In Utero is one of the craziest albums you could ever listen to. Kurt Cobain basically told the studio to kiss his ass and proceeded to do exactly the opposite of what the studio wanted out of Nirvana at that time.
That’s why it’s one of the most raw sounding albums of all time, leaning on acoustics and some absolutely nonsensical lyrics, by Kurt’s own admission. If you listen to some of the songs and feel like it doesn’t make any sense, that’s the point, it was jibberish.
Kurt Cobain was anti-social, yes, and even moreso anti-establishment, which is what Grunge Rock was all about. That’s part of why it only lasted about 4 years, you can only buck the system so much before people fall back into comfort zones, so people gradually started engaging with post-grunge preppy bands like Creed.
This song is the most brutal takedown of a spouse I can remember.
Yeah...”Radio Friendly Unit Shifter.” Anything but, but what a glorious racket.
I was never a Nirvana fan but you can really feel the pain in this song which I think makes it good art. That and the MTv Unplugged version of “The Man Who Sold The World” is one of the few covers I like better than the original.
Nirvana was like The Sex Pistols. The band that starts the genre by being the band that has musicians saying “Hell, even I could do better than that”.