These posts are from the What are you listening to thread
Nevermind aged well because of the exact reasons the band disliked it: it was super polished and overproduced. As I’ve grown older In Utero has gone from a favorite to kind of a bummer, it’s very obvious Cobain was too deep into his heroin addiction to bother writing songs anymore. Five of the twelve tracks were written in 1990 or 1991 and “tourette’s” is pure filler, so we’re down to 6 new songs written for the album. The majority of the songs either end with or have a chorus of just a simple repetition (“Serve the servants, oh no” “Go away!” “Your adviiiiiiiiiice” “Rape me!” “I miss the comfort in being sad” “I think I’m dumb” “Out of the sky into the dirt” Milk It’s chorus is “doll steak, test meat” “Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea”) and of course the pièce de résistance:
Those "all in all is all we are"s take up 1:30 of a 4 minute song, Kurt was out of ideas.