When Nirvana entered the studio with producer Butch Vig to record 1991’s Nevermind, Vig’s biggest challenge was that Kurt Cobain (and Nirvana) were simply…TOO organic — anything that removed what the three piece band and songs sounded like in band practice — was deemed as “fake.”
Vig notes that Cobain didn’t want anything added to the original raw tracks, but Kurt’s Beatle-Mania mindset is what Vig used to win him over
He noted that the “first track we got to when I wanted him to overdub extra vocals, he just said, ‘I really don’t feel like I should do that – it just feels fake.’” That’s when Vig made use of the fact that Cobain “was a huge Beatles fan, and as much as he admired John Lennon’s aesthetic, he really admired Paul McCartney’s melodic songwriting and his melodic sensibility.”
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