In Utero

Unfortunately, not my favorite album

No matter which way I slice it, I just don't like Nirvana very much.

i had to unblock nirvana on spotify for this they’re getting blocked again Serve The Servants: 2/5 Scentless Apprentice: 1.5/5 Heart-Shaped Box: 3.5/5 Rape Me: 1/5 Frances Farmer: 2.5/5 Dumb: 3/5 Very Ape: 2.5/5 Milk It: 2/5 Pennyroyal Tea: 2/5 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter: 2/5 Tourette’s: 1.5/5 All Apologies: 2/5

I've enjoyed the radio hits (Heart-Shaped Box, All Apologies), but overall still just not a huge grunge fan.

Had high hopes for this one, but it’s just the same grunge song over and over. Cobain’s got great vocals on it and the instrumentation is solid, but the songs just didn’t do it for me.

I feel like I'm supposed to like this, but something is just missing. I think it's that the instrumental music is simply not very interesting- it sort of sounds like punk but without the spirit.

This is not for me but I understand why it’s an important album

Some art isn't meant to please but provocate. If nothing else "Rape Me" does that. Whilst I like the intent, I also don't think it conveys it well without explaination, but can believe it does for others. It is rather unappealingly repititve though. Otherwise, it's heavy distortion and blare noise. I liked "Dumb", "Very Ape", and "All Apologies"

Rough start, decent songs then i kinda just lost interest. I was not pleased and that was a bummer

Was excited about this album and felt a bit let down. I know they were grunge and maybe that’s just not my shit. Low key smelt like teen ass instead of spirit.

Alls ekki mikið fyrir svona rokk en líklegast mjög fínt ef maður hlustar oftar

Band that started the grunge scene. Music ok, but overrated. Overrated because of Kurt Cobain’s death. Some good music.

Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies are great, otherwise I think grunge is not my genre... :/

Not my vibe, oasis fan hea

I’m aware Nirvana are a band you are meant to like - however, a handful of tracks aside, I don’t get the appeal. “Heart-Shaped Box” and, to a lesser extent, “All Apologies”, are good. The rest is woeful. Kurt Cobain’s voice is like nails scratching a blackboard at the best of times but he really takes the biscuit on “Scentless Apprentice”. Questionable title aside, I can’t hear “Rape Me” without imagining the Richard Cheese version instead. I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work, but alas. The rest left so little of an impression on me, except some more screeching in the last 1 or 2 tracks, that I remember little about them.

Too screamy for me - included the iconic "Rape Me", which is not a great message but is at least a mostly enjoyable song to listen to. Ends strong with "All Apologies," probably the best song on the album - but I would not choose to listen to it again.

Not really for me. I enjoy the instrumentals at times. I don’t enjoy the constant yelling.. it’s just not for me. This album feels very emotionally charged and I feel as though the yelling weakens the impact for me. I also didn’t like the song where he just screamed “rape me” for like a minute straight. I do bet that there’s some underlying meaning and link between songs but I don’t think I can disregard the flaws in my eyes(ears?).

Whilst I *appreciate* Nirvana, I greatly prefer their contemporaries and successors. In Utero, as a sum of it's parts, is way too raw for me - I prefer Nevermind's more mainstream feel - although some of the tracks are very good, specifically Heart-Shaped Box and Very Ape.

Trying to like this but more loud and boring with tuneless bellowing by Cobain than songs that do anything for me.

personally i don’t find myself leaning towards loving hard rock, still an okay album. i just don’t really enjoy hard scratchy lyrics with really no meaning but my favorite song is all apologies

This is the final album from Nirvana, a band that I never liked. Tracks 2, 8, and 11 consisted primarily of (if not all) screaming. The last track was ok, but ran on a bit too long. Everything else was forgettable or too repetitive.

At times bland, at other times just unpleasant. This isn't for me. 2/5.

The droning of the guitar in combination with Kurt's distinctively raspy voice are definitely an art-style - sadly that alone isn't all that pleasant, and that's pretty much all there is to this album. The instrumentation is relatively samey throughout and sadly Kurt's voice isn't all that interesting after the first 2 minutes either. The album sadly ends up feeling relatively repetitive, monotonous and uninteresting throughout - the lyrics are somewhat unhinged, which I would usually appreciate, but - it doesn't really end up landing.

I like some Nirvana, but most is too grungy for me. 2.5, rounded down, since I'm more likely to turn it off than tolerate it.

Album is fine, better than some of the previous and I do like some Nirvana. Cobain's voice is good on most songs, though I don't really like it when he does soft singing. Songs like Scentless Apprentice I like with the screaming, though the rest of the band I generally find to be lackluster on all the songs.

a little too rah rah rah for me. took me multiple listening sessions to get through the whole thing. maybe i just don't get it. album cover is cool tho. saved: dumb, radio friendly unit shifter, tourette's, all apologies.

If this was a band on at the green door, I would go to the smoking area

Not really the kind of thing I like. Some of the screaming was fun, and some interesting lyrics, but musically it didn't grab me.

Every other song destroyed my ears, which I think was Cobain's point all along.

2.5 a mixed bag for me

Just a lot of shouting? Thought I’d like it but too angry for me

inget emot nirvana, men detta album var ganska tråkigt

Thought I would like it but a little too hard core for my taste.

This.................... this.......................... *gets hard-hat ready* really isn't that good is it.

lots of screaming dont scream please not very enjoyable not gonna lie 2/5

I don't know. I never really felt this one. I think it just comes down to how bleak the damn thing is, almost to the point of self-parody. (The way he sings, "guess I'm just happy," for example, has always seemed too on the nose.) So yeah, I see lots of people love this one. Good for y'all. I'll pass. And I know a 2 is a little ridiculous, but today I'm giving it my personal rating, as opposed to bonus points for influence or whatever.

Did not love it. I’m just not a big nirvana guy I don’t really get it. I like the hits but besides that had trouble with this one

Meh just not for me

As much as I have heard and enjoy Nirvana's 'hits', this project is forcing me to come to terms with the fact that I don't connect with so much of their music. I get that it's is absolutely seminal to an entire genre of music and to my generation, but that doesn't mean it's for me. That said, god damn I love All Apologies.

What's that weird squeaking sound the car's making? It's the music! Never mind, thankfully their other album is better.

