But the alternative version is still sometimes played.Īs you can see from both styles, Vig’s idea contributed a lot toward the album version. This changed the song completely from a hard rock song to a more stripped down powerful song. His idea was to strip the whole song down and even came up with the idea of recording strings to the song. Instead of messing with the arrangement more. But the song just didn’t sound right for the band or Vig. This is because originally the song was written to be a hard rock song. Going back to Smashing pumpkins, the song ‘Disarm’ is a very good example of where his opinion mattered. His Ideas changed song structures, song styles, song sounds. That he has all produced with their own unique sound to them. I think this is why im researching Butch Vig, its because he has produced loads of important albums and bands. But Corgan and Vig managed to create a very ambitious sounding album. He had a lot to live up to in his reputation of ‘siamese dream’. Although there was a lot over pressure on him after creating Smashing Pumpkins album ‘Gish’ and just producing Nirvana’s top selling ‘Nevermind’.
Smashing Pumpkins are one of my favourite bands of all time and Vig’s production made the first two albums of theirs seem iconic and guided the bands sound to transform though-out their other albums. He seemed quite good with breaking grunge and indie bands into the mainstream limelight. Kurt Cobain even said “Butch Vig recorded the album perfectly” in a 1993 interview. Vig made the recordings more commercial and also made the tracks age well. This is one of the reasons Nirvanas Nevermind became so popular and is said to be one of the greatest albums of all time. The double tracking help in the recording by making the vocals stand out more and for the whole instrumentation to be clearer in the album. The album was alot more cleaner and slick compared to the low-fi crackling of the other album. I think the whole album was completely different to their previous album recording wise. Although Kurt Cobain wanted a more low-fi recording just like their album ‘Bleach’ Vig convinced him to have double tracked vocals on the album. He uses double tracking on Nirvanas Nevermind album. He was influenced Strongly on a few producers but mainly the Beatles producer ‘George Martin’ and the Beatles use of double tracking in songs. This included Overdubs and vocal double tracking. Vig incorporated many techniques into his style of producing over time. He had many creative ideas he contributed towards major albums such as ‘Nirvana- Nevermind’ and ‘Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream’. I have chosen The producer Butch Vig to talk about because of his style and reputation of producing.
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