Nirvana react to In Utero critics.

Nirvana was, you hate yourself and you want to die.

Ow just some band playing David Bowie covers. Idk....

clothes brand

Radiofriendly90s it's a Sam Smith song

I like how he went from "Nirvana, what's that?" to "Nirvana - buy it. Get it. Can I get another one?"

Patryk Ochmanski i know right...

@@sandrinecacheton3909 this is pre-mobile phone, pre, pre internet! Nostalgia

Hahaaha it’s mtv, it’s most likely staged. They probably filmed their reactions to the album on the same day that they gave them the album.

They were wearing the same clothes.

Or more of these types of interactions happen because of the internet?

Yeah, same thought.

he looked like a jock at first glance but he really knew his stuff, he liked the Bleach album unlike most of the world who just listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit.

fuck yeah

Heart Shaped Box, even though a very commercial hit in my opinion is a much better song than Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Utero at that time was for me personally a much more enjoyable album than Nevermind. I really used to rock out to Bleach and In Utero, Nevermind got so boring due to its massive exposure.

makemarker yup

I doubt it

Legend has, he still wears the T-shirt in bed.

no the cringe album aint gon change shit

Yeah for the worse. He doesn't need this degenerate shit in his life

I love how seriously these people all took music. Life before social media vapidity.

Right? He nailed it.

Yeah, I am pretty good at that too. Back when they stores had demo copies I could spot the hits

@@toriless Back in the 70s perhaps the 80s there was a great BBC live music show called "The Old Grey Whistle Test". If you like music from that era there are plenty videos from it on YT. Anyway the name origin is interesting: "the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before, when they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the "old greys" - doormen in grey suits. Any song they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test." Seems a good idea. Not sure how many doormen had "rape me" played to them mind you :) But the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" riff for example, that is a total earworm, hear it once and it sticks in your head, was always going to be a hit!

He's a studio executive now. His name is Carl Marx

Honestly wasn't that difficult with the music back then.

Well, you can tell which songs they put the most effort into, and had the most production. Some songs are meant as album filler, if a band writes a song that's merely OK. Still he got like 4 out of 4 so good going! Was nowhere near as good as Nevermind though.

@@greenaum you suck

@@greenaum Shut up, nerd.

@@greenaum Bad take

Christ no wonder Kurt killed himself. And thought his fans didn't relate to him. Courtney helped, of course.

Sky Blackburn I did. Twice.

Leon Trimble lucky

Leon Trimble How was it

totally awesome

Right after I read this, the guy said the quote.

More sad than chilling, but I hear ya.

@@mrhobs It's both sad, and eerie. Makes you wonder what future album(s) would've sounded like. Would love more raw stuff like In Utero.

@@triston5673 Yeah true. There's some interview where Kurt talks about trying a more new wave sound, but may have been half or mostly joking, hard to say. What is clear is that he wasn't going to pump out the same stuff every album. And for all we know he may have dissolved Nirvana sooner rather than later. Fans might've turned on him, but I wish we could've seen what other sounds he came up with... (Even though there is some variety in Nirvana... its all mostly in one genre... mostly.)

There's an alternate universe out there where Nirvana's fourth album featured songs like "This is a call" and "Monkey Wrench".

@@jerkychew899 That's a lovely thought. I sure hope so.

Dude back then new CDs were super exciting. If someone at the time gave me a CD and said hey listen to this and meet here and tell me what you think I'd have been stoked as hell.

@TSKILATCHI bru shut up you're literally on your phone making this comment 💀💀

@IONIZE npc

@TSKILATCHI phone bad, give me likes

​@@therealslimshitty5186Oh Yeah? Just Because they share the same enthusiasm? Like calling someone an NPC for being brainwashed and just supporting the current political agenda is one thing but to dare keep telling yourself that anybody besides your unoriginal self is an npc for romanticizingly so enoying the simple pleasures in life that are being stripped away fron us but not forgotten.

The thing about geniuses/lyric masters like him, Roger Waters and many others is exactly this. With "Rape me" and many other songs Kurt showed he was ahead of his time; but the song that shows it, at least to me, is "Sappy". The sonority of a perfect radio single, the acidity (I am use the right word? Not a native speaker) that was maybe a lil too much for the mainstream society of that time.