Another thing this challenge has affirmed for me is that even though I’m the exact age to love Nirvana, I don’t. Never did. One or two good songs and the rest is noise to me. 2.5/5

I think track 3 heart shaped box was the one I liked, overall not feeling the album. 2

Jag går helt emot Fredrik och hävdar att det här absolut inte är en forsättning på Nevermind, nån enstaka låt kanske men inte som helhet. Det här är mycket bökigare, inåtvänt, hårdare och sämre. "In Utero" är Nirvana som ett rockband snarare än det punkband som gjorde "Nevermind", nånting har hänt längs vägen. Därför är det så att det mer melodiösa funkar bäst här, "Heart shaped box" och "Pennyroyal tea" är exempel på detta. Riktigt så var det inte på Nevermind, där energin stod för det bästa. En hel del är hårt och skränigt på In Utero men saknar den där punkenergin. Utan att veta så känns "Very ape" som en gammal låt, för den har just den där punkiga energin som påminner om hur dom lät på Nevermind. Nämda låtar plus "Serve the servants" är jättebra, "Rape me" och "Frances farmer..." är bra. Däremot är de två mer akustiskt drivna "Dumb" och "All apologies" tämligen hopplösa och resten är ren trams. Kanske bör man säga nåt om produktionen också, men jag nöjer mig med att påtala att det gjordes en helt ny mix 2013. Det var inte för inte. Den klarar inte trean riktigt, men tvåan är stark

Undrar om inte Nirvana kan vara ett av världens mest överskattade band. Till viss del beror det på att andra grungeband är så överjävligt dåliga (Pearl Jam) att man luras att tror att detta är bra. Här finns spår som är okej, men mer än så blir det inte.

Väldigt stökig skiva. Några bra låtar men jag inser att jag är en Nevermind-man.

I’m not a big fan of Nirvana’s music overall. I appreciate a few of the more popular songs. But sound wise it’s different and I can see why it stood at the time.

Fin, lidt for grungey til mig. Men fedt at blive endnu mere skarp på Nirvanas lyd

I’ve never listened to this whole album, just the songs that have made the radio. I like two of them, but the rest I could’ve done without.

Disappointment after Nevermind

not for me

I will say this again. I. Am. Not. A. Grunge. Fan. I find the genre to be incredibly anti fun. I’m fine with not fun music but grunge seems to be viscerally and openly anti fun and it’s not something I like. All of this to show how I feel about grunge’s crowning act. I do not like Nirvana. I am not immune to understanding the how and why of their influence and popularity but I don’t like them. In Utero opens with “Serve The Servants” a fine opener. But “Scentless Apprentice” has one of the most annoying vocals I’ve ever listened to and it sucks. “Heart-Shaped Box” is quite good and the only song on this record I actually like. “Rape Me” is ok, “Frances Farmer…” is ok. “Dumb” is ok. “All Apologies” is ok. The rest of the record is full of really annoying vocals and subpar music. The production is really annoying it feels as though it’s specifically geared to make me dislike this album. It feels deliberately produced in the most unappealing way possible.

I don't think I'm okay with this...having a guy scream R**e Me for a few minutes...I need therapy.

I never got into the whole grunge scene. Never found a Nirvana song I liked enough to play it on purpose. But yeah, I figured I'd be hearing them on this project and thought maybe I'd develop at least a little appreciation for them? Well, there was the "MTV Unplugged in New York" album, and I enjoyed that (4 stars!) But their regular albums? Looking back, I see that Nevermind got a 3/5 rating from me. This one's going with a 2 so I'll finally have someone on my "controversial artist" list.

Eh. Didn't enjoy listening but can appreciate some of the songs

Nowhere near as good and catchy as nevermind but that was the plan. A few songs sound similar to bleach and nevermind. The second star is for heart shaped box

I just never really got into the whole Cobain thing - it just didn't hit me like it seemed to hit everyone else. And listening to it some 30 years later it still kind of a miss for me. Not terrible by any means, but just not anything that I would choose to listen to.

Nothing special or anything we hadn’t heard before (which I guess is why Albini was chosen to produce). Highlight is probably the addition of cello on a couple of tracks.

All nirvana songs sound the same. Slow start, same beat, load finish. Same is boring

Abrasive. Didn’t like listening to the majority of this. All Apologies saves it from one star.

you know what, this was good. none of the songs were notable enough for me to save to the playlist tho..

NOT my vibe

This grunge album has a raw, abrasive energy stemming from slashing guitars, pounding drums, and anguished vocals that frame lyrics shifting between searing vulnerability and caustic irony.

Jag gillar fan inte Nirvana, tycker inte det är särskilt bra.

Legendary album, but like with all legends disappointing once experienced.

Ergendwie esch das ned sälbstverständlech dasses eim stört, wenn e Luutsprächer oder Chopfhörer kabott tönt. Mech zomendest störts halt doch e chli, vorallem woni s Albom s erschte mol of mine Chopfhörer glosst ha. Debi hani s gfühl gha dass de Chopfhörer do ned nochemag. Guet, losemers halt of ere Musigbox. Debi heds sech besseret, aber halt doch emmer no hörbar do. Das heds klar gmacht: Sie hends äxtra igfüegt. Wieso?? De ganz klari Star, zomendest i mine Auge, esch i dem Albom Heart-Shaped box. Es fod erstuundlech sanft met nome ere Rockgitarre ah, ned wie i Serve The Servants wo du zerscht mol vom ne luute kakophonische Ton erschlage wersch. Denn bauts langsam uf met Schlagzüg ond Vocals bis es de s erschte mol i Refrain ine god. Im ganze Lied merkt mer zwar debi scho ah, dass es vo de gliiche Band esch, wel halt doch einigi Elemänt emmer weder vorchömed. Das esch aber i dem Fall nüd schlächts. Im rechtige Momänt send nämlech die Schrei, herte Rockgitarre ond intensive Schlagzüügschläg sehr passend ond gäbed im Song vel Energie ond e eigete Touch. Grad de nöchsti Song fod eigentlech au rächt velversprächend ah. De Refrain chond de aber doch e chli sehr plötzlech ond chond eifach nömme abe ond wenn scho denne weder komplett. Wahrschiindlech stellt das ergend Gfülsschwankige inere Depression dar, was vom Tetel "Rape Me" no wiiter onderstötzt werd. Es esch ned schlächt, aber es bez meh abwächslig wörd halt scho no guet tue. So verhaltet sech au de räscht vom Albom. Luut, Liislig, Luug. Das völlig öberdtähit, zom teil onschöni Verzerrige ond depressivi Lyrics. Wels aber zom teil einzelni Usnahme ged ond Heart-Shaped Box doch no e Banger esch, geds grad no so 2 *.

