Song · Nirvana
“Scentless Apprentice” by Nirvana
From the album In Utero (1993)
“Scentless Apprentice” by Nirvana appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1993. It was first released in 1993 on the album In Utero. Its best result is #40 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1993. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #246 alternative song of 1993.
"Scentless Apprentice" crashes in as the second track on In Utero, the third and final Nirvana studio album, out on DGC in September 1993, and it's the record at its most savage. Kurt Cobain took the story from Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume and wrote the words, but the main guitar riff came from Dave Grohl, which makes it the one Nirvana song built on a Grohl riff rather than a Cobain one. All three share the music credit: Cobain sings and plays guitar, Grohl drums and Krist Novoselic plays bass, and Steve Albini recorded it.
The band toyed with making it the follow-up single to "Heart-Shaped Box", but Cobain died by suicide in April 1994 before one was ever issued.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 40 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1993 | 50 |
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