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"Dumb" is a song by the American
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band,
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, written by vocalist and guitarist,
Kurt Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona ...
. It is the sixth song on the band's third and final studio album, ''
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'', released in 1993. Despite never being released as a single, the song reached number 37 on the US Alternative National Airplay chart, which was published by the ''
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'' sister publication, ''
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''.


Origin and recording


Early history

"Dumb" was written by Cobain in the summer of 1990, after he had begun to explore the more pop-influenced side of his songwriting.Crisafulli (1996). p. 93. Two lyrics sheets for the song were published posthumously in '' Journals'' in November 2002, one under the working title of "I Think I'm Dumb," with a note that the lyrics were "Not Finished," and the titles of two songs by Scottish rock band
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, " Molly's Lips" and "Slushy," written under the title with no explanation. The song was debuted live on September 25, 1990, when Cobain performed a solo acoustic version on the ''Boy Meets Girl'' show, hosted by
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of the American rock band
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, on
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in
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.Gillian G. Gaar (2009). The first live version featuring the full band was at the Off Ramp Café in
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on November 25, 1990. On September 3, 1991, the band recorded a version of the song, already featuring finished lyrics, during their second
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session for the
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. The full session, which also featured versions of "
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" and " Endless Nameless" from their then-latest release, ''
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'', was produced by
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, and first broadcast on November 3, 1991. "Dumb" and "Endless, Nameless" from this session were posthumously released on the Nirvana rarities box set, ''
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'', in November 2004. Three studio versions of "Dumb" were recorded by
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on October 26, 1992, at
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in
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, but all were instrumental, as were all the other songs recorded during this session, except for one take of the eventual ''In Utero'' single, "
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". One of these instrumental takes was released on the 20th anniversary "Deluxe" and "Super Deluxe" editions of ''In Utero'' in September 2013.


In Utero

The final studio version of "Dumb" was recorded by
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at
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in
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in February 1993, during the recording sessions for ''In Utero''. The song's guitar, bass and drums were recorded on February 15, the third day of the sessions. All vocals for the album were recorded by Cobain during a single session the following day. The recording features
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by Kera Schaley, a friend of Albini's who also played on the album's second single and closing track, "
All Apologies "All Apologies" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist, Kurt Cobain. It appears as the 12th track on the band's third and final studio album, ''In Utero'', released by DGC Records in September 1993. The song c ...
," as well as an unreleased take of the eventual b-side, " Marigold." As Schaley recalled in a 2010 interview with ''Swan Fungus'', "I went to the studio...and Steve played the song 'Dumb' for me. I wrote a part for it and then Kurt came in and listened, told me what to leave out and what to keep. Then he asked me to play around with 'All Apologies.'" In a 2013 interview for the audio series ''Spotify Landmark'', Albini recalled replacing drummer Dave Grohl's bass drum on "Dumb" and "
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" with a small one "with a full-front head on it, so that it had a very sort of bouncy, jazzy sound, as opposed to the sort of more percussive, more hard rock sound on the rest of the record."


Post-In Utero

On November 18, 1993, the band performed an acoustic version of "Dumb" during their ''
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'' appearance at
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in
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. This version featured
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on second guitar and
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on cello. The song was performed, along with "
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," at Nirvana's final television appearance, on February 23, 1994 in
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for the ''
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'' television show, ''Tunnel''. This version featured
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on cello. "Dumb" was performed for the final time live at Nirvana's last concert, on March 1, 1994 at Terminal 1 in
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.


Composition and lyrics


Music

Journalist Gillian G. Gaar noted that "Dumb" was one of the few Nirvana songs to remain "low-key from beginning to end," comparing it to the ''
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'' song, " About a Girl." Like "About a Girl," the song has been described as "
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." Nirvana bassist
Krist Novoselic Krist Anthony Novoselic (; ; born May 16, 1965) is an American musician and activist. He was the bassist and co-founder of the rock band Nirvana. Novoselic and Kurt Cobain formed the band Nirvana in 1987 along with drummer Aaron Burckhard, wh ...
called it "a beautiful song. That's a really good one. I like the
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version of the song. It's real raw, but still the beauty is strong. A sweet pop song." Describing the ''In Utero'' version, John Mulvey of the ''
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'' wrote that the song "broods and circles, with the aid of a cello, like a
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parody of '
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'. Again and again it builds up and up, primed to explode into a moshing sweatfest of a chorus, and again and again it ducks away from that commercially lucrative macho bonding rite." Likewise, Jim Bevigilia of ''
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'' wrote that "the recording of the song on ''In Utero'' is all coiled tension. Even though you expect Cobain’s guitar to come crashing through to break it, it never quite does. Instead, a cello runs counterpoint to the steady rhythm section of Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl and to the protagonist’s insistence that maybe he’s happy after all."