Special for it's genre and time, but feels dated. I'm getting bored listening to these songs. I'm giving it 2 stars for it's significance. Favorite tracks: All apologies

The hits are good, the rest is very much not good

Too abrasive for me

It's alright honestly. Historically significant but almost none of the songs are nearly as epic or memorable as the average song on Nevermind

OH MY GOD FINALLY an album i recognize after pure 70's slop i finally got an album i was actually interested in listening to, and.... sure i like it. i'm not gonna go out of my way to listen to any of these songs on my spare time, but it's good to finally have done a full listen to such an iconic album. that one song where kurt started screaming kinda took me off guard decent

I feel like Nirvana made music that they loved and tried really hard to make it sound good. What made their music listenable was their energy and authenticity. 2.2 outta 5

Oof…

There is just way too much of this that I don't like at all to rate it higher even though there are part I like. 2 stars or D+.

I really love Nevermind, but this album is just screamy and loud and feels to me like the band was just attempting to sound really pissed off all of the time. I was so thankful for "All Apologies" by the time it rolled around because it was a balm to my bleeding ears.

Wild listen in a high stress state.

Wow this one's dark, and a bit hard to listen to. I'm sure it rates high but I didn't much like it.

Too angry and sad for me.

Hey... it's rock... and it resonated with a LOT of people... the entire grunge genre bypassed me, however... i never got Nirvana... and listening to this album, i thought i would find some new common ground that we didn't have back then... but, no... "Serve The Servants" starts out with cacophonous noise... which continues through the second cut, the unlistenable, "Scentless Apprentice"... lol... good title though... "Heart Shaped Box", which is a bit of a drone... but, a fairly cool song... "Rape Me" starts out with the same riff as "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which is not on this record... then it becomes more noise... the rest of the album is just as noisy and tuneless... how these guys get/got a lot of respect totally escapes me... when people talk about Kurt Cobain as being some kind of "messiah" and rock "god", all i can do is cringe... to me he sucks... out loud... sorry Cobain fans... and as for the drummer... hey... that's where he should've stayed too... he fronts the Foo(L) Fighters... who are almost as bad as Nirvana, lol... "Dumb" is a song on this album... and should've been the title cut... "Very Ape" makes me thinks primates were involved in the writing and production... "Milk It" is what these clowns did... until KC's untimely death... thankfully, and not soon enough, this cow patty ends with "All Apologies" the closest thing to a "tune" on the record... i would give this zero stars as totally worthless... but... i give it TWO... for how many big balls it took to put this SH*T out.

Nirvana are an absolutely legendary band, unfortunately their style of music just doesn't do much for me. There are certainly elements of this album I enjoyed, and the last track is great, but the rest of it I just couldn't get into.

A couple of great songs with a lot of other noise.

Nirvana just doesn't do it for me. I find them really dull.

Jotkut biisit, tai ainakin jotkut kohdat joistakin biiseistä, oli jopa todella hyviä, mutta sitten toiset olivat aivan kauheita. Hyvä albumi jos haluaa kuuroutua. Jos siis niin ehtii käydä ennen kuin vapaaehtoisesti revit korvasi irti. Suosittelen kyseiseen aktiviteettiin erityisesti kappaletta "Tourette's", joka tulee kummittelemaan ainakin minun korvissani koko elämäni. Joo o, ei oo mikään mun lempigenre. Vika biisi oli sentään aivan nautinnollista kuunneltavaa.

album no. 2, hopefully the next album I get is one I haven't heard before. great album for what it is, but what it is is just the start to a genre that became obsolete after a decade.

HEY, WAIT

I guess all the songs are on Nevermind.

Lol-ing at some of the title tracks on this album...the 90s were a time. I just couldn't get into this. Angst is not my vibe after all.

I wasn't expecting much of it, mostly because I once tried to listen to the whole thing. But, after (finally) listening to the full album, it just feels bad and bland. There were a few songs that weren't that bad or I even liked, but this album is just too much. And it's too much grunge for today too. If Nirvana was successful is because of the times in which they were making music, but they are nothing special, and, even sometimes, they are bad... Like really bad! There are other ways to try to avoid to be mainstream (if it was really what they wanted, which I'm not really sure to be true).

One good song! The rest was painful!

Did not enjoy this one.

i recognise how this was considered a great album for the arrangements and lyrics, but not my style

An album that’s cooler to listen to them talk about than listen to imo, still good. I prefer Nevermind though :) basic! Haha

4/10

This is bad music disguised as good music. It has all the interesting themes, rockin instruments and intense vocals that should mix together to form a good album. And yet I'm bored as hell.

I've always appreciated bands that take risks, and In Utero, when compared to the Nevermind, is a risk. Where Nevermind is more mainstream, In Utero is more visceral and much more punk. And to me feels very much like a 'don't fence me in' breakout of routine type album. The sound almost alienates the listener with songs like "Scentless Apprentice" and "Tourette's". The album is less polished by design and feels like it is just vomiting forth rage, emotion, dissatisfaction and it delivers. But while I can understand it is an important album, I can't say that it resonated with me very much, both in '93 and now.

Completely overrated album

Surprisingly boring??? Only track I actually liked was All Apologies

Again, not a fan of Nirvana. Nevermind was a pretty good album, but I got tired of it quickly. This follow-up album was never on my playlist, and I got really sick of hearing "Heart Shaped Box" on the radio.

I am not a grunge fan and I honestly never understood Nirvana hype. I understand why they are important, and I could tell good melodies and good live vocals in the songs...butthey are so boring. The overwhelming screaming, why??? Two satrd because the instrumental is not too bad, but I honestly think they are too overrated

Parempaa Nirvanaa minusta. Edelleen Cobainin ääni pidemmän päälle rasittaa mutta vähemmän kuin Nevermindissa.

I thought that this album was okay. I'm, so far, not a big fan of Nirvana or more specifically the grunge genre. This felt like garage rock, which is really cool in it's own right, but I didn't love the grittier songs with grotesque lyrics (which I do realize are present in Heart Shape Box), and blasty vocals without substance. It's about presentation and context; this album wants to be too much and in your face, and that's just not my vibe. Favorite songs: Heart Shaped Box Dumb

A little grungy for me.

A little too much screaming for my tastes

Over rated

It was obvious that Kurt Cobain was going through a lot of pain. I just couldn’t understand his trauma because of all the screaming. I like “Nevermind” better.

Maybe one of my most controversial opinions that will appear on this list, but I just really don’t like Nirvana. I’m not the biggest grunge guy at the best of time, but I find them so incredibly boring, not even Albini at the helm could make this a good listen for me. I’m interested for their unplugged album to come up as I feel I may like that more, but I’ve really tried to get into them over the years and they just don’t do a thing for me.

