in utero poll

"Pennyroyal Tea" today, but I love the thud of "Frances Farmer..."

love "Serve The Servents" as an opener, don't feel like it gets enough respect

This reminds me of my last visit to NY, I decided what I needed was "In Utero" the Wal-Mart version, which has "Waif me" and no "Gallons of Alcohol" etc.

And also, what I didn't know at the time, it has the 'radio remix' of PennyRoyal Tea.

Nice.

Oh, would vote "All Apologies" but it sort of reminds me that I liked this album much more than "Nevermind" when it came out, and now everyone thinks the same.

So, hmm... Track one. Just for the CRASSSHHHHH opening chord, and the song itself.

(xpost - this thread had no answers when I started)

impulse vote for scentless apprentice but could have easily voted for milk it, very ape, dumb, or radio friendly unit shifter instead

HSB over Apologies and Pennyroyal

(maybe cuz 2d and 3rd are better on Unplugged)

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter. This album more or less sux.

another vote for Serve The Servants. The first side is mostly boring - I never liked Pennyroyal or Rape Me or any of that junk. I think Tourettes was the first track I heard that I consciously knew was by Nirvana.

In Utero is just as good as Nevermind, in it's own special way

better than, i think

milk it

but i like the opener a lot too

i voted very ape

milk it. w/ heart shaped box, radio friendly unit shifter, very ape, frances farmer right behind it

"Pennyroyal Tea", wow, that song hits hard still with the howl in the chorus.

it's weird how "Dumb" has gradually become such an overplayed radio staple over the years that i can't stand to hear it now

maybe it's because i don't listen to rock radio, but i'd rather hear dumb than all apologies or pennyroyal tea or the other quiet songs on this album

I really like Heart Shaped Box and was surprised on the recent Vig vs Albini production thread at implications it was some terrible badly produced sell-out that nobody with ears could be happy with, or something. Is this just some save-an-Albini stanning or is it not cool to like the big lead single or do people really not like this song?

(PS I like Albini's work in general but I guess not so much on In Utero if the track I most dig the sound of was totally redone from his version)

dope record

i was very disappointed to not find this on my ipod this morning

i think 'heart-shaped box' is great, one of my favorite nirvana singles. but i like the other stuff on this album a lot more

i was very disappointed to not find this on my ipod this morning

Ha me too. Gotta dig through and find the cd.
Voted All Apologies. No apologies.

I have never listened to this album

maybe this poll is a reason to?

I voted for "Milk It," it was my favorite as a youth and it is still great now. Only songs that disapointed were "Serve the Servants" and "Frances Farmer."

this is tough...strictly peaking, my favourite song on here is All Apologies, but i'm not voting for it, bcz i only have one vote...think i'm voting Tourette's, but could vote for any of these songs...one of my favourite albums ever...

strictly speaking

Frances Farmer has always been my choice on this album. Dylan played it on his radio show on madness recently, and told her story, which you kind of have to infer from the lyrics.

Frances Farmer

"Scentless Apprentice",easy
but jesus liazrd is better than this record

Serve the Servants

frances farmer!

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Tough poll. I think Rape Me might be the most intense, compelling Nirvana song, so I guess that's my choice. Dumb and Pennyroyal Tea are very close, tho.

Went with Apologies in the end. It is the obvious choice, and just too damn good for whatever challops I thought I could rationalize.

very ape.

pennyroyal tea.

great album. i'm seriously tired of "rape me", "dumb", "heart shaped box", "pennyroyal tea", and "all apologies" though, as great as some of those songs 'em are. narrowed it down to "serve the servants" and "milk it", chose the latter.

The opening line is such a great, all knowing kiss off from a guy that was labelled the 'voice of his generation'
' and was following up such a siesmic album in Nevermind. So that song then.

Scentless Apprentice is a killer, killer beat. I loved that one and Milk It. The popular tunes are good too, but I thought Nirvana was pretty good when they got spazzy.

Serve the Servants.

Generally acknowledged as the best Nirvana album now, isn't it?

I don't know about that, but it at least has been pulled outside of the shadow of Nevermind and assessed based on its own merits at this point. Personally, I'd go with Unplugged.

Had "Verse Chorus Verse" been on this...

yeah, "Verse Chorus Verse" is probably my fav Nirvana song.

"Frances Farmer." I started a mix CD with it a few years ago, and half the people I gave it to were like "oh man, where'd you find that Nirvana song?!" Right in the middle of the damn album!

