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It's the 30th Anniversary of Nirvana's album In Utero. This is my favourite Nirvana album, and let me tell you why!
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Good album
As was ten, superunknown, dirt and so many more almost exclusively dead frontman grunge albums. (Yes i know eddys not dead, he swam himself back to shore using a ukele, was actually pretty clever)
Are they aging well?
Yea fuck it, im gonna say yes.
WRITE SOMETHING HAWKINS 😂
This channel and Justin is pure class.
@@brianconneely5920 Cheers Brian!
Hey bubba what about alice in chains? Or screaming trees???
My old bandmates, in their prior band, recorded a record with Steve Albini. The drummer, after listening to playback, wasn't happy with the drum volume, and Steve told him, "Well, you should have hit harder."
😂😂
Your old drummer famously was a total pussy. He may have been the last person that Steve raised the issue with. Fortunately life moves on. We now have Taylor Swift to live through... 🤷♂️🫤
I would agree with Mr. Albini
That’s good advice no matter who’s running the tape machine.
The funny thing is, he's probably the hardest hitting drummer I know.@@mitchellmtb7202
A bit of an aside but I’ve been to many a live Dave Grohl gig with one always standing out in my memory. I was front row of a Them Crooked Vultures concert - Dave’s drumming was so forcefully incredible that it felt like it went through my soul. I told my fellow concert goer at the end of the night it felt like I’d been impregnated with a drum beat. He thought I was weird but I thought it hilarious - still do 😂
😂😂😂 awesome
06:38 yes, he was a genius and a visionary man...he predicted how the music industry was going to evolve. There's an interview in which it's amazing how nearly accurate was he🥲❤
This one is a great record indeed. If you want to work with Steve i bet you can, based on how many albums go through his studio every year, it shouldn't be that hard to arrange.
Personally I think Milk It was prime Nirvana.
Down with Beat Detective and any other quntizing system that makes rock and roll after 94 sound like a robot made it!
"Teenage angst has paid off well" is such a genius line to start the follow-up to Nevermind.
Now I'm old and bored
@@Cookie-dr6iq it's the other way around
Self appointed judges judge.
@@michaellawlor5625more than they are told
It's "more than they have sold"
Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Steve Albini were all on Conan Obrien's podcast a few weeks ago, it was great. They talk about recording In Utero.
was a really great interview for sure
“I love The Melvins!”
This album literally changed my life. It took me from generic chart music and the latest fads to owning a guitar, a motorbike, having the friends and the wife I have. My path in life clearly and absolutely changed the moment I put in the cassette and heard that first chord in Serve the Servants. I'm forever grateful.
In Utero is one of my favorite albums of all time. Albini is one of the realest dudes in the industry, his only interest is capturing the truth of the moment. Kurt really was brilliant. What he may have lacked in technical prowess he more than made up for in melody and songwriting. If you take Heart Shaped Box, for example, and combine the chords (simple 5ths) with Kurts melody it becomes really interesting/complex. Thats part of the genius. It doesnt matter how simply you play an instrument when your melody and voice leading is that sophisticated. Even Teen Spirit has a super interesting melody for such a huge song. Its really analogous to the Beatles or Lennons solo stuff
Well said!
Kurt Cobain was pretty much obsessed with The Beatles so that explains it!
I love that so many people now point out how complex his songwriting actually was. The dude was honestly a next-level song writer - I think only he and the Beatles managed to bring such complex theory into such a popular sound! Incredible.
This album really is an absolute masterpiece. “Milk It” is probably the most grunge bit of music in existence, too. The entire album is just perfect.
I bought it the day it was released in 1993. We popped it in my buddy's skip prone car CD player and turned it up. It took a few listens to realize the flower growing in between the sidewalk cracks. Kurt's magic was his ability to make dissonance sound beautiful.
