![]() The front cover has a magnet you can move around. But I really hope you all already knew that. It’s probably aged better than 90% of the albums from its era, and it remains Nirvana’s crowning achievement as a band. In Utero is a classic record, a masterpiece. Nothing I could say about the album will do it justice. I don’t need to review the music on In Utero. Quick note: This pair of reviews will strictly be covering the audio quality, extra tracks and overall presentation of both box sets. For the purposes of this review, I will only be focusing on the Super Deluxe 3CD + DVD box set and the 3LP Special Edition versions. To celebrate/cash-in on the 20th anniversary of In Utero, Universal made four different versions of the album available. And it includes a set of bonus cuts and added features that should make every Nirvana fanatic as happy as a flannel-clad grunge rocker in a Doc Martens store. The 20th Anniversary Edition of I n Utero is as great as the Nevermind Anniversary Edition was bad. I thought they were going to go half-assed once more, and just create another needless cash-in at the sake of one of the most important and greatest albums of my generations. I thought they were going to overcompress it, fill it with needless bullshit, and charge way too much for it. ![]() From the second I heard about it, I thought they were going to fuck it up. So as you can probably imagine, I was more than a bit trepidatious when details started to leak out about the In Utero 20th Anniversary Edition. All the dynamic range of the original recordings was stripped out and replaced with loud, distorted noise. In the hands of Bob Ludwig, the album was “remastered” into a compressed, noisy mess. But most importantly, it sounded like complete garbage. ![]() It was overpriced, it lacked key outtakes and included useless filler. Let’s not beat around the bush here: the 20th Anniversary Edition of Nevermind was a gigantic piece of shit. Guest reviewer James Eldred, gives his views on the recent reissue. ![]()
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