Butch Vig production discography

The discography of Butch Vig, an American musician and record producer, consists of a mix of albums, extended plays and singles released by bands he was a performer in and records on which he produced, mixed, remixed, engineered or a combination of those roles.

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in film studies, Vig became a core member of cult Mid-West band Spooner, and an offshoot group Fire Town, as well as co-founding recording studio Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin in the Eighties.^[1] Vig is now best known internationally as the drummer of the Madison-based alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of multi-platinum selling albums Nevermind by Nirvana and Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins.^[2]

Vig's production, Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and atop the album charts of 23 further countries.^[3]

Performer

Year	Album	Artist	Producer
1982	Every Corner Dance (1982)	Spooner	Gary Klebe and Spooner
1982	Every Corner Dance (1982)	Spooner	Gary Klebe and Spooner
1984	Go Back to Chicago/The Undergrad Pickup Rag (1984)		A.L. Kammen and Bachelor Pad/Butch Vig, drums (uncredited)
1987	In the Heart of the Heart Country (1987)	Fire Town	Fire Town
1988	The Good Life (1989)		Michael Frondelli
1990	The Fugitive Dance (1991)	Spooner	Doug Erikson and Butch Vig
1994	Garbage (1995)	Garbage	Garbage
1997	Version 2.0 (1998)
2000	Beautiful Garbage (2001)
2004	Bleed Like Me (2005)		Garbage (Mixed by Butch Vig)
2007	Absolute Garbage (2007)		Garbage
2012	Emperors of Wyoming (2012)	Emperors of Wyoming	Emperors of Wyoming
2012	Not Your Kind of People (2012)	Garbage	Garbage
2016	Strange Little Birds (2016)
2017	5 Billion In Diamonds (2017)	5 Billion In Diamonds	5 Billion In Diamonds
2021	No Gods No Masters (2021)	Garbage	Garbage; Shirley Manson Duke Erikson Steve Marker Vig

Main article: Garbage discography

Vig also wrote and recorded the theme tune for the Green Bay Packers, "Go Pack Go!", under the band name The 6 Packers.^[4]

Music production

Production

The following studio albums were produced, or co-produced by Vig, many at his own recording studio:

Year	Album	Artist
1983	Hollywood Autopsy (1983)	Hollywood Autopsy
	Acceptance (1983)	Mecht Mensch
	Face the Music (1983)	Tar Babies
1984	Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite[A] (1984)	Killdozer
	no enemy (1984)	Juvenile Truth
1985	Snake Boy (1985)	Killdozer
	1st E.P. (1985)	Ivory Library
	Living in the Mirror (1986)	The Other Kids
1986	Burl[B] (1986)	Killdozer
	Happy Home[E] (1987)	The Other Kids
1987	Little Baby Buntin' (1987)	Killdozer
	Come Down to the Merry Go Round (1987)	Laughing Hyenas
1988	Century Days (1988)	Die Kreuzen
1989	Suction (1989)	feedtime
	Twelve Point Buck (1989)	Killdozer
	For Ladies Only (1989)	Killdozer
	You Can't Pray a Lie (1989)	Laughing Hyenas
	Gone Away (1989)	Die Kreuzen
1990	Life of Crime (1990)	Laughing Hyenas
	Ground Into The Dirt (1990)	King Snake Roost
1991	Gish[C] (1991)	The Smashing Pumpkins
	Nevermind (1991)	Nirvana
	Cement (1991)	Die Kreuzen
	8-Way Santa (1991)	Tad
	Flipped Out In Singapore (1992)	Chainsaw Kittens
	Pick Up Heaven (1992)	Drain
1992	Bricks are Heavy (1992)	L7
	Overwhelming Colorfast (1992)	Overwhelming Colorfast
	Dirty (1992)	Sonic Youth
1993	Siamese Dream[C] (1993)	The Smashing Pumpkins
1994	Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (1994)	Sonic Youth
	This Perfect World (1994)	Freedy Johnston
1995	Let Your Dim Light Shine (1995)	Soul Asylum
2003	Sing the Sorrow[D] (2003)	AFI
2006	New Wave (2006)	Against Me!
2007	Chase This Light (2007)	Jimmy Eat World
	All or Nothing (2008)	The Subways
	Heart Burns (2008)	Tom Gabel
2008	21st Century Breakdown (2009)	Green Day
2009	White Crosses (2010)	Against Me!
2010	Harmony (2010)	Never Shout Never
	Wasting Light (2011)	Foo Fighters
2013	Sound City: Real to Reel (2013)	Various
2014	Sonic Highways (2014)	Foo Fighters
2019	Widow’s Weeds (2019)	Silversun Pickups
2022	Physical Thrills (2022)	Silversun Pickups

^ A Co-produced by Butch Vig and Steve Marker.
^ B Co-produced by Butch Vig and Corey Rusk.
^ C Co-produced by Butch Vig and Billy Corgan.
^ D Co-produced by Butch Vig and Jerry Finn.
^ E Co-produced by Butch Vig and Steve Watson.

The following individual tracks were produced by Vig for various projects:

Year	Track	Artist	Appears on
2000	"Totalimmortal"	The Offspring	Me, Myself and Irene O.S.T. (2000)
	"Bloodstains"		Ready to Rumble O.S.T. (2000)
2002	"Telling You Now"	Jessy Moss	Street Knuckles (2003)
	"Pick a Card"
	"I'll Manage"
2003	"Rabbits are Roadkill on Rt. 37"	AFI	Decemberunderground (2006)
2009	"Wheels"	Foo Fighters	Greatest Hits (2009)
	"Word Forward"
2010	"Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)"	Muse	The Twilight Saga – Eclipse: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2010)

Mixing

Year	Album	Artist
2004	Bleed Like Me[A] (2005)	Garbage

Year	Track	Artist	Appears on
1999	"Jesus Says"	Ash	Nu-Clear Sounds (U.S. Version) (1999) and Intergalactic Sonic 7″s (2002)
	"Wild Surf"
	"Folk Song"		Nu-Clear Sounds (U.S Version) (1999)
2007	"Tell Me Where It Hurts"[A]	Garbage	Absolute Garbage (2007)
	"Betcha"[A]		"Tell Me Where It Hurts" (2007)
	"All the Good in this Life"[A]		Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace (2008)
2008	"Witness to Your Love"[A]		Give Listen Help: Volume 5 (2008)

^ A Mixed credited to Vig, independent of Garbage.

Remixes

Year	Track	Artist	Appears on
1992	"Throw This Away"	Nine Inch Nails	Fixed (1992)
	"Last" (Butch Vig remix)"		Unreleased (available from remix.nin.com)[D]
	"Shamrocks and Shenanigans (Butch Vig remix)"	House of Pain	House of Pain (1992)
	"It's You (Crash and Burn mix)"	EMF	"It's You" (1992)
1993	"She Sells Sanctuary (Sundance)"	The Cult	Sanctuary MCMXCIII: Volume Two (1993)
	"In Your Room (Zephyr mix)"	Depeche Mode	"In Your Room" (1994) and The Singles 86>98 (1998)
1997	"Jack-Ass (Butch Vig mix)"	Beck	"Jack-Ass" (1997)
	"Jack-Ass (Lowrider mix)"
	"Staring at the Sun (Monster Truck mix)"[A]	U2	"Staring at the Sun" (1997)
	"Staring at the Sun (Lab Rat mix)"[A]
	"Dirty Day (Junk Day)" [B]		"Please" (1997) and The Best of 1990–2000 (2000)
	"Dirty Day (Bitter Kiss)" [B]		"Please" (1997)
1998	"Freak on a Leash (Freakin' Bitch mix)"	Korn	"Freak on a Leash" (1999)
1999	"Make Me Bad (Sickness in Salvation mix)"		"Make Me Bad" (2000)
	"So Pure (Pure Ecstacy mix)"	Alanis Morissette	"So Pure" (1999)
2000	"How About Some Hardcore (GrungeIsDead.com remix)"	Butch Vig & M.O.P.	Loud Rocks (2000)
2001	"Nookie (Androids vs. Las Putas Remix)"	Limp Bizkit	New Old Songs (2001)
2007	"Bad Boyfriend (Sting Like a Bee remix)"[C]	Garbage	"Tell Me Where It Hurts" and Absolute Garbage (2007)

Notes:

• All remixes are credited to Butch Vig, except ^ A credited to Butch Vig and Danny Saber and ^ B credited to Butch Vig and Doug Erikson. ^ C remixed by Butch Vig, independent of Garbage.
• ^ D This remix has never been commercially released, however elements from the remix were incorporated into "Throw This Away". It was found in the early '90s on an FTP server as an 8-bit/22,050 Hz AIFF file, and then circulated on P2P until Trent Reznor hosted a WAV file of the remix online.