Heart-Shaped Box

Yeah, it's less challenging and it's very immediate.

You know, like Heart Shaped Box is probably a better song than anything on Nevermind, at least in terms of the singles.

Yeah.

But still a more difficult listen, even though it's still got a great melody and everything like that.

Wow, I can't believe that that beat all apologies.

Well, Heart-Shaped Box is gonna be there.

Another

thing, too, about Spotify, isn't it, because some of it's trending, right? Isn't that the way it works? Oh, yeah.

And you read about that in the book as well.

When some of his mixes were considered not commercially accessible enough, there was somebody brought in to remix Heart Shaped Box in All Apologies, Scott Litt.

did that create a genuine conflict for Kurt Cobain in between? Cause he didn't want to be commercial again.

He wanted to make an album that was going to distance those fair weather fans.

There's some songs that are like that.

Milk It, that's just screaming.

But then you had other, you know, the lighter songs of Heart Shaped Box and Dumb and All Apologies, which though they all have a darkness to them.

They all have, especially the lyrics of Heart Shaped Box.

They, like dated before Kurt Cobain.

Well, I've heard that Heart-Shaped Box is about Billy Corgan.

Courtney.

It's about Courtney having an affair with Billy Corgan, but I don't think that's true.

I thought Heart-Shaped Box is about her fanny.

That's what I heard.

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He was reeling from the rumored infidelity and at loose ends from being away from home.

With two shows left for the tour, Kurt up and quit, canceled the final concerts after ending his last set with a scorching version of Heart Shaped Box.

After the show, he called his lawyer to say he wanted to divorce Courtney.

Confused and hurt, he jumped on a plane to meet Courtney and Francis in Rome.

It documented the concert performances between 1989 to 1994, debuted at number one on the Billboard Albums chart, which is why we're talking about it.

And it had live renditions of Lithium, Aneurysm, and Heart-Shaped Box.

In 1997, indie roots rock band Carbon Leaf released their second studio album called Shadows in the Banquet Hall.

It established their blend of Celtic folk and alternative pop.

Exactly.

You know, you know, the masquerade is over, you know, as, um, Heart-Shaped Box, uh, goes.

Um, and so we c- what I came up with was this idea that the interesting period for this is very specific.

It's- You've-- when, when vampires are revealed, the first thing that kind of happens is, like, lots of screaming, lots of panic, uh, lots of, you know, the end of the world is nigh and all that kind of stuff.

The song is escaping me.

Heart-shaped box.

Thank you.

How did that happen? In

I agree, 100%.

This did have the, whatever you want to call it, the notoriety of being the last song played at their last concert in Munich, Germany in 1994, prior to Cobain's suicide.

So, Heart-Shaped Box, though, great song.

And I think, obviously, in 93, you can't probably have a 93 sound without talking about... them or at least someone in that area the grunge area because 93 is probably their last grunge's last big year because after that you're going to start getting into your post-grunge particularly once you have the suicide from Cobain and stuff like that that's going to change kind of how everything punk's going to come in it's going to be a whole different thing at that point