Nirvana
In Utero
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AMG Review of In Utero
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideNirvana 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.
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Yep. So this be me first time loggin in the mog. lol. I must have a billion of these things. But I am going to unload all my deepest darkest secrets onto mog, because there is only one person on here I know. And that person has all rights to any info about me and has since I was like 16. So. let the moggin begin! muhahaha. ~sj
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Mog Spam Love
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I got this comment to one of my MOG posts today: I am Shmily, 42 years old girl, living in New York. Last month I met my boyfriend on a 40+ singles dating site. It is so nice for me. But my girlfriends Julia, Galina, Irina did not find thier love. What are you waitting for?? Come on, nice guys. See their photos @ [ www.JSeniorMatch.com ] ASAP. I am not upset at all about getting the spam, ...
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"...give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld/ so I can sigh enternally..."
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I've been listening to Leonard Cohen's Live in London double CD, Treblezine review forthcoming, and it is simply amazing. This morning I woke up to my favorite Kurt Cobain lyric in my head. "...give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld/so I can sigh enternally..."I remember living in my parents house in San Antonio and having a wallsized poster of In Utero cover above my bed. I always thought of it at...
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Who Wants to Play Celebrity Name Drop?
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The game is simple. The rules are easy. You have a week to think about it. Here they are:1. Pick a song (artist and title) that mentions the name of a celebrity in it. Celebrity can be defined by any famous person - musician, entertainer, politician, writer, etc.2. The song can drop the celebrity's name in either the title or in the song. 3 points for title and 7 points for somewhere in the ...
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A tribute to suicide in the form of 90s rock
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See comments for more suicide songs. Although this should go without saying, feel free to make additions.
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Lyrics to Live Your Life By, No. 1
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If you ever need anything please don't,Hesitate to ask someone else first.
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friday random ten, 1993 edition
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1. PJ Harvey, "Rid of Me." I could fill up this entire Random Ten with music by women if shuffle play got a little wonky, 1993 being a great year for women's music. I'm not sure I could do Harvey justice … she's kinda like Patti Smith, if instead of listening to James Brown and the Stones, she'd listened to Delta blues and, well, Patti Smith. The astonishing video performance is from the Jay Le.
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Nirvana’s Last Three Albums to be Reissued on 180g Vinyl
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Nirvana’s final three albums Nevermind, In Utero and Unplugged in New York will be reissued on 180 gram vinyl this year.This is particularly exciting for Nirvana fans whose preferred format is vinyl because Unplugged in New York has never previously been released in this format.The release dates will be spread throughout 2009 with Nevermind being [...]
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I am happy =]
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I just learned my first song on acoustic guitar and its nirvana's heart shaped box. =].I love that song its really amazing. Well that whole album is amazing. anyways someone message me im really bored.
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Nirvana: In Utero Review
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There are some albums in a person's life which defy something more than great music-they become a staple in the fabric of ones life. In Utero is that album for me. This is one of the first albums I ever purchased, and has stuck with me throughout time. I was only nine or so when first hearing In Utero , so at the time, it was nothing more than loud and angry music that I loved. Yet when I re...
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Kurt Cobain: $ 100,000 for a smashed up guitar
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How much would you pay for a seriously damaged guitar? A 100,000 dollars ....A smashed guitar that belonged to the late Kurt Cobain has sold for $100,000. As reported by Yahoo Music , the smashed Fender Mustang -- which was used by Cobain on Nirvana's first U.S. tour -- was purchased by an unidentified collector. The seller was a punk guitarist named Sluggo (a member of the band The Grannies a...
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Yep. So this be me first time loggin in the mog. lol. I must have a billion of these things. But I am going to unload all my deepest darkest secrets onto mog, because there is only one person on here I know. And that person has all rights to any info about me and has since I was like 16. So. let the moggin begin! muhahaha. ~sj
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Delayed reaction....
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I guess I just don't listen to music closely the first few hundred times around, because an album I've owned for over 10 years now is affecting me in new ways. Or maybe it's the cross-pollination of that album with the book I'm trying to read. !I'm listening to Nirvana's In Utero, which I've had since shortly after it came out. But today it sounds different. It used to be just another post pun...
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