Gryphon Lalonde people just don't get it. They don't think.

Gryphon Lalonde - It's about the media constantly making up stories about the individual.

GODofMONSTERLAND It's about many things, if you truly pay attention to it. The media/his life has a lot to do with it, but if you analise other songs by him, like "Sappy" or "Polly", things lead to his strong opinions against "cavemans" and sexists in general. So, it's like many other songs by him, open to different interpretations.

Exactly, if they only knew more about the meaning and who Kurt was they would know it is definitely anti-rape

Sadly Nirvana diehards can't accept something as simple as that and instead try to analyze the song like some advanced form of poetry. Funny because Cobain hated when people did that to the songs.

Omar music is an advanced form of poetry dipshit

I thought that it was about how the publicity would like attack them 🤔

@@Farvaman423 Not when the artist himself describes a lot of his lyrics as mumbo jumbo with no real meaning

@peroh Oh please lol I take it you were a personal friend of Cobain's to make such claims? As for the chords, he may have not known them at one point and learned them later. Simple as that really. I know what you're talking about because he said that he knew nothing about musicianship but then starting in 1993 Nirvana started being more intricate in music. "Grohl stated that Cobain believed that music comes first and lyrics second. Cobain focused primarily on the melodies of his songs. He complained when fans and rock journalists attempted to decipher his singing and extract meaning from his lyrics, writing: "Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second-rate Freudian evaluation of my lyrics, when 90 percent of the time they've transcribed them incorrectly?" While Cobain insisted on the subjectivity and unimportance of his lyrics, he labored and procrastinated in writing them, often changing the content and order of lyrics during performances. Cobain would describe his own lyrics as "a big pile of contradictions. They're split down the middle between very sincere opinions that I have and sarcastic opinions and feelings that I have and sarcastic and hopeful, humorous rebuttals toward cliché bohemian ideals that have been exhausted for years."

Except for people that don't like grunge...

@@Harmony_Sanderson im sure you could find a lot of people that arent into grunge that would still like heart shaped box

And also a lot of people who wouldn't like heart shaped box

@@clarkcrichtonYep, that’s me in a nutshell

It's good ass follow up from nevermind which says alot for mist bands and artist when it comes to there sophomore album either does well/better than thier first or ends up being totally diffrent from what they're usually known for or just downright mid

Couldnt agree more, same age as you are

Nervermind is 31 years old. Imagine yourself in 1991 when Nevermind was released. Now go back 31 years. That would be 1960. The Beatles didn't exist.

@@mcscotty325 Yeah, it's crazy to think about. And it definitely doesn't mean that I'm getting old....

@@koschmx Music is a very subjective thing. I personally can't listen to Bruce Springsteen or Pink Floyd. Just don't like the music. Both considered to be among the best acts of The Doors era. Love the Doors, though.

@@mcscotty325 The beatles didnt exist? Damn, take me to that time period.

Then he asked if he could get another one 😂

Matthew Montes man being practical. No mp3s back then 🤣

iamsheep all respect lol and simpler times then

It was staged.

@@Offensive_Username how do you know?

Good, it introduced him to great music

He even got the "flow" of the album. What a legend.

@thedonutcreed Shut the fuck up it doesn't matter how he refers to him.

Yeah I hadn't noticed it, but I'm glad he kept an open mind.

He even asked for another Disc!! 🙃🤘

knowing of his "suicide" letter, that was most likely "repurposed" as such by a 3rd party, all the while in actuality being a statement to the fans about dissolving Nirvana we can view his comment as sarcastic - he knew that most likely Nirvana will not going to release another album.

The song was actually about how he felt exploited by the media and music industry. Was metaphorical.

@@kjjhjghgyes especially if you listen to the demo version on with the lights out, the lyrics are screaming that it’s a anti rape song

@@derper3987no it’s not. If you listen to Kurt’s interview he discredits that theory and says it’s a song for rape survivors

Its about a drug taking over you and taking your soul. Its about heroin use and submitting to the needle.

Disco music listeners discovers metaphorical lyrics

*the fine bros would like to know your location*

*I came here to say this, but knew in my heart it had already been said*

The Japanese people have been doing it even before that

The fine bros: ...

But today people just pretend to be listening to something for the first time

Comment of the year

I must have been the exception to the rule then.

I'm sure when the 60's roll around they'll say things about people in the 20's looking like old people

I was born in 1974 and took a shed load of drugs in the 1990s, but this is the UK, not middle America

man, I'm 27 and I still remember the guys from my elder brother's college and yes, I still feel looking younger than them when they were 16.

A damn shame Pennyroyal Tea was cancelled as a single.

@@ECW5320 Did they suddenly find out what it meant?

@@johnholmeswebb8162 The song was set to release in April '94 but Kurt's death stopped it from happening; the record company thought it'd be in bad taste to still release it.

@@ECW5320 Makes sense.

@@ECW5320 Especially the "distill the life that's inside of me", part.

He clearly doesn't. Anyone who continues to get stoned past the age of 17 - stays stoned forever.

TheVanillatech You know people can decide to start that late in life right?

@@dinguswiffle1866 People can decide to do ANYTHING they want! Whenever they want! That's a fact. Deciding something and doing something ... two different things entirely.

TheVanillatech You missed my point, the wording is irrelevant but the message is the same, people don’t just get perpetually stoned forever and always once they pass a certain age. Weed is like anything else, in the sense that it may be temporary.

@@dinguswiffle1866 I beg to differ sir, based on my own personal experience and observation plus alone I can tell you : you're wrong.

@ghost mall 'Rhiniceros' was the song that turned me on to the Pumpkins. I think Billy is under-rated as a guitarist and songwriter.. terrific riffs and solos. And I love their acoustic stuff too. (The one they did in Canada?)

That was Led Zeppelin I for me. I was more into AC/DC in 2002 as an 11 year old. My dad got me Zep’s first album. I initially thought it was mediocre. Now it is pretty much my all time favorite album, and band.

yeah i used to be a snob too

@@benben162 listening to shitty music and critiquing on it doesn’t make someone a snob, but u def seem offended by ppls opinions for disliking a shitty band u obviously are in love with

@@DownTheHill3 bruh

😁😁

Hello, Fan Boy...

Joe Edwards that was great and also how they could tell the songs were gonna be hits even though it wasn’t there music type.

U mean the black guy

Dave Or - give him credit that he could step outta his probable genre and be so open. Imagine trying to get a rural kid in 93 to listen to Bone Thugs & Harmony

@@maddymud you got to stop assuming just because someone's black that they wouldn't listen to alternative rock. This guy simply likes music. Sometimes it's not any more deeper than that.

@@maddymud I grew up in a small northern Illinois farm town and believe me, in the early 90's mtv had plenty of rural farm town white boys runnin around with their pants saggin and acting like gang banger thugs .

Live through this was an amazing album. But the only good album by hole. Kurt was so amazing and wonder where he / they would very if he didn't die.

Live Through This was so good because Kurt wrote nearly all of it~

@@Buttermilkjug Yeah, I was going to say that. Indeed he did. And Billy Corgan wrote the follow up album. Courtney Love was a talentless hack, and soulless sociopath, to boot. Her own father thinks that she murdered Kurt, what does that tell you?

@@Buttermilkjug The first time I heard it a long time ago when it came out I said Kurt wrote it.

It was already their first single by the time this aired. I can almost guarantee that. I heard Heart Shaped Box long before I owned the CD and I'm sure I bought that CD within a week of it coming out.

Biggest, not my favourite by a long shot. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, an anti song off an anti album was mine. Shit they telegraphed this with In Bloom. But they couldn’t help but make it brilliant could they? Despite the horrible imagery it shines, the whole album. God I wish there was more. And I’m happy there isn’t. How a proper band should be.

it's his opinion, not yours

@@bere7572 bro what?

@M S C 🤣 Made me crack the f up

lol

So true

The best bit, “but I don’t do that anymore”

I would like this, but it has 666 likes, therefore it is already perfect.

