Nirvana - Rape Me

"Rape Me". It is the fourth song on, and the second single (along with "All Apologies") from their 1993 album, In Utero.

Rape Me was written by Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in an apartment in Los Angeles, California in May 1991, around the time the band's second album, Nevermind, was being mixed. It was first performed live on June 18 1991, at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California, and subsequently played several times at Nirvana concerts during the next two years. These early live versions featured a dissonant, semi-improvised "anti-solo" (or "noise solo") after the second chorus, which was replaced by a bridge in the song's final incarnation.

"Rape Me" was finally recorded by Steve Albini in February 1993 for In Utero, and was released alongside "All Apologies" as the album's second single in late 1993. A music video was planned but never made, in part because the band believed MTV would be reluctant to play it. However in 1999, an MTV video was made from their live performance of the song recorded on Saturday Night Live.

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• Nirvana
• Rape
• Me
• Kurt
• Cobain
• All
• Apologies
• In
• Utero

[ogulcann]

Replay button says, rape me my friend.

[flipkenx]

This stuff blew me away a few decades ago. Still does ! Today all music sounds so bland and 'made', since nirvana theres been very few songs that actually moved me.

Or are we getting old ?

[TheThirdShadow67]

best anti rape song ever. its about a rapist gettin raped in prison. ironic justice

[angrywhenroused]

@XXxmusiclover98x you just sound like an old fart.

There is plenty of great music being made now (plenty of crap also) you just have to go looking. The fact that anything not totally mainstream struggles to get an audience does not mean its not there.

[joiningisffree]

@flipkenx no. shitty music is getting old. this is why i don't support record labels anymore. once DRM came around it became a different industry. Nowadays you couldn't sing a song like this cuz someone actually WOULD rape you. way to get even worse america. i'm gonna start carrying around a boxcutter and call myself a world superpower

[riskyb100]

lol first words rape me and a advert for the royal marines pops up lol rape me

[XXxmusiclover98x]

kurt is the last great rockstar.

[headcase201]

how can you not like this song

[xxxblasted77]

right in the ass

[3rdMemberBand]

Our Tribute - watch?v=o0WxlYAfvdQ

[02071979matt]

@TheFortressOne Pat Smear. Plays for Foo Fighters now. He was the 2nd guitarist in Nirvana for the In Utero tour and the Unplugged show.

[TheFortressOne]

Who's the other guitarist?