Justin Fucking Hawkins Rides Againnnnn! Here we are now! Entertain us! 🎸🎶🎶🎶
One of the best live experiences of my life was seeing Nirvana at Reading festival in 1992 I often wonder what Curt would have gone on to achieve had his life not have ended in such a tragic way.
Nice! They headlined right? Was watching reading 91 recently and it was before nevermind was released and the crowd during songs like come as you are and even slts were so quiet and it dawned on me that wow this is the first time they are hearing those songs and you could just feel something big. Plus Kurt jumping into the drums 😅 then 92 everyone is singing every word
Damn your a lucky human being
Kurt
In this regard, Krist Novoselic said that Kurt Cobain was so artistically gifted that he could have been either a painter or a sculptor.
Scentless Apprentice is one of my favorite Nirvana songs.
Albini's a brilliant guy. His studio is freaking amazing. I used to see him at the local breakfast spot once in a while and say Hi. Never had the nerve to say more than that, he's intense. I would love for The Darkness to record with him. In Utero is my favorite Nirvarna album by far. I so appreciate that you appreciate grunge. I don't understand people who don't like it, like I don't understand people who don't like cats.
I don't understand people who don't just let people like whatever they like. If you like grunge and cats, that's fine. But no need to spread hatred on those who don't. You are the reason there is so much intolerance in the world!! No wonder Albini ignored you! He must have smelt the cat-pee!!
@@mikemccaine4229I don't think it's that serious tbh. Like, I don't think someone saying they like grunge is why the world is messed up
@@Billiamwoods wtf are you on about? Completely misunderstood my point.
@@mikemccaine4229 I think I got it, it's just not that serious.
Cats are evil.
I was never really into Nirvana but I bought the MTV Uplugged in NY CD for Where Did You Sleep Last Night, fucking amazing.
Not their own, but that is Kurt’s best.
Same I was into madchester and raving in the early 90s, I respected nirvana but was a bit heavy, then I heard unplugged and fell in love, one of the greatest albums of all time imhi
It will be 30 years next April when we lost Kurt. It still hurts 😢
It still Kurts
Definitely my favourite Nirvana album ( though there all good) you can just feel the pain and passion in the songs as a reaction to Neverminds success and Kurt's state of mind. Powerful stuff. Nice one Hawkins.
This album changed my life. One of greatest albums of all time.
Funny you mentioned Queen “Jazz,” because that and “In Utero” were my first two CD purchases, on the same day, in 1993.
Both fantastic albums.
Fuck i love you! Articulate wordsmith with a beautiful intelligent breakdown of songs we all love.
Love seeing you go back through albums and older music, love you Justin! Nirvana is what inspired me to be in a band.
Same here! The first song I learned on guitar is About A Girl
Records used to all come out on Tuesdays, so we had a party in our apartment that Monday night, popped over to the record store for their special midnight release, brought back the CD, and cranked it like five times in a row before everyone went to sleep baked and drunk. That was a fun evening. College was great. God, I'm old.
I grew up in a suburb of Seattle. I was in middle school when the Seattle scene blew up. Back then we never used the term "Grunge". That was a label created by the media. In the early 90's tickets were very cheap. I could afford to go to a concert every weekend. I saw almost every Seattle band. The one's that are remembered today and a lot that are forgotten. The only exception was Nirvana. I regret not seeing Nirvana live when I had the chance. I assumed that I had time. When I was a teenager death didn't feel real. It became very real for me after Kurt passed.
Of course it's an invented term. But, it wasn't the media who created it. It was the music industry. The unpolished and underproduce sound that was signature to the big four was new to mainstream music, so a word was invented to describe the sound. It's how Stone Temple Pilots' debut album is considered grunge despite them being a hard rock band from California. People in the Pacific Northwest used the term grunge, but typically, it was by those outside of the culture. I grew up north of Seattle. My stepmom was Lane Staley's high school English teacher.
Solid album ❤
Love your music-listening faces. Can we put them on a range of mugs? Like the Warhol (?) Marilyn Monroe pop art. We could market them as JHRA Mug Mugs
That Steve Albini point is brilliant. You get EXACTLY what the band is. Nowhere to hide.