@@drbatz woops

I was around in that era. Although I liked Nirvana, as did most people, my circle found grunge as a whole dull, and we were resentful that as well as killing Hair Metal (in the mainstream) it also wiped out much more interesting Indie and Alt Rock coming out of the UK and US. Smashing Pumpkins and The Breeders did well after, as did, to a lesser extent, Pavement - and Dinosaur Jr released their best album in 93 - but MBV, Ride, Lush, Pixes, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and many others suddenly found that rock tastes had changed - and not for the better. Oasis were interesting for 12 months during 1994-5, but then Britpop, which seemed the very lowest form of 'Indie' killed all enthusiasm. Only the so-called 'landfill Indie' of the 2000s was worse. Many of us pivoted away from Indie and Alt Rock as the 90s progressed, as the much more interesting - better - music coming from the underground was being made in the various dance genres: House, Drum n Bass, Techno, Chillout, UK Garage, and so on. But that then morphed into bland EDM as the 2000s progressed. TL;DR Yes, it was a fantastic time for music, and a great time to be young. Much freer and more optimistic than today. But the dominant narratives today don't tell the whole story. There is a money-making industry around Nirvana, even to this day, but for most people they were only around late 1991to early 1994. The two years from late 1989 to late 1991, and then again from about 1996 onwards, are also really important, both musically and culturally. Not intending to be cynical, and I'm glad you're into it today. I felt like a trip down memory lane and thought you might like a take from someone who was there. Obviously others will have other memories and opinions, and that's all good too.

@@xcx8646 Yeah, it is all good as everyone has their take as to why and how the music of Nirvana has impacted their lives both musically and culturally. For instance, Nirvana's music has impacted me more musically than culturally because 1. I discovered Nirvana when I was 13 back in 2014 (around that era), so culturally I cannot say much because I am from a different era. 2. I go by listening to music that makes me feel good, responsive, and reflective based on the tone and context of the lyrics. I remember how I felt when I listened to their music such as being astonished by what I heard from their most mainstream song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" because the song echoed what I was feeling at the time, and it still does, but as I have gradually dug deeper into their discography (over time and gradually) throughout my youth, I have peeled back layers of what Nirvana was, is and could have been. Going back and listening to Nirvana is like peeling off another layer so that is my take on it. When I first found out about Nirvana which led to my research of the frontman Kurt, I found out how he died and that made me sad due to his personal and artistic journey that regarded from the biased intake of the grunge era, and the cultural references and societal issues that parlayed into that observation. So culturally the personal expressions of most of those musicians that live through that did not impress me because I had no way to relate to that besides angst and discovery of personal expression than the lifestyle of drugs/and/or the life experiences that you guys went through into the 90s (not until I grew older, I could relate a bit due to personal experiences, but not as a whole/collective coming from that era). For me, it was and still is more so the musicianship and community-based ideology that I fell for when I discovered their music and eventually a few others you have mentioned. I respect your points and references to other genres and badass musicians because you highlighted the musical background of its origin of how these bands came to be both musically and culturally influential (whether bad or good), for how it shaped and influenced the appetite of today's generation- hopefully, the hyper fixation and romanticization of the musical and cultural journey of these musicians works, and the work to come of future generation of musicians can be toned WAY down. In other words, hopefully, ppl today can avoid becoming hyper-fixated on the bias and romanticization of the lifestyle of these musicians' personal experiences. Hopefully, the craft will still be appreciated to the test of time as it ages, if one is willing to see it with fresh eyes in agreement with what you've mentioned that, each person has their own set of intake and experiences of how, when and what they have felt when they discovered the music. And that should not encourage those to influence the capitalistic and cultural bandwagons that culturally and aesthetically leech off the product aka the artistic expression of these musicians. So my take is not necessarily on any specific eras, but more so on how I felt nostalgic when I first heard the music. Growing up whether within that era or not is relative and obvious, but unfortunately, it is not when some are not open-minded. To each their own though. I am glad to see bands like the Breeders, Rem, The Smashing Pumpkins, Butthole Surfers, and even Babes in Toyland, and other bands during that time and onwards, still rocking out for the loving sake of it. 🎸

@@xcx8646excellent comment, thank you for this.

It was dope

I just noticed that

@@Kereyit yes Mr.Mathematician

HAHAHAHHAHA

Haha even though Kurt rarely wore black, it's still a color that people think of when they hear the band.

Lol!!😂

Jazmeen Hamid makes me sick

Vito Corleone, It is an anti rape song! As Kurt said it’s an in your face protest song.

