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Rick Rubin is fucking detestable

the fact that he’s making the rounds as anything other...
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
But don't you think he is some kind of musical genius? I mea...
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
yes HE was really good but now he’s out there on po...
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
What would the correct advice be to give?
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
first off, anyone who ever told the RHCP that they were play...
Fear-inspiring bistre puppy station
  02/04/24
I don't think he's a musical genius. I was being glib. But I...
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
he definitely is. also, taste is subjective and i wouldn't s...
Fear-inspiring bistre puppy station
  02/04/24
I said specifically his role is to get artists to make radio...
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
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calling station
  10/06/24
Most "albums" he created had 1-2 good songs with 1...
galvanic crystalline abode
  02/04/24
He's very cliched and boomerific. A lot of his success is be...
trip private investor
  02/04/24
It's better than how records are made now with all of these ...
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
agreed and I think Simon Cowell did the same exact thing exc...
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
He has an amazing ear for music. You guys are jealous.
snowy effete background story
  02/04/24
I don't even think he has a great ear. He just knows what is...
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
Seems like a valuable and rare talent or everyone would be d...
snowy effete background story
  02/04/24
I’m not saying he doesn’t. but his advice is com...
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
Listen to music made by Glenn Danzig with Rick Rubin. The...
Wonderful emerald national
  02/04/24
his johnny cash stuff was also 180 as shit. the guy has a go...
Fear-inspiring bistre puppy station
  02/04/24
Everything he touches is gold, so he must have something do ...
Mischievous Voyeur Sneaky Criminal
  02/04/24
again I’m not hating on his work per se. It’s hi...
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
What about his advice is so bad? Seems like it mostly worked...
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
“ignore the audience” is like Rockefeller tellin...
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
Bro who ignored the audience? Most of rubins famous records ...
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
his core advice is “make music for you” https...
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
That's good advice when you are actually talented. Nobody wa...
Abusive Excitant Casino Jewess
  02/04/24
it’s not good for 99.8% of young people who hear it
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
He obliquely talks about dealing with idiots where he redire...
Yapping boiling water
  02/04/24
I am glad TDNW knows more about music production than Rick R...
Mischievous Voyeur Sneaky Criminal
  02/04/24
Music all sounds the same now because zoomers are extremely ...
awkward messiness knife
  02/04/24
His wikipedia doesn't say anything about being Jewish.
Mischievous Voyeur Sneaky Criminal
  02/04/24
Lol
Swollen crimson site nowag
  02/04/24
I thought he may have been flame but after listening to a ha...
Yapping boiling water
  02/04/24
His boomer hippie creative guru schtick is really gay. Read ...
Lavender double fault
  02/04/24
ty lots of obtuse posters ITT being like “but it wo...
anal indirect expression patrolman
  02/04/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwISstQQVw
icp
  10/06/24


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Date: February 4th, 2024 2:52 AM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

the fact that he’s making the rounds as anything other than a weirdo who got lucky is doing people a great disservice. he makes boomers blush with his bullshit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364255)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 2:59 AM
Author: awkward messiness knife

But don't you think he is some kind of musical genius? I mean, by his own testimony he has amazing taste. He didn't just lay there on the couch and collect a check. He would specifically tell the Red Hot Chili Peppers when what they were playing was 'good' and when it sucked. He had an amazing ability to tell rock stars when their songs blew and to go write other ones. He could produce your record. He could say TDNW this doesn't sound like a Top 40 banger.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364256)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 3:01 AM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

yes HE was really good

but now he’s out there on podcasts saying “the listeners come last” and “you do things for you and it will work out best for everyone”

it’s fucking retarded and just aiding the narcissism that is already making young ones hard to deal with

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364260)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 3:06 AM
Author: awkward messiness knife

What would the correct advice be to give?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364264)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:21 AM
Author: Fear-inspiring bistre puppy station

first off, anyone who ever told the RHCP that they were playing something that sounds good is not a musical genius

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364744)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:27 AM
Author: awkward messiness knife

I don't think he's a musical genius. I was being glib. But I do think he's a good motivator leader of men.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364772)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:29 AM
Author: Fear-inspiring bistre puppy station

he definitely is. also, taste is subjective and i wouldn't say that liking RHCP or thinking something they played sounded good indicates that someone has bad taste in music. but my god i hate that band.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364776)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 12:38 PM
Author: awkward messiness knife

I said specifically his role is to get artists to make radio hits whatever that means to you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364974)



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Date: October 6th, 2024 8:57 PM
Author: calling station (jcm)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#48170684)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:42 AM
Author: galvanic crystalline abode

Most "albums" he created had 1-2 good songs with 10 other songs. What's so incredible about that? If Red Hot Chili Peppers showed up at my door in 1990 with 20 songs I think I could tell them which 1 or 2 would be a hit.