Great, glossy production can be brilliant, but there's a lot to be said for unpolished, real recordings. It's the essence of a band.
Production has to suit the songs. If Albini produced Nevermind, it would not have been the same record, obviously, and subsequently would not have been so successful. Yes it would have done very well, but it wouldn't have had the "radio sheen" that was essential at the time .... imo
@mikemccaine4229 that's true. But it still would have been what the band were. It is evident from their discography and live recordings that they weren't polished or radio friendly in essence as a band. Nevermind is the outlier in their catalogue really in terms of big production
@@Stewniverse 💯%
I was 9 when I got In Utero. I didn't even recognise it as the same band that did Nevermind. It hit me so hard I never got over it. Love Nevermind, but In Utero's still my fave.
You were 9 and your parents let you have an album with a song called 'Rape Me' in it?
@@PresidentHotdog Yeah, my dad was pretty chill about it. My mother less so. I believe she'd just thrown out my Use Your Illusion 2 cassette when In Utero arrived. Poignant!
@@prince13896 Yeah I get that. My dad let me watch Akira when I was 9, but my mum confiscated Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle.
If I need a banger, I just play The Cult 'She Sells Sanctuary' very loud.
You should listen to the conan o brien podcast, has dave, krist and Steve on there talking about in utero, came out few weeks ago
You don’t hear of bands recording for two weeks anymore and then the albums become so beautifully important to so many after the fact. The lyrics are such an incredible view of where he was even through his addiction. Think about that he was a junkie and genius when he wrote these songs. Absolutely tragic and a glimpse of of an artist that never changed his views til the end. Especially rape me as an anti rape song. So brave and fearless. It’s such an important collection of songs.
Rape Me is a great exercise in assumptions. It's probably my favourite song on the album - mainly for it's chorus - but boy is it awkward telling people unfamiliar with the song that it's my favourite.
If I drew a family tree of all of the music I love (the smaller branches would be music/bands I discovered through the bigger branches and these through the even bigger branches...) nearly everything would grow out of two big trunks: The little book of Bach's inventions and sinfonias I had when I started out on the piano, and Nirvana's In Utero.
The live sound of Albini's recording, the precarious balance between beautiful melodies and the always imminent chaos, the lyricism of Kurt (I brooded over these lyrics before I even really understood English), the unaffected expression of emotion in his voice, the strange harmonies that would come about when everything devolves into feedback and distortion, the different melodies happening at once, the individuality of each instrument... I could go on and on. So much of what I love about music is best and most purely expressed on this record.
Classic Nirvana ❤🎉❤
Yes, yes, Nirvana, Steve Albini, bla bla bla, but... you're wearing your fanciest jumper! Again! 🤩
Favorite Nirvana album ever. Very well mixed and unique in its lyrics and voicings of the chords.
In the Sonic Highways show that the Foos done when they were recording the album, for 1 of the songs they go to Albinis studio and while he's showing Dave Grohl about my fav Albini moment happens.
SA: so you'll see this room has a vent on 1 side and that goes down to the basement where there's an exact replica of this room.
DG: what's that for?
SA: acoustics, cos we essentially double the air in this room cos of it.
DG: that's so cool. Can i see down there?
SA: NO. Never.
Amazing! he gives zero fucks about stuff like that and shoots Dave down right away about it. 😂
Wonderful memories of the grunge era. I always, proudly, tell my eldest child that she is like she is (an uncompromising, lateral-thinking creative) because I was listening to Nirvana when I was pregnant with her. 🖤
best opening lines “teenage angst has paid off well now i’m bored and old”.
My favourite Nirvana album, but paying $410 Aussie for 5 CD special 30th anniversary or $749 aussie for 8 LP version is the anthesis of the anti-commercial pose of Nirvana. I already paid for the friggin 20th anniversary edition!