Vincent Gonzales He said « god, I love kurt so much !!! » so I answer Makes me sick. This is in Aneurysm « Love you so much, makes me sick ! »

Josh Weaver, In an interview, Kurt himself, explained why he wrote it-he said it is an anti rape song.

Josh Weaver liar

Same thing with me, that happened to me in January 1994, right after I turned 4 years old. That's when I saw the weird music video for "Heart Shaped Box" and Nirvana really drew me in. I also remember some TV interview not long after at that time I can't find anywhere, but Kurt talked about how he thinks the internet would "become a place where everyone just complains about the same thing in the same place", and he said it very much like at the 6:13 mark. He sounded excited about going to Europe because "they have the most passionate fans" and "always fun to play over there". He also praised Nine Inch Nails heading into their Downward Spiral era, saying how "like us they got the underground grungy vibe going for them too". By the way he talked, I think he got a hold of Downward Spiral before it came out in March 1994, because I know Courtney had contact with Trent. So for me not only was this perhaps my 1st case of me getting interested in music, but also the first time I thought to myself, "Wow, this dude is cool" regarding a musician. I was in silent shock when he suddenly died while I was watching the WCW Saturday Night episode on April 9, 1994. Hearing the news that Kurt died out of nowhere, I just kinda had a blank face with big eyes and nothing on the wrestling episode was registering at all with me, and my "kid logic" was partially hoping WCW did a tribute for Kurt (but he wasn't a wrestler lol). I was weirded-out but I couldn't put my finger on why, considering I was very young. Weirdest feeling I ever had as a kid...

my reaction to that was same as the bands

I rolled my eyes

suuuure!

he's back to doing it again nowadays

'might there be a chance my parents get to see this?'

300th like

XxpurplekatxX ;3 congratulations

Or any less

Such a sad story. I was a perpetually stoned young cab driver and Nirvana fan when In Utero came out, and can confirm it sounded best that way.

@@danieldaniels7571 dont get high and drive!!!!

That guy ruled. I also like how he described the album perfectly.

Bobby Vagene Well, he does look like a member of Run DMC, in all fairness.

That’s clearly a man that respects music in general. What he said about how the album is sequenced was spot on.

Bobby Vagene pussy

Little Caligula "I hate to be racist" lmao but you still were

Or trade it for another CD too😏😂

I dunno about that. If you didn't steal CDs from Columbia House in the '90s, what were you doing with your life?

people wouldn't steal them today, especially younger people

instead of 30 second listens followed by stupid hot takes on twitter, internet ruined music

@@f67739 music isnt ruined, you're just not looking in the right places for good music nowadays.

The virgin Diane vs the chad Sean

right, so what's ur point?

Sean probably got that it wasn't literal. Diane didn't.

Thanx for pointing out the obvious ,for some reason people overlook this

@@rebecca5088 the fact that some idiot guys think rape is cool is pretty disturbing. if you just shrug at that you're one of those dumbfuks.

Oof but like same

Same

shut up

Lol at that part i was like hell no

Sierra Jay yep. Think of what could’ve been. This was their last album 😭😭😭😭

Underrated comment.

lmao thats great

That is so beutiful

I dont have a lizard, but i love them.

That’s so cute omg

Same

You literally read a previous comment and then posted it verbatim like you thought of it.

@@Rob-dp3vr no I did not

@@Rob-dp3vr well it must have been a coincidence

can i have a timestamp

Max Kuzela so am i

Best nirvana song

YES thank you, it's so fucking underappreciated

One of my favourites

yade hell yeah it is I fucking love that song

Rebel The Girl Exactly

what´s this anime shit here

Rebel The Girl bleach was kinda repetative

I love Nirvana but there have been a lot of consistently good bands with larger bodies of work. Their consistency didn't set them apart at all.

I completely disagree, If you took the best songs off each of their albums and created one album you would have an ok album.

There's a huge difference between recording the album and producing it.

A lot of people dont understand the duality of human nature now

@@artvandelay9131 that there are two sides to it-- good & bad. You can never have anything perfect because of human nature. Does that make sense?

@@ok-so7ob Internet killed nuance.

I miss that :(

back when people would get offended and nobody gave af

Fo real!!! the guy gave a really thoughtful analysis.

