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
"I'm Free" by The Who does it.. I don't think there's a term for it.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 16 April 2009 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Saturday, 3 August 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
cool i'm off to my nearest newstand now maybe
― recordin' mofo (rattled), Saturday, 3 August 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
God I hate All Apologies
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 4 August 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i think i've been sick of that song since the first month it got played on the radio
― some dude, Sunday, 4 August 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
listening to "dumb" a lot lately. what a fucked up song.
― boy_slayer, Sunday, 4 August 2013 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Sunday, 4 August 2013 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
Was Gallons of Alcohol not available in the US version? It's also one of my favorites in here.
― Moka, Sunday, 4 August 2013 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 4 August 2013 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 4 August 2013 06:33 (eleven years 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