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Serve The Servants
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Scentless Apprentice
- 03:47
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Heart-Shaped Box
- 04:39
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Rape Me
- 02:49
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Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
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Dumb
- 02:32
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Very Ape
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Milk It
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Pennyroyal Tea
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Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
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Tourette's
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All Apologies
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album review
Nirvana probably hired Steve Albini to produce In Utero with the hopes of creating their own Surfer Rosa, or at least shoring up their indie cred after becoming a pop phenomenon with a glossy punk record. In Utero, of course, turned out to be their last record, and it's hard not to hear it as Kurt Cobain's suicide note, since Albini's stark, uncompromising sound provides the perfect setting for Cobain's bleak, even nihilistic, lyrics. Even if the album wasn't a literal suicide note, it was certainly a conscious attempt to shed their audience -- an attempt that worked, by the way, since the record had lost its momentum when Cobain died in the spring of 1994. Even though the band tempered some of Albini's extreme tactics in a remix, the record remains a deliberately alienating experience, front-loaded with many of its strongest songs, then descending into a series of brief, dissonant squalls before concluding with "All Apologies," which only gets sadder with each passing year. Throughout it all, Cobain's songwriting is typically haunting, and its best moments rank among his finest work, but the over-amped dynamicism of the recording seems like a way to camouflage his dispiritedness -- as does the fact that he consigned such great songs as "Verse Chorus Verse" and "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" to compilations, when they would have fit, even illuminated the themes of In Utero. Even without those songs, In Utero remains a shattering listen, whether it's viewed as Cobain's farewell letter or self-styled audience alienation. Few other records are as willfully difficult as this. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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- By ROdAiN59
- 1/1/0001 00:00:00
- This has to be one of the finest CD's of the 90's, if not the best. It's raw sound and power house guitar and out of this world lyrics established Cobain as a rock god, a genius, a legend and also one of my aspirations. Songs like "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter", "Milk It", and "Very Ape" are all overlooked but are as good as most of the other songs on the album. This is a music lover's kind of CD. It is one of my favorites.
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Speechless. Plain and simple.
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- By JoeyApples11
- 1/1/0001 00:00:00
- This is one of my favorite albums of all time. The raw, agonized howl of Kurt Cobain throughout the 12 tracks is so easy to empathize with for any of us who have ever been in extreme emotional pain. It's got a bare-bones kind of presentation that still manages to be one of the most epic recordings not just by Nirvana, but by any band in general.
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genius
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- By Michaelmissy
- 8/9/2009 22:10:24
- This is by far my favorite album. By any artist. It just sounds incredible to me. If you appreciate music you should BUY this album. Kurt shows his incredible lyrical talent in songs such as Heart-Shaped Box, Serve the Servants and Pennyroyal Tea.
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- By Grunger Dude
- 1/9/2009 21:57:34
- This has to be their softest cd but its so great, this has to be their most different cd out of all of them. This is their best album cover ever I'm gonna get a tattoo of this on my arm or shoulder not sure but i am getting this as a tattoo
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