TRUTH

lol "whats nirvana"

wow this comment blew up

@@phalxor the one black person? what are there meant to be more black people on the campus?

Underrated comment!!

Didnt take the pressure off the trigger 😃

@@Dylan-vk5uv you're a dickhead😂

We have Everlong, song from 4th Nirvana album

@@Dylan-vk5uv I giggled lol.

dickhead imagine making jokes about suicide

He even looked diffren

Ron is a coool cat lol

yep totally fake "interviews" Nevermind had 4 massive hits, smells like teen spirit,come as you are,lithium,and in bloom. all over the radio and all over mtv vh1 etc. Its not like everyone was a fan boy like Kev but "whats that" ? dude so fake

The fake news shit is classic... i grew up watchin that shit on TV. Not alll of that was genuine but what media is.

@fuark this sheet ,

Dave Grohl too

🤦🏼‍♂️

Billy is my son. I can confirm that I'm an old man.

Still here too lol...

Yea😕

There were mobile devices like Walkmans and Discmans. Portable music is very popular since the 1980s.

still can use that today when talking about vinyl

pre-Spotify era

Nah, they had cassettes with headphones back in the 80's, even. I think they just wanted to give them some time to listen to and absorb the album. That might be stranger than the phone situation, frankly.

Audio on headphones from a small battery-powered cassette device seemed like impossible, wonderful magic in its day. It was like the beginning of reality manipulation via technology before internet, you could be in a song nobody else was hearing or have someone jack in to what you were listening to as if sharing a separate world.

Yea I’d also like another album from this band I wonder where they went

Gisselle S until you realize he’s talking about Courtney Love’s vagina then it kinda ruins the song not to mention the album is called, in utero

Kristians Kažmers it’s crap ? Did he say it was crap ?

Dude's a straight *Wizard* for sure. His work on _Surfer Rosa,_ _In Utero_ and a God damned laundry list of other legendary albums..nothing short of brilliant. Big inspiration🤘

Lol that part got me

I didn't watch stuff like this because the only song of theirs I enjoyed was Smells Like Teen Spirit. Mostly because I thought Kurt sounded nasal and boring. I preferred Guns n Roses because they were generally Bluesier and had a greater range.

@@andrewharper1609 you're comparing apples with oranges

Kurt, Layne Staley and Chris Cornell were very soft spoken. I remember even Chris said this about the three of them in an interview (that they were 'quiet and introvert people who didn't know how to deal with fame' is the full quote if anyone is wondering).

FORRRRREEEEAAAALLLLLLL

@@andrewharper1609 But Axl is actually known for having the most nasal voice.

Nirvana where way better than Foo Fighters in my opinion. But I still think Curt was a bit of a dick to Dave in this clip.

@Mark Flegal Exactly, people act like no one has a right to be offended about things anymore. As far as I see it as long as youre not getting offended on behalf of other people and youre not trying to "cancel" something just because you personally dont like it, you have every right to feel offended about whatever you want. Its a genuine human emotion

If it is her right to say that then its everyone else's right to dunk on her. Thats how shit works.

She just heard the word "rape" and it was outside her comfort bubble zone. She's probably runs a sjw "non" profit group.

@@b.r.6175 You must be some edgy 14 year old kid if you dont know how the topic of rape can be extremely sensitive content for some women. Grow up and talk to a girl for once

@@callanc3925 LMFAO 😂🤣. Your completely wrong and it's hilarious. Please go crawl back into your bubble hole with everyone that hears the word rape, begins to cry and screams "this big bad person is insensitive to my personal feeling". 🥺🥺 Oh the state of this world.

Unnamed gaming 2002 ya f'ing brutal. That being said, first foo fighters album had songs that Dave was gonna do as nirvana. You can tell. Go listen to it now.

@@aplus1080 Oh god the 1st Foo Fighters album is insanely good.

@R S stfu

Did you really though?

@@thebatman4279 I think kurt helped a bit on that first album just before he killed himself. He came to Kurt and said he was forming this other band and Kurt was cool with it.

Jack Tilghman: Maybe she just disliked it.

Denise Nova No, she didn‘t just dislike it, she found it offensive.

knows not what it means

@Complimemt thief it's an anti-rape song dude...

