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1. Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)

It started as a routine production job for three Seattle musicians with an underground buzz. But when Butch Vig and Nirvana finished at Sound City Studios, they were armed with the album of the decade.

Butch Vig says:

"A combination of things made the drums sound so good on Nevermind. Mostly, it was Dave Grohl. Kurt [Cobain] had told me they'd just got the best fucking drummer ever, and when I came out to rehearsals, I was blown away by how hard he hit."

"It was the player and the room that made that record sound so special," Butch Vig

"It was recorded in Sound City, California, which is basically a big open room. We used a drum tunnel on the kick, where you take another bass drum, extend out the regular bass drum and put the mic further away, which I often do to get more boom."

"But the set-up was really nothing fancy. It was the player and the room that made that record sound so special."