Too screamy

Niet helemaal mijn ding. Niet goed, niet slecht. Ik snap de hype, maar zet liever wat anders aan.

zu schwer

Not much of a grunge fan at all. I only bought Nevermind because the rest of the world had done so. That was alright but only just. As for this, just more of the same to my mind. Or was Nevermind more of the same as this. Can’t be bothered to look to see which was released first. Forgive my lack of enthusiasm here but today I learnt that the 50th anniversary release of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway has been put back for second time until autumn of this year. That has really pissed me off and this album did nothing at all to cheer me up. 2/5 13/6/25

Nirvana isn’t cute anymore.

Oh my fucking God. (Tim’s review: Amazing as the day it was cut. 5 stars.)

det är ju nirvana liksom och jag tkr om kurt men det här albumet var inte riktigt min grej favoriter dumb och all apologies

Excruciating to listen to in places, this is a record I had to grit my teeth to get through. I kind of agree with the other reviewers who say it's completely devoid of melody - certainly nothing here will be stuck in my head. Still though, there's something a bit endearing about it... the sheer power and downwards-facing depressed outsiderness of a musician trying to figure it all out, it's at least honest.

To noisy for me, I like rock but this is not for me, very hard to understand any of the lyrics, probably because I'm not a native English speaker.

i need to cleanse myself after listening to this...no

Oh God, I know I'm supposed to like it but I just don't. I just don't like Nirvana, in my ears, or in my brain, or in my body. For some reason, despite liking Nirvana adjacent music, I cannot derive enjoyment from listening to this album. All apologies is doing the heavy lifting for the rating.

Has a couple of alright songs but it's mostly trash. Pennyroyal Tea is obviously much better on the Unplugged album. A whole bunch of nonsense mess that doesn't sound good like Radio Friendly, Tourette's, and Milk It. No good riffs, not good heavy, trying to be aggressive and different for 1993 but it just sounds like a jumbled up mass of suck.

I kept thinking all of his mental health problems and his singing alike could have been solved by an effective laxative, and then the lyrics "I'm on warm milk and laxatives" came along and proved my theory. Easily the most overrated band of all time. I'm going to go listen to Foo Fighters to remind myself something good came of all this.

The three hits are leaps and bounds better than the rest of the album. Those three aren’t even all that great. I really didn’t like this album.

Great band. I just don't personally like their sound.

Eh. The scremo bits on this really rubbed me the wrong way, as do "Tourette's" and "Rape Me." The instrumentation is good and "Heart Shaped Box" is great, but this is only going to get two stars for me, I really did not enjoy it much.

More Nirvana, very loud, very grungy, very not my style Also "Rape Me"? Really....

2/5. heart shaped box är grym. skrikig skiva.

The "yeah yeah"s at 2:13 of All Apologies are great. Overall album is pretty weak.

Unfortunately I did not like it. I want to like punk so badly but it’s just noisy. Some good songs here, you can definitely hear the emotion. Just not for me

Aldri vært noe særlig Nirvana eller grunge-mann. Noen lyspunkter, men not for me dette. Føler dette er veldig 'you had to be there'. Svak 2er.

Inte så mycket för mig på detta album

The “Rape Me” song really threw me for a loop.

Just find this one too screamy Was actually painful to listen too at times.

Call me old but there was a lot of yelling. I wonder what their first album was like.

As far as Nirvana‘s albums, this is one of my least favorite albums. There are so many bad ones on this one.

Not my style

Is it highly rated just because it’s Nirvana

Nirvana's third outing and apparently their best depending on which music-rating site you consult. I didn't know this album even existed until I encountered it on this website, so I'm glad to be getting some long-overdue cultural enrichment. I started to appreciate this album more during the tail-end of my second listen. The aggressive, rough sound is something I'm undecided on whether I like, though there's a subtlety to the tamer parts of the instrumentation and lyrics that I do like. I know I need to give this a deeper listen sometime in the future, but I don't have the time at the moment. When I finally get recommended the live album I'm going to have a Nirvanaganza, where I will relisten to this album along with Nevermind in one last hurrah. I have no strong feelings about grunge, but there's something about this band that I feel like I have the potential to appreciate. I like "Heart-Shaped Box". One song I like is all I need to warm up to a full album sometimes. With this album I have successfully listened to 66% of Nirvana's main discography. I wonder if another artist has an equivalent percentage of their discography on this list. The Beatles have a respectable 58% of their albums on the list. Radiohead actually has them tied, with 66% of their discography also being on this list. Many of the artists with the most albums on the list have gigantic discographies, so I think we may have a Radiohead/Nirvana stalemate.

Eh not that keen

iconic and influential but i hate it

Not a fan. I understand that Grunge sort of represents the 90s discontent and stuff but it just doesn't sound great.

A few songs that are really good, bit even though I lived this band when I was a teen I have to admit I did not really enjoy listening to this whole album from start to finish.

Too heavy for me

I didn’t like Nirvana when they came out in high school, and I still don’t like them now. I know, I don’t know what’s wrong with me either, but I hated listening to this. I’m not gonna go as far as to say it’s BAD, but man. I just don’t get it.

I felt I couldn't appreciate the messages of the album fully due to the rock feeling overly hard and the lyrics difficult to understand. Favorite Track: All Apologies

Nirvana is bad. 2

my first repeat album from my other group, and it's a doozy. The songs get a little too repetitive for me, but bonus points because sonically it has that signature Nirvana excitement. Also how does Nirvana have only like 2 albums yet they still repeat guitar riffs? 2.5/5 down to 2

Not what I like.

I have been depressed, I have lived in Washington state most of my life and boy do I sure not like Grunge. Much love and respect Kurt but not my jam.

As I write this I feel like shit

I can see what they were doing by moving away from the “commercialism” of Nevermind but a step too far for me!

All the screaming

Maybe if if was 12 in 1991 I'd have got really into Nirvana. But by the time I was getting seriously interested in music in 1999/2000, it was hard to separate the actual songs from the cultural phenomenon. In the early 00s those lyrics of alienation, anger and pain seemed to clash with a fanbase of popular kids, rugby boys and bullies, with the very worst twats at school wearing that fucking hoodie. Tried a lot of times to get into this album and others and it's never really happened.