From there its just paying someone at MTV to run the video and say "this is a hot new track from RHCP" and boom, you have your hit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364807)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 5:18 AM
Author: trip private investor

He's very cliched and boomerific. A lot of his success is being in the right place at the right time and convincing people he's got some kind of magic. Plenty of people could fill that same role if they had his charisma. But there's value in having some outside voice with some cockiness of his own to walk in on a session and tell you what sucks and what doesn't. If you've ever tried to put an album together you think everything sounds great in its own way, but some stuff is just better than others and you need to hear it from someone else.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364314)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:19 AM
Author: awkward messiness knife

It's better than how records are made now with all of these naval gazing independent artists who sink so much time and money into a project when it really just blows. Even big name famous artists suck now that they're all independent and surrounded by nothing but yes men. It was better when that clout chasing Boomer was lying on the couch screaming this sucks you can do better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364739)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 1:10 PM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

agreed and I think Simon Cowell did the same exact thing except in public. he was willing to be an asshole and say the most obvious things about the contestants

or even if they were decidedly slightly above average (Susan Boyle) he knew how to craft their background story to sell an album or two to the masses

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365130)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:23 AM
Author: snowy effete background story

He has an amazing ear for music. You guys are jealous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364753)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:26 AM
Author: awkward messiness knife

I don't even think he has a great ear. He just knows what is and what isn't a hit, and had the personality and gravitas to tell famous rock stars when they weren't bringing their A game. He is more like a coach. He got the most out of his players. I doubt he could ever write a song or has any better taste than the average person. His talent was motivating people and confronting rich spoiled brats and telling them the unvarnished truth. He's successful because he got these people to write catchy radio hits like Californication which is the only reason we know who they are and they're not playing clubs of 50 people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364770)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:40 AM
Author: snowy effete background story

Seems like a valuable and rare talent or everyone would be doing it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364802)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 1:11 PM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

I’m not saying he doesn’t. but his advice is complete trash

I’d respect him more if he said “I just have a great ear for music, and I was in the right place at the right time”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365135)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:25 AM
Author: Wonderful emerald national

Listen to music made by Glenn Danzig with Rick Rubin.

Then listen to music made by Glenn Danzig without Rick Rubin.

Everything Danzig did without him sounds like it was recorded in a wet basement.

Rubin is either an god-tier producer or at least knows how to employ god-tier production.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364764)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:28 AM
Author: Fear-inspiring bistre puppy station

his johnny cash stuff was also 180 as shit. the guy has a good ear for music, but he is such a douche. i've seen interviews with him where he's sitting indian style in some kind of yoga pose with his huge faggot beard on the back porch of his LA mansion, talking a bunch of hippie sounding garbage. he is probably super annoying.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364774)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:36 AM
Author: Mischievous Voyeur Sneaky Criminal

Everything he touches is gold, so he must have something do with it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364797)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 1:12 PM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

again I’m not hating on his work per se. It’s his very harmful advice that’s the problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365140)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: awkward messiness knife

What about his advice is so bad? Seems like it mostly worked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365212)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 1:30 PM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

“ignore the audience” is like Rockefeller telling you “just own the railroads”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365217)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 1:38 PM
Author: awkward messiness knife

Bro who ignored the audience? Most of rubins famous records simped for the audience to make as much money as possible... They're commercial pop records. What are you talking about?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365250)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 1:41 PM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

his core advice is “make music for you”

https://www.tiktok.com/@trac.co/video/7129642867127209262?lang=en

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365265)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 3:42 PM
Author: Abusive Excitant Casino Jewess

That's good advice when you are actually talented. Nobody wants watered down shit made by a committee

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365711)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 3:42 PM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

it’s not good for 99.8% of young people who hear it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365713)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 3:45 PM
Author: Yapping boiling water

He obliquely talks about dealing with idiots where he redirects them to their strengths. He's not advising everyone become a music producer or whatever. He even says he never expected to make money off it. He worked real jobs to produce records initially.

I can see how zozo autists are mad a guy figured out how to live well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365716)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 4:11 PM
Author: Mischievous Voyeur Sneaky Criminal

I am glad TDNW knows more about music production than Rick Rubin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365757)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 6:25 PM
Author: awkward messiness knife

Music all sounds the same now because zoomers are extremely comformist. In Rubin's era there were a lot more whacky, hyperoriginal acts that could never happen now. You're flat out wrong here. People making music they think others want to hear is exactly why culture is 100% dead. Do you think the Sex Pistols would happen today? Sid Vicious running around in a swastika t shirt? No. It's some gay Zoomer EDM that's utterly indistinguishable. So yeah, you're extremely retarded.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47366174)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 11:42 AM
Author: Mischievous Voyeur Sneaky Criminal

His wikipedia doesn't say anything about being Jewish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47364806)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 1:55 PM
Author: Swollen crimson site nowag

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365313)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 3:39 PM
Author: Yapping boiling water

I thought he may have been flame but after listening to a handful of episodes of his podcast "Tetragrammaton" I believe he is intelligent and a sincerely chill dude.

For a Hollywood-type he's ahead of the curve.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365708)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 4:04 PM
Author: Lavender double fault

His boomer hippie creative guru schtick is really gay. Read a couple pages of his book out of curiosity and it’s a bunch of faggy new agey cliches that make no sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365742)



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Date: February 4th, 2024 4:18 PM
Author: anal indirect expression patrolman

ty

lots of obtuse posters ITT being like “but it worked for him!”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#47365773)



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Date: October 6th, 2024 7:12 PM
Author: icp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwISstQQVw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5485736&forum_id=2...id#48170300)