Nov 29 @ 8:26 am : "I didn’t know it at the time,” says their guitarist, Graham Coxon, looking back on the period before the second album, “but our career was in jeopardy. We had what was going to be Modern Life Is Rubbish, which was very English-sounding and kind of clever, witty pop music, and nobody was interested in that sort of thing. Apparently, [the label] wanted us to rerecord the album with Butch Vig [Nirvana’s producer], which is a pretty laughable idea. We were really just fighting for survival."