![]() “Meat-eating orchids” show up later in the song, along with that other famous verse, “throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back.” ![]() “I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black,” Cobain, who had become a father just six months earlier, sings before kicking off the chorus. The album is filled with imagery of disease and decay, most notably in “Heart-Shaped Box,” a strange and devastating song that follows the quiet-loud-quiet progression that Nirvana copped from The Pixies. In Utero, though, well, that’s different.įrom the opening chord, which sounds like someone dropping a cast-iron skillet onto a concrete floor, to thefinal, uneasy mumblings of “All Apologies” (“all in all is all we are”), it is an album of intense discomfort and release, an exposed nerve dangling among feedback and tumult, between rage and confusion it's quiet and loud, dark and uncomfortably beautiful and tainted forever by Cobain’s suicide (he wanted to call the album I Hate Myself And Want to Die). Our Nevermind CD hasn’t been pulled from its case in ages, the playlist on our laptop and phone is never played. We’ll give you “Teen Spirit,” but, truth be told, the only time we hear it is on the radio. Nevermind had “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and is the album that ends up on all those lists of greatest records.įine. This is about In Utero, which was released 20 years ago this month, and is the trio’s best album. N.Y., or Fingerprints in Long Beach, Ca., then you’re entitled to a coupon for a free Nirvana smiley face tattoo. The three-CD, one-DVD package includes a remastering of the album by original producer Steve Albini a “2013” remix of the album demos, B-sides and recordings of rehearsals a CD and DVD of a 1993 MTV concert Dave Grohl’s song “Marigold ” reproductions of Kurt Cobain’s handwritten lyrics a four-page letter from Albini a never-before-released instrumental and, if you are 21 and over and buy the package at Silver Platters in Seattle, Looney Tunes Records in Babylon. The reissue of Nirvana’s third studio album, In Utero, is out today.
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