Hm, I should at least listen to the Butch Vig Sonic Youth albums
This thought courtesy of listening to Siamese Dream and going "holy shit, this is thirty years old"
Butch Vig was likely the one thinking to cover Big Star in the first place. Vic Chesnutt too, maybe The Jam, though I could see that being Steve or Shirley.
Nevermind, Gish, Siamese Dream, the Garbage stuff, 2 Sonic Youth albums, 1 L7 and, uh, House of Pain’s “Shamrocks and Shenanigans”, the mid-90s substantially sounded like Butch Vig’s production. His use of massively multitracked overdubbing really bears comparisons to Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound”.