In Utero

After Nevermind sold tens of millions, Cobain wanted the polish scraped off. The band hired Steve Albini, the engineer behind the Pixies' Surfer Rosa, and recorded everything in about two weeks at Pachyderm Studio in rural Minnesota. Geffen executives heard the tapes and worried the record was unreleasable. It debuted at number one anyway. Seven months later Cobain was dead, which makes it impossible now to hear a song like All Apologies as anything but what it was.