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Now some people think that the ravages of paranoia when you find yourself having to go into the studio for the " fateful second album ." Or, even worse , for the third , maybe one called "... to repeat the glories of the second." The second Nirvana album is titled " Nevermid ." Thirty million copies sold. The symbol of a generation. The epochal time . The most important record of the nineties. The disk that once came out he pulverized the charts , completely overturning the canon , the disc that has the duty flannel nightshirt from peanuts , pass in a few months from the outskirts of the city on the covers of magazines. It was 1991 and nothing will be as before . Here , two years after this cataclysm came out " In utero " . And you can not talk about " In utero " without first passing by " Nevermind ."

The gestation of " In utero " ... Kurt , after " Nevermind " begins to show signs of ... let's call it impatience. 'Nevermind ' as we see it, is an album too much product , too clean and reasoned , light years away from " Bleach" . By Butch Vig so before you go to Jack Endino and then Steve Albini (very interesting letter to his trio little to convince them to record with him. You can find it here). The approach of Albini is completely different than that of Vig for " Nevermind " is that of which the Nirvana , of which Kurt needs : in a few weeks ( " If it takes more than a week to make a disc , someone is doing some shit , "said Albini , but he had not reckoned with the weather , the location and Courtney Love ), the disc is ready . The band works casting , recording in total isolation in nothing more total Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. It's freezing outside , it's snowing bad and the only thing that Nirvana can do is work on the disc. For Novoselic , in his words , the experience is comparable to a stay in a gulag. After four months, the album is released , but not before the label we put hand to make it more " accessible " . The pieces that end up in the final tracklist are twelve and today , twenty years later, we know them by heart . " Heart-shaped Box" , " Rape Me ", " Dumb ", " Pennyroyal Tea " ... I will not go into a description of " In utero " by reviewing each piece : again, twenty years have passed and the only thing that we can do to celebrate this anniversary , is to take " in utero " is face ache and make up its mind . At least that's what I believe. This is the third and final full-length album of Nirvana , and today twenty years have passed . We have a cool head , at least enough to broach the subject.




" In utero " was originally titled " I hate myself and I want to die" , which is also the title of one of the pieces coincidentally excluded from the final tracklisting . Can you imagine a more brutal way to express a state of mind ? We can even remotely imagine how he could feel Kurt Cobain in that period? No, I do not think so. At least , I do not but I try. And this is what I mean when I say that a record like " In utero " must be addressed belly : I can not do as recently suggested Dave Grohl , I can not look at " In utero " trying not to think about all the rest ; to listen to him as if it had just come out . I can not help but feel a palpable desire of Nirvana (the real heart of the matter) to produce an album hard and indigestible , the need to bring everything back to a more human level , of being left after the atomic explosion caused the exit of " Nevermind ": " Teenage angst has paid off well / Now I'm bored and old" (from " Serve the servants " ) . I can not help but see the face of Kurt Cobain sings to me while wearing his condition ( " What else should I be / all apologies / What else should I say / everyone is gay / What else could I write / I do not have the right / What else should I be / All Apologies " ), going from light to darkness , from pop to punk almost more raw , so brutal and so ironically thin ( " I think I'm dumb / or maybe just happy / Think I'm just happy " ) , almost schizophrenic (" I am my own parasite / I do not need a host to live / we feed off of each other ") and to leave me helpless to deal with the large empty makes its way into my head. That 's what distinguishes " In utero , most of all, and after twenty years is still his undeniable strength. Sensational . Disks as well , if I may use this retromaniaca nostalgia, do not come out anymore because people like Kurt Cobain no longer exist.

The mammoth Super Deluxe Edition just out celebrating the twentieth anniversary of " In utero " reinventing the original disk enriched with b-sides , demos, instrumental versions of the original ( the mix of Albini ) , a novel ( "Forgotten tune" , instrumental ) and seventeen songs live , all spread over three discs plus a dVD ( "Live & Loud: Live at Pier 48 , Seattle, WA - 13/12/93 " ) . So much material much of which is suitable , as always, to satisfy the hunger of many collectors and feticcioni . The most interesting things , in my opinion, are listening to " Heart-shaped Box" and "All apologies " for the way they were designed in the studio in 1993 prior to the revision of Scott Litt (the producer of REM , the man named by the label to write a "set " before the release of the disc) , lost in the raw simplicity of the seven more instrumental " Jam" on the second disc ( and stand face to face with the essence of a sound: sensational ) and highlight how , rightly , live in that makes up the third is not present "Smell Like Teen Spirit ." Oh, and then there is " Marigold " , a tiny seed and so fragile that will bloom in a few year the Foo Fighters. A moment no small feat . Let's focus on that and let the rest do his duty .

Why " In utero " now, after twenty years , it is still a distillate squassante of anger, life and death.

"Out of the ground
into the sky
out of the sky
into the dirt "

TRACKLIST

" CD1"
" Serve the servants "
" Scentless Apprentice "
" Heart-shaped Box"
" Rape me "
" Frances farmer will have her revenge on Seattle "
" Dumb "
"Very ape"
"Milk it"
" Pennyroyal Tea "
"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter "
" Tourette 's "
"All apologies "
" Gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip "
" Marigold "
" Moist Vagina "
" Sappy "
" I hate myself and want to die"
" Pennyroyal Tea ( Litt 1993 mix) "
" Heart-shaped Box ( Albini 1993 mix) "
" All Apologies ( Albini 1993 mix) "

" CD2 "
" Serve the servants " (2013 mix) "
" Scentless Apprentice " (2013 mix) "
" Heart-shaped Box" (2013 mix) "
" Rape Me " (2013 mix) "
" Frances farmer will have her revenge on Seattle " (2013 mix) "
" Dumb " (2013 mix) "
"Very ape" (2013 mix) "
"Milk It" (2013 mix) "
" Pennyroyal Tea " (2013 mix) "
"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter " (2013 mix) "
" Tourette 's " (2013 mix) "
"All apologies (2013 mix) "
" Scentless Apprentice " (Rio demo) "
" Frances farmer will have her revenge on Seattle " ( Laundry Room demo) "
" Dumb " (Word of mouth demo) "
"Very bee" (Rio demo instrumental) "
" Pennyroyal Tea " (Word of mouth demo) "
"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter " (Word of mouth demo) "
" Tourette 's" ( Word of mouth demo) "
" Marigold " (Upland Studios demo) "
"All apologies " ( Music source demo) "
"Forgotten tune" ( Rehearsal ) "
" Jam" (Word of mouth demo) "

" CD3 "
"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter "
" Drain You"
" Breed"
" Serve the servants "
" Rape me "
" Sliver "
" Pennyroyal Tea "
" Scentless Apprentice "
"All apologies "
" Heart-shaped Box"
" Blew "
" The man who sold the world"
" School"
" Come as you are "
"About a girl"
"Endless , Nameless "