@Complimemt thief did you even watch the video? Kurt States that it is a anti-rape song my guy!

"Clever" for liking the most commercial song on the record smdh.

clever for recognizing people would latch on to it.

+GeorgeUK84 Are you deaf? He said it would become a hit on MTV which it did. Thanks for showing us how great your misunderstanding of the English language is.

Most commercial? You gotta be deaf to call such a song as commercial. Its one of the greatest songs ever written, its more than just hit song from Nirvana album.

it was the first single and it was all over the radio, so he probably had all ready heard it

He was also a bit of a douche. Spent too much time bitching about other bands. I like their music, but he was clearly far too insecure in his own talent and seemed to vent by criticising other bands. Guns n Roses and Pearl Jam are good examples, both bands were complimentary to Nirvana and Kurt just couldn’t give it back. Kinda tarnished him for me. Plenty of great bands who are like brothers and sisters, much better that way. Still a great band though.

Or he was just a junkie who offed himself, as junkies do.

@@avada0 I believe both are true.

"it was like in his mind, making ‘popular’ music was a failure" Like that wasn't his goal. Nirvana got more pop every album.

@@noobison The bass player has no talent.

RPVisual look 19 to me

Lol

Hahaha crying and 40

Giraffa Camelopardalis thank you, someone agrees with me. I wish it was the 90s again.

clothes

Cock rock really fucked him off!

I don't think it's really about literal rape at all. Just a metaphor for exploitation & not necessarily sexual. That's how I always took it anyway.

Of course most people don't realize that. They don't actually listen to the song and understand the sentiment; they just clutch their pearls. Pearl clutchers and the boomer mindset will exist forever

When I was in a band as a teenager, we did a gig around Christmas that was a mash up of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Rape Me. So it was "Santa Claus is Coming to Rape Me". We were very childish but it was hilarious at the time But yeah anyone who thinks the song is somehow pro rape is a moron, hasn't even read the lyrics, and their opinion thus doesn't matter whatsoever Also with other people actually reading the lyrics and having different interpretations, that's fine, that's great in fact. Because of Death of the Author, everyone's interpretation is equally valid even if they're all very different. But yeah the ones who just see the title and judge it based on that don't count, their opinion on it doesn't matter because they don't even know the thing they are judging I think a very grainy video of my old band playing santa Claus is coming to rape me is still on KZhead. It was in the very early days and so it's terrible quality. It's still somewhere on KZhead but I am struggling to find it.

Well, nobody's perfect

Been listening to nirvana since I was 8 still my favourite band after years

I wish politicians would blow their own brains out for selling out like Kurt did.

*_MURDERED!!_*

@@Rick_Cleland 100%

he shook his head no when he said it though

@@krikeydial3430 isn’t Krist a politician now though

Bart Tare im not sure its the differnces, but if they were all alive....

Bart Tare yes :(

they were on their way to a breakup

Flaming GeekKnight m2

noobenstein I doubt it was her

not to mention reading all the lyrics.

It's kinda weird because the early 90's I got so excited taking a new CD home and unwrapping the plastic and studying the art and lyrics while listening to the music --- but by the late 90's I only had that feeling when unwrapping a new piece of software like Adobe Photoshop or a new video game like Diablo LOL

Those were the fucking days :D

Yes!!!

Music was an experience back then. You didn't just listen to one song. You listened to the album and took in the entire body of work.

Exactly, and it is the best album.

In other words : looking back the man didn't have the faintest clue what pop and rock must is about.

Exactly why they've always been my favorite band. Every song on every album could be a hit.

Or being on addicted to heroin and suicidal regardless of the fame and fortune.

I think the logic is that the album is trash compared to the prior success of the previous albums that made them "millionaires"

Don't forget about Pat Smear. His influence would have been interesting too 🙂👍

playa

15 minutes of MTV fame.

He was the cool kid, He had a mob of students following him..

blondie was so hot.

This thread is beautiful...

Matt Owen what was he in court for

The Kid Zombie every thing

Matt Owen HOLY FRICK YOU REPLIED FAST! Jesus!!!

The Kid Zombie got a notification

Matt Owen oh wow Hehehe