Music overall has an experimental feel mostly uses minor scales and relies on the percussion instruments to drive the music forward. There were sporadic synthetic notes / sounds that perhaps reference psychedelic experiences. Vocals are coarse and sometimes quite repelling; screams are frequently featured again with repelling effects. Lyrics convey strongly of angst and dread and despair, often simple and of little literary merit. The narratives conveyed in the lyrics are incomplete or tangential. The repeated lines however conveys very relatable sentiments .

Heart shaped box is iconic but not good enough to be saved. All the other songs are just really not my style. Didn’t even finish the album.

Veldig kul og angstfylt plate. Bra til løping, ikke kosemusikk

I know. My rating is probably blasphemy. Nirvana created modern rock but...for so much effort that they put into these tracks, some of these songs are just....terrible? Like unlistenable? I think that's why the unplugged session was so popular. Great lyrics, great music, but...I'm really...Tourette's? Radio Friendly Unit Shifter? Apparently Cobain wasn't happy with the success of Nevermind. Well, fuck man, then don't write listenable music.

I still stand by the fact that Nirvana would be a forgotten band in the 21st Century if Kurt Cobain was still alive. Other than three songs, the album consists of moaning, depression, depressive-moans, more moans, and grunts(which pretty much consists of the entire history of Nirvana). One of the most overrated bands of all time. Favorite Song: "All Apologies"

this one is tough because obviously this album is very famous and considered iconic to 90s music history but at the same time i can't help but wonder how much of that is as a result of Kurt Cobain's death and if we would view the album differently if he hadn't killed himself. obviously he was going through a lot and felt that it was important to use this album as a kind of exorcism or outlet, and you can definitely hear that in the songs, but that doesn't automatically mean that i like them or think he was doing anything unique or profound in the way he chose to express his pain. i didn't like when John Lennon screamed on Plastic Ono Band, and i don't like the screaming here either! there are some nice songs on the album, and i have a feeling that if i went more into Nirvana's back catalog i think there would be things i would like a lot more, but unfortunately for the most part this just wasn't for me

Kurt Cobain's delivery is brutal. There are a couple of interesting musical moments outside of that, but overall just not my style. Favorites - All Apologies

I'd have given this a 1, but there were worse albums. Also, I'm biased and hate this band.

A couple of good songs and a lot of noise.

The video for Heart-shaped Box messed me up as a religious kid. I appreciate them now, but I'm not clamoring to listen.

I’m not really a fan of Nirvana I guess.

I know I'm supposed to like Nirvana and all... but I just never have... Some would assert they should be respected, if not merely for their importance in music history... OK, but I'd argue the Huns were pretty important in European history - does that mean they deserve respect for it? Still, I'll give it a 2 since Eric Clapton didn't have anything to do with its production.

Mostly noise, what a few good songs.

This is why I hated Nirvana. It's a bit of a mess. Seems he was trying for two albums one was a single friendly album in the vein of nevermind and the other album was a "sticking it to corporate greed" album and it just makes anything good in this just unlistenable as an album. I think by the MTV unplugged he had sort of resolved those two impulses. So it would have been interesting to see what the next album could have been. But this is just awful.

Angsty.

это менее подходяще для меня, тут уже без сюрпризов

I don’t know why I didn’t like this. I guess I waited too long to listen, and now I’m too old.

Hot take/unpopular opinion warning! You've been warned. I get what Nirvana are doing with this, it is a response to the commercial success of Nevermind (which I really enjoyed) so they went much less "radio-friendly" with this one. It's not for me though, I know it's considered their best but I don't resonate with it. I do appreciate the instrumentation and all albums on here are objectively good but not feeling it personally.

4/10…grunge / 90er rock

Nirvana's sound is something I usually appreciate a lot. That being said, I think this last album just didn't hit like Nevermind. Scentless Apprentice was SO difficult to listen to, it just sounded terrible. Heart-Shaped Box was the strongest track, which comes as no surprise -- it's the most listened to track on the album on Spotify. Overall, it's just not something that resonates with me and none of the tracks made it to my liked songs. 2/5.

Am I a Nirvana was a Greatest Hits Band™️ girl?? Or, at least, they’re a One Album Hit Band™️ for me. On the surface, In Utero should be a record for me. I like noise punk, I like “Heart-Shaped Box,” I even know this is a purposefully ✨uncommercial✨ album. I know who Steve Albini is! But listening to it, In Utero feels…forced. It doesn’t feel organically punk, or naturally abrasive. It feels like Kurt took some pretty good bones for some decent songs and actively sought out ways to muck ‘em up. And that’s….kinda lame. Kinda not punk. Kinda antithetical, isn’t it? Like, it’s pretentious to have the skillset of a genius songwriter and then add sloppy guitar solos and overblown effects. If those elements were added *during* the songwriting process, it would feel natural, but they sound tacked on throughout this album. What’s more, the majority of the “good” songs here sound closer to country-rock than anything I would normally gravitate toward. So even a song like “Frances Farmer,” which I like in context, is not a song I’m gonna revisit. Obviously, some of that Nevermind magic is still here. I do love “Heart-Shaped Box,” “Rape Me,” and this version of “All Apologies,” but like….that’s a greatest hits band??? If I had bought In Utero on release based off the singles, I would have traded it in. And I know that’s kinda the joke about In Utero in retrospect, but for me, it’s not because I don’t like this sound, but rather because I don’t like Nirvana doing this sound. And, frankly, maybe I don’t like Nirvana.

90s rock. Head nodding worthy riffing, but never been a fan of the vocal and the lyrics sucks. And fuck, that screaming on Scentless Apprentice is terrible. Terribly performed and the recording sounds like shit - it makes my ears bleed.

Wow, this was really bad. It was like subpar high school garage band music with either mumbling or screaming on top of it.

Its Nirvana. Heart Shaped Box is the quintessential Nirvana sound and Rape Me was enjoyable although the actual lyrics are a bit too much for a Tuesday afternoon trying to get work done. It's good but I don't know that I need to come back to this.

This mostly felt like noise tbh

Same but worse then. Same but worse now

Hard Rock, 1993 -> 2

too much noise and ear pain / Heart-Shaped Box is still a jewel / enjoyed it much more back when it came out / found 4 songs that I can still listen too today....not enough...

I am exactly the right age for Nirvana - in high school when Nevermind came out, in college when In Utero came out. Their music permeated everything and was impossible to escape. I must have been one of the very few who couldn't stand it. Years later, I wouldn't say I hate their music. But it also hasn't grown on me.

