Dave Grohl: 'Listen to In Utero without thinking of Kurt dying'
Nirvana drummer 'can't listen' to album any more
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by Andrew Trendell | Photos by WENN
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Dave Grohl has spoken out in a plea to fans, urging them to listen to Nirvana's final album, In Utero, 'without thinking of Kurt Cobain dying'.
The former Nirvana drummer was talking to Rolling Stone magazine about the release of the 20th anniversary of the band's seminal 1993 album, In Utero. The album would become the band's last, as frontman Kurt Cobain took his own life the year after its release.
Now, Grohl has said that fans should listen to the record on its own merits, without thinking of Cobain's demise.
"The album should be listened to as it was the day it came out," he said. "That's my problem with the record. I used to like to listen to it. And I don't any more, because of that.To me, if you listen to it without thinking of Kurt dying, you might get the original intention of the record.
Grohl continued: "Like my kids. They know I was in Nirvana. They know Kurt was killed. I haven't told them that he killed himself. They're four and seven years old. So when they listen to 'In Utero', they'll have that fresh perspective – the original intention of the album, as a first-time listener. Someday they will learn what happened. And it'll change that. It did for me."
Watch Nirvana performing In Utero track 'Rape Me' in 1993 below
Nirvana's 20th Anniversary Edition of In Utero is out now. Read our 10/10 review of the album here.
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