This is quite possibly the worst thing i've read in the last five years and the amount of people i've seen carrying it around or displaying it on their "getting offline" youtube videos is concerning.
it's probably just marketing, you can pay any youtube asshole to say anything
all I think of when I hear Rick Rubin's name is the parts of the Metallica documentary when he's there to "produce" and all he does is eat sandwiches and fall asleep on the couch
>>25081838Did you not see the cover fool it has a circumpunct therefore it is profound
>>25081838i haven't read it, explain why. I have seen it in bookstores
>>25081882i browsed it in a bookstore and i liked what i read. seemed like page after page of mostly white space with some text that contained a basic tip, generally applicable
>>25081838Now I will read your boobs.
>>25081899perfection
>>25081882The entire thing is a convoluted stream of Rick Rubin sucking his own dick, saying shit like "you have to think like a child" or that life is vibes and you just have to feel it lol idk.Nothing is actionable, nothing is intelligible, nothing is profound and it is not even well written. I can already picture this fat fuck sipping from a large soda rambling to someone actually typing the words because he is too lazy to do even that.
>>25081899Rick Boobin
>>25081869Now that the dust has settled, did he actually do *anything* useful or unique? If not why did bands keep trusting him to "produce"?
>>25081838Gnosticism attracts the intellectually insecure and impatient - who become retards by accident of these fundamental qualities.If you see someone interested in Gnosticism, there are very few cases in which they are worth listening to.
Fuck you, Rick rubin
>the dot is off center
>>25081838Just another Jewish product for money.
>>25081838Are there at least any recording tips or anecdotes from working with talent in the studio?>>25082001>Gnosticism attracts>RubinIt's in the name.
>>25081838It caught my eye, because this guy has at least worked with many great artists. If he wants to try and organize whatever thoughts he has into a proposed structure of the creative process, I still might take a look, even though I haven't yet. It's harder to assume the role of a student and dive into a book like this written by someone in his position, rather than that of a genuine artist like Rilke or Pound.
>>25082031Why is everybody awful named Rick?
>>25082189It’s short for rich and long for dick
>>25081869I'm not crazy about the nu-metal band Slipknot, but I've known and liked some people who did like the band. And the band themselves seem to be good sports (I am thinking of the Conan O'Brien connection). The reason why I mention this, is because I understand that the band (or at least the leader) had a bad time with Rick Rubin as producer. Not horrible, but the sort of phoning it in or whatever.
blood sugar sex magic was a good album
Rubin can't be taught any less than you can't teach tetra chromaticism.It's an ear for the parts of music that most people find catchy but don't know that they do.Most musicians, as evidenced by the fact that 70% of ALL albums is trash songs with only 1 or 2 that's actually good, don't know what people likeRick knows what people like
>>25082187The book is basically just a thousand different ways of saying "you need to open yourself to the Universe and Feel the Flow to be creative" which isn't wrong but you also don't need an entire book about it.
After reading this thread I want to buy the book
>>25081987did you watch that recent(ish) interview with him for 60 minutes? He said he can't play an instrument and doesn't know how to operate a mixing console. He had a very real hand in the formation of Def Jam back when he was like 20, but since then he's just cemented himself as an "ideas man" and somehow managed to ride that for life. People claim that his input is useful, he pretty much says what he likes and doesn't like and people trust him, and apparently there tends to be a pretty high success rate for records he had a say in. Maybe there is value to having somebody separate from the artistic and technical aspects of music making to give input as a representation of the average consumer, or maybe it's just been blind fucking luck.
>>25082321>or maybe it's just been blind fucking luck.and a whole lot of cohencidence, i'm sure.
>>25081838If you want to learn about art, why read this instead of Richard Wagner's essays? He was the greatest artistic genius of the last 500 years and he wrote hundreds of pages explaining his ideas in detail.
>>25081838I read this because I was in a reading group with some friends of mine. I didn't choose the book because I'm too pretentious to know this even exists. It was platitudinous garbage. It made me think, "Yes okay, so this is what the jackasses that make objectively shitty music nowadays think about the creative process. Simpletons." It was the kind of book you read where you're extremely critical of it while reading, but then you tone it down when discussing it with others because you just don't want to be an asshole to your friends who find something redeeming about it. I hate these sorts of books. Don't waste your time. I agree with OP, as should everyone.
>>25082395Don't do this. Instead read Tolstoy's essay on why Wagner's art can't actually qualify as true art.
>>25081838It's alright. I think it talks to you more when you take it slow and let the words tell you more than what's written on the pages if that makes any sense.
>>25081838>This is quite possibly the worst thing i've read in the last five years and the amount of people i've seen carrying it around or displaying it on their "getting offline" youtube videos is concerning.Maybe you should read Spinal Catastrophism's introduction using 2 Chronicles as your reading technique for the introduction instead?
>>25082216Corey Taylor from slipknot essentially called Rubin a Jew. Went in once a week and said nothing while charging an obscene amount. Like eating sandwiches and sleeping in the couch. I'm pretty sure he only retracted part of what he said because the music industry is run by (((them))). He slipped and said the same thing years later.Black Sabbath also said they didn't like Rubin because he gave shit inputs in the same line as "you have to cast your minds to a time when metal didn't exist".Every intersection I hear a musician say about him is like if Rubin is that dude you smoke weed with and says one liners about feeling the universe from time to time. The only actionable "advice" is to not clutter the sound with unnecessary instruments and accessories. His hands off approach is actually no hands at all. After reading the book and hearing what people who worked with him say I'm convinced the role of producer is useless from a creative point of view. The only value added is contacts at record labels and industry validation.
>>25082406Congratulations on your first year of reading, but there's a lot more out there than the same tired Russians everybody is familiar with
>>25081838>picture of monad on cover>narcissistic jewish drivelAnother satanic insult to God
>>25082321One has to pay the Rubin tax to make it big
>>25081987He's a jewish handler, "dont get in the way of yourself" he says, while putting his penis in their rump.
>>25081838I picked this one up after I watched this interview with Isahn of Emperor where he recommended it. I didn't get much out of it. Still not sure if it was because the book was nonsense or I just got filtered.
>>25082189name 10 awful ricks
>>25081838If you take Rick Rubin seriously at all you should probably see a shrink
>>25081838I understand you're using hyperbole and I agree for anybody who's actually an artist already but complete beginners can **maybe** get something out of it.
>>25081838>Rick RubinWhy did you fall for it in the first place? What made you interested in this book?
>>25087508For me all I knew was that he was one of def jam founders. I'm not a creative person so I thought I could get some insight on how to improve in this front. I didn't know he was a fraud.
>>25081899>>25081980kek. /lit/ still has it