Didn't know what to make of this. Was tempted to not carry on after the first two tracks which I thought were just a wall of incomprehensible noise. Then a much more melodic track came on so i carried on. Hit and miss for me , certainly not their best album

Cant rly force myself to like it

I'm a hater, I'm a Nirvana hater. 2/5

I almost like Heart-Shaped Box, Dumb

There's some good stuff on this album, but it's just a real shame because there's also some absurdly low low points on it. I've listened to it cover to cover quite a few times before, know most of the songs, and at times I found myself singing along to the chorus of "Pennyroyal Tea" or "Heart-Shaped Box". But also found myself covering my ears or getting really close to hitting skip on a bunch of songs. Songs like "Milk It", "Scentless Apprentice" and "Tourettes" are, no other way to say it, they're trash, they should've been cut. I'm gonna lay a lot of the blame at the feet of Steve Albini. This isn't the first CD Albini has fucked up, although it might be the one with the highest potential had he not been involved. It's telling that the best songs are the ones where he had the least involvement.

So…we can now say that this was pants, can’t we (RFUS aside. That’s just funny.)

I thought I would like this a lot more than I did. The singles were good, but seemed a lot softer and more melodic than most of the other tracks, which seemed obnoxious and loud and discordant. Two stars.

Consider myself a Nirvana fan but this album sucks. Some good songs but some horrific ones too.

It’s not Nevermind. Difficult to get through beyond the hits.

Fattar mig inte bara på Nirvana. Dumb är plattans bästa spår

Didn't like it at all. Too abrasive for me

Hated it

A solid listen, but in my opinion inferior to nevermind

Always quite rightly in the shadow of Nevermind

ughhhh. While I can respect the impact Nirvana have had on music, they're the first band I've come across on this that I really wanted to turn off halfway through. However, "Heart-Shaped Box", "Pennyroyal Tea", and "All Apologies" were all decent listens. Deciding between 2 and 3 stars presented quite the dilemma. Go with my gut, basing it solely off the music I heard and give them two? Or try to claim that "I understood them" and give them three for street cred? Ultimately decided on the former. Nevermind is the only Nirvana album I can struggle through.

Definitely not into it like the other albums, but it has a cool album cover.

Me lastima saber que es un album recontra importante para la historia de la musica, y que no me guste nada. Nose si es por el tipo de musica (es muy probable) me costo escucharlo muchisimo. Me jode bastante no ser compatible con una pieza de musica historica

A song called “Rape Me”??? Absolutely not

Not for me.

This sounds noisy and cool (RIP Steve Albini) but I find its contents mostly uninteresting. I’m always shocked at how popular Nirvana were and continue to be.

Not a big fan of this style of music. I like their song with less crazy guitar. I did like hearing Dave Grohl on drums. I prefer the Foo Fightere

This was just ok. Didn’t care for the murkier songs.

I know Nirvana ‘s hit singles, like anybody else alive in the 90’s. And much as I enjoy a few of them, had never bothered to listen to this full album. Frankly, I’m disappointed. Heart Shaped Box is a great song, but I really didn’t enjoy most of this album. The mythology of Curt Cobain isn’t a reason for me to give it extra stars.

Not a huge fan

Not as good as Nevermind, but er- well- hmm- oh never mind. Fun head banging music for people in dire need of a good therapist. Scary cool album cover. Probably wouldn't listen again, one or two catchy songs.

Не лучший альбом нирваны. Да, рейп ми крутая песня. А так чёт хз хз хз

I really like some Nirvana songs but I don’t think I enjoyed any of this. I’ll say it - not the drummer’s best work.

I don't like Kurt's voice, and other than a few songs, I find this quite boring to the point I'd rather listen to something else. I don't know if this is a case of an influential band spawning other bands that improved on the style, but it feels like it.

Einhvers konar Zeitgeistmeistarstykki, en ég lifði þennan Zeitgeist og mér fannst hann og þessi lífsleiða rödd bara boring. Það vantar húmorinn (eðlilega) í Albiniproductionina, sem er t.d. til staðar hjá Pixies, og þetta rennur mest megnis saman í þreyttri distortion/clean til skiptis-grungeblöndu. All apologies og Dumb eru skást.

The screaming in Scentless Apprentice made me want to DNF. Heart-Shaped Box & All Apologies was pretty good. Honestly, the whole thing made me a little anxious. Not for me!

Not a fan. And dare I say it, Nirvana are overrated. The guitar riffs are decent, but Kurt’s voice. Ugh. If it weren’t for the singing, this would net another star

A few good songs on there, but I realized by listening to it, that I didn't care for the songs that didn't actually make it to the radio.

At least it’s not rap. 1.5 in that case, rounded up.

there was like 2 songs i liked. Nirvana always seemed overrated to me

A couple of okay songs, the rest was screamo. They were better when they tried to be pop, I know.

Now feel a bit sorry for my folks back in the 90's Some nostalgia, but in the end only listened through due to it being Nirvana

I thought Nirvana was supposed to be good but this is kind of poo poo and I was happy when the album ended.

Minor heresy: I've never really understood what the level of fuss around Nirvana was about. I like the slower ones and the unplugged record which I guess that marks me as some sort of softie. Some of the harsher tracks I find quite formulaic, albeit with extra abrasive delivery and lyrical content. Don't get me wrong, I can see that this is a good album from a strong band, it's just not one I'll voluntarily sit through for pleasure.

Had to restart a few times. Did not like it

Yadayadayada. Not bad, not my cuppa. Never really was.

first couple songs are pretty bad. Heart Shaped Box beautiful

Not my favorite Nirvana album but the last song of it I love. 2.5

Uiteindelijk vond ik hem persoonlijk vrij saai en blijft hij nog geen 5 minuten hangen.

2/10

I rate it a 2/5 because a lot of the songs sounded similar and it wasn't an album I could bop my head to, however I did like that he was brave enough to include such a controversial song and was not afraid to use the words rape me in a defiant way. J am a huge fan of the album cover, the art is fantastic, however as much as I wanted to enjoy the music, I did not.

You know what? I didn’t know this album and I was really hoping to be wowed by it. I wasn’t. Grunge dirge.

Noisy

This is a Brutal listening experience which I used to like. Again, I have heard it Too Many Times already. 1001 seems like it is a project for someone who either Missed the past few decades or has recently woken up from a coma. Please, suggest some obscure stuff that has escaped my attention SOON or I will have to abandon this exercise.

Mostly obnoxious screaming

Just not for me Dave grohls drumming I love in scentless apprentice

There's one song you can hear, the rest is the usual screaming. It's a little more listenable than Mudhoney, hence 2 stars.

Too much chainsaw and not enough melody. I’ll keep Dumb and Heart-Shaped Box and trash the rest.

