in utero poll

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

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