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Being in a band like Nirvana was never going to be easy for Kurt Cobain<\/a> by the time that 1992 started. <\/p>\n They had become one of the biggest draws in the rock and roll industry overnight, and even if they were just trying to write the best songs that they could, being put in the same conversation as bands like Guns N\u2019 Roses and Metallica wasn\u2019t something any of them were particularly thrilled about. But if Cobain couldn\u2019t have control over what the media and the interviewers said about him, he could still have control over the music that he was making whenever he went into the studio.<\/p>\n And when Cobain decided to get started on his next record, he only had one goal in mind: don\u2019t make Nevermind again. Their second album did help turn the band into a global force, but he wasn\u2019t exactly in love with the idea of people listening to his tunes with that production. The whole thing sounded way too slick, but if that was the band flirting with the idea of making a pop-leaning record, In Utero was them dismantling everything<\/a> they built and starting again from scratch.<\/p>\n Everyone at the label might have been a bit wary of the band working with someone like Steve Albini behind the scenes, but his dry production is what made the album sound the best. Albini didn\u2019t want to throw in any fancy effects on the production, and even when the band did tweak a few things when it came to the vocals, that didn\u2019t stop people from getting audio whiplash when listening to \u2018Heart Shaped Box\u2019<\/a> and then going immediately to a song like \u2018Rape Me\u2019 directly afterwards.<\/p>\n There are points on the record where the album doesn\u2019t want you to listen to it, and considering the audience that the band had, that\u2019s not necessarily an accident. None of the band members were all that happy that jocks were showing up to their shows and thinking that their music was great, so if they could scare some of them away with tunes like \u2018Radio Friendly Unit Shifter\u2019, that was always a plus.<\/p>\n But sometimes the more mindless parts of the record were a bit too flimsy for Cobain\u2019s taste. \u2018Milk It\u2019 does have one of the strangest guitar breaks of the 1990s and features some of the most atonal verses that Cobain ever made, but even if you can feel the band having fun in the studio and even hear Cobain laughing on the tune, \u2018tourette\u2019s\u2019 is the kind of song that Cobain felt needed to go through a few more rewrites if it found its way onto the record.<\/p>\n The song isn\u2019t exactly a classic, standing at a little over a minute, but even compared to their greatest works, Cobain felt that the whole thing was way too hollow for him to give it the green light, saying<\/a>, \u201cThat song didn\u2019t need to be written\u2013if anything it hurt the album. I could scream my guts out at any time [and] fool myself and everybody else. At the time, I felt the majority of the album was a little too middle-of-the-road, straight 4\/4 rock songs and I wanted some faster songs. I guess I didn\u2019t have time to write anything better.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n Sure, it\u2019s not going to be on anyone\u2019s \u2018Top 10 Best Nirvana Songs\u2019 list or anything, but for all of the raw nerves on the rest of the record, this is the kind of change of pace that fits best with the record. They weren\u2019t going to go too outside the box, and considering their roots as a punk band, this is the closest that they\u2019ve ever come to sounding genuinely disturbed, especially with Cobain sounding like he\u2019s on the verge of insanity by the time he hits the final few lines of the song and starts rambling incoherently.<\/p>\n
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