Nirvana

Released: November 23, 2004

Songwriter: Jimmy Page John Paul Jones John Bonham Kurt Cobain

Producer: Lance Bangs Steve Albini Butch Vig Steve Fisk Greg Babior Jack Endino

[Verse 1]
This is a hard, core beat
You even can dance if you like
You won't get in trouble
And if you had some space
You won't know who hit ya
You won't even give a fuck
Watching them take you away
Is it wrong or right
Yeah!

[Verse 2]
Whats with the wait you waiter
You only ate your garnish
I ordered spam and rice
Is this to say your fired
We danced on the tabletops
We only have a dollar
We ordered too many cocktails
Watching the weight of the world

Nirvana was arguably the most successful act of the early 1990s grunge movement that originated in Seattle, Washington. Formed in 1987 in the neighboring city of Aberdeen, they were catapulted into the spotlight four years later with the release of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and their second studio album, September 1991’s Nevermind.

They are credited with bringing alternative rock to mainstream attention and putting a nail in the coffin of ‘80s hair metal, which was dying a slow death on the charts at that point. In early 1992, Nevermind managed to knock Michael Jackson’s Dangerous from the #1 position on the Billboard charts, cementing their place in American music history.

The band’s career was suddenly cut short in April 1994, when iconic frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead from an apparent suicide. Drummer Dave Grohl has since become a hugely successful frontman in his own right with the band Foo Fighters. Nirvana has gone on to enjoy a musical afterlife in the hearts and ears of successive generations of fans comparable to that of The Beatles and Black Sabbath.

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