In Utero is my second favourite album after Jeff Buckley's Grace. Ah Kurt,, what an incredible songwriter he was. Makes me wish I was born 20 years earlier so I could have experienced their music live...
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter is my favorite on the album. Just raw.
This and Scentless... Pure rawness mixed with highly emotional vocals.
Thats what they opened with on their In Utero tour. There’s an MTV live version on YT (with Pat Smear) that’s killer
Killer track. One of the most underrated nirvana songs. Cool lyrics too. Definitely one of the best examples of Kurt’s lyrical songwriting techniques. Just a grab bag of witty contradictions and observations
Scentless Apprentice riff was by Grohl, there's an interview from the promotional tour where Kurt gives him credit.
Only the verse
@@FLC2593 Dave with the opening drum arrangement and guitar riff. Kurt wrote all lyrics.
@@spooley Kurt and Dave traded off lyrics from the book Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The opening is Dave's creation, a jam turned into an absolute gem of a song. I don't believe Dave ever topped it with FF. Only the first 2 Foos records interest me, they all begin to blend together after Color & Shape.
ruclips.net/video/MGHgMG5D7aM/видео.html
But Kurt wrote the chorus ,
Back when I bought this album I thought my parents sgt peppers album was from ‘ye olden times’ but today I’m realising it wasn’t that old at the time, compared to my 90’s collection today. (In 2023).
Conan O'Brien interviewed Dave, Krist, and Steve Albini a couple of weeks ago. Albini should moonlight as a talk show guest. Highly recommended.
My favorite Nirvana album as well
I was just a bit disappointed, when I first listened to this album, but it’s really stood the test of time and I definitely appreciate it more in’23.
In my opinion not a bad track on in utero. Still love it as much as I did when it came out
Great video! Honestly Justin, I would have happily watched you talk through every song on the album, when you wrapped it up I was sitting there thinking “keep going, this is awesome” (it’s my favourite Nirvana album too)
Heart Shaped Box is amazing. Kurt channelled such inner magic, the depth is what shines through. “Cut myself on angel hair and baby’s breath” is the line that gets me every time.
He was a superb lyricist, I think he spent more time on them than he cared to admit
@@dannyperfect9270 Totally agree he really cultivated his lyrics. His notebooks were full of jottings and ideas.
Can’t believe you still wear that Balenciaga hat!!!!!
Heart shaped box was something that Courtney love brought him, I think.
Love em. Part of me wonders what more was left in the tank, but another part of me is glad it was so finite. Everything released was awesome.
Under-appreciated album for sure. But to me and many other HARDCORE Nirvana fans, it will always be the best. Milk it is my favorite song.
Right there with you friend
Proper way to listen to this album is loud. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter is a ride.
When I saw the thumbnail for this video, I was hoping it was In Utero you were gonna pick! Undoubtedly their best work and of course the marvellous Steve Albini to boot. Absolute class, pure and honest work.
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle remains my favourite Nirvana song, but I can never say exactly why. Perhaps it's a perfect Quiet-Loud-Quiet song.
Fortunately got to see Nirvana in concert 3 times. One benefit to being old. Got to see ALL the grunge bands before they lost their lead singers.
Very jealous!
An old here, I saw Soundgarden pre-fame, and probably saw Kurt, Krist and Chad as they were hanging around the college I attended, but I don't remember as they were just another band in the scene and I was a bit impaired "occasionally."
Kurt supposedly destroyed his first guitar (in public) in our school's library. It could be hard to get research done at times.
Mark Lanegan was one grade behind me at middle school in Ellensburg, WA, but I only talked to him a couple of times.
@@jayfrank1913 impaired LOL. Good man
Jealous! I was 16 when I got into them in a big way. In 1994 I remember trying to get my friends to come and see them on the UK tour they had scheduled, but sadly no one was up for it (One of my friends was big into Pearl Jam, and the others were into the likes of G n R and Motorhead. Never went ahead anyway due to the Rome incident. Think if I'd been a few years older I might have ended up seeing them at the Reading Festival, which I first went to the following year in 95. At least I got to see Blind Melon before Shannon Hoon died
Lucky man
I had a ticket for the last Ireland one
Also my favourite Nirvana record!
