Fans are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's album "In Utero," with MTV quoting a statement from the band, how they had not intended to become famous, which is ironically exactly what ended up happening to them.
Their album "In Utero" topped the Billboard charts upon its debut on September 13, 1993, going platinum five times and remaining so even more than two decades later. MTV has said that a deluxe anniversary edition will hit stores on September 24, 2013.
The album includes well known tracks such as "Heart Shaped Box," "Milk It," and "All Apologies" and leaving one to wonder how much further the band could have gone if it hadn't for frontman Kurt Cobain's tragic and abrupt death.
Many consider "In Utero" as having been Kurt Cobain's last musical testament before passing away six months later, but the album had supposedly been deemed "unreleasable," due to the raw nature of its content. It had originally been titled "I Hate Myself and I Want To Die," in Cobain's trademark provocative humor, but even bassist Kris Novoselic had thought it was too much and worried that they will get sued, knowing that their younger fans would take it literally and begin killing themselves.
Cobain then leaned towards its current, more poetic title. Its biological aspect permeated most of the lyrical content, as critics noted, with emphasis on bodily afflictions like acne, cancer, insomnia, anemia...with Cobain later laughing off the accusations of inserting subliminal messages, with most of the material as being last-minute inventions.
The album mostly contained how Cobain dealt with stardom, but it contains a self-critical aspect , containing even universal social issues, even talking at one point about the divorce of his parents, turning around before things became too self-absorbed, with a laconic statement dripping with ironic humor.
Cobain shot himself in 1994, just a few months after realizing that "In Utero" was probably more valuable than he thought.
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