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Album Posted ============> Nirvana - In Utero
Album Release Date ======> September 21, 1993
Label & Catalog Number ==> Geffen (424 536-1)
Number of Tracks ========> 12
Total Playing Time ======> 41:15
Mono/Stereo =============> Stereo
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Ripped & Encoded By =====> humanoidboo
Date Posted =============> December 2005
Ripped Media ============> German Stereo LP
Program Used To Rip =====> n/a
Codec ===================> FLAC (level 8)
Posting Size ============> 243 MB
Number of Files Posted ==> 16
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Covers Included =========> No
MD5 File Included =======> Yes
EAC Log Included ========> No
Cue Sheet Included ======> No
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Recorded by Steve Albini

This is the German re-issue LP (also known as "Universal Vinyl Series"), featuring the original Steve Albini mixes of 'Heart-Shaped Box' and 'Pennyroyal Tea'. These were remixed for all other CD, LP and cassette releases by Scott Litt.

Matrix on vinyl Side A: A33 9124 536 S1 320 / Side B: A33 9124 536 S2 320
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AMG Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Nirvana probably hired Steve Albini to produce In Utero with the hopes of creating their own Surfer Rosa, or at least shoring up their indie cred after becoming a pop phenomenon with a glossy punk record. In Utero, of course, turned out to be their last record, and it's hard not to hear it as Kurt Cobain's suicide note, since Albini's stark, uncompromising sound provides the perfect setting for Cobain's bleak, even nihilistic, lyrics. Even if the album wasn't a literal suicide note, it was certainly a conscious attempt to shed their audience -- an attempt that worked, by the way, since the record had lost its momentum when Cobain died in the spring of 1994. Even though the band tempered some of Albini's extreme tactics in a remix, the record remains a deliberately alienating experience, front-loaded with many of its strongest songs, then descending into a series of brief, dissonant squalls before concluding with "All Apologies," which only gets sadder with each passing year. Throughout it all, Cobain's songwriting is typically haunting, and its best moments rank among his finest work, but the over-amped dynamicism of the recording seems like a way to camouflage his dispiritedness -- as does the fact that he consigned such great songs as "Verse Chorus Verse" and "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" to compilations, when they would have fit, even illuminated the themes of In Utero. Even without those songs, In Utero remains a shattering listen, whether it's viewed as Cobain's farewell letter or self-styled audience alienation. Few other records are as willfully difficult as this.
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Transfer: LP -> Dual CS 505-3 (w/ Goldring 1022GX) -> NAD 3240PE -> Audigy 2 -> WAV -> FLAC
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enjoy!

[if anyone wants the rest of the ripped album in .flac + md5 + nfo files for their collection, get in touch with me]

[download only if you're hardcore - the differences between the these mixes and the official released versions are minimal]

VoidOfsPg said:

Yeah same here.

Are there flac codecs availble for download for Windows users?

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bi0 said:

VoidOfsPg said:

Yeah same here.

Are there flac codecs availble for download for Windows users?

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http://flac.sourceforge.net/

yes. quite available. http://rarewares.org/lossless.html
I know that foobar2000 and winamp have .flac support.

you can also compress the file into a lossy format like .ogg or .mp3

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I don't understand the point of this. All it does is take up more disk space and the sound between mp3 and flac/wav isn't even noticable. It's a waste of space, just use MP3s

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