Its odd. I've never loved any grunge bands the way I love Nirvana and I only started listening to them 3 years ago. I liked them so much, I decided to take up guitar. Good choice because a good chunk of Nirvana's songs are actually easy to learn.
I like a couple Soundgarden & Alice in Chains songs, I like Pearl Jam's early hits, and that's it. The others like L7, Mudhoney, and the Melvins, I can take or leave. Post-grunge... I don't particularly care for.
screaming trees.
@@erikhilsinger9421 Tried them and wasn't impressed. They sound like every other post-grunge band from the late-90s and 2000s
In Utero is one of the best albums ever!
A band without a single bad song. Just amazing.
Yes. One of the reasons Nirvana is my favorite band(apart from the heaviness, heavy duty drums and raw brutal and beautiful music) is that pretty much every song hits me right in the heart.
That’s a rare thing
This was always my favourite Nirvana album. Unbelievable song writing.
i just need to point out this: commenting on Nirvana's In Utero, and all that comes with it, while wearing a Balenciaga cap, surely says more about me than all...
It’s a rare thing to bring out albums and to listen to them and never get bored of listening to them. Great times late 80’s early 90’s, well obviously great as I was way younger! Aghhhh. Nice vid dude. ❤
Nirvana has always being that badass, timeless band I listened to in my craziest days until now haha it has this magic sound no one was able to reproduce despite is "simplicity" and how everyone ever who touches a guitar wants to learn it haah
You should've tuned your guitar a half step down for this one brother.
Marigold is a mega slept on choon
For me, In Utero is one of those albums where every time you listen to it you come away with a different favourite song
This album defined my teenage years as I’m sure it did for a lot of folks.
I still remember the feeling of hearing something so different and raw
I love that album. Sometimes I love to luxuriate in my own sadness too much and albums like this I love to immerse myself in when I'm in that mode. This is like a nostalgic browse through my teens and 20s CD collection. The originals of which ended up scuffed up in my car while trying to change to the next album 😅 😢
I always say that Nirvana is the best band of my world.
I think Kurt used different Japanese fender copies on this album. Such a great sound on this album. Dave wrote scentless apprentice.
He used one of Steve Albini’s aluminum guitars for Heart Shaped Box and Rape me. It was a Veleno guitar. He had his Mustang guitar and his Univox guitars as well.
No Japanese fenders on this one he got them afterwards for tour
Always been my favourite Nirvana album - Placebo used to do a blinding cover of All Apologies back in the day, may have had a little cry when I saw them play it at Sonisphere back in 2010. Give it a listen if you get chance, there are some decent quality videos of it around on RUclips.
This channel and Justin is pure class
I knew which album this was before I pushed play. Its my favourite Nirvana album for the songs, but also how raw but punchy it sounds. Steve Albini did an amazing job producing this
*Recorded* by Steve Albini lol
Brotha is riding again... AGAIN!
Bleach is their best album
Always dug this album too.
Always a toss up between In-Utero and the unplugged album for me,, they really were getting better and better
“One-take Albini”
In utero is a banger
Brian Adams 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah... that doesn't make you feel old at all... Still, wall to wall bangers are much better than wall to wall carpet 🙂
But not as good as wall-to-wall boobs.
Mr. Hawkins, it's getting hard to tell genuine reactions apart from irony at this point
I invite everyone to listen to (I believe it is called) Heart Shaped Tracks: A Soulful Tribute To In Utero. Fun covers with some great musicianship.
I agree I’m Utero was always my favorite! Super dark and the song writing was elevated to another level over Nevermind🤘🏻🤘🏻
I love your jumper - it looks home made. I know it's you doing the grunge vibe and it really works. Thanks for your lovely analysis of Nirvana.
