No. Creed was crappy, Up-With-People pop with a quasi-metal coating, with enough of Stapp’s religious background informing the type of Uplift he was selling to annoy everyone on the believer/non spectrum.
Not even a question in my mind that In Utero is a better album.
Wow, that description makes it sound absolutely horrendous.
Funny, I have used those three exact words to describe the album over the years. I can’t imagine how on earth anyone could listen to AD and not find him whiney.
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Wow, that description makes it sound absolutely horrendous.
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Imagine Fabio: Fabio Lanzoni - Wikipedia
With a furrowed brow - is he pensive? Is he confused? Why the tank top? - he bursts into a metal version of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive - selling hard*; with rockets going off and shit. Muscles flex, orgasm face happens, bombast escalates. Boom - you have been Uplifted.
*unlike Cake’s perfect hyper-ironic versionn. I love Cake.
In Utero was just all right. I couldn’t stand a lot of the songs that got airplay like Rape Me or Heart-Shaped Box. All Apologies, Pennyroyal Tea, and Serve the Servants should’ve gotten more time on the radio.
August and Everything After was close to a masterpiece, in my opinion. Pretty much every song was good and definitely touching on an emotional level. Adam Duritz doesn’t necessarily sing with more emotion than Kurt Cobain, but definitely different (and touching) emotion.
Edit: I was a huge Nirvana fan back in the 90’s, but In Utero I felt was one of their weakest albums.
CC were pretty bland; slightly more ponderous than Hootie and the Blowfish. Dylan for middle schoolers. Nirvana were downright trenchant by comparison.
Never cared for Counting Crows, can’t say I’ve even thought of them in 18 or more years so no opinion change.
Wasn’t a huge Nirvana fan, but wouldn’t change the channel if they came on the radio or whatever, over time I’ve come to appreciate them more, but I mean, I still don’t worship them like some people do or anything.
If you’d asked me twenty years ago, I’d have said In Utero. These days, the only Nirvana that interests me is the Unplugged, and that mostly for the covers. Cobain was an excellent performer, and showed promise as a songwriter, but in my opinion that promise never fully developed.
Adam Duritz is a brilliant, if slightly one-dimensional songwriter. I can still listen to AaEA today and find meaning in it, just as I can with their other albums. I’d rather listen to Recovering The Satellites though.
Eh, I bought both when they dropped, but In Utero is the only one I’ll still listen to. It’s the highpoint of Nirvana’s output and still resonates. AaEA seems no more than melodramatic to me, while IU seems much more authentic in it’s pain of life expressions. A big part of that is probably due to the differing production styles, but a big part is just that Cobain seemed a lot more sincere and naked than did Durwitz. That’s just my opinion, of course, but it’s right for me. I haven’t picked up the IU reissue yet, but I certainly plan to for the original Albini mixes alone.
I remember owning and liking both albums at the time. I can’t really remember which album I liked more at the time. Going off of memories, I think In Utero might have been the better album.
I haven’t really listened to either of them since 1999 at the latest, so I have no idea how they’ve aged. I think I still have them so I have to go hunting for them.
Wow, I didn’t know that we didn’t get the Albini mixes. I always thought it sounded awfully over-produced for one of his recordings. From glancing at the wiki page, it seems to say that he was doing the mixing. I might actually seek that out to hear it. Who did the mix we’re familiar with?
From what I understand, a good portion of the songs were the originally delivered Albini engineered tracks, but a couple were remixed by REM’s producer at the time. The reissue includes all Albini’s original mixes, which reportedly don’t sound widely different, but a little more visceral. Deets here.