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
Grohl sounds great on this but in terms of arrangements he could be used in much more interesting ways
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 4 August 2013 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 10 March 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
Some days this is my favourite Nirvana album, others it's Bleach. Always between those two.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 10 March 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
The noisiest bits of this album are the best. Hate "All Apologies," always have.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 10 March 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
"Frances Farmer" is A+ though
The noisiest bits of this album are the best.
'Dumb' invalidates this thesis.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 10 March 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
you can't fire me cuz i quit
^ always imagined this is how most firings went down
― j., Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
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.
― charlie h, Friday, 20 March 2015 00:21 (nine years ago) link
scentless apprentice is the way I enjoyed them sounding
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
that was my favourite song when the album came out. i've gone off it a bit over the years.
― charlie h, Friday, 20 March 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
oh boy, that riff that kicks in briefly on Frances Farmer at 0:38.
And the instrumental middle eight!
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 20 March 2015 01:04 (nine years 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, 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