“I do remember hating that record,” said Albini. “When a band made the transition from being a punk band to being an R.E.M.-type band, that was the point where you could write them off—’cause they were never going back. There’s no way that a band that aspires to being a credible pop/rock FM radio band is ever going to make a snotty, smelly, messy punk rock record again. It’s never happened in history. It’s basically an indication of the kind of people they always were. And you feel a little bit foolish for having been duped.”
