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"Rape Me". It is the fourth song on, and the second single (along with "All Apologies") from their 1993 album, In Utero. Rape Me was written by Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in an apartment in Los Angeles, California in May 1991, around the time the band's second album, Nevermind, was being mixed. It was first performed live on June 18 1991, at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California, and subsequently played several times at Nirvana concerts during the next two years. These early live versions featured a dissonant, semi-improvised "anti-solo" (or "noise solo") after the second chorus, which was replaced by a bridge in the song's final incarnation. "Rape Me" was finally recorded by Steve Albini in February 1993 for In Utero, and was released alongside "All Apologies" as the album's second single in late 1993. A music video was planned but never made, in part because the band believed MTV would be reluctant to play it. However in 1999, an MTV video was made from their live performance of the song recorded on Saturday Night Live.
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