Butch Vig, you son of a bitch…

My good friend Godfrey, a kindred spirit when it comes to 90s nostalgia, has written a rather interesting post about uber producer (and occasional rock star) Butch Vig entitled “Hoc Opus, Vig Labor Est.”

In comparing the three major records he produced in that decade – Nirvana’s Nevermind, Sonic Youth’s Dirty and Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream – he argues that Vig was essentially responsible for the popularizaton of over-produced rock records, robbed of all sense of space and time. I have to say that I agree with him. It’s well worth a read which you can do here.