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Dave Grohl<\/a> built his entire career on being nothing but genuine.\u00a0<\/p>\n As much as his nice guy attitude might be a facade to some people, you could tell that he came by his music as honestly as he could whenever he started writing with Foo Fighters or drumming for Nirvana. But even after starting all over again after losing Kurt Cobain, Grohl spent his entire career knowing that he had already made one of the most openhearted records that he had ever made from behind the drum kit.<\/p>\n But Grohl wasn\u2019t going to get that much of a word in when working with Nirvana. The last thing he wanted to do was disrupt the songwriting process whenever he came up with an idea, and seeing as though their breakout album still contained some of the biggest alternative rock songs of all time, it\u2019s not like Cobain didn\u2019t know what he was doing. Even after years of hindsight, there are many fans who still don\u2019t know what to do with In Utero years after Cobain\u2019s passing.<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s easy for someone to play armchair psychologist and listen to the screaming and claim that Cobain was lashing out in pain about what fame had done to him, but there\u2019s a lot more to it than that. He did say that he didn\u2019t want to make another version of Nevermind, but when listening to the raw performances, there\u2019s something else going on aside from him making a record that was less polished.<\/p>\n Steve Albini was definitely the right guy for the job when it came to production duties, but the feeling in the room is one of the best ways to listen to the band. There are a few things that are sweetened up in the mix, but even if you look past the singles, each song perfectly balanced the beautiful side of them and the nastier side, like the tired beauty of a song like \u2018Dumb\u2019 or hearing them almost making fun of the idea of having a hit song on a track like \u2018Serve the Servants\u2019.<\/p>\n And while a lot has changed in Grohl\u2019s life ever since working with Foo Fighters, he still thinks that In Utero is one of the most transparent recordings that he ever made, saying<\/a>, \u201cWe managed to capture the emotional state of the band. It was a weird time for us. It was a little too real. I think it\u2019s one of the most honest recordings I\u2019ve made in my entire life, and it\u2019s heartbreaking that it\u2019s not a band anymore. It\u2019s like going back and reading all of your journal entries from years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n At the same time, you can hear that kind of emotional honesty in the way that Grohl hits the drums as well. You have to remember that everyone in the band had to change their lives after becoming the biggest band in the world, and even if Cobain could sing about it, Grohl was the one that was able to let his aggression out a lot more, especially on \u2018Heart Shaped Box\u2019<\/a>, which manages to sound more like a smack in the face than anything that turned up on Nevermind. <\/p>\n Grohl still wasn\u2019t looking to rock the boat, but a lot of that musical honesty also comes from him getting his first official song with the band on \u2018Marigold\u2019. It\u2019s easy to view that tune now as the beginnings of Foo Fighters before Grohl even formed the group, but you could tell that he was just having a blast working with his friends and trying to find a way to hone his songwriting skills the same way that Cobain was.<\/p>\n So while comparing Nirvana and Foo Fighters is almost inevitable, there\u2019s no sense in trying to make Grohl\u2019s outfit out to be the band that picked up where Nirvana left off. \u2018Everlong\u2019 and \u2018Learn to Fly\u2019 are fantastic pop rock songs for their time, but there\u2019s a good chance that Grohl doesn\u2019t have an album like In Utero in him. It\u2019s just too emotionally vulnerable for anyone to try to top. <\/p>\n
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