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This Perfect World was produced by Butch Vig, who also played on the album's minor hit, "Bad Reputation." Other notable contributors include cellist Jane Scarpantoni, who performed on two tracks, and Marshall Crenshaw. Track listing. All songs written by Freedy Johnston.
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Grammy winning producer Butch Vig and engineer John Siket talk about meeting Freedy Johnston and the making of his seminal record This Perfect World. https:/...
Sep 17, 2015 · Freedy Johnston – This Perfect World (1994; Elektra) So much of Butch Vig’s work is defined by loud guitars, lots of distortion—a good crunch, if you will. But he’s been behind the boards of some lower key releases throughout the years, some of them a considerable distance from the big, grungy sound of Nevermind. In 1994, Vig teamed up ...
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Vig was born Bryan David Vig in Viroqua, Wisconsin, son of DeVerne William Vig (1922-2021) and Betty Jeanette (1931-2005), née Brewster. DeVerne Vig was a hospital staff doctor who practiced medicine with his twin, David, and their elder brother, Edward, in Viroqua for nearly forty years; Betty Vig was a music teacher and clinic administrator who p...
Early musical career
While a student at the University of Wisconsin, Vig met his eventual Garbage bandmate Steve Marker. Vig contributed several electronic music soundtrack pieces to low-budget films, including one song on Slumber Party Massacre, a Hollywood B-movie. This soundtrack work stirred Vig's interest in the manipulation of sound. Vig joined a number of garage pop bands, including Eclipse, and in 1978 formed Spooner with Duke Erikson, Dave Benton, Jeff Walker and Joel Tappero. The following year, Vig hel...
Production career
Vig's first high-profile production work was in 1991, when he produced albums by two bands, The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Nirvana's Nevermind. Vig incorporated overdubs and vocal double tracking, whereas Nirvana's previous album, Bleach (produced by Jack Endino), had a more "lo-fi" sound. Kurt Cobain originally refused to double-track his vocals and guitars but Vig reportedly got him to comply by saying "John Lennon double-tracked". Cobain would later criticize Vig for the album's slickness...
Garbage
Vig stated, "Part of the reason why I started Garbage was that by the time I'd done 'Nevermind,' I'd recorded – I swear to God – 1,000 bands that were just guitar-bass-drums. I was reading about all these other records that I was getting excited about – like Public Enemy using a sampler in the studio – and I just decided I wanted to do a bit of a U-turn." Afterwards, they hired Scottish singer Shirley Mansonand began composing together. Garbage released a string of singles in 1995–1996, inclu...
Vig is married to Beth Halper, a former DreamWorks A&R executive; they have a daughter, Bo Violet.[citation needed] They live in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.[citation needed]
Spooner 1. Every Corner Dance(1982) 2. Wildest Dreams(1985) 3. The Fugitive Dance(1990) Fire Town 1. In the Heart of the Heart Country(1987) 2. The Good Life(1989) Garbage 1. Garbage(1995) 2. Version 2.0(1998) 3. Beautiful Garbage(2001) 4. Bleed Like Me(2005) 5. Not Your Kind of People(2012) 6. Strange Little Birds(2016) 7. No Gods No Masters(2021)...
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Oct 8, 2015 · Features. Classic Rock. Butch Vig: The 10 Records That Changed My Life. By Joe Bosso. ( Classic Rock ) published 8 October 2015. Garbage drummer and producer Butch Vig talks about the records that shaped him.
Oct 17, 1996 · “This Perfect World” is an achingly beautiful song full of contradictions about the past, regret and trying to make your peace in the world. The lyrics pull at my heart every time I hear them.