The infamous album-opening lyric that once dripped with sarcasm- “Teenage angst has paid off well/ Now I’m bored and old”- now sounded coldly nihilistic.
In the wake of Cobain’s shotgunned sign-off, it became nigh impossible to hear In Utero in any other context. The second version of In Utero came to be on April 8, 1994, from which point the album would be forever known as the rough draft for rock‘n’roll’s most famous suicide note.
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In that sense, this first version of In Utero resonates as much today as a symbolic gesture as a collection of 12 unrelentingly visceral rock songs, a how-to manual for any artist at the top of their game- from Kid A-era Radiohead to Kanye West circa Yeezus- that would rather use their elevated position to provoke their audience than pander to it. Upon release, In Utero may have debuted at number one, but initially it was something of a pyrrhic victory: Rather than lead a wave of Jesus Lizard-inspired noise bands to the top of the Billboard charts, In Utero would send millions of Nirvana’s more casual crossover fans scurrying into the warm embrace of Pearl Jam’s record-setting October '93 release Vs., an album that, from a music-biz perspective, was the true blockbuster sequel to Nevermind. (The second-guessing circumstances were not that dissimilar to those of the preceding Nevermind- wherein Butch Vig's original recordings were eventually handed over to Andy Wallace for a platinum-plated finish- only this time, the outcome had the potential to affect Geffen's share price.)
And where the album’s title would reflect Cobain’s lyrical yearning for a back-to-the-womb retreat from celebrity scrutiny, it also proved emblematic of the record's messy birth: A by-all-reports harmonious two-week quickie session with recording engineer Steve Albini in a rural Minnesota studio would lead to months of acrimonious exchanges in the press among the band, DGC, and Albini over the purportedly unlistenable nature of the results, requests for cleaner mixes, and cruddy cassette copies leaked to radio that falsely reinforced the label’s misgivings.
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Scroll down to read the full tracklist and pre-order it here.While Kurt Cobain famously used the liner notes for 1992 rarities compilation Incesticide to call out the jocks, racists, and homophobes in Nirvana’s ever-expanding audience, In Utero promised a more aggressively hands-on process of weeding out the mooks, a concerted effort to realign Nirvana with the artists they actually listened to and away from those they were credited with spawning. The sleeve notes for the album feature new interviews with Julien Temple, Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley, Edward Tudor Pole, Simon Emmerson, Mick Talbot and Nick Lowe.Ībsolute Beginners is out on 17 July. The star-studded cast included Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, Eddie O’Connell, Ray Davies, Sade, James Fox, Mandy Rice-Davies and Steven Berkoff with ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ cameos from Sandie Shaw, Eric Sykes and Strictly judge Bruno Tonioli. Julian Temple’s Absolute Beginners is based on a novel first published in 1959 and is set against the backdrop of the Notting Hill race riots of August 1958.
The album features four tracks that are unavailable elsewhere Sade’s ‘Killer Blow’, Ray Davies first solo single ‘Quiet Life’, Riot City’, an eight-and-a-half minute Jazz instrumental that marked a first solo outing for Jerry Dammers and an extended version of The Style Council single ‘Have You Ever Had It Blue?’.
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