A thread for the discussion of Nirvana's "Incesticide"

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A++ thread for sending my ears back to Nirvana's rarities.

every time i get reminded of these years i can't help to think how it was the information dark age back then, especially for people living in the country far from any scenes and college radio; to me and many others these liner notes were key to refine a bit more an aesthetic that we all "got" instinctively , even with the language barrier, but also clearly focused the meaning of "the good fight": not the kind of information you easily get in the media or from a family/community where an anti-intellectual attitude is rather the norm.

I didn't buy this album until well past the.peak of Nirvana's popularity because the title just grossed me out. It still does.

what of "Hoarmoaning" then?

Isn't there another part of the liner notes with a long list of thank yous? I seem to remember Quentin Tarantino being in the thank you notes with his name misspelled. Or was that in In Utero?

Xp: don't have much of a problem with hormones

Huh, my British tape of Incesticide doesn't have liner notes. I would've loved them as a teenager with all those namechecks to memorise and never hope to find any music by.

The mere sight of the band name "Fitz of Depression" (I assume it's the same band) sent me back to being 13 and buying a copy of Vox with a special "record collector" supplement on rare grunge-related records and a piece on Kozik's gig posters and just reading it over and over again and marvelling over the weird band names and the stuff I'd never, ever find. And now all those records are a few keypresses away from blasting into my ears for free.

Also didn't really get the non-album nature of Incesticide back then - was confused by the excitement over In Utero as long-awaited post-Nevermind album because didn't Incesticide just come out recently? Man I only just got that and hid it where my parents couldn't see the title and already we're awaiting the next one like it didn't even happen.

My mum bought me In Utero on tape, I guess I was about 10 or 11. She was quite relaxed about that kind of thing, she just asked "is this suitable?" and I said "yes" and that was it.

I haven't voluntarily listened to them in about 17 years I'd say.

don't remember when i listened to it last, but the couple of nirvana thread revives + old groups putting out new material (mbv, cornelius) made me think the timing is right to listen to it again. i always preferred it to bleach , lots of weird, acid moments that makes me think of other contemporary noise rock stuff. would have liked in utero to get further in that direction but i liked it as it is.

i always forget how good nirvana actually are until i decide to listen to them (which is about once every 1-2 years on average)

nirvana scratches an itch that no other band i have found can scratch.

you should prob see a doctor

nah, i'm just gonna put some incesticide on it and see it that doesn't fix the problem

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or maybe some bleach.

Hairspray Queen has always been a fave off of this, but listening back for the first time in ages the other day, strikes me just how good it is. Never realised how new-wavey it is, like a heavy metal version of Devo or something.

The last four songs are a great run, some of the weirder tracks Nirvana recorded - though I've heard a lot of hate for Aero Zeppelin.

love aero zeppelin, proper neandergenius

Vox on Hairspray Queen have always reminded me of Bobcat Goldthwait.

I never listen to this one, primarily because of Hairspray Queen. Only tracks that I love are Dive and Aneurysm. Don't care or can't remember the rest of them. It was like, oh I have heard a cz records compilation before.

Some days it's my favourite. A few dull tunes on the first side but it's Nirvana at their most unhinged and splintering. Don't you even like Sliver, How's Life?

I really don't like Sliver. :D

On first listen I had presumed it to be one of the many cover songs.

I don't particularly like Sliver.

Incesticide was my introduction to the whole outtakes/b-sides stopgap thing, and it does the whole concept prouder than any other such collection I've heard unless the bonus tracks on the Pavement reissue series count. It rules, FUIUD.

Somehow I never stopped and *hits bowl* really listened to "Beeswax" until like 3 years ago. now it's one of my favorite Nirvana songs. i love this performance of it (ostensibly they played mostly rarities and abandoned songs on purpose at this show to piss off the misogynistic crowd):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IC1uQjHMY

That specific version of "Beeswax" is one of their best songs.

probably because Grohl improves on the original drumming

Yeah, and Kurt's singing and guitar playing are much better. The version on Insecticide is pre-Bleach. Shame they didn't play it ever again after that Argentina show.