Kurt Cobain: the album wasn’t personal
The album by a man who famously hated the press/paparazzi: AWWWAAAAYYYYY GO AWWWAAAYYYYYYYEEEHHH
Kurt Cobain in a nutshell
one of the best
Great raw album. Drugs ruined Cobain and that whole grunge scene unfortunately. I always wonder what the future would have held for kurt if he hadn't died. Its a tragic tale.
In Utero.. My favorite Nirvana album ever. Always has been, always will be! ✊
Albini got some killer sounds on there.. The drums in particular are to die for. 😎
As a 52 year old man, Unplugged is the one for me.
@@mikemccaine4229as a 600 year old shaman from the amazon rainforest. Why does your age matter at all?
@@jessemccann9711 Because, my poor misguided friend, when you are young, your musical tastes tend to resonate with how you feel. For example music with a lot of energy and loud guitars and thunderous drums mixed with lyrics about anxiety and frustration etc really hits the spot. As one gets older, the soul prefers to be sedated and resonates with ambience and acoustics.. I like all Nirvana's albums but as a a 52 year old, I tend to listen to their (astonishing) acoustic records . That is all. No need to get all spiteful and nasty about it. I'm pretty sure that's not the sort of behaviour Kurt would have appreciated. You will understand one day you senseless apprentice!! xx
Kurt's melodic sensibilities had fully developed, the songwriting was incredible, the raw "production" (Steve hates being called a producer), everything just meshed and made for the perfect album. 14 year old me was obsessed with the intro to Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, and wondered how the hell Kurt made his guitar do that. Finally figured out it was an EHX Polychorus, and searched for ages and paid out my ass for a super clean original unit (not a stereo reissue. I've owned them all and the reissue just doesn't quite do it), just to play those parts of the song and the Heart Shaped Box solo. That album basically sparked an obsession with that pedal that still lives today. The only piece of gear I own that I WILL NEVER SELL. EVER!
Wow I kinda went off path on a bit of a rant there. But yeah, hands down their best work. Truly a masterpiece!
I don’t give a 💩 about astrology but as an Aries, “ambitious, motivated and determined” made me lol! 😂 More like stubborn, impatient, single-minded yet conscientious loners who don’t suffer fools gladly.
As for Nirvana, I was 5 when In Utero was released and “rocking out” to ABBA and Deacon Blue… I think it’s safe to say the whole grunge scene passed me by. 😅 Really do need to check this album out at some point but the whole teenage-angst thing has long since fizzled out too. Sorry Nirvana, wrong time, wrong place 🤷🏻♀️
I respectfully disagree. I do like Serve the Servant, but overall In Utero is my least favorite of the 3 of Nirvana's albums. Heart Shaped Box is my *least favorite* of all Nirvana songs, probably because it's about Courtney Love's toxic Borderline Personality.
Nevermind is my first love with Bleach being a very close second. I think the unplugged Mtv performance would be 3rd. In Utero is the very bottom of the Nirvana oeuvre for me, personally.
"Pisces" could allude to a guy Kurt could have known of via Courtney, specifically as he was a good friend of Billy Corgan's who slept with her & broke them up, leading to Love eventually getting with him.
She cheated on Kurt, too, so, "eyes me like a Pisces" could possibly allude to an adulterer.
See also: Pisces Iscariot, specifically the song "Pissant"
I think Electrical Audio's day rate is about $1500 and for an additional $500 maybe SA at the desk. Go get 'em, Tiger
Nirvana Nevermind is a perfect album, a masterpiece. In Utero is good but not great IMO, but the production is stellar.
Kurt briefly lived on Spaulding Dr in LA, a few blocks away from the LaBrea Tarpits. There's a life sized recreation of a Mastodon stuck in a tar pit trap right at Wilshire and Fairfax.
I always thought that Kurt's reference to Pisces was really just a reference to the emotionally empty, blank-eyed stare of a fish (pisces). YMMV.