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Niall Doherty

Remembering the time MTV got a bunch of unsuspecting college students to review Nirvana's In Utero

Kurt Cobain smiles as he watches footage of college students reviewing In Utero

The release of Nirvana's third and final album In Utero was a big deal when it arrived in 1993, so much so that MTV went out into the field to hear what the general public thought of it. They headed to the campus of St. John’s University in New York armed with a stack of freshly-minted CDs, asking a random selection of students to take it home to listen to overnight and come back with thoughts the next day (pretty prejudiced just to assume students have got nothing better to do with their evening, eh?). 

Some of the reactions delivered the next day were excellent, here are some highlights:

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