I never enjoy pulling this out (especially this one). And indeed hearing it again just now was not pleasant.

I guess I'll go with "Rape Me" because it's the only one that seems to radiate outward from Kurt scraping his soul towards something more transformative. Or at least that's why I tell myself to get through the thing.

Ugh.

"All Apologies". Great song from a generally overrated album, and the one song that would have fitted on the way superior "Nevermind" album.

"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" has the long noisy ending and I wanted to go for that, but it accidentally took my vote for "Scentless Apprentice" which I guess is also fine because the groove in that song is massive.

voted scentless apprentice because it is my favourite Nirvana song and freaks me out still.

tourette's has some really hooky screaming

best nirvana album imo

too hard poll

frances farmer. best nirvana album by a country mile.

Scentless Apprentice. Haven't listened to this album in ages though.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/images/2008/04/01/frances_farmer_1943_0115_lat.jpg

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damn not one song shut out, and my horse won!

this was my favourite Nirvana album when i was 12 and liked Nirvana, but I can't remember half of these songs by looking at the titles :S

Three votes for "tourette's"!!

when the lowest ranked song has 3 votes, i think that says something.

It says 3 people need to lay off the challopsticks.

i dont get it.

Solid results.

This reminds me of my last visit to NY, I decided what I needed was "In Utero" the Wal-Mart version, which has "Waif me" and no "Gallons of Alcohol" etc.

I just noticed this post, what version *does* have "Gallons of Alcohol" on it?

where my very ape peeps at

surprised pennyroyal tea placed so low

I can def get with these results but ^^ yeah

Hey musicians, what is it called at the beginning of "very ape" when the perceived upbeat/downbeat does a flipflop? (and what other songs do that?)

i dunno! i didn't think there was a term for it.

"I'm Free" by The Who does it.. I don't think there's a term for it.

huge 20th anniversary splurge in MOJO that came out this week. yeah i know, but the main piece is by Jon Savage so that has to be worth a look.
just reading this makes me so fucking sad about what happened :(

"What Pat added more than anything was an injection of life and happiness to those last months of Nirvana. We’d talked about getting a second guitar player, we talked about Steve Turner, we talked about Buzz Osborne, but of course we didn’t want to break up Mudhoney or the Melvins. Kurt had been in Los Angeles and walked into the SST Superstore where Pat was working, and they hit it off. One of the first rehearsals, we were trying to figure out ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ and the three of us just couldn’t do it. Pat said, “Actually, it goes like this.” I thought, ‘There’s a musician in the band now!’ Having Pat changed things dramatically. Kurt and Courtney were on that side of town and Krist and I were on this side of town, and Pat definitely bridged us back together for awhile." - Dave Grohl.

cool i'm off to my nearest newstand now maybe

God I hate All Apologies

yeah i think i've been sick of that song since the first month it got played on the radio

listening to "dumb" a lot lately. what a fucked up song.

I'm one of those in here who don't care much about Nirvana. That said, I think In Utero is better than Nevermind which always seemed a too frontloaded to me. I love the results in this poll, serve the servants and frances farmer are the highlights for me too.

Was Gallons of Alcohol not available in the US version? It's also one of my favorites in here.

I think a problem I have with this album, as good as it is, is that I wish there were more songs with the dynamics of Milk it.

it seems to be this halfway house of a Jesus Lizard/Touch and Go thing and more traditional singer songwriter elements, All Apologies or Heart Shaped Box. It's a bit jarring to me, either go the whole way with one or the other IMO

Grohl sounds great on this but in terms of arrangements he could be used in much more interesting ways

listened to this a lot this weekend and while I always liked it, I've done a complete about face on this album. Used to think it was greatly overrated and a little too plain at times, but my opinion must have been colored by what else I was listening to at the time.

For me it doesn't get any better than "Scentless Apprentice" with Kurt's exerted yells and the noisy riff. "Milk It", I've always liked the live versions better but the main riff is monstrous.

Some days this is my favourite Nirvana album, others it's Bleach. Always between those two.

The noisiest bits of this album are the best. Hate "All Apologies," always have.

"Frances Farmer" is A+ though

The noisiest bits of this album are the best.

