Question
This author wrote the essay “The Problem with Music” for The Baffler and a letter titled “I would like to be paid like a plumber.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this notoriously prickly champion of analog tape, a self-proclaimed “recording engineer” who offered bands very cheap fees to record at his Electrical Audio studio. He passed away at age 61 in May 2024.
ANSWER: Steve Albini [or Steven Frank Albini]
[10h] Albini’s work on the Shellac song “Wingwalker” is lavishly praised in a Greg Milner history titled for this two-word phrase “forever.” These two words precede “whatever” in the title of a James Acaster book that argues that 2016 was the “best year for music ever.”
ANSWER: perfecting sound [or perfect sound; accept Perfecting Sound Forever or Perfect Sound Whatever] (Acaster’s book takes its title from a Jeff Rosenstock song, which in turn may take its name from a chapter title of Perfecting Sound Forever.)
[10e] In an interview, Robbie Fulks alluded to Albini’s admiration for this creator of Cantometrics. With his father John, this ethnomusicologist influenced the folk revival by making recordings of artists like Muddy Waters.
ANSWER: Alan Lomax
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 13.33 | 53% | 60% | 20% |
Data
| BHSU B | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | LMM's LLM MLM | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | The Jeam Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | We Need New Names | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Les Missourables | var merchants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |