He was leaving the band, and his wife not the World. Remember half of this album was written before and during Nevernind if you want to look at him in some dire straights. Dumb and Pennyroyal Tea were written before Heart Shaped Box
@@radiofoot1035basically he’s trying to say that this was a goodbye to the band and his wife (courtney love), also most of the material was written pre nevermind like radio friendly unit shifter, rape me, dumb and pennyroyal tea
@@xoomyboi I understand what he’s saying but I don’t understand the point mentioning this in response to my comment, it has absolutely nothing to do with what I said yet it was written in a way that was meant to dispute my claim
Timestamps: 0:51 Serve The Servants 6:25 Scentless Apprentice 14:44 Heart Shaped Box 22:20 Rape Me 28:28 Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle 35:00 Dumb 40:35 Very Ape 43:38 Milk It 51:19 Pennyroyal Tea 56:50 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (my personal favourite) 1:03:39 Tourette's 1:07:14 All Apologies
The title "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" is meant to be sarcastic. The rawness of the song and the weird outro instrumentals made it practically unplayable on mainstream radio. lol
In Utero is so raw and gritty. RIP to the great Steve Albini that helped bring this sound to life. Also, in regards to Rape Me, Cobain said that people didn't understand the Feminist anti rape message of Polly on Nevermind, so he wanted to write a song that really hit people over the head with the anti rape message.
Nevermind is solid. Tight. Definitely the best album, even if not everyone's favorite, and even though it has been criticized for being too polished. In Utero is darker, grittier, weirder. More dynamic and experimental. Feels much more personal. Nirvana's second best album, but that's not in any way an insult - it's indispensable and one of the greatest albums of all time, for sure.
It’s so funny how uncomfortable everyone gets when listening to Rape Me first time haha, luckily it’s an overly explicit song to talk about about a sadly existing matter
Kurt created this album to actually get rid of a lot of the people who liked Nevermind. He saw all the people that reminded him of the people he despised at his concerts after Nevermind came out and hated it. He was seeing the homophobes, racists, jocks, bullies, and just plain assholes at his concerts, so he made this record to get rid of them. Here is what he wrote inside the CD cover: “If you’re a sexist, racist, homophobe or basically an a--hole, don’t buy this CD. I don’t care if you like me, I hate you.”
If you want "nirvana but mostly the crazy parts", I recommend checking out EyeHateGod and Acid Bath. They're really grungy and rough. The lyrics and subjects are also pretty extreme at times, though. EDIT: About the 4th track. If I remember right, Kurt Cobain had a close friend who was assaulted, and blamed for it. She was told she was asking for it. The song is for her, expressing the pain and frustration and absurdity of it all. It IS crazy to scream that over and over, isn't it? So why would she? That's the point of it.
I'd also like to throw in the fact that Cage the Elephant's Thank You Happy Birthday has a good amount of material similar to the crazier aspects of Nirvana as well as some safer sounding songs
fun fact: for the song 'scentless apprentice' kurt took inspiration from patrick süskind's book 'perfume', which came out in 85 and was one of his favourite books. he often reread it on the airplane or when he was bored and it made me wanna read it too, it's really dark but the atmosphere is catchy. you can find this out from one of his last interview in 93 with 'Much'. I wonder if he would've liked the film adaptation of this book, too bad it came out only after his death :( rest in peace, kurt, you'll never be forgotten
Bro alr ppl say Taylor swift is a lyrical genius which yes if u listen to the lyrics there tuff. But this dude Kurt right here this dude spoke for not just the trees but for humanity itself bro was a lyrical genius and it was different but it was a good different a different everyone needed
Rape me: "When do you play this!?" well, we played it on portable boomboxes, usually in basements, while we tried to strum along with what ever instruments could be found. After hearing POLLY, this song wasn't a big surprise, to me at the time
With regard to the 4th track, it might be helpful to consider that Kurt's perspective was often that of a victim, but the point of the art was to reclaim power and overcome. Some songs were from the point of view of the victim, and some were from the point of view of the victimizer. In either case, the dynamic between those two is explored and a kind of reclamation of power from the victim is attempted. This wasn't just Kurt btw, this was common with artists from the 90s. Often these kinds of themes came from young males who had been bullied and abused. Jonathan Davis from Korn is another example. Also Trent Reznor from NIN, Marilyn Manson, and even Maynard from TOOL (Prison Sex, et al) did this kind of stuff.
It's also funny that this song was played on the radio all the time back in the day lmao. The 90s were better than today not because things weren't messed up (they were), but there was an outlet for edgy and explorative art. Edgy and provocative art sometimes gets more attacked and suppressed these days than back than (at least in the mainstream).
