5 STORIES
1989 · 80S
A pop song hiding inside a noise record, "About a Girl" was Kurt Cobain's quiet confession that he loved The Beatles as much as Black Flag. …
1991 · 90S
The most welcoming song in the Nirvana catalogue is really a song about how impossible it is to be welcomed — an invitation that keeps contr…
1991 · 90S
"Lithium" is not Kurt Cobain's diary entry about his own medication — it is a short story he invented about a man who loses everything and g…
1991 · 90S
: A scuffed, sarcastic anthem written almost as a joke became the song that detonated mainstream rock and dragged underground culture into t…
1993 · 90S
CANNON FALLS, MINNESOTA, USA
The most famous love song in the Nirvana catalogue is really a song about being swallowed — a man describing devotion as a container he cann…