Nevermind vs. In Utero

Also, I still listen to Bleach and Incesticide, and then less frequently Muddy Banks, and then Unplugged almost never.

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Slack-jawed yokels, that's us.

I graduated High School in 96, so I see alt. rock parralelling my youth. And I loved it--it created a common bond in music. The cheerleaders listened to alt. rock and the freaks did also--come to think of it, there were no segregations like that. Everyone hanged out with everyone, boys with girls, jock with nerds, etc. There was a universal pop culture bond, because of this music. I remember all my alt. rock cds that I'd just let friends borrow as I borrow from them. Tool, Radiohead, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Filter, Green Day, NIN, Mudhoney, STP, Bush--all sorts. Now those bands have either went prog (radiohead, tool) became pop stars (Bush, Green Day), or have just begun to die out or die. I miss the days of integrity, I miss the days where numetal was a seedling you didn't have to worry about. I miss the days when emotional music could be listened to for fun with out 7string guitars overbearing your good time. I'm crying now. Shit.

The real tragedy of Kurt Cobain was that he was a great Power Popper but an average-to-lousy Punk Rocker.

All we want to see is the points system that you've adopted for the Radiohead vs. Tool thread being applied here.

Cry later, just don't tell us abt it.

the way i see it, Nevermind's is a great pop/rock album. the slick, watery metallic production serves the pop qualities of the songs really well, but at the expense of the more rawkin' parts IMO.

In Utero is more interesting to me, sonically and lyrically.

i think nowadays my favorite Nirvana album just might be Incesticide. it captures all the different sides of Nirrvana (sludge rock, pop-punk, indie pop, straight ahead hard rock) and has "Aneurysm", "Dive" and "Sliver", which are totally classic.

But maybe a picture would help; remember that illustration of Kurt Cobain with wings on at the gates of Heaven that ran in a late 1994 early 1995 Rolling Stone? That sums it up okay.

Even though I cannot stand "Breed" and "Terrirotial Pissings" (which may also give an indication as to why I don't rate "In Utero" quite the same way)

The first half of Incesticide is just about perfect, though (and if "Anueryism" had been added to that half instead of the second, it would have been more than perfect...)

I'll stick to my Killing Joke albums, at least they were ORIGINAL.

you'd have to be *mental* to prefer NEVERMIND.