'Dumb' invalidates this thesis.

you can't fire me cuz i quit

^ always imagined this is how most firings went down

oh boy, that riff that kicks in briefly on Frances Farmer at 0:38. it's not an overused sound on the album, so when it appears it's all the sweeter.

scentless apprentice is the way I enjoyed them sounding

that was my favourite song when the album came out. i've gone off it a bit over the years.

oh boy, that riff that kicks in briefly on Frances Farmer at 0:38.

And the instrumental middle eight!

this record is pretty riffless for such a big rock album hit

Anyone surprised that Tourette's earned 3 votes is missing out on how misanthropic, evil, and pummeling this band could be. That said, my pick is Frances Farmer for life.

love this album, especially "frances farmer." "milk it" is still the scariest nirvana performance.

"all apologies" has always sounded like a lennon homage to me, the tune reminds me a lot of "look at me" and "julia."

yeah these verses esp.

I am my own parasite
I don't need a host to live
We feed off of each other
We can share our endorphins

Doll steak!
Test meat!

...

I own my own pet virus
I get to pet and name her
Her milk is my shit
My shit it is her milk

i wonder if this was the earliest song i encountered where there was something uncanny to the lyrics that wasn't sung just as a pose or for the effect of weirdness or artiness, but had some kind of strange conviction to it.

His lyrics are not often praised. Or is that a misconception on my part?

the way kurt sings, i rarely know what he's actually saying so seeing the words to milk it written down like that is kind of mindblowing.

the moment that's grown on me most in recent years is just the way serve the servants opens - just this huge, confrontational squall of sound.

is missing out on how misanthropic, evil, and pummeling this band could be.

Yeah, they're often misunderstood as much more one dimensional than they really were. Doesn't help that their most famous album is also their most boring.

this one and unplugged are the only nirvana i ever feel like listening to

nevermind is super boring and the sound of that record is terrible imo

milk it would've been my vote

‘There’s a musician in the band now!

this record is pretty riffless for such a big rock album hit

― j., Thursday, March 19, 2015 9:15 PM

what

like, try to sing the riffs to the songs, from memory

DUN-DUN-DUN-NUN DUN-NUN-NUN-NUN-NUN-DUN-DUN

yeah they're pretty much all like that

i started typing them all out
but i got bored
i can hum them all
the pretty songs are pretty
the heavy songs fucking stomp
i remember them all

you don't know what you're remembering

Tons of memorable riffs on this album.

Ha, I could tell right away that flappy bird was talking about "Scentless Apprentice". That one and "All Apologies" are the ones I really think of as being based on memorable riffs in the classic sense.

Milk it's as memorable as riffs get imo.

almost the entire album is memorable riffs wtf

The only songs that aren't riffy are Dumb and Pennyroyal Tea.

I think you guys are right, actually. Even the noisier songs like "Very Ape" and "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" have solid riffs.

sund4r

songs like "serve the Servants" aren't riffy but "Milk It", "Scentless Apprentice" and "Heart Shaped Box" have memorable riffs, even if they're simple and whatnot.

Serve the Servants has a really catchy riff!

I remember it more for its chorus (though the song is one of my favs on the album)

Dow-nah-now-nah-now-now dow-nah-now-nah-now-now dan-DOW! dan-DOW!

but yeah the idea that there's not riffs on this album is kinda o_O

every song on this has a memorable riff wtf

I remember posting itt years ago saying this was an overrated album but i completely reversed course on that a few years ago. it was my go to for a while, esp when the reissue came out

It will always be my fave by my fave band

I know j. likes this album as much as I do. I think that maybe his point is that the hooks that come most immediately to mind for a lot of these songs like "Serve the Servants" and "Frances Farmer" are something other than an iconic heavy guitar riff. Tbf, though, this is probably true of a lot of classic heavy rock records. Not every Deep Purple song was "Smoke on the Water".

like who in the world could listen to Very Ape and say that's not a good riff?

The only songs that aren't riffy are Dumb and Pennyroyal Tea.

― chap, Sunday, February 19, 2017 4:08 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Basically, yeah. With 'Dumb' I think of the cello part first.

