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rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download
#5204356 - 01/20/06 09:11 PM (18 years, 11 days ago) |
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inspired by the 90s rock music thread, I bring you music-collecting kids the rare Steve Albini mixes of Heart-Shaped Box and Pennyroyal Tea
~~~> temporary download
47.0 MB
files are in lossless .flac format for archival purposes.
these mixes were only released on vinyl in Germany. incredibly rare & difficult to find.
.nfo:
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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 ___________________________
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 ___________________________
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 ___________________________
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. ___________________________
Transfer: LP -> Dual CS 505-3 (w/ Goldring 1022GX) -> NAD 3240PE -> Audigy 2 -> WAV -> FLAC __________________________

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]
Edited by bi0 (01/20/06 09:17 PM)
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: Vvellum]
#5204756 - 01/20/06 10:44 PM (18 years, 11 days ago) |
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: Vvellum]
#5204806 - 01/20/06 10:54 PM (18 years, 11 days ago) |
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Oh, cool! I'm pretty sure I'm hardcore, it's gonna be cool to listen and spot the differences. Thanks, mang!
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: Vvellum]
#5206109 - 01/21/06 11:04 AM (18 years, 10 days ago) |
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Wow- thanks for these!!!!
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: Dankman]
#5206149 - 01/21/06 11:23 AM (18 years, 10 days ago) |
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I saw an interview with kurt about in utero and it was his least favorite album according to him during that interview but its one of my favorites actually. Very Nice!! Thanks
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
#5206156 - 01/21/06 11:25 AM (18 years, 10 days ago) |
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How can I get these to play? Where can I get a player that plays these Flac files?
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
#5206334 - 01/21/06 12:39 PM (18 years, 10 days ago) |
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Yeah same here.
Are there flac codecs availble for download for Windows users?
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
#5206348 - 01/21/06 12:46 PM (18 years, 10 days ago) |
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I thought that it was his favorite? I know it's my favorite.
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: VoidOfsPg]
#5206588 - 01/21/06 02:15 PM (18 years, 10 days ago) |
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VoidOfsPg said: Yeah same here.
Are there flac codecs availble for download for Windows users?
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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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: Vvellum]
#5208541 - 01/21/06 11:48 PM (18 years, 9 days ago) |
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weren't those on one of the outcesticde discs? or were they just alternate lyric versins
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: barto]
#5209641 - 01/22/06 10:10 AM (18 years, 9 days ago) |
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no. never released before - only in germany recently. they are not alternate versions, they are simply the original mixes that albini did. the songs are identical - just slightly sound different from the official scott lit mixes that were released on the the album.
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: Vvellum]
#5209887 - 01/22/06 11:21 AM (18 years, 9 days ago) |
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Why were they so popular in Germany I don't get it? I remember they were pretty big over there back then.
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: Vvellum]
#5209922 - 01/22/06 11:31 AM (18 years, 9 days ago) |
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bi0 said:
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VoidOfsPg said: Yeah same here.
Are there flac codecs availble for download for Windows users?
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
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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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: VoidOfsPg]
#5210005 - 01/22/06 11:51 AM (18 years, 9 days ago) |
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just download flac frontend, it's free and easy to use.
what i immediately notice about heart shaped box is the complete lack of vocal harmonies and the drums are a bit more prominent in the mix...also that weird feedback sound at the end of the solo is EQ'd a bit different.
kind of cool, thanks.
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Re: rare Steve Albini mixes from Nirvana's "In Utero" sessions - download [Re: VoidOfsPg]
#5210111 - 01/22/06 12:19 PM (18 years, 9 days ago) |
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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
you dont understand the point of lossless encodings?
the point isnt necessarily to "sound better" than lossy encodings but to be an archival format of exact cd quality. mp3 is not exact - the mp3 algorthims that compress a lossless rip (wav, flac, etc) lose alot of data and thus are not archival quality.
if you do not like flac and have no interest in a lossless music archive like myself and others who collect music, you can always compress the flac to whatever lossy encoding you like. the beauty of lossless is you can compress it a million times to whatever lossy encoding and the original file will not be harmed. you cannot do this with mp3 or other lossy encodings.
one day, all of your mp3s will be outdated like vhs and you wont have an original source. lossless serves as an original source that will allow you to encode to any format you wish.
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