best Butch Vig-produced album

btw folded some consecutive albums with the same band into one poll option to get it under 50

You guys know you should really vote for Tad in this thing right?

i love being able to vote for Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star in things.
I was kinda into that Helmet record when I was 15, that was as metal as I ever got.

Tad or Laughing Hyenas. Probably Tad.

ha yeah i will probably vote for Siamese Dream but Experimental Jet Set is in my top 2 and it's tempting to vote for such a perversely atypical pick.

i was listening to Dirty last night though and really i LOVE the way he made Sonic Youth sound on that record, if it wasn't so long and poorly sequenced it'd be totally on Nevermind/Siamese Dream level

voted For Ladies Only by Killdozer, fuck the fucking Foo Fighters

love "Accelerator" from Gumball's Super Tasty, can't remember any other songs, though

I'm very tempted to vote for Bricks Are Heavy, which has held up marvelously, in no small part because of each song sounds like a diamond pounded into a boulder.

i was listening to Dirty last night though and really i LOVE the way he made Sonic Youth sound on that record

I agree, even if the album itself isn't one of my favorites.

This list leaves out Juvenile Truth's No Enemy cassette and Appliances-SFB's SFB, both 1984. Classic Madison punk. Didn't he produce Die Kreuzen's debut?

I'd probably go with Dirty.

One of the Killdozers or L7.

shoulda used Scholtesapedia instead of Wiki for this list

The first Sonic Youth track I heard was "Sugar Kane", which sounded AMAZING to me at the time - obv pretty atypical for SY and even the rest of Dirty doesn't sound much like it, but may vote Dirty just for that

having some trouble working out which of these I like purely due to nostalgia and which still stand up today - a relisten to L7/Helmet/UO may be in order before I can vote, but otherwise Tad is also looking pretty tempting

I often wonder whether producing the likes of Garbage is exactly what Vig's ethos is for.

i.e. making gothic corn sound like the hammer of the gods

I think the reason he produced Garbage is because he was in the band.

Blimey though his workrate was INSANE in the early 90s.

kinda immaterial though -- lookit what he did with the Pumpkins and SY!

xpost

btw folded some consecutive albums with the same band into one poll option to get it under 50

obv someone here doesn't realize that every gumball album is a snowflake

Sorta tempted to vote for New Wave because that shit sounded so great, but I'd be leaving out several albums on this list that I hold near and dear to my heart.

since i can't give Wisconsin Hayride it's due without also repping for the commercial compromises on Super Tasty and the tragic conservative backstepping of The Damage Done (Real Gone Deal is ok tho), I guess I'll vote for Nevermind

lol

oh man i had no idea butch did a never shout never album

did he need a new boat or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_01bGcIN_Y

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hhahha gumball + vevo? Those guys would despise this corporate scum
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If I had a '90s cover band I'd totally name it GumballVEVO

Dirty is so over-compressed that my CD sounds like mp3's. Unless it's just an issue with early-90s CD mastering.

Garbage all the way. Went for "Version 2.0" just over the eponymous debut.

where is Goo?

didn't SY produce it with their engineer?

oh wait he didn't produce that. why was I thinking he had?

voting either garbage 1, dirty, or freedy johnston's 'this perfect world'.

Voted Ladies Only cos Killdozer will not go unloved on my watch

and I like to watch when Killdozer gets loved

Went for Little Baby Buntin', splitting the 'Dozer vote

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

The UO albums that follow him are all better produced.

This Perfect World

my first homemade punk T-shirt was the back cover of Intellectuals... with the cartoon of the guy getting eaten by bulldogs so Killdozer outta love for me too

Something here for every Killdozer fan to love - gotta further split the vote by choosing 12 Point Buck.

help me, jack pepsi

Voting Dirty, which to these ears is better-sequenced than Doolittle...

Runners-up: Nevermind, Gish

Goo was produced by Don Fleming from Gumball iirc.

(Third runner-up is Bricks are Heavy. Am unfamiliar with a lot of the semi-obscure stuff here tho. Great poll some dude)

voting Gish

voted Tad w/o any hesitation.

The first Sonic Youth track I heard was "Sugar Kane", which sounded AMAZING to me at the time - obv pretty atypical for SY and even the rest of Dirty doesn't sound much like it, but may vote Dirty just for that
I did exactly this.

Nevermind

nevermind

8 way fuckin santa

haha and further splitting the killdozer, im going for uncompromising war etc etc

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

fuuuuuuuuuuck this

didn't vote btw lol

haha

haha if you combine all the killdozer votes they came in second

is Americruiser any good? that was one of the transitional albums from UO-as-disciples-of-Albini to UO-as-prophets-of-the-cockrock-revival, correct?

heart burns imo cause it was both vig & the artist doing something diff

impressed by the showing for Killdozer, who i literally know nothing about besides their name and that they were produced by Butch Vig.

voted for Siamese Dream and think it's pretty cool and appropriate that it tied w/ Nevermind.

wow, that is a big surprise!

runoff!

xpost. Americruiser is ok, but just not in the same league as the next three, maybe four releases... Their new album comes out soon. Would be happy if it's any good!

predictable tie for first, but that's about right. pity 'betty' is floundering all the way down there.

americruiser is ok, but just not in the same league as jesus urge superstar...

Holy shit wb!

Juvenile Truth's 1984 cassette "No Enemy" uploaded:

http://punknotprofit.blogspot.com/2011/06/juvenile-truth-no-enemy-1984-demo.html

whoa

"Walk Toward the Sun" is my favorite, but it's as if this never stopped playing in my head. Guess he produced the first Tar Babies too, lots more here:

http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=29785