in utero poll

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