Rick Rubin

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DUDE MAKE EVERYTHING LOUD LMAO

with that beard, probably a paedo
it's only a matter of time

one of the worst things that happened to modern music

There's nothing to think about, because he doesn't do anything

Install gentoo

Beat biter, dope style taker

What has he done? Not familiar with his work.

danzig, public enemy, run dmc, blood sugar sex magik, yeezus

Right?

Anyone have that article where Corey Taylor talked about him? That was hilarous

talentless hack

Acclaimed for both 80s rap (defjam) and 80s metal (Slayer), then bricked the shit out of all his releases from the 90s onwards (mainstream rock and metal); gave rise to compression

LOUD
I WANNA HEAR IT LOUD
RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES
DON'T WANT NO COMPROMISE

so this is the power of music production

I CAN'T HEAR YOU

jew that popularized degenerate rap music, popularized horrible mastering

"Herp everything has to sound like Back In Black"

If only he could produce an album that sounds half as good as BIB.

Did a lot for hip hop. Younger people probably only remember him for his shitty brickwalled stuff.

His work on the last Eminem album shows that he's still good at producing hip-hop, but I think he just doesn't have a feel for rock anymore.

I think its his hate for reverb that really hurts the rock music he works on

He hasn't produced a rock album that didn't sound like shit since, uh, Blood Sugar Sex Magik?

I wonder how much of that isn't because he came up in the 80s and disliked reverb for being associated with LA fag rock.

Nah he just wanted to sound street and the people he was biting like Marley Marl had no money for reverbs

Apparently the original mix of Too Fast For Love didn't have reverb but when Motley Crue signed with Elektra, they remixed the album a bit and added reverb and a few other touches to make it more commercial.

I thought the original lethur mix did have reverb never really listened it though

phil spector 2 who deserves to be put away for lilfe just like the first one

Good reverbs we’re still pretty expensive in the 80s so it was a bit of production bling
You knew it had come from a big studio if it had that smooth lexicon sound

Some hip hop producers used those shorty radio shack reverbs and they sound more raw, but that was later on around 85-6, before that though most hip hop was dry as fuck

It's kind of hard to find the original mix online but it's out there if you look for it. I've never heard it either but I do know that Elektra did insist on touching it up a bit to be more commercial.

Actually, finding any tracks from TFFL online are kind of hard aside from track 1 because it was the lead single and reissued on every Motley Crue Greatest Hits collection.

pretty sure the original mix of too fast is the one they use for the vinyl release

Looks like he fucks singers

Everyone knows Nirvana and Pearl Jam were unhappy with the hair metal production on their debut albums because they didn't have the money or creative control to get them to sound right. That included lots of reverb and very slick, precise mixing.

Since Pearl Jam were just ex-hair metal guys who pretended to be alternative anyway...

grunge is a pretty disgusting genre and its negative effects can still be felt in rock today

Go to bed, Gene Simmons.

EXOSKELLETON

>believing Cobain's revisionist bullshit
Fuck that. Most of Pearl Jam's members had been active in the Seattle punk scene since like 1985. Only Eddie Vedder wasn't, and he had never been in a hair metal band prior to joining Pearl Jam.

he's the producer of that new eminem song lmao

eh it wasn't that bad

He's obviously resting on his laurels
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It seems like if he doesnt give a fuck about a project he really doesnt give a fuck about it

desu I struggle to listen to new AIC because of this. They're my favorite band ever but the fucking compression is just tiring on the ears

*blocks your dynamic range*

One of my all-time favorite producers, for 4 big reasons:

1/4

He produced this. Changed The Cult's sound in a very good way. I love the Love album, but it wasn't going to work for these songs, as sometimes painfully heard on the 'Peace' mixes

2/4

He revitalized and brought a crisp, clean song that Tom Petty really needed - Jeff Lynne had heavily produced TP's last few records before this, including the big hit album Full Moon Fever, but the sound had grown stale.

Rubin did what he does best - strip away the excess and let the songs shine. Maybe his best production job of all.

3/4

His work with Black Sabbath on 13 gave them what will surely be their last worthwhile album. A great way to go out.

His work with Johnny Cash is deserving of its legend - JC is the greatest country singer of all-time, and in 1994 was in danger of being about as irrelevant as Fats Domino was when he recently passed away.

But pairing with Rubin changed that - a half-dozen records later, JC died as a living, breathing legend instead of a ghost before his time.

4/4

Johnny Cash was due a comeback anyway since he had been irrelevant for so long. Granted, during the 90s there was a general move by country radio programmers to nudge the old-timers like him, George, and Willy off the airwaves and replace them with young, rising stars like Alan Jackson.

But one of my personal favorite works of his, and far less-noted, was that he breathed new life into that most venerable of rock bands, ZZ Top - another band that was utterly irrelevant when he produced 2012's La Futura.

It's a great record - Rubin finds the right sound mixing the electro-blues of Eliminator with plenty of grime from the 70's, and finaly not only acknowledging but fully embracing the fact that singer Billy Gibbons is now old as dirt.

So ZZ Top makes blues music...and old as dirt blues singer's voices sound amazing....TURN UP THOSE GRIZZLY VOCALS!

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Highly recommended.

(err...4/5)

That's what I'm saying - wthout a bold move the comeback never would have happened.

Stripping Cash down was the move - and although it seems obviously a smart move now, the country music industry was (and still isn't) interested on stripping down production.

>Stripping Cash down was the move - and although it seems obviously a smart move now, the country music industry was (and still isn't) interested on stripping down production

Remember how Christgau objected to the dated 50s-60s studio gimmicks on Patsy Cline's records and said you should just listen to live recordings of her instead. It appears that the tendency to overproduce country music goes back quite aways.

Champion Jack Dupree worked pretty well as an aged bluesman and I also thought BB King's remake of "I Got Some Help I Don't Really Need" (done when he was 72) was better than the original version done when he was in his 40s.

That could well be the problem. MMLP2 showed that Rubin can still do a good job when he feels like it, and I get the impression that he never really gave a shit about stuff like Death Magnetic or the two Audioslave albums.

Its really great to read posts that have actual thoughts and aren't trying to tear artists down like everyone else on moo, listened to some Petty and ZZ Top because of this, thanks user.

I wouldn't give a shit about Death Magnetic or Audioslave either desu.

>Its really great to read posts that have actual thoughts and aren't trying to tear artists down like everyone else on moo
Too bad tearing artists down is so easy and fun. Just ask Scaruffi/Christgau. :^)

Reincarnation of Karl Marx, beware.

public enemy was the bomb squad

Nirvana was unhappy with the production of Nevermind I thought

hes a producer that sits on a couch all day and gets stoned

dunno

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While i personally talk shit about Rubin all the time i will always be grateful for Cash's American series. Even tho sometimes the highpitched tones are so sharp and loud they actualy hurt my ears.

He makes it difficult to me to listen and appreciate red hot chilli peppers.
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