Butch Vig says that when he hears a sad song, it makes him feel alive. “Bummer songs just make me feel good,” the Garbage drummer and producer told Classic Rock. It makes sense – Vig has been there behind the mixing desk whilst some of the all-time great sad songs have been committed to tape, mournful classics such as Smashing Pumpkins’ Disarm and Nirvana’s Something In The Way among them. And it also explains his love for British melancholic masters Radiohead, in particular a pair of albums that the Oxford rockers released in the mid-90s.
“I am such a huge Radiohead fan,” Vig told Classic Rock. “I love The Bends and I love, love, love OK Computer. The songwriting on The Bends is genius.” Despite that though, or maybe because of it, Vig admitted that he was disappointed by Thom Yorke & co.’s next move. “I was not a big fan of Kid A. It didn’t connect with me. When I heard Kid A, I was like: “Oh, okay, they’ve crawled up their own bums now, they’re just getting artsy fartsy.”
