Nirvana - In Utero [PA] (CD)
ORIGINAL 1993
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O
verwhelmed by sudden success, Nirvana promised to take a harsher, more
abrasive route on their second major-label release. Enlisting
Chicago-based noise maven Steve Albini (of Big
Black fame), Kurt Cobain and company succeeded in producing a
record that was violent, disillusioned, and deeply moving. Every song
reads like a commentary on the cost of fame ("Serve the Servants") and
the unhealthy relationship between performer and fan ("Milk It"). Of
course, they might all simply be about Courtney
Love. Gossip aside, there is no denying the sheer power of Cobain's
songwriting, his singing, and the band's amazing, visceral power.
Cobain even manages a John
Lennon-like mantra at the end of the heart-wrenching "All
Apologies." "All in all is all we are," he intones repeatedly, only for
Cobain that's no consolation.
Release Date: 1993/09/21
Track
listing
1. Serve the Servants
2. Scentless
Apprentice
3. Heart Shaped Box
4. Rape Me
5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
6. Dumb
7. Very Ape
8. Milk It
9. Pennyroyal Tea
10. Radio Friendly Unit
Shifter
11. Tourette's
12. All Apologies
Product Details
- Audio CD (September 21, 1993)
- Original Release Date: September 21, 1993
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Explicit Lyrics
- Label: Geffen Records
Kurt
Cobain Biography
Kurt Donald Cobain was the leader of Nirvana, the multi-platinum grunge
band that redefined the sound of the nineties.
Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquaim, a small town
140 kilometres south-west of Seattle. His mother was a cocktail waitress
and his father was an auto mechanic. Cobain soon moved to nearby
Aberdeen, a depressed and dying logging town.
Kurt Cobain
Biography
Kurt Donald Cobain was the leader of Nirvana, the multi-platinum grunge
band that redefined the sound of the nineties.
Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquaim, a small town
140 kilometres south-west of Seattle. His mother was a cocktail waitress
and his father was an auto mechanic. Cobain soon moved to nearby
Aberdeen, a depressed and dying logging town.
Cobain was for most his childhood a sickly bronchitic child. Matters
were made worse when Cobain's parent's divorced when he was seven and by
his own account Cobain said he never felt loved or secure again. He
became increasingly difficult, anti-social and withdrawn after his
parent's divorce. Cobain also said that his parent's traumatic split
fueled a lot of the anguish in Nirvana's music.
After his parent's divorce Cobain found himself shuttled back and forth
between various relatives and at one stage homeless living under a
bridge.
When Cobain was eleven he heard and was captivated by the Britain's Sex
Pistols and after their self-destruction Cobain and friend Krist
Novoselic continued to listen to the wave of British bands including Joy
Division the nihilistic post-punk band that some say Nirvana are
directly descended from in form of mood, melody and lyrical quality.
Cobain's artistry and iconoclastic attitude didn't win many friends in
high school and sometimes earned him beatings from "jocks" Cobain got
even by spray painting "QUEER" on their pick-up trucks. By 1985 Aberdeen
was dead and Cobain's next stop was Olympia. Cobain formed and reformed
a series of bands before Nirvana came to be in 1986. Nirvana was an
uneasy alliance between Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and eventually
drummer and multi-instrumentalist Dave Grohl
By 1988 Nirvana were doing shows and had demo tapes going around. In
1989 Nirvana recorded their rough-edged first album Bleach for local
Seattle independent label Sub-Pop
In Britain Nirvana received a lot of recognition and in 1991 their
contract was bought out by Geffen, they signed to the mega-label, the
first non-mainstream band to do so. Two and a half years after Nirvana's
first C.D. Bleach was released they released Nevermind, a series of
different, crunching, screaming songs that along with it's first single
Smells Like Teen Spirit would propel Nirvana to mainstream stardom.
Smells Like Teen Spirit became Nirvana's most highly acclaimed and
instantly recognizable song. Not many people can decipher it's exact
lyrics but Cobain used a seductive hookline to hook the listener.
