Heart Shaped Box
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| Single by Nirvana | ||||||||||||||||||
| from the album In Utero | ||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Marigold" | |||||||||||||||||
| Released | August 30, 1993 | |||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | February 1993 at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota | |||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Grunge | |||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:39 | |||||||||||||||||
| Label | DGC | |||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Kurt Cobain | |||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Steve Albini | |||||||||||||||||
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"Heart-Shaped Box" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. The song was released as the first single from the group's third and final studio album, In Utero, in 1993. It was one of two songs from the album mixed by Scott Litt in order to augment the original production by producer Steve Albini. While Nirvana's label DGC Records did not release a physical single for sale in the United States, "Heart-Shaped Box" received much American radio airplay, reaching number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The international release of the single reached number five on the UK Singles Chart. The song's music video, directed by Anton Corbijn, garnered critical plaudits, and won two awards, including Best Alternative Video at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1994.
Kurt Cobain wrote "Heart-Shaped Box" in early 1992. Cobain forgot about the song for a while, but began working on it again when he and his wife, Courtney Love, moved to a house in the Hollywood Hills. In a 1994 Rolling Stone interview, Love said she overheard him working on the song's riff in a closet. She said she asked him if she could use the riff for one of her songs, to which he replied, "Fuck off!" and closed the closet door. "He was trying to be so sneaky", said Love. "I could hear that one from downstairs." The couple shared a journal in which they would write lyrics; Cobain biographer Charles R. Cross noted that Love's songwriting sensibility informed Cobain's on the song. The song's name came from a heart-shaped box Love had given Cobain. However, Cobain had originally titled the song "Heart-Shaped Coffin".
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