub sounding the way it does. I’ve always found him immensely overrated as a producer and this album is a good case study as to why. I don’t hate Gub as much as some people do but it sounds like a garage demo, if whoever’s garage happened to be a plastic porta-john. There are some good tracks but overall it just sounds so flat and boring and amateurish and… “empty” for lack of a better term. All I can picture on any given track is like two musicians playing and a bunch of other guys sitting around looking bored (while Albini glowers behind a mixing board shaking his head slowly in disgust).
[reply]And one of the most disappointing albums. I’d really struggle to think of any album that’s had more talent involved with a less impressive product.
That’s how I feel about the Pigface project in general.
There’s some fun tracks here and there, but most of it just sounds dull and uninspired to me.[/reply]
One of my friends back in the 90’s told me not to bother with Pigface, stating that he didn’t know why a project featuring an all-star cast of musicians from the industrial scene was so awful. I think the only songs I like are “Suck” (although the NIN version is better) and “Lips, Hips, Tits, Power”.
Re-mastering is kinda funny. As we say in Texas, “You can’t polish a turd.”
Most companies just reprint it louder and call it a day.
Shit, I was just looking at the tracklists for GUB and Welcome to Mexico and Mexico is apparently mostly new songs.
I really like that album. STOWAWAY is one of Connelly’s best. I know he did solo versions too which may have been better even (I can’t remember).
But . . . . my Pigface collection (the only shit worth keeping) will stay at “Fook”, “Notes From The Underground”, and “Welcome to Mexico, Asshole”.
They put so many stupid side things out too.
It was as bad as Jourgensen milking it with the live albums, remix albums, live remix albums, ad infinitum.
I don’t hate Gub as much as some people do but it sounds like a garage demo, if whoever’s garage happened to be a plastic porta-john. There are some good tracks but overall it just sounds so flat and boring and amateurish and… “empty” for lack of a better term.
This is a fair assessment and I basically feel the same. I appreciate it nostalgically, but it doesn’t get spun very often.
Not sure why anybody would need a re-mastered version.
Not sure why anybody would need a re-mastered version.
I’m not knowledgeable on the tech stuff to know what the fuck re-mastering even means. Isn’t it just trying to clean shit up with the same original source material? If so . . . yeah, if they weren’t able to figure out how to turn that pile of shit into something good the first time, how is it magically going to turn into butter in my ears?
What would be cool perhaps is if they took half the songs from that album (the ones that had a proper base of decency to work with) and just completely re-recorded them with some equipment that Steve and Martin didn’t pull out of a Kmart dumpster.
Isn’t it just trying to clean shit up with the same original source material?
Yes, basically. They’ll also run it through newer equipment to try to expand the sound. My point is similar to yours. It’s a simple, minimalist recording. Not sure how to bulk it up other than adding additional instruments.
Yeah, I also feel the same…I don’t have any hate for Gub but I certainly haven’t played it anytime recently either…then again I haven’t played any Pigface in quite some time…if I did ,I would probably reach out for Fook…
I also don’t dislike A New High in Low as much as everyone else seems to also…well,the first disc that is…