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)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
dope record
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i was very disappointed to not find this on my ipod this morning
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― mark cl, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha me too. Gotta dig through and find the cd. Voted All Apologies. No apologies.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I have never listened to this album
maybe this poll is a reason to?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― jagged-electronically mäandernden underbody (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Frances Farmer
― krakow, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
"Scentless Apprentice",easybut jesus liazrd is better than this record
― Zeno, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Serve the Servants
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
frances farmer!
― d20 riot tard (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 13 April 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 13 April 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Went with Apologies in the end. It is the obvious choice, and just too damn good for whatever challops I thought I could rationalize.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Monday, 13 April 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
very ape.
― goole, Monday, 13 April 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
pennyroyal tea.
― phantompenguin, Monday, 13 April 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― buttslam is a pretty good move (circa1916), Monday, 13 April 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Hinklepicker, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Serve the Servants.
Generally acknowledged as the best Nirvana album now, isn't it?
― chap, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Had "Verse Chorus Verse" been on this...
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, "Verse Chorus Verse" is probably my fav Nirvana song.
― Euler, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
"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!
― Douglas, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
"All Apologies". Great song from a generally overrated album, and the one song that would have fitted on the way superior "Nevermind" album.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"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.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
voted scentless apprentice because it is my favourite Nirvana song and freaks me out still.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
tourette's has some really hooky screaming
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
best nirvana album imo
too hard poll
― stimulus package (cozwn), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
frances farmer. best nirvana album by a country mile.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Scentless Apprentice. Haven't listened to this album in ages though.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/images/2008/04/01/frances_farmer_1943_0115_lat.jpg
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
damn not one song shut out, and my horse won!
― 69, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Three votes for "tourette's"!!
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
when the lowest ranked song has 3 votes, i think that says something.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
It says 3 people need to lay off the challopsticks.
― Passantino Complexion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i dont get it.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Solid results.
― krakow, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
where my very ape peeps at
― goole, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
surprised pennyroyal tea placed so low
― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I can def get with these results but ^^ yeah
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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?)
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i dunno! i didn't think there was a term for it.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― alpine static, Monday, 30 January 2023 07:51 (one year ago) link
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
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 30 January 2023 10:07 (one year ago) link
Cobain gushed in his last Rolling Stone interview how R.E.M.'s Automatic.... had inspired him to record a string-laden Nirvana album.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 January 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
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.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 30 January 2023 11:00 (one year ago) link
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
― beamish13, Monday, 30 January 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
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
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Monday, 30 January 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
same. also imagining Rasputina becoming enormous as the opening band on the next tour.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Monday, 30 January 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
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).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 30 January 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
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/
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 01:39 (one year ago) link
xpost I think Kurt envied those people, certainly didn't dislike them.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 07:50 (one year ago) link
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.
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 08:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link
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, 31 January 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
^^^
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
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"
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
“You Know You’re Right” suggests a heavier (and better) direction they were heading in in comparison to some of the hypotheses upthread
― zacata, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
“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..
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
It's a great one
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Also, it is pretty noisy too.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 08:18 (one year ago) link
esp the whole climax post-buried which is like a contaminated noise that is barely able to stand up.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 08:20 (one year ago) link
― 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
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 10:14 (one year ago) link
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.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpqo0eaxZ4
This is pretty well done. Really enjoy the Scentless Apprentice, Milk It, and Radio Friendly Unit Shifter.
― peace, man, Saturday, 15 April 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
OMG, Scentless Apprentice is the sound of the most palm sweaty boss battle of all time. It's stressing me out.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 16 April 2023 02:45 (one year ago) link
_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.
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 16 April 2023 03:39 (one year ago) link
yah add them to the list, though they peaked after IU
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 April 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
Slipknot
lol
― a (waterface), Monday, 17 April 2023 12:20 (one year ago) link
This version of scentless apprentice is one of the craziest things I've ever heard
― silverfish, Monday, 17 April 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
NO SAVES ONLY ONE HEART LEFT FINAL BOSS AAAAAAARGH
― Cow_Art, Monday, 17 April 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
i hope i can remember to make scentless apprentice my #1 song of 2023, if i vote in the poll next year
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Monday, 17 April 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
it rocks so fucking hard. the vox are perfect