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Nirvana: Kurt Cobain (vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar); Krist Novoselic (bass); Dave Grohl (drums). Produced and Engineered by Steve Albini Additional personnel: Kera Schaley (cello). IN UTERO was nominated for a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. "All Apologies" was nominated for 1995 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal and for Best Rock Song. "Teenage angst has paid off well," growls Kurt Cobain on IN UTERO's opening fusilade, "Serve The Servants," suggesting that perhaps success has spoiled Nirvana. Not! IN UTERO is a howling, defiantly punkish recording, an unsentimental throwback to an era of garage band epiphanies and raw, unadorned rock and roll. On IN UTERO, Nirvana rails against both "alternative" conformity and polished notions of commercial rock with the anthemic rage of true outcasts. Engineer-producer Steve Albini has enabled Nirvana to replicate the savage immediacy of their live sound--the sound of a band without commercial aspirations or pretensions, just thrashing away for the sheer joy of noise. Drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic play with heroic power as guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Kurt Cobain overlays their growling beat with shards of broken glass and shattered dreams. On "Scentless Apprentice" each Cobain power chord is tempered by a series of calculated dissonances and melodic fragments, while the singer bares his vulnerability and anger through Nirvana's familiar soft-hard-soft-hard structures on "Heart Shaped Box" and "Rape Me." Through his crunching guitar and elliptical lyrics on various diseases and recoveries, Cobain lays bare the turmoil and resentments, the physical and mental ailments (self-inflicted and otherwise) that have colored Nirvana's notoriety. Instead of celebrating their success, Nirvana have fashioned a powerful cautionary tale on IN UTERO, to wit: that fame, acclaim and wealth are not liberating; that music like this cannot be produced on an assembly line, then be used once and tossed on a scrap heap; that life and music was a lot more fun when they were back playing for an audience of nine in some grungy club. IN UTERO is too strong and honest to ignore. Reviews: Q Magazine (7/01, p.90) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time". Q Magazine (10/01, p.73) - Ranked #20 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.53) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Spin (9/99, p.126) - Ranked #18 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Entertainment Weekly (12/31/93, p.115) - Ranked #5 in Entertainment Weekly's list of `The Best & Worst Records Of 1993' - "...In unleashed wails that truly sound like someone giving birth, Cobain does more than wrestle his demons in public--he strangles them...." Rolling Stone (9/16/93, p.63) - 4 1/2 Stars - Outstanding - "...Cobain essentially works according to one playbook, but it's a winner no matter how he runs it....IN UTERO is a lot of things--brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once..." Spin (10/93, p.99) - "...IN UTERO is as reckless as anything since Rocket From the Tombs went down in flames....it's not liberation but its absence that gets illuminated in Nirvana's songs....setting out to make the last punk album, [IN UTERO] sounds like the first one instead..." Entertainment Weekly (9/24/93, p.90) - "...IN UTERO makes it clear that the trio now has a signature sound ready for the patent office....Cobain writes terrifically punchy songs and [the band] ravages them into beautiful, brutalizing clatter..." - Rating: B+ DGC, 9130 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069-6197. Manufactured and Distributed in the United States by UNI Distribution Corp. ©1993 Geffen Records, Inc. Made In U.S.A. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Produced by Special Arrangement With Sub Pop Records. ADD DGCCD 24607


01	Serve the Servants	03:36
02	Scentless Apprentice	03:47
03	Heart Shaped Box	04:41
04	Rape Me	02:49
05	Frances Farmer will have her Revenge on Seattle	04:09
06	Dumb	02:32
07	Very Ape	01:55
08	Milk It	03:54
09	Pennyroyal Tea	03:37
10	Radio Friendly Unit Shifter	04:51
11	Tourette	01:35
12	All Apologies	03:49