![]() Given what happened to Cobain, there is an understandable tendency to look for angst throughout Nirvana’s catalogue. Nirvana while on tour in Germany in 1991 (left to right): Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. The song itself is stark and acoustic: it rams its subject matter in the listener’s face, rather than coating it in distortion and rock dynamics. No song came to represent the gulf between Nirvana and some sections of their newfound audience quite as starkly as Polly, a horrifying depiction of a rape that ended up cited in an actual rape case: its perpetrators sang it to their victim. He had clearly never heard the scourging din of Scentless Apprentice, on which Cobain’s agonised screaming of the seemingly innocuous phrase offers a deeply disturbing insight into the singer’s post-fame state of mind. The comedian Billy Connolly once opined that the words “go away” could never have the same impact as the words “fuck off”. A posthumous remix included on the deluxe version of In Utero reveals its melancholy potency. Sappy (1990-93)ĭepending on your perspective, a song about Kurt Cobain’s pet turtle or an abusive relationship, Sappy was an outtake that deserved better, something Nirvana knew, playing it live for years and recording it over and over before defeatedly slipping it out as a hidden track on a charity compilation. ![]() It sounds both horrified and resigned: a man who, by all accounts, had been very ambitious cautioning to be careful what you wish for. It says something about Nirvana’s skill that swathes of In Utero deal with the usually dispiriting topic of a band complaining about their treatment by the press without slipping into sanctimonious Mr Writer-ish finger wagging. "They're all revved up and ready to go" - The soldiers getting ready to fight.Watch the video for Lithium 17. "What they want, I don't know" - Why Hitler was in the war. "Shoot'em in the back now" - Hitler being shot. "Pulsating to the back beat" - Germans getting pumped for war. "They're generating steam heat" - The engines were so hot they started to steam. "They're piling in the back seat" - People piling into vehicles to get on the autobahn and soldiers piling into vehicles. "The Blitzkrieg Bop" - The soldiers march. "The kids are losing their minds" - Boys being turned into soldiers by Hitler. "They're going through a tight wind" - Cars going down the autobahn. "They're forming in a straight line" - The soldiers are standing in a line. ![]() "Hey ho, let's go" - The soldiers marching. Some fans interpret the song differently, however, as "Blitzkrieg" is a German term meaning "Lighting War." The Blitzkrieg was Hitler's army and in this interpretation, the Bop in the song is the march that the soldiers do. The Ramones wrote this as a salute to their fans - it's about having a good time at a show. Shoot in the back now adds shock value to the song and makes you pay attention Shoot em, the people in the back of the bar, because they are disrupting the show Don't know what they want They hear shouts from the crowd but don't know what they are sayingĭee dee changed it to shoot em in the back Originally Tommy had it as Shouting from the back now What they want I don't know Piling in the back seat has double meaningġ man and a woman in the back seat of a car.Generating steam heat from their romantic coupling (sexual passion and all that goes with it)Ģ People getting a spot at the show in the back seats of the bar generating steam heat due to the people crammed in and generating body heat Kids are losing their minds The music is so hard and good compaired to the crap that they were hearing at the timeīlitzkrieg Bop, relating the fast moving crowd rushing in and rushing the stage and bopping around dancing in place in the tight crowd to the German army lightning fast rush into a battle Going through a tight wind winding through the tight packed crowd to go somewhere like to bathroom or to leave. People lined up at the venue, CBGBs most likely Hey Ho Let's G0 was a chant they wanted to be known for and get the audience into the song.
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