in utero poll

frances farmer. best nirvana album by a country mile.

Scentless Apprentice. Haven't listened to this album in ages though.

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Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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

Grohl sounds great on this but in terms of arrangements he could be used in much more interesting ways

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.

Some days this is my favourite Nirvana album, others it's Bleach. Always between those two.

The noisiest bits of this album are the best. Hate "All Apologies," always have.

"Frances Farmer" is A+ though

The noisiest bits of this album are the best.

'Dumb' invalidates this thesis.

you can't fire me cuz i quit

^ always imagined this is how most firings went down

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.

scentless apprentice is the way I enjoyed them sounding

that was my favourite song when the album came out. i've gone off it a bit over the years.

oh boy, that riff that kicks in briefly on Frances Farmer at 0:38.

And the instrumental middle eight!

this record is pretty riffless for such a big rock album hit

Anyone surprised that Tourette's earned 3 votes is missing out on how misanthropic, evil, and pummeling this band could be. That said, my pick is Frances Farmer for life.

love this album, especially "frances farmer." "milk it" is still the scariest nirvana performance.

"all apologies" has always sounded like a lennon homage to me, the tune reminds me a lot of "look at me" and "julia."

yeah these verses esp.

I am my own parasite
I don't need a host to live
We feed off of each other
We can share our endorphins

Doll steak!
Test meat!

...

I own my own pet virus
I get to pet and name her
Her milk is my shit
My shit it is her milk

i wonder if this was the earliest song i encountered where there was something uncanny to the lyrics that wasn't sung just as a pose or for the effect of weirdness or artiness, but had some kind of strange conviction to it.

His lyrics are not often praised. Or is that a misconception on my part?

the way kurt sings, i rarely know what he's actually saying so seeing the words to milk it written down like that is kind of mindblowing.

the moment that's grown on me most in recent years is just the way serve the servants opens - just this huge, confrontational squall of sound.

is missing out on how misanthropic, evil, and pummeling this band could be.

Yeah, they're often misunderstood as much more one dimensional than they really were. Doesn't help that their most famous album is also their most boring.

this one and unplugged are the only nirvana i ever feel like listening to

nevermind is super boring and the sound of that record is terrible imo

milk it would've been my vote

‘There’s a musician in the band now!

this record is pretty riffless for such a big rock album hit

― j., Thursday, March 19, 2015 9:15 PM

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