All Apologies

History

Usually seen as a swan song of sorts, "All Apologies" was actually written in 1990, four years before the death of its author, Kurt Cobain, and the subsequent dissolution of Nirvana. In a 1993 Rolling Stone interview, Cobain told David Fricke that he wished he had put more songs like "All Apologies" on previous Nirvana albums. The lyrics have a certain finality to them, with the final lines being a repeated refrain of "All in all is all we are." It is slower than most Nirvana material, although the chorus of "In the sun I feel as one - married, burried" has a layer of guitar feedback behind it.

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1990 - Kurt Cobain - 1993 - Rolling Stone - David Fricke

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It was released alongside "Rape Me" as the second single from In Utero, but since an accompanying video was never made, it was promoted on MTV using footage from the band's then-recent Unplugged performance. As a result, the acoustic Unplugged rendition is perhaps even more familiar to casual fans than the electric studio version; indeed, this is the version found on the band's self-titled greatest-hits album. An acoustic home demo appears on Nirvana's 2004 box set, With the Lights Out.

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Rape Me - Single - Video - MTV - Unplugged - Acoustic - Demo - 2004 - Box set - With the Lights Out

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