Dave Grohl Says Listening To Nirvana "Makes My Skin Crawl"

 

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Dave Grohl has explained that listening to the In Utero album by Nirvana "makes my skin crawl."

He spoke about his previous band's third and final studio effort during the update of his biography This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl.

The 10th anniversary version of the book was scheduled to arrive this month.

During a new extract he says, "In Utero captured a moment in time for the band, and it's definitely an accurate representation of the time, which was dark."

"It's a fucking dark album. I don't like listening to that record. It's a weird one for me."

"I hear the songs on the radio every once in a while, and I like the sonic difference of hearing 'All Apologies' or 'Heart-Shaped Box' come on in the middle of a bunch of compressed, Pro Tool-ed modern rock radio music because it stands out. "

"But lyrically and conceptually, it's not something that I like to revisit too often. What I love the most about it is the sound of urgency, and the sound of the three of us in a room."

He also explained that In Utero and its successful predecessor Nevermind "are two totally different albums."

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"Nevermind was intentional, as much as any revisionists might say it was a contrived version of Nirvana, it wasn't - we went down there to make that record, we rehearsed hours and hours and hours, day after day, to get to Nevermind."

"But In Utero was so different. There was no laboured process...it just came out, like a purge, and it was so pure."

Dave believes Nirvana's final album was a response "to the success and sound of Nevermind. We just pushed ourselves in the other direction, like, 'Oh really, that's what you like? Well, here's what we're going to fucking do now!'"

"But it is a hard album for me to listen to from front to back..It's so real, and because it's such an accurate representation of the band at the time, it brings back other memories; it kinda makes my skin crawl."

The remaining members of Nirvana, as well as Kurt Cobain's estate, have been sued by Spencer Elden, the baby on the cover of the album Nevermind. He claims "commercial child sexual exploitation of him from while he was a minor to the present day."

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