Nirvana - In Utero

Of the millions of albums which have been recorded, only 15 can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musician's who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musician's and at number 12 we have In Utero by Nirvana  (1993).

Always amazes me the amount of teenagers walking around wearing Nirvana T-Shirts because if they had been born in 1993 they would have been doing stinky things in their nappies rather than singing along to the line 'I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black' in Heart Shaped Box which i guess passed for a romantic line in the strange drug fueled World of Kurt Cobain.
Almost certainly the Nirvana the kids today think of is the cool one behind the brilliant hits of the Nevermind Album because it certainly wasn't this second effort which reeks of the Record Company allowing their new stars to do what they wanted for half of it as long as they got a say in the other half.
That they sank even further afterwards with their insipid Unplugged Album probably shows that they peaked straight away but they did leave behind a few great songs from this album, even managing to make a very decent song out of an anti-rape message.
As Kurt later found it easier to put a gun to his head than stay amongst the living, we won't ever know if the trajectory of Nirvana was going to tick back up again or continue it's decline but a note to today's teenagers with the Nirvana logo on their chests, if you do happen across the Unplugged Album, it also contains Dumb, Pennyroyal Tea and All Apologies but do yourself a favour and avoid it, it's the musical equivalent of finding an original first edition of To Kill A Mockingbird and shoving it under the leg of a table to keep it steady.