"It was such a cliché grunge Tad riff that I was reluctant to even jam on it," Cobain told Michael Azerrad about the guitar part that drummer Dave Grohl had brought to the band. "But I just decided to write a song with that just to make him feel better, to tell you the truth, and it turned out really cool." Easily the most rhythm-driven song in Nirvana's catalog -- and handily besting Alice in Chains' "No Excuses" as having the best "grunge breakbeat" -- this prickly, pummeling song is In Utero's best place to experience Nirvana as the sum of its parts. (To wit: It's the only song on the album where all three members have a songwriting credit.) Of course, beyond Grohl's fleet-footed bass drum pattern and Novoselic's menacing low-end, Cobain lyrics are some of his most evocative. Inspired by one of his favorite novels, Peter Süskind's 1985's violent tale of a super-smeller, Perfume, Cobain pointed out that "Scentless," like "Frances Farmer," is a song where he sticks to a theme as opposed to constructing "cut-ups" of poems in his beatpunk style.(Rolling Stone Magazine)
Tuning: Half step down and E string drop C#
Equipment used: Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar, SansAmp Classic, Electro-Harmonix PolyChorus and Fender Mustang IV amp.
Lyrics: Like most babies smell like butter
His smell smelled like no other
He was born scentless and senseless
He was born a scentless apprentice
Go away - get away, get a-way
Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen
I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets
There are countless formulas for pressing flowers
Go away - get away, get a-way
I lie in the soll and fertilize mushrooms
Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume
You can't fire me because I quit!
Throw me in the fire and I won't throw a fit
Go away - get away, get away, get away, get away, get away, get a-way
Nirvana scentless apprentice guitar cover
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