 " Queer " began as a rough demo around January 1994 , recorded during informal studio sessions between Butch Vig , Duke Erikson and Steve Marker in Marker 's home basement recording studio in Madison , Wisconsin . The band had been jamming using an ADAT eight @-@ track , <unk> samplers , and a small drum kit . The band had written around five songs that they felt were pretentious and lyrically simple and literal . They did not want Erikson to sing , even though he was a competent singer , because they wanted to avoid sounding like their previous band Spooner . Vig and Marker were uncomfortable with their vocals so tended to bury them deep in the mix or distort them with effects ; on " Queer " , Vig recorded a " scratch vocal " consisting of him screaming his way through . The recorded work was later discarded , which Vig explained was because the trio discovered that the musical experiments they were attempting " [ don 't ] work when you 're trying to write a song and put it in a context that works " . Vig 's inspiration for " Queer " came from a novel he had read about " about this woman who was hired to go and make this guy 's son a ' man ' . The kid is missing a few marbles . But then he realizes that the women [ sic ] who came to his room is also fucking his father . " 
