Are bootlegs of the original mix of In Utero floating around?

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I would really love to get my hands on this.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

is this supposed rougher Albini mix a confirmed existing reality, or just a popular rumor? i've never really gotten a clarification.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Scott Litt only touch two tracks anyway? I think it was Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies, but I'm not 100% about the later. I think there was a number of CDs destroyed with a Scott Litt remix of Pennyroyal Tea, and there are promos of that knocking about.

The teenager in me still finds Cobains wish to remix and remaster Nevermind with a really crappy mixing desk and none of Andy Wallace's extra post-production sheen quite interseting, even though the resulting record wouldn't be a patch on the proper record.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, only Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies were touched. The new version of Pennyroyal Tea is on the Best-Of

According to Novoselic, the original mix on "Heart-Shaped Box" was marred, even scarred, by an effects-laden solo which carved through the song, and set his flesh crawling whenever he thought of it. "The band would say something, how great the album was, and it was like-'Yeah. Shame about that solo, though."'

I want to hear this version!

Finally, Cobain and Grohl agreed it could go, and this is where things go awry. It's now common knowledge that the band and Albini had a contractual agreement which stipulated no work could be done on the album once Albini declared it finished. It's less widely known, apparently, that Albini happily waived that stipulation the moment Cobain asked him about it.

There was no dispute, no problem, and all down the line, no bad feelings. Cobain added a few backing vocals to one song, Novoselic wiped the solo on another, and everyone was happy. It was as simple as that.

Taken from http://www.livenirvana.com/obitbday/articles/alt933.html

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Intriguing

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Mojo had an excellent article on this topic last year.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Mojo article is here:

http://web.tiscali.it/shellac/Mojo.htm

― meirion john lewis (mei), Thursday, 19 December 2002 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I just went to download that mojo file and received the following message - Siamo spiacenti, la pagina richiesta non puo' essere trovata!

which I guess means that it isn't there. Does anyone have another link to it?

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:15 (twenty years ago)

I think there was a number of CDs destroyed with a Scott Litt remix of Pennyroyal Tea, and there are promos of that knocking about.

Check the "walmart" version ("waif me" on the back) and you will have the remix version, there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Albini also claimed the mastering was intrusive. So we'll probably have to wait for a legitimate release to hear the real thing.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago)

hmmm try the second (1.8mb) link rather than the first (5.5mb) link. I got that to work.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago)

from the forum at electrical.com:

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: in utero albini mix

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babalot wrote:
hi, i have downloaded a version of in utero that seems to be the "albini mix". i don't know if it's been discussed yet (and how many times you read a similar question) but... is it pitched or what?

thank's :D
babalot
(from italy, excuse my english)

Hey Italy,

No problem from the bad english. Is so many better than the bad Italian!

I don't know the thing you down-load. Is maybe not real copy. Anyway, nobody here is to give any the shit about it. Nobody cares here. Is to be so private obsession for fan only, and only!

Okay? Beautiful! Ciao Italy!

Remember, nobody here gives the shit.
_________________
steve albini
Electrical Audio
sa at electrical dot com

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

and so albini's much-celebrated social ineptitude rears its abrasive head.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Ah Steve. It's hard not to get a chuckle from that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

the albini mix seems to be cropping up on slsk these days. can anyone confirm/deny that these are the 'real deal'?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I bought a tape of In utero demos years and years ago in the Barras in Glasgow. I assumed they were the 'albini demos'.
They were certainly rough. and very enjoyable.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

i'm checking some out right now. they're deffo a different mix. very ape & serve the servants sound fantastic.
though i'm sure i heard reports that the albini mixes were "unlistenable". these are nothing of the sort. but if they ain't albini mixes... what are they?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

is this slsk-able?

― piscesboy, Monday, 5 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Nobody here is to give any the shit about it. Nobody cares here.

― President Busch (dr g), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

and besides, i think it's quite easy to remaster the album a whole lot rougher yourself, put it up on slsk, and presto! i don't care!

― marc(drums) (marcdrums), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

+ add your own awful solo to heartshaped box. it's bound to carve through the song, and live up to the myth. i wouldn't care, though.

― marc(drums) (marcdrums), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Isn't the original Heart Shaped Box solo on the recent box-set?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

A few years ago I downloaded something like "In Utero - First Week Mix" from Sharing The Groove. That's the closest I've seen to something like this.

― subgenius (subgenius), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Remember, nobody here gives the shit.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

One of the more popular MP3 blogs had a couple tracks from this about a year ago. Can't remember which ones. I know I downloaded the stuff, but don't know where it is.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

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