Lyrics

In a 1993 interview with ''
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'', Cobain explained that the song was "just about people who're easily amused, people who not only aren't capable of progressing their intelligence but are totally happy watching 10 hours of television and really enjoy it. I've met a lot of dumb people. They have a shitty job, they may be totally lonely, they don't have a girlfriend, they don't have much of a social life, and yet, for some reason, they're happy." Though written before Cobain's addiction to
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, "Dumb" is also one of the few Nirvana songs to directly reference drug use, specifically
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s. In Cobain's unused liner notes for the song, he blamed "all that supposedly unaddictive, harmless"
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for harming his nerves and damaging his memory, saying it "wasn't ever strong enough" which led him to "climb the ladder" to heroin. In 2015, Kurt's daughter,
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, offered her own interpretation of the song in an interview with ''
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'', saying, "I cry every time I hear that song. It's a stripped-down version of Kurt's perception of himself – of himself on drugs, off drugs, feeling inadequate to be titled the voice of a generation."


Reception

In his review of ''In Utero'' for ''Rolling Stone'',
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cited "Dumb," along with "
Heart-Shaped Box "Heart-Shaped Box" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist, Kurt Cobain. It appears as the third track on the band's third and final studio album, ''In Utero'', released by DGC Records in September 1993 ...
," as evidence that if
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"is ever going to have its own
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...Cobain is damn near it." In a 1993 ''Rolling Stone'' interview, Cobain told Fricke that he wished he had put more songs like "Dumb" and "All Apologies" on previous Nirvana albums, saying that Nirvana had so far "failed in showing the lighter, more dynamic side of our band." Though never released as a single, "Dumb" has become a popular song on American
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radio, and was played on European radio. It was ranked at number 39 on WHFS's top 100 played songs of 1994, number 41 on
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’s top 100 played songs of 1994, number 56 on
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's top 100 played songs of 1994, and number 82 on
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's top 100 played songs of 1994. "Dumb" was also ranked at number 381 on
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's Top 500 songs in 1994, as well as at number 266 on Live 105's Top 300 Revolutionary songs in 1995, and also at number 220 on WHFS's Top 500 songs of the 90s in 1999. The combined airplay in 1994 allowed the song to chart at number 37 on the US Alternative National Airplay chart which was published by ''
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'', a sister publication to ''
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''.


Legacy

Reviewing the band's first greatest hits album, ''
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'', in 2002, Will Bryant of ''
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'' wrote that "Dumb" was "one of Cobain's most underrated efforts, a populist revision of "Lithium" that replaces '' Nevermind's'' misanthropy with earnest self-deprecation." Bryant praised Kera Schaley's cello playing as the song's "secret weapon," and the bridge as "hands down, Cobain's best." In 2004, "Dumb" was ranked number seven in '' Q's'' list of the ''10 Greatest Nirvana Songs Ever''. In 2011, ''
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'' ranked it sixth on their list of the Nirvana's ''10 Best Tracks''. In 2015, it was listed at number 20 on '' Rolling Stone's'' ranking of 102 Nirvana songs. In 2019, ''
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'' ranked it ninth on their list of ''Nirvana's 20 greatest songs''. "Dumb" was re-released on the band's second greatest hits collection, ''
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'', in August 2010. In 2017, to mark what would have been Cobain's 50th birthday, the
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released a list of the top 20 most played Nirvana songs on the TV and radio in the
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, in which "Dumb" was ranked at number 19.20 most-played Nirvana songs revealed to mark Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday
planetrock.com. Retrieved 3 March 2017.


Charts


Accolades


Personnel

Nirvana *
Kurt Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona ...
– vocals, guitars *
Krist Novoselic Krist Anthony Novoselic (; ; born May 16, 1965) is an American musician and activist. He was the bassist and co-founder of the rock band Nirvana. Novoselic and Kurt Cobain formed the band Nirvana in 1987 along with drummer Aaron Burckhard, wh ...
– bass *
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– drums Additional personnel * Kera Schaley – cello


Other releases

*A live version, recorded at the 1992
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on October 30, 1992, appeared on ''
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'', released on CD and DVD in November 2009. *A remix of the ''In Utero'' version, done by Albini in 2013, appeared on the 20th anniversary "Deluxe" and "Super Deluxe" versions of ''In Utero.'' *A brief clip of the song, from the band's performance at the
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in
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on November 10, 1993, appeared on side four of the vinyl version of the live compilation, ''
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'', released in November 1996. The clip featured Cobain stopping the song after accidentally repeating the second verse, apologizing to the audience, and then starting again.


Unreleased versions

*The solo acoustic version recorded on the ''Boy Meets Girl'' show in Olympia on September 25, 1990 was leaked on the internet in 2016, but remains unreleased. *The live version recorded for ''Tunnel'' in Rome on February 23, 1994 also remains unreleased.


Cover versions

In 2016,
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covered the song for ''Summer Is Forever 2''.


References


Bibliography

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External links

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