@@lycanthrogenic979it depends on how you do it. „Edgy art“ (I'd rather say provocative art) without any intent makes you look like a rebel without a cause, a wannabe essentially, with only the aesthetics of rebellion. See 6ix9ine. Controversial? Sure. Meaningful? Hahaha, no.
id argue even though he did write songs from a victim and victimizers viewpoint, i dont think he was trying to explore any dynamic , or that he inserted himself as the victim to overcome and reclaim. i think these songs served more as an expression of how disgusted he was with rape, and a fuck you to rapists. i think its insensitive to think that someone could attempt to reclaim anything like power back from their rapist or abuser, or that the dynamic between the two should be explored. once youve been raped, theres nothing that you could ever reclaim or even overcome, theres nothing to explore, the damage is permanent and life-ruining. theres a particular korn song that adresses that. i think its easy to mistake self-destruction and self-deprecation as expressing a sense of victim-hood. but In order to see yourself as a victim, you'd have to have self-esteem, which Kurt famously didnt have much of. If he was using his music to "reclaim power and overcome", then maybe he wouldn't have committed suicide. also in the 90s it was common for artists to do the "fragile young male who was bullied and abused" thing because kurt started that trend in the first place, not because it was commonplace. they debuted in 91, before the decade had even really started. and while i see the comparison between all these great bands, Korn and Nirvana couldnt be more opposite. When i see Jonathan jumping around manically on a stage in a black leather kilt, screaming and crying, theres just no comparison. Also Marilyn Manson is not very comparable to Kurt Cobain. Manson is a degenerate shock-value POS, if you want to see who he really is look at him with pictures without his edgy clown make up on, and read up on the stories and allegations he has. Not very Kurt Cobain like at all. I also dont see any evidence that maynard presents himself as a bullied and fragile artist, or that he did back in the 90s.
@@lycanthrogenic979I mean edgy art back then was actually artistic. Today edgy art is just trying to be controversial for its own sake. There is NO creativity.
Tourette’s is epic and so overlooked. I’m glad you liked it. Also, please check out The New Abnormal by The Strokes. It’s honestly the best album of 2020
Nirvana was one of the bands that got me into guitar, period. I dont care if people think its overrated or overplayed. I just love it. You should totally do more Death Grips, would kill to see No Love Deep Web reacted to! Or even some heavy music, like Crack the Skye or blood mountain by Mastodon?
You hit the nail on the head! When someone has asked me what my favorite Nirvana album is, I say depends on my mood because I like them all equally. What’s unique is, as a whole they’re all different from one another. That goes for the three studio albums as well as Incesticide and Unplugged.
to put you in context "rape me" song is not what you think if you do some research you will find out that it is obviously not encouraging anyone to do such thing but theres a lot of theories about what this song is about, some say it was about a victim that managed to escape and survive and he wrote rape me and polly because of this, that's just one theory
brother, it would be incredible if you would react to KORN - UNTOUCHABLES is the band's most worked album, with that you would already have the first 5 most important Korn albums and believe me you will like the al❤
In Utero they wanted to go back to their rawer sound. Nevermind got them all their popularity but it was more polished. A good one I like is Incesticide. It was after Nevermind but had B-sides, demos and covers in between their albums. It's actually sort of my favorite. It was rawer but didn't have the bleakness of In Utero
Kurt Cobain's voice is seriously insane, one second he's calmly singing to you and the next, screaming in your ears as loud and ragged as possible just letting it all out
my recommendation for some albums to listen to some more Radiohead - the bends have a nice life - deathconsciousness jeff buckley - grace Panchinko - d>e>a>t>h>m>e>t>a>l Cocteau twins - heaven or las vegas
Don't worry bro we all made the same assumptions listening to Rape me the first time, its an anti-rape song, Kurt was trying to blatantly write a song for rape awareness that people couldn't miss. He was a known feminist and did fundraising for rape victims and wrote many other songs for awareness.
the drumming is crazy,but you must do smashing pumpkins siamese dream and Mellon collie albums reactions ,2 of the greatest alternative and grunge albums ever made, they up there with nevermind as classics
You missed a key step. Nirvana released "Incesticide" in between this and NeVeRmInD. For one, to buy time, but also to weed out the mainstream fans they didn't like. Kurt said this was going to be the last Nirvana record with this "Verse Chorus Verse" formula that he was bored with and was also going to be the title. And they went out with a bang with this masterpiece. #Justiceforkurt
The funny thing is that Scentless Apprentice a riff that Dave Grohl came up with and showed Kurt, one of the only writing credits anyone else gets aside from the B-side "Marigold" completely written by Dave“Rape Me” was intended as a razor-sharp anti-rape anthem, an emblem of the feminist messages Kurt began channeling during the last two years of his life. That's not how it was taken. "It's anti-rape song, let me repeat that ANTI-rape song. I thought it would be a kind of justice if a man raped a woman and then went into jail and was raped himself"- Kurt
Please listen to the album Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses, one of the most underrated masterpiece rock albums of all time, There Was a Time, I.R.S, Street of Dreams, some epic ballads.
Dude! Rape Me he is really crying out about being taken advantage of by everyone and being left with nothing. Kurt’s poetic genius of beauty and ugliness yet with amazingly destructive music is why they are the greatest
Recommendation: The smiths - The queen is dead jeff buckley- grace serj takian- elect the dead The Strokes- is this it Rage against the machine- rage against the machine dillinger escape plan- calculating infinity
Dave Ghrol the singer/guitar player for Foo Fighters actually wrote that main guitar riff on scentless apprentice. You should listen to the outtake tracks Moist Vagina, Sappy, I hate myself and want to die, and Marigold they are better than most of the tracks on the CD.
Here’s my controversial opinion, in utero is better then nevermind, Kurt Cobain hated how mainstream nevermind is, he especially hates smells like teen spirit, nevermind is completely over played
