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Nirvana's 'In Utero' at 30

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Thirty years ago this month, Nirvana released what would be its third and final album, In Utero. To mark the milestone, we revisit our 2013 conversation with surviving members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic (for what was then In Utero's 20th anniversary) about how the album came to be.

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From NPR Music, it's all songs considered.

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I'm Robin Hilton.

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30 years ago this month, Nirvana released what would be its third and final album

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in utero.

0:30.4

It featured some of the band's most love work, including the songs, all apologies, heart-shaped

0:35.5

box, and penny-royal tea.

0:38.1

To market three-decade milestone, Geffen and Universal Music is releasing a massive

0:43.2

box set with more than 50 previously unreleased recordings, including two full concerts from

0:48.7

the in utero tour, B-sides, and a whole bunch more.

0:52.4

That's due out later this year.

0:54.4

Back when Nirvana celebrated the 20th anniversary of in utero, all songs considered Bob Boylan

0:59.1

and I set down with the band's two surviving members, drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Chris

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Nova Selich, to talk about the album and how it came together.

1:08.5

They shared their memories of what it was like to be in the studio back then, all the

1:11.7

antics and experiments and songwriting, the incredible energy of it all, and what it was

1:16.7

like to work with their hero, producer Steve Albini.

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To mark the 30th anniversary of in utero, we are revisiting that conversation this week

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