In Utero
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100
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.
90
In Utero is a lot of things — brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it's a triumph of the will.
80
At times rowdy and unnerving, at others disarmingly gentle, 'In Utero' sounds like a great band staggering around looking for a direction they can psychologically deal with. A mess, but a bloody entertaining one.
This album has just allowed Nirvana to acquire his rock legendary title. After "Nevermind" and its commercial interplanetary success, Kurt Cobain regrets that the majority of fans (teenagers especially) misunderstood the message. With "In Utero", Nirvana who could have chosen the path of ease and release a "Nevermind 2", decides to cut short with these fans, and finally make the music that really pleases him. "In Utero" has a heavier and dirty side than ... read more
Amazing
[SJO Counter: 37]
Ouch that was a harsh listen, still beautiful landscapes.
What Cudi tried but not laughable
[SJO Counter: 37]
Ouch that was a harsh listen, still beautiful landscapes.
What Cudi tried but not laughable
The distorted, howling, vicious lead guitars combined with Kurt's violent shrieks and twisted lyrics allow the band to create the most ghastly and disturbing album in their whole discography.
It's an album verging on self destruction. It's an album that relishes in the strange, the nonsensical, and the odd. It's an album that's one of the darkest, saddest, most harrowing statements Nirvana have ever made, and it's a statement that still rings horribly true. It's a self destruction album, by definition.
Favorite jams: Very Ape, Tourette's, Heart Shaped Box
Lest Favorite: Dumb
Favorite jams: Very Ape, Tourette's, Heart Shaped Box
Lest Favorite: Dumb
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Track List
- 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
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Added on: May 5, 2012