Nevermind went on to sell ten million copies and make a reported $550
million (US) leaving Nirvana overnight millionaires. Cobain was shocked
at the reception of his highly personal and passionate music repeatedly
telling reporters that none of the band ever, ever expected anything
like this. It quickly became obvious that the obsessively sickly and
sensitive 24yr old was not going to cope well with the rock'n roll
lifestyle. "If there was a rock star 101 course, I'd really have like to
take it," Cobain once observed. Cobain fell into heroin in the early
90's, he said he used it as a shield against the rigorous demands of
touring and to stop the pain of stomach ulcers or an irritated bowel.
Through the touring and pressure Cobain continued to write his very
personal acutely focused lyrics.
Cobain was distressed to find out that what he wrote and how it was
interpreted could quite often be miles apart. He was appalled when he
found out that Polly a heavily ironic anti-rape song had been used as
background music in a real gang-rape. He later appealed to fans on the
Incesticide liner notes "If any of you don't like gays or women or
blacks, please leave us the fuck alone." It was to no avail, Cobain
found that as an overnight millionaire musician control was something he
had very little of. Cobain also worried that his band had sold-out,
that it was attracting the wrong kind of fans (i.e the type that used to
beat him up.)
In February 1992 Cobain skipped off to Hawaii to marry the already
pregnant Courtney Love. Later in the year Nirvana released Incesticide
and in August Cobain had hospital treatment for heroin abuse. Shortly
after Frances Bean Cobain was born. In early 1993 In Utero was released
into the top spot on the music charts. In Utero was widely acclaimed by
the music press and it contains some of Cobain's most passionate work.
In Utero was a lot more open than Nirvana's previous albums. Songs like
All Apologies and Heart Shaped Box detailed aspects of Cobain's
sometimes shaky marriage, other songs like Scentless Apprentice detailed
the agonies and struggles of Cobain's experiences.
Nirvana embarked on a support tour and recorded and filmed an
"unplugged" (acoustic) performance for MTV in November of 1993.
Nirvana's choice to honour bands and people that had influenced them and
Cobain's passionate and intense vocals especially on "Where Did You
Sleep Last Night?"silenced many of their who had labeled Cobain
talentless. Rumors circulated that the MTV Unplugged compilation would
be Nirvana's last album and the band were splitting up.
Cobain was a gun fanatic and always had several in his possession or in
various forms of confiscation. In the northern winter of 1993-94 Nirvana
embarked on an extensive European tour. Twenty concerts into the tour
Cobain developed throat problems and their schedule was interrupted
while he recovered. While recovering Cobain flew to Rome to join his
wife who was also preparing to tour with her own band.
On March the 4th Cobain was rushed to hospital in a coma after an
unsuccessful suicide bid in which he washed down about fifty
prescription painkillers with champagne. The suicide bid was officially
called an accident and was not even made known to close friends and
associates. Several days later he returned to Seattle. Cobain's wife,
friends and managers convinced Cobain, who was still in deep distress to
enter a detox program in L.A. According to a missing person's report
filed by his mother Cobain fled after only a few days of the program.
Cobain was cited in the Seattle area with a shotgun. Days later on the
5th of April he barricaded himself into the granny flat behind his
mansion, put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. On Thursday
April the 7th ~ two days after a medical examiner says Cobain shot
himself and the day before his body was found police say Courtney Love
herself was taken to hospital in L.A. for a drug overdose. Released on
bail, Love checked herself into a rehab center but left soon after a
friend called her the next day with news of Cobain's death.
Cobain's body was found when an electrician visiting the house to
install a security system went round the back of the house when no one
answered the front door and peered through windows. He thought he saw a
mannequin sprawled on the floor until he noticed a splotch of blood by
Cobain's ear. When police broke down the door they found Cobain dead on
the floor, a shotgun still pointed at his chin and on a nearby counter a
suicide note written in red ink addressed to Love and the couples then
19 month old daughter Frances Bean.
The suicide note ended with the words "I love you, I love you." Two days
after Kurt Cobain's body was found about 5,000 people gathered in
Seattle for a candlelight vigil. the distraught crowd filled the air
with profane chants, burnt their flannel shirts and fought with police.
They also listened to a tape made by Cobain's wife in which she read
from his suicide note. Several distressed teenagers in the U.S. and
Australia killed themselves. The mainstream media was lambasted for it's
lack of respect and understanding of youth culture.
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