I definitely think the Albini versions of HSB and All Apologies have surfaced somewhere
― jorts l0chinski (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 20 February 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
What happened to Scott Litt, anyway? I remember he did that Green Day album, but seems like he's been more low profile as a producer since he finished working with R.E.M.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 20 February 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link
xp the albini versions are on the 20th anniversary disc 1, after the b-sides
― j., Monday, 20 February 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
their worst show ever according to everyone but kurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWDU8OE_mBU
much of this not widely circulated until semi-recently... I've only ever listened to the unbelievably fucked up version of School at the beginning of the set. god he is such a mess. and then they start jamming... it rules. they're so bad
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
"Scentless Apprentice" for me, still.
having great drumming from Grohl really amplifies it too, like the shift in the drumming pattern after the ascending single note riff.
plus that single note riff seems like it's wanting to be a violin on electric guitar.
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
I'm only on a Nirvana kick lately as last week, at an outdoor beer festival, a stoner band randomly covered "I Hate Myself and Want to Die". pleasant surprise that.
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
"Scentless Apprentice" is my favourite Nirvana song
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
the live version on Muddy Banks of the Wishkah is pretty incredible too
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
"Milk It" also deserves plenty of praise. god that riff.
also you could like, do a 60s dance to the chorus
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
The #1 is an odd choice
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
i do love it though. but it definitely isn't the peak of the album.
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 January 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
such a great opening line tho
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
yup. I'd put it as my #3 i think
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
Very Ape is maybe my favourite song of theirs but it doesn't seem to get much love
Tanya Tagaq's is the only version of Rape Me I need and I tend to skip it on this
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 28 January 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
that hypothetical next nirvana album with all the strings and shit - would it have been more stuff like all apologies or unplugged? would it have been more americana? baroque pop? chamber grunge? it's hard to imagine something radically different from what we have but who knows
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 28 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
Always shocked when Cobain stifles a giggle at the final chorus of "Milk It", like a cartoon scribbled in the margins of a suicide note.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 29 January 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
That giggle is one of my fav bits in any of their songs
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 29 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
hmmmmTEHH MEEEEEE
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 29 January 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
Anyway ask me 10 years ago I'd have said Pennyroyal Tea was my favourite on In Utero and now it's my least favourite (still very good). I don't think it's because I've worn it out either I just prefer the 11 others now (or 12 others - Gallons still retains its novelty somehow)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 29 January 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
I’d loftily dismissed Nirvana as a populist Pixies ripoff and tried to ignore them, but then this record came out and I was slapped across the face by how great they truly were. “Milk It” was the track that did it. Very few songs match its electricity.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
xp Where does it say they wanted to do an album with strings?
I think the only evidence of the direction of the next album were "You Know You're Right" and "Do Re Mi," which sounds to me like some of it would have been their poppiest stuff.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link
The first lyric of this LP was paraphrased, nicely, as the first line of SPIN Magazine’s review of Green Day’s Nimrod.
And it’s a fantastic way to start In Utero.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
XP Courtney Love (or maybe Grohl) said Kurt was really into Automatic For The People and wanted to move in that direction.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
The author was Jesse something
https://www.spin.com/2017/04/green-day-nimrod-review/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link
They'd have been better leaving that remark for (the very good but noticeably more adult-sounding) Warning
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
I don’t think Serve the Servants is an odd pick at all. Has one of the most iconic first lines of an album ever and lets you know that the entirety of the album In Utero is ahead of you. But for real the ramshackle charm of it is undeniable, an amazing first statement post Nervermind, I probably voted for it.
― circa1916, Monday, 30 January 2023 01:08 (one year ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Monday, 30 January 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
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
― alpine static, Monday, 30 January 2023 07:51 (one year ago) link
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
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 30 January 2023 10:07 (one year ago) link
Cobain gushed in his last Rolling Stone interview how R.E.M.'s Automatic.... had inspired him to record a string-laden Nirvana album.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 January 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
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.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 30 January 2023 11:00 (one year ago) link
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
― beamish13, Monday, 30 January 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
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
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Monday, 30 January 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
same. also imagining Rasputina becoming enormous as the opening band on the next tour.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Monday, 30 January 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
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).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 30 January 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
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/
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 01:39 (one year ago) link
xpost I think Kurt envied those people, certainly didn't dislike them.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 07:50 (one year 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