Teenage angst has paid off well / Now I'm bored and POLLed: The ILM Nirvana poll results thread (Poll #69)

"Hairspray Queen" was a tough cut for me

xposts but

I predict: /In Utero/ > /Unplugged/ > /Nevermind/ > /Incesticide/ > /Bleach/.

xposts now but I suspect if we'd voted for 2 or 3 albums it mighta shook out this way. Unplugged likely everyone's #2. I'd honestly have to check my ballot to see if I voted for that or In Utero...

i know people started to talk about seeing Nirvana in the voting thread but waited to post that here. first time i saw Nirvana they were the opening band for Sonic Youth's Goo tour, so it was Nirvana's Bleach tour. i was blown away and had to find out who that opening band was. show was 08/17/90 - Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA, so a good year before Nevermind. During "Love Buzz," Kurt jumped into the audience and allowed members of the crowd to play his guitar for a minute before going back onstage. last time i saw them it was like the second or third last show Nirvana played in the US outside of his home town of WA. the second show was 12/30/93 - Great Western Forum, Inglewood, CA. the show was very, very dark and chaotic. it was also really powerful as Kurt gave it his all and was practically falling down from exhaustion. it did feel like a moment in time that i would never witness again. a few months later he was dead.

now but I suspect if we'd voted for 2 or 3 albums it mighta shook out this way. Unplugged likely everyone's #2. I'd honestly have to check my ballot to see if I voted for that or In Utero...

Unplugged is p dud-ish in my books. For me, it's mostly In Utero > Nevermind > Bleach > don't care.

hm. felt like a bolt from the blue at the time. really would have liked to have seen where they went from there.

synth pop

Didn't Kurt want to make an album that was like Automatic for the People?

He said that in a really dark Rolling Stone interview near the end

Voted Nevermind over In Utero in the albums. I thought I would have preferred the latter as that's the one I listen to more these days, but then my top 20 had about 8 tracks from Nevermind.

Didn't Kurt want to make an album that was like Automatic for the People?

― Modern French Music from Failure to Boulez (askance johnson), Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:51 PM

He unofficially did with Unplugged

unplugged is def my #2, and i had its versions in my mind when i voted ("Something in the Way," "On a Plain," "Polly," "Come as You Are")

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/12/kurt-cobain-montage-of-heck-the-home-recordings-review

Could have written this without hearing any of it i.e. guesswork.

Unfortunately, I guess he did and it's true.

just came here to post that. didn't realise this new version of Do Re Mi was *11 minutes*

Do Re Mi sounds a bit like an Automatic for the People attempt

vultures be vultures

i dont get this whole "invasion of privacy" thing. kurt is dead

the journals, albeit carefully curated and abridged, were much more invasive than these 4-track experiments.

yeah, is this different from posthumous nick drake/elliott smith/etc releases? I don't care enough about Cobain's music to listen to his home recordings ... but I've definitely listened to and enjoyed my fair share of "privacy invading" albums.

OK, the first of today's results:

http://i.imgur.com/M6OwyKM.jpg

Love Buzz
228 points, 11 votes

Two showed up from my ballot so far: tourette's and I Hate Myself

http://i.imgur.com/K2yHR6w.jpg

29. Polly
230 points, 12 votes (incl. 1 vote for the MTV Unplugged version)

shit, i should've specified in my ballot. i meant the version from unplugged

tbh surprised how low polly placed

polly wants a cracker

http://i.imgur.com/BGNINWS.jpg

28. Something in the Way
232 points, 11 votes

I've never liked "Polly" tbh

Not one of my favourites either.

hm. felt like a bolt from the blue at the time. really would have liked to have seen where they went from there.

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, November 12, 2015 3:23 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

synth pop

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 12, 2015 3:49 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, if only!

http://i.imgur.com/fn6TJlB.jpg

27. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
273 points, 12 votes

title - good, song - kinda

WHOA - RFUS above something in the way??? wtf?

YES! This was my #7 and there was absolutely no way it wasn't going to make my ballot. Such a furious gig opener, too.

RFUS is without a doubt one of my favourite ever Nirvana songs, really can't say the same for 'Something In The Way'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcFcHzE5gBQ

RFUS is awesome. Would have placed Love Buzz over it personally but it deserves the magic number 27.

Didn't vote for RFUS but it would almost definitely make my top 30.

Anyway, such glancing over my ballot now... six of my selections have placed so far: 'Territorial Pissings', 'Radio Friendly Unit Shifter', 'tourette's', 'Love Buzz', 'Blew' and 'Floyd The Barber' ... of the rest: 'Stay Away', although I love the drumming on it, wasn't even a contender, and neither was 'Something In The Way' ... VERY surprised to see 'Sifting' and 'Swap Meet' make it. If 'Paper Cuts' makes it, my mind will be totally blown, even if I didn't vote for it. 'The Man Who Sold The World' was left off my ballot because I wanted to keep my ballot as cover version free as possible, although 'Love Buzz' sneaked in there, mostly 'cuz I love the bassline.

Also, Nirvana covering Shocking Blue is far more interesting than Nirvana covering Bowie.

Dave Grohl looks like Julianne Moore w/out makeup in that pool shot.

i... i don't see that.

http://i.obozrevatel.ua/3/1391065/gallery/717636.jpg

me neither.

perfect resemblance

Ha, me either. "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" was my #2!
lol 3xp

http://i.imgur.com/Nntx0kx.jpg

26. Milk It
313 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote

My #1.

Pretty good live clip of RFUS

yeah that whole gig's great. love Pat chucking his fag away just before he starts playing.

At first, I didn't get what a Radio Friendly Unit Shifter was. I figured it was an esoteric guitar pedal.

YES! 'Milk It' was my #14. This is one of the tracks on In Utero which would have been completely out of place on Nevermind. I can't even imagine what it would have sounded like with a Butch Vig production and an Andy Wallace mix.