The Prodigy obviously thought 'Very Ape' was a good riff - they sampled it for 'Voodoo People'

yes my point was about the character of the guitar parts more than their presence. i associate 'riffs' with a certain combination of sinuousness, chunkiness, and independence from the other parts (though obviously in a very riffy song where the guitar determines the rhythm section +/- rhythm guitar, the riff would only be independent in virtue of being 'in charge' of the overall effect the song presents). in general cobain's parts have kind of a sawtoothy invertedness to them, they're turned in on themselves, maybe overall a lack of vertical displacement in them that is emphasized by the way he tends to repeat them monotonously to form larger structures (often the repeat shows up because the riff just ascends ascends ascends straightforwardly, then starts over, that kind of thing). but novoselic also doubles those parts a lot, carrying them through under verses and such even after cobain has dropped out or moved on to noodling or noise-generation or a little complementary arpeggiating, so that the effect is sort of that it's never fully cobain who's playing the 'riff', it's a unison effort that picks up this or that texture or volume in passing. the same applies to the additional guitar parts he laid down, which are often variants on the original/core part that's already being shared with novoselic. so it's like there's one melodic idea that's been distributed out to the different players (multitracked players) with their different characters (more emphasis on rhythm-guitar-esque aspects, more emphasis on lead aspects, more noise, more drive, etc.) that makes the whole thing much fuller-bodied, more textured, but the motion of the idea is very counter-riffy in many respects because it never 'goes anywhere' (to the extent that it moves it often seems mainly on/off, up/down) and is repeated ad nauseam.

i had probably been listening to the live records of the period at the time i posted above, i.e., when they had pat smear playing, and i think those just accentuate the underlying effect, because no one really does much different than on the studio album, and smear and cobain tend to each cover pre-existent parts from the studio album, so each one is simultaneously a bit more independent-sounding but thereby more appreciably a copy/variant of the core idea.

i think of it as a testament to the band's group writing combined with the peculiarity of cobain's melodic sense. take a part in isolation and it often seems dumb and aggressively unmusical, but in concert they have an opposite effect.

their man who sold the world cover seems instructive in that regard because apart from the lead, they're left to more conventional rock-writing/arranging business when playing under the verses, in which you can still hear their tendencies as bass/rhythm players, and the long ascending bit which seems a bit nirvana-y in its way of solving the problem of getting somewhere - but really the lead that opens the song seems most nirvana-ish, except what it shows you is that a nirvana song would be just that, repeated over and over, played by everyone in the band w/ variations as described above.

I feel liek "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" could have fit on this album

xp compare to everlong, which is, like, a perfect song, but utterly modern-rock conventional, with at least two identifiable motifs (the da-da-dadadada and the soaring bit that complements the vocal line, the former of which keys you immediately to expect it once you know the song, so that the first few notes are enough to awaken the anticipation for it) that get elaborated through a dramatic dynamic rather than one where all the parts are meted out simultaneously. i suppose what i have in mind then is that to some extent a classic type of rock riff has a context in which there's more dramatic motivic development (even if within the confines of rock song structures, harmonies, etc.), and nirvana songs typically forego a lot of the structuring techniques that would highlight their components as 'riffs' instead of as just the cores of the songs that are repeated with variation. which is what i meant about singing/remembering - a more 'riffy' part that you could sing or play by itself would call to mind much of the shape and motion of the song it came from, but nirvana parts feel more like they don't or can't lead you back to the whole song in that way, because what the whole song is, is not a development of that material, but a repetition of it. sing or play one of those by itself and what you would find instead is an image of the record with a lot just vanished.

another way to put that might be that certain kinds of classic guitar riffs have a strongly gestural quality to them - what can be enigmatic and attractive about them is often how they twist around and seem to 'say something' whose meaning recedes as they're repeated (only to come back again). cobain's parts have a more fretful/obsessive character that when repeated makes their effect seem less like a gesture and more like a whole person is turned uneasily inward - so there's not a communicative, outward motion in the moving musical parts so much as there's a sustained, relatively thwarted agitation that you could register as if 'from outside' (or from within it, depending on how the music leads you to identify with it). the analogous motion is more like worrying at a fray or picking at a sore than it is gesturing to someone.

that would also fit with the way their 'pretty' songs approximate mantras

i always loved the (probably apocryphal) story that thurston moore told in the liner notes to the 2004 boxset. he was hanging out with dave and maybe krist right after they finished in utero, and they played a cassette of the rough mixes for him. the album opened with "moist vagina," and of course thruston totally flipped and thought it was like, the punkest thing ever. lol. great fucking song though. i like the sequencing fine on in utero, i think adding any more noise or heavy songs would throw it all out of whack.

