{"id":1044754,"date":"2012-07-01T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/anatomy\/anatomy-in-music-nirvana.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:16:11","slug":"anatomy-in-music-nirvana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/anatomy-in-music-nirvana.php","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy in Music: Nirvana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you paid even the slightest attention to Nirvana you would quickly notice a common theme&mdash;anatomy and various deviations from the bodily &ldquo;norm&rdquo;.<\/p><p>Their early album <em>Incesticide<\/em> is well&hellip;titled <em>Incesticide<\/em> and the cover art gave an early glimpse into front man Kurt Cobain&rsquo;s fascination with the body. &nbsp;Included on the album are &ldquo;(New Wave) Polly&rdquo;, about the abduction, torture, and rape of a young girl in Washington state; &ldquo;Molly&rsquo;s Lips&rdquo;, a Vaselines cover presumably about Scottish actress Molly Weir&rsquo;s lips; and &ldquo;Aneurysm.&rdquo; All of these songs deal with some sort of distortion to or fascination with the human body, accidental or forced.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/streetanatomy.com\/2012\/06\/30\/anatomy-in-music-nirvana\/nirvana_-_incesticide_1992-front\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10143\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f7de1_nirvana_-_incesticide_1992-front.jpg\" alt=\"nirvana incesticide front\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Later, Nirvana released <em>In Utero<\/em>, again, a title that quickly made clear the interest in anatomy. The album cover was designed with an anatomical statue as well as Cobain&rsquo;s own art work that shows a fetus and other body parts. In addition, the song &ldquo;Heart-Shaped Box&rdquo; was accompanied by a video that highlights various stages of the body&rsquo;s growth and eventual decay.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/streetanatomy.com\/2012\/06\/30\/anatomy-in-music-nirvana\/inuetero\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10144\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0a41a_inuetero.jpg\" alt=\"Nirvana inuetero\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/streetanatomy.com\/2012\/06\/30\/anatomy-in-music-nirvana\/inuterobackcover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10145\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0a41a_inuterobackcover.jpeg\" alt=\"Nirvana inutero back cover\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Another stand out track from <em>In Utero<\/em> is &ldquo;Scentless Apprentice.&rdquo; The song references Patrick Suskind&rsquo;s character Jean-Baptiste Grenouille from his novel <em>Das Parfum<\/em>. Grenouille is a perfumer in France obsessed with the idea of capturing human scent and begins brutally murdering women in order to preserve their scent and create the perfect perfume.<\/p><p>Finally, aside from their music and album artwork, Cobain created his own pieces that often referenced the human body as seen below.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/streetanatomy.com\/2012\/06\/30\/anatomy-in-music-nirvana\/hyperlauriefistula-kurt-painting_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10146\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0a41a_Hyperlauriefistula-kurt-painting_1.jpg\" alt=\"Hyper laurie fistula kurt cobain painting\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/streetanatomy.com\/2012\/06\/30\/anatomy-in-music-nirvana\/seahorse-and-figure-kc-_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10147\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0d290_Seahorse-and-figure-kc-_2.jpg\" alt=\"Seahorse and figure Kurt Cobain\" width=\"550\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0d290_umlvNvq4Elw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/streetanatomy\/OQuC\">http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/streetanatomy\/OQuC<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you paid even the slightest attention to Nirvana you would quickly notice a common theme&mdash;anatomy and various deviations from the bodily &ldquo;norm&rdquo;.Their early album Incesticide is well&hellip;titled Incesticide and the cover art gave an early glimpse into front man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/anatomy-in-music-nirvana.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}