Steve Albini Chats About Disco, the Pixies, and Iggy Pop on "WTF With Marc Maron"

On the latest episode of “WTF With Marc Maron”, Marc Maron welcomed Steve Albini to his garage. The two of them talked about Albini’s high school days in Montana, his father’s engineering career, and much more. Listen to it here.

Albini reminisced about his experience watching weird punk bands, including one act where a rat ran over the singer’s body as they performed. He talked about his antipathy for what disco became (“When you see these mustached schmucks in their silk shirts, it’s easy to be offended by that culturally without being offended by the gay and soul music roots”), his apathy for the Pixies (“They were fine”) despite his deep respect for Kim Deal’s music, and his experience knowing the young Fred Armisen in Chicago before he became an “Saturday Night Live” star (“He made himself famous”).

He also said hanging out with the Stooges (Albini recorded their 2007 LP The Weirdness) rates as the coolest thing he’s ever done, and confirms that Iggy Pop hangs out with his shirt off all the time. 

Read our 5-10-15-20 interview with Maron, and find our list of Albini’s 10 best records.

Watch Maron talk about Iggy in his episode of Pitchfork.tv‘s “Frames”: