"In Bloom" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. Written by frontman Kurt Cobain, the song addresses people outside of the underground music community who did not understand the band's message.

Nirvana made its first music video for an early version of "In Bloom" in 1990; however the song did not appear on a commercial release until the release of the group's second album, Nevermind, in 1991. "In Bloom" became the fourth and final single from the album in late 1992. It was accompanied by a new music video which parodied musical performances of 1960s variety shows.

Background and recording[link]

Nirvana first played the song the night before it was demoed. Bassist Krist Novoselic recalled that it "originally sounded like a Bad Brains song. Then Kurt turned it into a pop song".^[1] Cobain went home and reworked the song, playing the revised version of it over the phone to Novoselic.^[2] The band recorded "In Bloom" with producer Butch Vig at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin during April 1990. The material recorded at Smart Studios was intended for the group's second album for the independent record label Sub Pop.^[3] The song originally had a bridge section that Vig removed. Novoselic said that after the band recorded the song, Vig cut out the bridge from the 16-track master tape with a razor blade and threw it in the garbage.^[1] The songs from these sessions were placed on a demo tape that circulated amongst the music industry, generating interest in the group among major record labels.^[4]

After signing to DGC Records, Nirvana began recording its second album Nevermind in May 1991. "In Bloom" was one of the first songs the band recorded during the album sessions at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California; Vig thought it would be good to start recording a song previously recorded at Smart Studios.^[5] The arrangements for "In Bloom" and the other songs previously recorded with Vig in 1990 were largely unchanged; the recently hired drummer Dave Grohl stayed mostly with what his predecessor Chad Channing had recorded, but added more power and precision to the recording.^[6] Cobain sang progressively "harder" during the recording of the song, which made it difficult for Vig to balance the volume levels between the verses and choruses. Vig recalled that he had to change the input level "on the fly" and hoped that Cobain would not "change the phrasing or do something different" while recording.^[7]

Cobain chose not to overdub a harmony vocal part during the Smart Studios sessions, possibly due to time constraints.^[8] During the Nevermind sessions, Vig had Grohl sing harmonies on the song. Grohl had difficulty hitting the proper notes, but ultimately was able to sing what Vig wanted.^[9] Vig often had to trick Cobain, who was averse to performing multiple takes, into recording additional takes for overdubs on the record. The producer convinced Cobain to double-track his vocals on "In Bloom" by telling him, "John Lennon did it." After doubling Cobain's vocals, Vig decided he might as well double Grohl's and had the drummer record an additional track of backing harmonies.^[5]

Composition[link]

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Like many Nirvana songs, "In Bloom" shifts back and forth between quiet verses and loud choruses. Cobain uses a Mesa Boogie guitar amplifier for the verses, and during the chorus he switches to a Fender Bassman amp (suggested by Vig) for a heavier, double-tracked fuzztone sound.^[7] The rhythm section of Novoselic and Grohl kept its parts simple; Grohl stated it was "an unspoken rule" to avoid unnecessary drum fills, while Novoselic said he felt his role was about "serving the song".^[5] During the choruses, vocalist Cobain and drummer Grohl harmonize while singing "He's the one/Who likes all our pretty songs/And he likes to sing along/And he likes to shoot his gun/But he knows not what it means". The song's intro reappears at the end of each chorus.

Cobain's lyrics address the people outside of the underground music scene that began showing up at Nirvana shows after the release of the group's debut album Bleach. Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad wrote, "But remarkably, [the song's lyrics] translated even better to the mass popularity the band enjoyed." Regarding the song's chorus, Azerrad commented, "The brilliant irony is that the tune is so catchy that millions of people actually do sing along to it."^[10]

Release and reception[link]

"In Bloom" was released as the fourth single from Nevermind in November 1992. The single was only released commercially in the United Kingdom; promotional copies were released in the United States. The 7-inch vinyl and cassette editions of the single contained a live version of "Polly" as a B-side, while the 12-inch vinyl and CD versions featured a performance of "Sliver"; both songs were recorded at the same December 28, 1991 concert.^[11] The single peaked at number 28 on the British singles chart.^[12] While lacking an American commercial release, the song charted at number five on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.^[13]

Nirvana biographer Everett True wrote an uncharacteristically unfavorable review in Melody Maker, accusing the single of being a cash-in on Nevermind's success. "Whoop whoop bloody whoop", he wrote, "Forgive me if I don't sound too thrilled. This release is stretching even my credulity beyond repair. Like, milking a still-breathing (sacred) cow, or what? Badly inferior live versions of 'Polly' and 'Sliver' on the flip don't help matters either."^[14] In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song number 407 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".^[15]

Music video[link]

Nirvana first made a music video for "In Bloom" in 1990 for the Sub Pop Video Network Program VHS compilation (1991). The recording of the song featured in the video is the version recorded during the Smart Studios sessions.^[11] The Sub Pop video features the band walking around various parts of lower Manhattan including the South Street Seaport, the Lower East Side, and Wall Street. While filming the video, Novoselic shaved his head as penance for a bad performance the band gave in New York City. This caused discontinuity in the final cut; shots of the band feature the bassist with and without hair throughout the video.^[16] This video was later compiled on the Nirvana box set With the Lights Out (2004).

The second video, created to accompany the 1992 single release, was directed by Kevin Kerslake, who had previously directed the band's videos for "Come as You Are" and "Lithium". Cobain's original concept for the video told the story of a young girl born into a Ku Klux Klan who one day realizes how evil they are. His concept was too ambitious, so Cobain instead decided to parody musical performances by bands on early 1960s variety shows, such as The Ed Sullivan Show.^[17] The humorous tone of the video was a result of Cobain being "so tired for the last year of people taking us so seriously . . . I wanted to fuck off and show them that we have a humorous side to us".^[18] Kerslake filmed the video on old Kinescope cameras, and the band improvised its performance.^[17] The video begins with an unnamed variety show host (played by Doug Llewelyn, former host of The People's Court) introducing Nirvana to an in-studio crowd of screaming teenagers; their non-stop screaming is heard throughout the duration of the song. The band members, whom the host refers to as "thoroughly all right and decent fellas", perform dressed in Beach Boys-style outfits; Cobain wears glasses that blurred his vision, while Novoselic cut his hair short and liked it so much he kept it that way afterwards.^[19] As the video progresses, the band destroys the set and its instruments.

Three different edits of the Kerslake video were made. Cobain intended to replace the first version of the video after a period with a new take featuring the band wearing dresses instead of suits. MTV's alternative rock show 120 Minutes insisted on premiering the video, but Cobain felt the program would not properly convey the humor of the "pop idol" version. Instead, a new edit was produced which contained shots of the band in both suits and dresses. The original edit of the video never aired.^[20] This video won the award for Best Alternative Video at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards,^[21] and topped the music video category in the 1992 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll.^[22]

Track listing[link]

All songs written by Kurt Cobain.

7", cassette

1. "In Bloom" – 4:17
2. "Polly" (live) – 2:47

12" picture disc, CD

1. "In Bloom" – 4:17
2. "Sliver" (live) – 2:06
3. "Polly" (live) – 2:47

Chart positions[link]

References[link]

• Classic Albums—Nirvana: Nevermind [DVD]. Isis Productions, 2004.
• Azerrad, Michael. Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. Doubleday, 1994. ISBN 0-385-47199-8
• Berkenstadt, Jim; Cross, Charles. Classic Rock Albums: Nevermind. Schirmer, 1998. ISBN 0-02-864775-0

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• "In Bloom" on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
• "In Bloom" song review at Allmusic
• "In Bloom" Official music video on YouTube

Butch Vig
Butch Vig in Madison's Smart Studios recording studio in 2010, recording the Muse song 'Neutron Star Collision'
Background information
Birth name	Bryan David Vig
Also known as	Nevermind Man
Born	(1955-08-02) 2 August 1955 (age 56)
Origin	Viroqua, Wisconsin, U.S.
Genres	Rock, alternative rock, grunge
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, record producer, remixer
Instruments	Drums
Years active	1978–present
Labels	Geffen, A&E, Atlantic
Associated acts	Garbage, Firetown, Spooner

Bryan David Vig, best known as Butch Vig (born on August 2, 1955) is an American musician and record producer, best known internationally as the drummer of the Madison, Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of diamond-selling album Nevermind by Nirvana.^[1]

A native of Wisconsin, Vig had been based in Madison for much of his career, from studying at the University of Wisconsin, to performing in local bands Spooner and Fire Town, and then to setting up his own recording studio, Smart Studios, in the town.^[2] After becoming well known as a producer, he returned to performing with Garbage, who sold 17 million records over a ten-year period. Vig returned to producing full-time once Garbage was put on hiatus.

Now a resident of the Silverlake district of Los Angeles, Vig is married to his second wife, Beth Halper, a former DreamWorks A & R executive, and they have a daughter, Bo Violet.

In 2012 Butch Vig ranked number nine in NME's Top 50 Greatest Producers Ever.^[3]

Life and career[link]

Early life[link]

Butch Vig was born Bryan David Vigorson to Dr. DeVerne and Betty Vigorson, a music teacher,^[4] in Viroqua, Wisconsin.^[2] Vig has two siblings, Chris and Lisa.^[4] Vig acquired the nickname Butch as a child, due to the severe crew cut his father gave him.^[2] Vig studied piano for six years. After seeing The Who perform on The Smothers Brothers, he swapped his piano for a $60 drum kit.^[2]

Moving to Madison, Vig enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to study film direction, where he first met Steve Marker. Vig contributed several soundtrack pieces to low-budget films, including one song on Slumber Party Massacre, a Hollywood B-movie. While in Madison, 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. Spooner founded their own label, Boat Records to issue their own recordings, including their 1979 debut EP, "Cruel School", and releases for around twenty local acts.^[2]

In 1984, Vig and Marker founded Smart Studios in Madison, while still performing drums in Spooner at night and driving a taxi cab during the day. When Spooner lost momentum, Vig formed a band called First Person with Marker and Phil Davis and a side-project called Fire Town featuring Davis and Erikson. Fire Town quickly became Vig's priority, and after their first album were signed to Atlantic Records. Atlantic hired producer Michael Fondelli to work with Fire Town on their second album. While the sessions did not do well, and the resulting record sank, Vig learned a lot of production techniques from the process. Vig also briefly worked with metal band Marseille, recording keyboards for their album Touch The Night.^[5] Fire Town split, and Vig reformed Spooner for a final album before Vig's production work became a full-time career for him.^[2]

Production career[link]

Vig's first high-profile production work was in 1991, when he produced The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Nirvana's Nevermind. Vig incorporated overdubs and vocal doubletracking, 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, although this might be due to Andy Wallace's mixing of the album.^[6] Cobain said that "Butch Vig...recorded the album perfectly," in a 1993 MTV interview. Billy Corgan welcomed Vig's elaborate production on The Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream. This album met with great commercial and critical reception, also breaking another indie band into the mainstream. Vig also produced two critically lauded Sonic Youth's albums, 1992's Dirty^[7] and 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.

In 2003, Vig worked with AFI to produce their first major label album with DreamWorks, Sing the Sorrow. Vig worked with Jimmy Eat World on their sixth album, Chase This Light, released in October 2007. He is also working on soundtracks for two new movies. His first production for an English band was 2008's All or Nothing by The Subways. He also worked with Tom Gabel of Against Me! on his solo EP, Heart Burns. Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, revealed in a Carson Daly interview that Vig would be producing the eighth studio album by Green Day, 2009's 21st Century Breakdown, which later won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Rock Album. Recently, Vig has been partnered in duties by his engineer and mixer Billy Bush who also worked on Garbage's albums and live tours.

Butch Vig composed and produced the soundtrack for the film The Other Side.

In 2009 Vig recorded two new tracks for the long awaited greatest hits release by the Foo Fighters, most notably the single "Wheels" and ultimately produced their April 2011 follow-up, Wasting Light.

In 2010 Vig produced the latest Muse single, "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)," which was featured on the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack.

Garbage[link]

Vig stated that one of the reasons he started Garbage with Marker and Erikson was to drift away from the all the work he got after Nirvana - "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."^[8] Afterwards, they hired Scottish singer Shirley Manson and began composing together.^[1]

Garbage released a string of increasingly successful singles in 1995–1996, including "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When It Rains". Their debut album, Garbage, was an unexpected smash, selling over 4 million copies and certified double platinum in the UK, United States and Australia. Garbage won the Breakthrough Artist award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards.^[9] The band then spent two years working on follow-up album, Version 2.0, which topped the charts in the UK upon its 1998 release and the following year was nominated for two Grammy Awards, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. Version 2.0 went on to match the sales of its predecessor. Garbage followed this up by performing and co-producing the theme song to the nineteenth James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.^[10]

Despite being named one of Rolling Stone's Top 10 Albums of The Year,^[11] Garbage's 2001 third album Beautiful Garbage failed to match the commercial success achieved by its predecessors.^[12] Garbage quietly disbanded in late 2003, but regrouped to complete fourth album Bleed Like Me in 2005, peaking at a career-high #4 in the U.S.^[13] The band cut short their concert tour in support of Bleed Like Me announcing an "indefinite hiatus",^[14] emphasizing that they had not broken up, but wished to pursue personal interests.^[15] In 2006, Vig returned to producing while Manson worked on a solo album (as yet unreleased). Garbage ended their hiatus in 2007,^[16] and released greatest hits retrospective Absolute Garbage. Worldwide, the band have sold over 17 million albums.^[17] The band got back together in 2010 and began recording their new album, Not Your Kind of People, which was released internationally on May 14 2012.

Discography[link]

Production career[link]

Remix work

Butch Vig has remixed songs for the following artists: Against Me!, Ash, Beck, The Cult, Depeche Mode, EMF, Fun Lovin' Criminals, House of Pain, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, Nine Inch Nails, Michael Penn, Galexia, M.O.P, U2 as well as his own band Garbage.

References[link]

External links[link]

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Butch Walker
Butch Walker playing at Lollapalooza in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Bradley Glenn Walker
Born	(1969-11-14) November 14, 1969 (age 42) Rome, Georgia, U.S.[1]
Genres	Glam metal (early), Pop punk[2], Post-grunge[2], Rock, Pop rock, Hard rock[3]
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician, producer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano, bass, percussion, Hammond organ, mandolin-banjo
Years active	1985–present
Labels	Original Signal[4] Dangerbird Records[5] Lojinx[6]
Associated acts	Marvelous 3, SouthGang Floyds Funk Revival, Floyds
Website	ButchWalker.com

Butch Walker (born Bradley Glenn Walker on November 14, 1969) is an American recording artist, songwriter, and record producer. He was the lead guitarist for the metal band SouthGang from the late 80s to early 90s as well as the lead vocalist and guitarist for rock band Marvelous 3 from 1997 until 2001.

Career[link]

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Walker grew up in Cartersville, Georgia, working as a guitarist and performer in several rock bands in the 1980s, including Badd Boyz and Byte the Bullet. In 1988, he took Byte the Bullet to Los Angeles and they were signed to Virgin Records within the year. The band then changed their name to SouthGang and released two albums, Tainted Angel in 1991 and Group Therapy in 1992. SouthGang was one of the first bands to tour China in the early 1990s. Southgang disbanded when Walker lost interest in continuing, but he remained on good terms with all the other members of the band.^[7]

After Southgang, Walker formed a new band with ex-SouthGang members Jayce Fincher and Mitch McLee (aka: Doug Mitchell), calling themselves Floyd's Funk Revival after Walker's birthplace Floyd County, Georgia.^[7] Walker shared lead vocals in the band with Fincher's wife, Chrystina Lloree. They released one full length album, Creamy. The album contained thirteen original tracks with Lloree taking a large share of the lead vocals and heavy reliance on guitar. The band then shortened their name to The Floyds. They released one self-titled album on the Deep South label, which contained ten original tracks along with a humorous intro piece. Bonus tracks included a cover of Duran Duran's "Rio", and a live rendition of the Shasta soda jingle from the late seventies. The style of both these albums was guitar-oriented, mainstream rock with mild funk influences, and was a forerunner to the more basic guitar-oriented rock approach Walker took later with Marvelous 3. Although the albums are highly regarded among the people who discovered them, they failed to sell many copies, and both albums are now quite rare. They are highly coveted by fans of Butch Walker, and the few copies that surface in the used CD market today command very high prices.

In 1997, Walker, Fincher, and McLee transformed themselves again, scaling back to a trio with Walker handling all the lead vocals. They also decided to streamline their sound to more of a "power pop" type of band. Calling themselves Marvelous 3, they released the album Math and Other Problems on Deep South Records in 1997. They followed this in 1999 with Hey! Album on Elektra Records and had a minor hit with the song "Freak of the Week." The next year, they released their final album, ReadySexGo, also on Elektra. That album failed to continue the momentum created by the prior release, however, and perceiving a lack of support from their record label, they disbanded in 2001. Their final concert was on August 3, 2001 at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in front of their hometown fans.^[8]

Butch Walker then began a solo career, releasing the albums Left of Self-Centered in 2002, Letters in 2004 and The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites in 2006. In 2005 he played over 200 live shows across both the U.S. and Japan, and he released his first DVD, Live at Budokan. At the end of 2005 he was named as Rolling Stone's producer of the year. Butch Walker was featured as a headlining artist on the MySpace-promoted Inaugural Hotel Cafe tour, supporting independent artists from the Los Angeles venue of the same name.

Butch Walker began 2008 by setting out many dates for new songs, DVDs, new albums both with the band 1969, which he is the bassist and lead singer for, and also a solo record titled Sycamore Meadows. He stated that he was planning to release something on every major holiday in 2008. On February 14, 2008, an audio release of Walker's live performance in his hometown of Atlanta, GA, was released. A DVD of this show followed on March 17, 2008. The DVD and audio are titled Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (Luckie Street is the road the venue at which the show was played, the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA). Then working with Michael Chislett of The Academy Is... and Darren Dodd of The Let's Go Out Tonites under the name 1969 released a full-length debut album titled Maya on April 1, 2008.^[9] Sycamore Meadows was originally slated for a holiday release in the summer of 2008, but was postponed due to personal reasons until November 11, according to his MySpace blog. The first single from Sycamore Meadows was the first track, titled "The Weight of Her". The video for "Ships in a Bottle" documents Walker walking on the grounds of his home on Sycamore Meadows Drive in Southern California after it was destroyed by the wildfires of November 2007. Both Maya and Sycamore Meadows were released on a limited run of vinyl.

Walker played a series of sold-out live shows with just acoustic guitar and vocals beginning in fall 2009, accompanied at various times by Pink, actor Jeremy Piven, Jim Bianco, the Chapin Sisters and doctor Stephen Patt on steel guitar. Out of the shows came a cover of Taylor Swift's single "You Belong with Me" on banjolin, which was later recorded as a video and audio version in his studio. Swift blogged about the video and then invited Walker to appear with her at the winter 2010 Grammy Awards.^[10]

Walker began work on his next album in 2009, and ultimately released I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart on February 23, 2010 under the band name Butch Walker & the Black Widows. Recording sessions were held at RubyRed Productions in Santa Monica, California. Walker support of the record included touring with Train beginning March, 2010, a headlining tour of the US, and opening for Pink in Europe on her Stadium Festival Tour.

On August 30, 2011 Butch Walker released his second album with the Black Widows entitled The Spade.^[11][12] On October 25, 2011 Walker released his first book, an autobiography entitled Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt.^[13]

Productions and collaborations[link]

In July 2009, Butch Walker worked with Weezer on their album Raditude. Walker mentioned working with the band during a radio interview with 99X. He was being interviewed via phone along with Cee-lo from Gnarls Barkley who was in the actual studio. Walker co-wrote and produced several songs on Raditude, including the first single, "If You're Wondering if I Want You To... (I Want You To)", which hit number two on the Modern Rock Chart.

In 2007, Walker provided guest vocals on Fall Out Boy's third record Infinity on High, on the track "You're Crashing, but You're No Wave", and co-produced the track "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?" with singer Patrick Stump. He also made a brief cameo in the video for "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race".

Walker also appears in The Academy Is... videos for "Slow Down" and "We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands" as well as the video for "So What" by Pink. He also co-wrote the songs "Breaking" and "Younglife", both of which are performed and co-written by Anberlin.

Walker also joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers.^[14] He was also a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards.^[15] In 2008 Walker signed on to judge a competition called Spin's Hot Pursuit to find an unsigned band for Epic Records/Original Signal hosted on Music Nation.^[16] He had previously served as a guest judge for the CBS reality television show Rock Star: Supernova and produced the band's first album.^[17]

In January 2009, post-hardcore band Saosin tapped Walker to produce their second album for Capitol Records.

In March 2009, the song "Open Happiness" debuted, a new business venture by Coca-Cola, written by Walker, and featuring Cee Lo Green, Travis McCoy, Janelle Monáe, Patrick Stump and Brendon Urie. This song has a Cantonese cover version by Joey Yung on her new album, A Time For Us, and she is also filming advertisements for Coca Cola in Chinese.

Many of his songs have been hits for other artists, including Avril Lavigne, Sevendust, Injected, The Donnas, Hot Hot Heat, American Hi-Fi, Default, Gob, Midtown, Puffy AmiYumi, Pete Yorn, Fall Out Boy, Quietdrive, The All-American Rejects, SR-71, The Academy Is... and recently The Cab, Saosin, Never Shout Never, Weezer, Dashboard Confessional and All Time Low.

Personal life[link]

As a child, Walker struggled with undiagnosed dyslexia.^[18] He also had weight problems. When he graduated high school, he says that he weighed 215 lbs but subsequently dropped to 165 lbs.^[19] In November 2007, Walker and his family lost all of their possessions, including the masters to every song he had ever recorded, when the Malibu home he was renting from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers burned down as a result of a wildfire in Southern California.^[20] He titled his next album Sycamore Meadows after the street the house was on.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Live albums[link]

• This Is Me... Justified and Stripped (2004)
• Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (2008)

EPs[link]

• Heartwork (2004)
• Cover Me Badd (2005)
• Live at Lollapalooza 2008 (2008)
• Here Comes The... EP (2009)

DVDs[link]

• Live at Budokan (2005)
• Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (2008)

Featured In[link]

• "You're Crashing, But You're No Wave" By Fall Out Boy (2007)
• "Christmas All Over Again" by Butch Walker and Taryn Manning (2008)
• "Good Times" By Tommy Lee (2005)

As a producer[link]

• Marvelous 3 - Math And Other Problems (1997)
• Marvelous 3 - Hey! Album (1998)
• Marvelous 3 - Ready, Sex, Go (2000)
• Injected - Burn It Black (2002)
• Bowling for Soup - Drunk Enough to Dance (2002)
• SR-71 - Tomorrow (2002)
• Pete Yorn - Day I Forgot (2003)
• Shawn Mars - Red Means Go (2003)
• Gob - Foot in Mouth Disease (2003)
• Default - Elocation (2003)
• Sevendust - Seasons (2003)
• Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin (2004)
• Simple Plan - Still Not Getting Any... (2004)
• Midtown - Forget What You Know (2004)
• The Donnas - Gold Medal (2004)
• American Hi-Fi - Hearts on Parade (2005)
• Lindsay Lohan - A Little More Personal (Raw) (2005)
• Wakefield - Which Side Are You On? (2005)
• Pink - I'm Not Dead (2006)
• PUFFY - Splurge (2006)
• Family Force 5 - Business Up Front/Party in the Back (2006)
• Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler (2006)
• Quietdrive - When All That's Left Is You (2006)
• Rock Star Supernova - Rock Star Supernova (2006)
• Bowling for Soup - The Great Burrito Extortion Case (2006)
• Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing (2007)
• The Academy Is... - Santi (2007)
• The Honorary Title - Scream & Light Up the Sky (2007)
• Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd. (2007)
• PUFFY - Honeycreeper (2007)
• The Automatic - This Is a Fix (2008)
• Katy Perry - One of the Boys (2008)
• Pink - Funhouse (2008)
• The Films - Oh, Scorpio! (2009)
• Secondhand Serenade - A Twist in My Story (2009)
• PUFFY - Bring It! (2009)
• All Time Low - Nothing Personal (2009)
• Weezer - Raditude (2009)
• Saosin - In Search Of Solid Ground (2009)
• Plastiscines - About Love (2009)
• Dashboard Confessional - Alter the Ending (2009)
• The Rocket Summer - Of Men and Angels (2010)
• Never Shout Never - What Is Love (2010)
• The Maine (band) - Black & White (The Maine album) (2010)
• Avril Lavigne - Goodbye Lullaby (2011)
• Panic! at the Disco - Vices & Virtues (2011)
• The Wombats- This Modern Glitch (2011)
• Gavin DeGraw- Sweeter (2011)
• Ida Maria- Katla (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Butch Walker - Dangerbird Records
• Butch Walker on Facebook
• Butch Walker on Twitter
• Butch Walker on Myspace
• Butch Walker on Last.fm
• Butch Walker on DeliRadio
• 2009 Interview Podcast with Butch Walker on BackstageMusician.Com
• Interview from 2002 from PlugInMusic.com
• Butch Walker's Top 10 Albums of 2008
• Butch Walker Production Credit List (Discography) - beatbuggy.com