Idk I wouldve loved to see Hate Myself and VCV/Sappy in the tracklisting

That said, there's a weird sort of structure to the album pacing, where the band offers two rawer tracks before coming out with a big 'pop/rock' moment (usu. ballads, though not in the case of Heart Shaped Box, which is not demonstrably more 'pop' than say, Servants or Rape Me except for the S Litt production). So you have Servants and Scentless Apprentice, followed by HSB. Then you have Rape Me and F Farmer, followed by Dumb, and so on.

I guess what I'm saying is there probably is room for maybe MV/Hate Myself, followed by VCV, but I do run into flappy's problem about where that sequence would fit exactly

^^The B-Sides/Outtakes would have made for a killer follow-up stopgap EP, as was the style at the time.

Also: Kurt would have been 50 today.

I really can't imagine Cobain at 50.

Re the Litt production, my understanding was that he rerecorded the vocals and mixed, but the instrumentation is from the Albini session. And there was that German vinyl pressing which has the Albini versions, or am I making that up? I seem to remember they weren't even terribly different.

Litt remixed/polished up a couple of tracks but that was about it.

I definitely think the Albini versions of HSB and All Apologies have surfaced somewhere

What happened to Scott Litt, anyway? I remember he did that Green Day album, but seems like he's been more low profile as a producer since he finished working with R.E.M.

xp the albini versions are on the 20th anniversary disc 1, after the b-sides

their worst show ever according to everyone but kurt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWDU8OE_mBU

much of this not widely circulated until semi-recently... I've only ever listened to the unbelievably fucked up version of School at the beginning of the set. god he is such a mess. and then they start jamming... it rules. they're so bad

"Scentless Apprentice" for me, still.

having great drumming from Grohl really amplifies it too, like the shift in the drumming pattern after the ascending single note riff.

plus that single note riff seems like it's wanting to be a violin on electric guitar.

I'm only on a Nirvana kick lately as last week, at an outdoor beer festival, a stoner band randomly covered "I Hate Myself and Want to Die". pleasant surprise that.

"Scentless Apprentice" is my favourite Nirvana song

the live version on Muddy Banks of the Wishkah is pretty incredible too

"Milk It" also deserves plenty of praise. god that riff.

also you could like, do a 60s dance to the chorus

The #1 is an odd choice

i do love it though. but it definitely isn't the peak of the album.

such a great opening line tho

yup. I'd put it as my #3 i think

Very Ape is maybe my favourite song of theirs but it doesn't seem to get much love

Tanya Tagaq's is the only version of Rape Me I need and I tend to skip it on this

that hypothetical next nirvana album with all the strings and shit - would it have been more stuff like all apologies or unplugged? would it have been more americana? baroque pop? chamber grunge? it's hard to imagine something radically different from what we have but who knows

Always shocked when Cobain stifles a giggle at the final chorus of "Milk It", like a cartoon scribbled in the margins of a suicide note.

That giggle is one of my fav bits in any of their songs

hmmmmTEHH MEEEEEE

Anyway ask me 10 years ago I'd have said Pennyroyal Tea was my favourite on In Utero and now it's my least favourite (still very good). I don't think it's because I've worn it out either I just prefer the 11 others now (or 12 others - Gallons still retains its novelty somehow)

I’d loftily dismissed Nirvana as a populist Pixies ripoff and tried to ignore them, but then this record came out and I was slapped across the face by how great they truly were. “Milk It” was the track that did it. Very few songs match its electricity.

xp Where does it say they wanted to do an album with strings?

I think the only evidence of the direction of the next album were "You Know You're Right" and "Do Re Mi," which sounds to me like some of it would have been their poppiest stuff.

The first lyric of this LP was paraphrased, nicely, as the first line of SPIN Magazine’s review of Green Day’s Nimrod.

And it’s a fantastic way to start In Utero.

XP Courtney Love (or maybe Grohl) said Kurt was really into Automatic For The People and wanted to move in that direction.

The author was Jesse something

https://www.spin.com/2017/04/green-day-nimrod-review/

They'd have been better leaving that remark for (the very good but noticeably more adult-sounding) Warning

I don’t think Serve the Servants is an odd pick at all. Has one of the most iconic first lines of an album ever and lets you know that the entirety of the album In Utero is ahead of you.

But for real the ramshackle charm of it is undeniable, an amazing first statement post Nervermind, I probably voted for it.

