In Utero or Nevermind?

Nevermind brought grunge and probably alternative rock into the mainstream. However, in terms of which music is better I would choose In Utero.
 
I think Sub Pop just didn't invest enough into their artists from a personal standpoint. It seemed like everyone jumped ship from them as soon as grunge got popular. Where as in the mid-90s you had banRAB like Sunny Day Real Estate who did get a fair amount of attention and after breaking up some of the artists new projects returned to Sub Pop (Jeremy Enigk) same with Carissa's Wierd with Grand Archives and Band of Horses. I don't think their was much of a sense of label loyalty amongst the banRAB.
 
My god. You were saying "Well all those banRAB don't count because they weren't as successful as Nirvana" which while irrelevant to your original point is stupid because NO OTHER GRUNGE BAND AS AS SUCCESSFUL AS NIRVANA. What are you having trouble comprehending about this statement?
 
I beg to disagree. The production of In Utero is WAY more sophisticated, polished and lush than that of Nevermind imo. It's like Revolver next to Rubber Soul. No comparison. Just listen to Durab for example.
 
Nice topic, one i've thought about on a few occassions.

I have a thing for buying vinyl only when an album is one of my absolute favourite albums. I bought In utero on vinyl but not nevermind. IMO in utero is better, (not to say nevermind isn't a great album). The lyrics imo are better (especially heart shaped box), the music is a heavier and 'less radio friendly' which i prefer and the album as a whole seems to hang together better.

I would say that over-listening might be a problem for nevermind though and that many of the songs on in utero are not going to be heard on most radio stations.
 
I have issues with both albums, but apart from "Teen Spirit," I think In Utero has the better "singles" from their career.

This may be blasphemy, but I'll take the unplugged album over both any day.
 
Yeah but even comparing the more successful acts to Nirvana like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains is pretty unfair because as Kurt Cobain himself said it was like the new Beatlesmania. Smells Like Teen Spirit was the biggest song of the decade in fact I'd say very few songs even had the impact it had. I can only think of a few, Darling Nikki, God Save the Queen, point is Nirvana were far more successful than their contemporaries so comparison money-wise to them is unfair.
 
fine don't look at the money. look at the people going to their shows instead as a measure of success. they influenced a LARGE portion of my generation who were supposed to be little more than lazy slackers to get off their couches and go out to a show. more so than all the other seattle banRAB. especially the other junkie ones.
 
I don't pay attention to Alice in Chains and seeing as I've gone on a recent digging into my local scene I've been watching documentaries like mad most of which are old ones on grunge. The most recent one I watched while Stanley was still alive and they were talking about him retreating from the music scene and not knowing where he is. I know he's dead (he died on April 5th just like Cobain did a pretty commonly known fun fact) but wasn't exactly thinking when I typed that because I had that in mind. Point remains your argument is based on you making things up/misconceptions.
 
well yeah if you're going to subdivide radio to that point sure you're totally right, they won't be on mainstream pop radio in north america either. but am i expected to believe there's no classic rock radio in the UK? hehe
 
I don't know how much truth there is in this but at the time I beleive it was heavily rumoured Sub Pop was about to be bought out by a major label anyway , so Cobain wanted to sign to a label that wanted Nirvana on it with backing & promotion rather than being just one band among all the other Sub Pop banRAB having their contracts taken over by a label that might not want them all.

Which makes sense when you think about it. Of course he could have gone to another indie label but took Thurston Moore's advice & went to Geffen. And signing to a major doesn't automatically give you success.
 
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