I can't give this album a high rating I stopped listening at the song Rape Me

I like some of Nirvana's songs, but this album only had 2 songs I would ever want to hear again in my life (Heary Shaped Box, All Apologies). There were no stories told, only 45 minutes spent inside the tormented brain of Kurt Cobain.

I liked 2 of the songs. Not really my first choice to listen to. Heavy metal.

Some good riffs, some barely listenable songs and most songs give that feeling of "Hey, is that that one song?... oh... It's not" Not a good sign

Although there are a few tried and true classics on this album, the majority of it made me feel old as I felt it was just messy noise making.

grunge rock isn't really my genre, nor is nirvana a band that i enjoy. meaning never is something i seek in a song (and i assume in utero is one of those albums), generally it just needs to please my ears, and this album hasn't really done it for me. dropped the album halfway through, couldn't bother 4/10

Angry, angry. Not my favorite Nirvana album. Makes me appreciate unplugged even more.

Liked the intros to most of the songs but many transitioned I to scream sining which was a little to intense for my taste.

You know, as much as I love Nevermind this really wasn't my jam. I mean, I get it, and I love the artistic courage of following up the best grudge album with a more punk-focused release. But it just didn't work for me.

Surprisingly unpleasant

Kind of dark. Thrown for a loop with Rape Me

I wanted to like this album, but it was just kind of boring. Not too much dynamics, and songwriting is just okay. Not my style.

J'ai oublié 😞 euuh ça m'a rappelé mes amis musiciens du lycée mais bon au bout de quelques chansons on me perd c'est pas mon style

After already listening to an hour and ten minutes of grunge for the previous listing, it was interesting to compare the two. The droning melodic choruses on many of the songs actually helped me feel grounded and focused, something I didn't notice in Superunknown. The more busy, screaming tracks were more hit or miss for me, with none as enjoyable as the hits from the album. This is the most I've listened to Nirvana at once, and I look forward to when I reach Nevermind. 5/10

I didn't like it ... 2 stars

Nevermind is so much better it's crazy. Of course it would have been a gargantuan feat to match Nevermind's brilliance, but the drop-off in quality is glaring. In Utero's songs are as tasteless, confused, and laughable as its album cover.

Not as approachable as Nevermind and to me lacked the same impact

Too harsh for me. Raw guitars and screaming vocals

Heart shaped box, dumb and all apologies are 5s but also the only songs I can listen to. Nothing worse than being on the aux at the family function when Rape Me comes on, never again…

I hated this a lot, sadly

Never listened to a Nirvana album in full before, but was familiar with their singles/hits, and was never really a fan. This album did nothing for me. 2.5/5

Serve the Servants - 2 Scentless Apprentice - 1 Heart-Shaped Box - 5 Rape Me - 4 Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle - 3 Dumb - 3 Very Ape - 2 Milk It - 2 Pennyroyal Tea - 3 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter - 2 Tourette's - 2 All Apologies - 4 2.75 - the known songs in this album are great (heart shaped/all Apologies, etc.) But everything else seems chaotic and aimless. Angsty screaming with decent grunge rock behind it.

nah 2*

Definitely some nostalgic songs on here but a little too much grunge and distortion for me. I'd say I'm an average Nirvana fan but some of the songs I was tempted to skip because I wasn't into it at all. Heart Shaped Box and Rape Me are two memorable songs on here for me. 2/5

If I thought I had trouble understanding the lyrics of the average song, whoa boy, if I sing to this, it'll be Na-Na-Nas. For some reason I assumed that Nirvana was a lot more noise than music, but I'm happy that there is a lot more interesting music here that I thought. The instruments are relatively easy to distinguish from one another, and there are melodies and chords to listen to. There is still noise on this album and I think it's more than I prefer. It's not really my vibe. Like the music is good, and I think the lyrics are good, but it's not for me. It's a little too hard or a little too much distortion. Seems like everyone is talented on their instruments and together they make something notable, but it's not the type of music I prefer listening to.

Not my style of music. Definitely something to rage to. How is there literally a song named “Rape me”?!?

This is a much harder-rocking, angsty Nirvana than the Nirvana of Nevermind and I frankly wasn’t a fan. I debated between a 2 or a 3 here just because there are 3 tracks on this album I really like and “All Apologies” might be my favorite of all Nirvana songs. But still, it’s not enough for me to save this album from the screaming, dissonant noise that makes up the majority of the album. I’ve always felt pretty meh on Nirvana and this album proves why.

Not for me

Wow so so angsty and abrasive. Not my favourite sound but I can clearly clearly hear how this music has influenced a lot of music which I do love (maybe it's slightly softer and more melodical sounding and therefore more appealing to me). I was a bit triggered by the track named Rape Me and then when I tried to read into it a bit more before establishing an opinion, I found that KurtCobain said the album was not personal at all... so it was a bit of a dead end. I dno I can see what people love about this but it don't impress me much.

Algunas canciones son buenas pero no salvan un conjunto tan malo

It's interesting to me that the modern equivalent of angst-fueled teenage garage punk music would be bedroom pop. Cannot say I enjoyed the 90's version of self-loathing music. Heart-shaped Box is a classic, but I think I actually prefer covers to the original.

90s kids hype this album wayyy to much. After listening to this shit I want to grab a shotgun too. Giving two stars because heart-shaped box is a 5 but the rest was so bad I couldn't finish the album.

Bit much - would have been great then, not my thing now

I love pearl jam, soundgarden, AIC, STP, every grunge band from the early 90s. But I can’t seem to get why this band is so popular and always revered…

Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint: I liked this album a lot more before I listened to the whole thing through. Sure, it has a couple of classics. “Heart-Shaped Box” and “All Apologies” are among Nirvana’s best work, and while the band certainly has a spot on the grunge Mount Rushmore, let us not forget why. Nevermind graced us with not only the most famous phallus in history, but with a slew of bangers to boot. In Utero, on the other hand, disappoints. I thought “Scentless Apprentice” was going to give me an aneurysm. From the Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday” to the Beatles’ “Mean Mr. Mustard” to the Peppers’ “Rain Dance Maggie” and more there are a number of great rock songs named for their quirky protagonists, but “Frances Farmer” just doesn’t do it for me. “Milk It?” Fuck It. I anticipated “Tourette’s” would be tough to deal with, and my God, was I right. I have my doubts about the “Helter Skelter” story, but had Charles Manson waited another 25 years to do his worst and then pinned it on this album instead, I would have believed him. All this being said, I’ll give In Utero two stars for its two classics. But if being in utero included listening to this album for nine months straight, I’d probably just pray for an abortion.