This album sounded better than anything blasting out of shit ‘94 Ford Explorer speakers, cassette ripped from CD. Like it was precision designed for it. Wore. It. Out.

this is the first album i really remember going and buying on release day and coming home and playing it over and over and calling my friend Mark to talk about the songs

yeah my brother and I played it on a dubbed cassette in a player I hacked into his 79 Corolla, it sounds like insanely hot Australian summer to me which is pretty hilarious

Cobain gushed in his last Rolling Stone interview how R.E.M.'s Automatic.... had inspired him to record a string-laden Nirvana album.

I like the idea of them releasing an album that tells the Counting Crows where to stick it but it being 1996 so only going about 2x or 3x Platinum or something.

Always wondered how Grohl and Novoselic got co-writing credit on just “Scentless Apprentice”.

Anyway, “Dumb” is probably the best on the record. I love how the band used the cello on this album, Nevermind, and Unplugged

I like the thought of their “man who sold the world” cover becoming a branching off point into a softer moody cello laden AftP influenced album

same. also imagining Rasputina becoming enormous as the opening band on the next tour.

Anyway, “Dumb” is probably the best on the record. I love how the band used the cello on this album, Nevermind, and Unplugged

The de-cello'd Albini remix of Dumb is, well...

The song is great but but this specific Kurt quote about the song

"I’ve met a lot of dumb people. They have a shitty job, they may be totally lonely, they don’t have a girlfriend, they don’t have much of a social life, and yet, for some reason, they're happy."

became the basis of a long running in-joke between me and an old friend that Kurt wouldn't have liked us as socially anxious autistic people and I've never been able to hear the song the same way since (sorry Kurt I know you meant well).

Always wondered how Grohl and Novoselic got co-writing credit on just “Scentless Apprentice”.

It's the only song on the album not originated by Kurt: https://www.stereogum.com/2029102/dave-grohl-demo-krist-novoselic-rey-washam-scentless-apprentice/music/

xpost I think Kurt envied those people, certainly didn't dislike them.

I like them as songs but I was never crazy about the singles choices for this album, I just think it would have been quite the left turn had the first or second single been “Milk It”, or “Scentless..”

Or to put it another way - Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, Lithium etc are together broadly representative of Nevermind. Heart-Shaped Box and All Apologies don’t really hint at what is essentially noise-rock in several of the album tracks.

xpost no not at all, me and said friend used to jokingly make stuff up in one context and milk it (pun intended) all dry.

In Utero might be the hardest, loudest, punkest album to top the Billboard chart unless I subtract "punkest," which would allow Metallica and Def Leppard and Zep to join in the fun.

^^^

I was about to say that it must have more feedback than any other #1 album, but then I remembered that Electric Ladyland and the Woodstock soundtrack both hit #1.

xposts to Master, yeah, I remember as a teen trying to get into rock music and hearing "All Apologies" and telling my friend excitedly and he was like "lol none of the rest of teh album is like that"

“You Know You’re Right” suggests a heavier (and better) direction they were heading in in comparison to some of the hypotheses upthread

“all apologies” may not be as noisy but it’s maybe the most brutal and intense on the album emotionally.. a different kind of heavy..

It's a great one

Also, it is pretty noisy too.

esp the whole climax post-buried which is like a contaminated noise that is barely able to stand up.

In Utero might be the hardest, loudest, punkest album to top the Billboard chart unless I subtract "punkest," which would allow Metallica and Def Leppard and Zep to join in the fun.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 31, 2023 3:26 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

it has the most crushing drumming as well, with the possible exceptions of Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zep IV only a No. 2 album on Billboard tho (but it did top Cash Box and Record World). To the US what DSOTM is to the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpqo0eaxZ4

This is pretty well done. Really enjoy the Scentless Apprentice, Milk It, and Radio Friendly Unit Shifter.

OMG, Scentless Apprentice is the sound of the most palm sweaty boss battle of all time. It's stressing me out.

_In Utero_ might be the hardest, loudest, punkest album to top the Billboard chart unless I subtract "punkest," which would allow Metallica and Def Leppard and Zep to join in the fun.

yah add them to the list, though they peaked after IU

Slipknot

lol

This version of scentless apprentice is one of the craziest things I've ever heard

NO SAVES ONLY ONE HEART LEFT FINAL BOSS AAAAAAARGH

i hope i can remember to make scentless apprentice my #1 song of 2023, if i vote in the poll next year

it rocks so fucking hard. the vox are perfect