There’s been a lot of talk about the Nevermind 20th anniversary stuff, but you’ve also been busy wrapping up a new Garbage record.
STEREOGUM: Obviously, you’ve been very busy lately. I guess it’s not easy being that over-the-top and coming from the Midwest. They were going in a very Jane’s Addiction kind of direction at the time and the frontman, Tyson, was a very flamboyant character. They had this crazy glam-rock thing happening. They were my hometown heroes.īUTCH BUTCH: Oh yeah, they were such a great band … and totally underrated. I don’t know how I never knew that, since I loved that record and I grew up in Oklahoma. STEREOGUM: I was just looking through the list of records you have produced, which is very long, and noticed that you produced Flipped Out In Singapore by the Chainsaw Kittens. According to both Vig and Manson, getting the band back together was, more than anything, the pleasant end result of a bunch of friends hanging out together and remembering how much fun it was to make music in the first place. With all the original members back on board (including Duke Erikson and Steve Marker), the resurrection of Garbage seems to have nothing to do with cashing in on any 90’s nostalgia (or even simply just cashing in). Now, nearly six years since they last played together, Garbage are putting the finishing touches on a brand new studio album. Over the next decade Garbage released three more studio albums - Version 2.0, Beautiful Garbage, and Bleed Like Me - before seemingly running out of steam while on tour in 2005. The band went on to sell over 17 million records, largely due to Manson’s endless charisma and the band’s forward-thinking amalgam of rock music and synthy electronics. Unlike so many of her pop peers, Manson paired sex-appeal with equal parts intelligence and toughness, and Garbage made songs that, while generally super-catchy, also harbored the requisite amount of ’90s-approprirate melancholy (you gotta love a top 40 single with “Pour your misery down on me” as a chorus). It also didn’t hurt that the band had fiery Scottish redhead Shirley Manson fronting the band. Releasing their self-titled debut album in 1995, Garbage (featuring Vig on drums and behind the mixing desk) was a perfect marriage of pristine pop production, endlessly hooky tunes, and just the right amount of Alternative Nation-ish swagger. Just a few years after Butch Vig would help change the landscape of popular music (and culture) forever with his part in the production of Nirvana’s Nevermind, he would also play an even larger role in a band that would help define the sound of the mid-’90s in a totally different way. Progress Report: Butch Vig and Shirley Manson open up about reuniting to record the first new Garbage album in over six years.
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