Few Nirvana songs age well in my opinion. In Utero is no different.

This is the first album of my 1001 album journey. honestly couldn’t have started off worse as I’m not a fan of Grunge or hard rock. I’ve not listened to In Utero before, so I was only aware of Heart-Shaped Box and All Apologies. These ended up being the only songs I didn’t mind plus Serve The Servants. For me the rest of the album was just noise.

Not my style

Two good songs and some screaming.

idk what i’m not hearing that everyone else is but i just can’t get on board with Nirvana.

Obviously I've heard "Heartshaped Box", "Rape Me" and "All Apologies" which I don't mind. But otherwise this is not my favourite album of Nirvana's. I much prefer Nevermind. This one just started to grate on me.

I am not a big Nirvana fan, it turns out.

Had a couple of very recognizable tunes! It's a bit screechy for me for some of the tracks and some of the themes are a bit dated.

Ik heb dit in m'n jeugd ook altijd gemeden en blijf dat doen. Aantrekkelijk vent, die Kurt. En het akoestische optreden voor MTV was mooi, verder vind ik het geschreeuw.

Too heavy for me

All Apologies and Heart-Shaped Box are great, but they are the singles. I didn't relate to this as an album and found it kind of difficult to listen to overall so I guess it's just not my taste.

All of the chaos of other Nirvana albums, but without the interesting bits

meh

genuinely just listened to like three nirvana songs and two of them were from this album. did not vibe :/

never loved not even then. Save all apologies

just not a nirvana fan

Gritty at the cost of being good with a couple of standout mentions

Didn't like most of these songs excepting Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies.

In the spectrum of grunge ranging from pop grunge to pure grunge, this is pretty much at the latter end. Not being a grunge aficionado, I can't appreciate it like others probably do. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - I enjoyed listening to it but wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.

I hoped that listening to this again would make me finally "get" why people like Nirvana so much. I still don't.

Appreciate Cobain for what he's done for the genre but really disliked the album, could not get into it.

I can't get myself to ride the Nirvana fan train. Majority of the thing was boring and un-musical.

Nirvanowe bingo chyba zostalo skompletowane, bo debiutanckiego materialu chyba jeszcze nie wrzuca na dokladke, ostatni studyjny krazek bandy i chyba skok na najbardziej nienirvanowe brzmienie z jakim kojarze zespol, bo po sukcesie nevermida fajnie chcieliby wymyslic sie na nowo brzmieniowo, i tutaj przychodzi z pomoca pan Steve Albini, ktory wyprodukowal ten krazek, wiec to dzieki niemu posiada on tak dziwnie szorstko wysublimowane brzmienie, byly tu jakies cuda wianki sztuczki studyjne byly robione, ale nie samo dziwne brzmienie jest jedynym problemem z ktory uswiadczylem podczas odsluchu, bo lirycznie brakuje tutaj trakow ktore czuc, ze byly pisane przez kogos, a nie pod kogos, to to bywa w mainstreamowej muzyce, trakami o ktore mi chodzi jest otwierajacy serve the servants oraz zamykajacy all apologies, a miedzy nimi znajduje sie 10 trakow lepszych lub gorszych, ale sporo jest tutaj giberiszowego wyjcowania i wydziwiania na instrumentalach, wiec sporo jest tutaj utworow, ktore lepiej sie slucha w wersji z mtv unplugged, wiec 41 minut muzyki znanej, ale srednio lubianej, a najbardziej denerwuje w odsluchu jest fakt, ze mozna posluchac ciekawszych interpretacji tych samych trakow, na plejke dodam otwarcie i zakonczenie z tej plyty

(4/10) initial review Sound is extremely raw, intentionally disorganized and abrasive. Almost as if Kurt want the album to be hard to listen to for the audience. Lyrics are interesting. Seems like most songs are both inward admittance of flaw and and outward damnation of something/someone else. Would be very interested to dive into if this “damned” entity is consistent over the full album or a mixture of specific(his wife, record label, family) or vague (general human nature, institutions) entities. Overall the lyricism is fascinating, even more so because of death soon after release, but the sound of the album is unpleasant. Struggle to think of a mindset that this would be enjoyable in, would not be a common album to return to. All Apologies was a great ending to the album, leads me to believe that the abrasive nature of the album was done in spite of or as an attack on another entity and Kobain is apologizing to the listener for being a casualty of it.

It’s okay but too angst and dirty for me.

This album had potential because I do like some nirvana songs however I couldn’t really get past the voice on this album which was 99% of it.

Heart shaped box best song.

If you didn’t know it was Nirvana, would you really love this? I mean, I like the overall vibe and soundscape but nothing sticks out as melodically interesting.

Sidste Nirvana album, grunge-vibes, råt, skarpt

Serve the servants was somewhat listenable. Scentless Apprentice was just senseless noise. Heart-Shaped Box could be enjoyed, wouldn’t skip if it came on the radio. Rape Me’s intro was enjoyable, the rest of the song is pretty meh. FFWHHROS was again somewhat enjoyable, I liked the instrumental side of the song, remind me of GH3. Dumb is one of the better songs on the album, Kurt’s clean vocals were much more enjoyable here, and the overall song was decent. Very Ape was enjoyable, it wasn’t overly “ugh” and dull, it was fairly frantic and was quite punk which was fun. Milk It is another song that was just noise, it was a mix of Kurt just screaming and clean, dreary vocals. Pennyroyal Tea was listenable and somewhat enjoyable, probably wouldn’t skip it if it came on the radio. RFUS was actually just noise, didn’t enjoy at all. Tourette’s again was unlistenable. All Apologies was another song that I probably wouldn’t skip, it was calmer, which was a good ending to the album. Overall, Kurt Cobain’s vocals stop me from enjoying this album, it had some high moments but were overpowered by the lows. 2/5

Noisy

Not really jamming with any of it. The best songs were All Apologies and Heart-Shaped Box, which to my mind were the most unique. The others just weren’t for me.

I don't think I had listened to all of In Utero before. I have listened to at least 2 other Nirvana albums before, and I know 5 of the 12 tracks from this album. From the beginning, I've felt at best ambivalant towards Nirvana. "Dumb" and "All Apologies" are interesting, and have kind of wormed there way in to where I like those tracks. But there are tracks on the album that I do not like. Sometimes it's the screaming and noise of the tracks, other times it's the content of the lyrics. The video for "Heart-Shaped Box" just makes me feel gross. As an album, I did not like In Utero.

I know two songs on this album and that is the only reason it’s getting a 2. 😐