Nirvana - In Utero (w/ guest Tyler Plazio)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are joined by musician/singer-songwriter Tyler Plazio from Soldiers of Suburbia (soldiersofsuburbiaband.com) to talk about Nirvana's In Utero (1993, DGC). A couple years after the enormous success of their major label debut, Nevermind, the band and frontman Kurt Cobain felt pressure to craft a worthy follow up that also represented their artistic vision. They hired producer Steve Albini, kept recording time to a minimum, and attempted to maintain their punk ideals with a noisy and concise album. Tyler talks about discovering the band as a young guitar player after a bandmate told him to cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit." He also reveals how In Utero was a bit of a grower for him but is now one of his favorite albums. Bill, Brian, and Tryle also discuss Krist Novoselic's vision for the album, Dave Grohl's awesome drumming, Cobain's views on gender, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.1	And I'm Brian.
0:02.8	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:04.3	We are talking about In Utero by Nirvana, which came out in September of 1993. What we're awake.
0:27.6	I've been locked inside your heart shaped box for weeks. What we do hear every week on the podcast is talk about albums and what makes them great.
0:43.1	We try to have the conversation that happens around being a fan of the music and the album.
0:48.2	You know, we're going to talk about how we got into the music, what we think is cool about it,
0:52.0	and then we're going to do a track-by-track review.
0:55.6	Oh, are we?
0:56.7	Yes, we are.
0:57.5	And we're not going to do it alone, Brian.
0:59.5	No, no, not this week.
1:01.1	We actually had a singer, songwriter, guitarist, who came all the way up from Virginia
1:07.1	to join us, and his name is Tyler Plaasio from Soldiers of Suburbia.
1:12.4	Yeah, very cool. Tyler had been a longtime fan and listener of the podcast and had written in a few
1:18.7	times and kind of was just like, hey, I'm in the area, I'm in a band, I get something to promote.
1:25.8	What do you think, fellas? And it was cool.
1:28.2	He was, we made it happen.
1:30.0	Yeah, today was literally probably the only day that would have worked.
1:33.2	Yeah.
1:33.7	And it ended up working.
1:34.7	So it was really convenient that we were all able to get together the day after Christmas.
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