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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Considered by many to be the ultimate grunge anthem, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was the lead single for Nirvana’s second studio album and major label debut, September 1991’s
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Nirvana – Blew
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“Blew” is the first ever original single released by the hit grunge band, Nirvana. The song was written and recorded in 1988 and was often performed live. It quickly became a
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Nirvana – School
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The fourth track on Nirvana’s debut album Bleach, “School” masterfully infuses simplistic yet all-telling and somewhat indulgent lyrics and a hard hitting riff with an unmistakable
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Kwesi Arthur (Ft. Kofi Mole) – Nirvana
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Verse(Kwesi Arthur) / We all be adults so why are you kidding / I go admit if I be wrong / Everybody get opinion but who go live with the decision / Redemption valley where we’re
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Nirvana – Aero Zeppelin
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This song’s title fuses the name of two huge hard rock bands of the 70s: Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin. The lyrics are mainly about the trendiness of big showy metal acts, making fun
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Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea
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“Pennyroyal Tea” was due to be released as the third single from In Utero in April 1994. However, after the death of Cobain in the same month, the planned release was abandoned
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Nirvana – Beeswax
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“Beeswax” was recorded on January 23, 1988 in a recording session for Nirvana’s first studio demo tape.
The lyrics are not only utterly bizarre, filled with violent sexual imagery
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Nirvana – Do Re Mi
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“Do Re Mi” is one of the last-known songs written by Kurt Cobain before his death in April 1994.
Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, described the song in a 1994 Rolling Stone
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Nirvana – Sliver
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“Sliver” is about a child whose parents are going to a show, so they drop him off at his grandparents' house. It features drummer Dan Peters of Mudhoney, while the music video
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Pierce The Veil – Pass The Nirvana
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Following from the critical success that was “Misadventures”, Pierce The Veil spent the last 4 years writing and recording a new album. Rising in popularity again in 2022, Pierce
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"Weird Al" Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana
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Yankovic takes on Nirvana’s 1991 hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in this parody, which talks about how you can’t understand a word what the hell Kurt Cobain was saying in the song.
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Bas (Ft. B. Lewis & Falcons) – Nirvana
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In Buddhism, Nirvana is known as a peaceful state of happiness and satisfaction free of desire and suffering.
Bas titles his serene and lighthearted track after “Nirvana” to
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SPIRITSAVER – INTO NIRVANA
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If you tell me you love me / Better say that twice / Put no one above me for the rest of your life / Through bad and the ugly, can you hold me tight? / Til death due us part and
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Nirvana – Lake of Fire
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A song originally written and performed by the Meat Puppets. Nirvana covered it while performing at MTV unplugged in New York.
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Mckenna Grace – You Ruined Nirvana
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[Verse 1] / Roll down the windows and scream / "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" / But nothing's ever what it seems / You made me hate being fifteen / [Pre-Chorus] / I'm so over it
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Sam Smith – Nirvana
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Nirvana is the second song on Sam Smith’s Debut EP, Nirvana, and is also the second most popular song on the album after Latch.
The mood of this song is more positive than many
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Nirvana – You Know You're Right
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“You Know You’re Right,” recorded in January of 1994, was the last song Nirvana finished as a group.
Kurt was days late to the studio, arriving on the third day of a three day
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Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box
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The first single from In Utero, “Heart-Shaped Box” details the battle of wills inherent to a new relationship when one doesn’t quite feel so strongly about another person.
“Heart-
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PVRIS – TAKE MY NIRVANA
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[Verse 1] / You've been slowly escaping your dimension / Trying to drag me to another plane / And I can't help but feel your bad intentions / A black cloud I can see from miles
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Necro (Ft. Goretex, ILL BILL & Mr Hyde) – Nirvana
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Nirvana was featured in Necro’s “The Prefix for Death”, and is the only song in the album where his brother Ill Bill makes a featuring.
The sample is The Opening Theme by Juan
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Nirvana – Lithium
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“Lithium” is a perfect description of manic depression, where every line is both happy and sad, up and down, while having references to God recalling when Kurt lived with a devout
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Nirvana – Something in the Way
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“Something in the Way” is the twelfth and final song on Nirvana’s major label debut, Nevermind—not including its hidden track, “Endless, Nameless.” While many fans believed that
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Brahny – Nirvana
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[Chorus] / Baby I could fall into your mind forever / Maybe we could fall into our time together / [Verse] / Baby I was crazy before / It could have be better / Made a world
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wolfacejoeyy – nirvana
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[Intro] / TJ on the beat (Woah) / Woah-oh, woah / I said, oh, oh / Ooh-wee, oh-oh / I'm like—, yeah, huh, I'm like— (Yeah) / Ohh, ohh, ohh / Ooh-wee, oh, I / Woah-woah, yeah / Uh
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Emblem3 – Nirvana
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Oooo feel like I'm flyin' / Cause you won't give up on me / Oooo even if I'm dyin' or layin' face down on the street / On my way to reach Nirvana / And I'm only 23 / Oooo feel like
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The Cult – Nirvana
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I float through day and night life, well most of the time / Till I hung up my blues on a nail in your wall / It rained flowers when the music began / Love all around when the music
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P-Lo – Nirvana
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[Intro: Myles Parrish & P-Lo] / P-P-P-Lo, time to bring the bass back / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah / Ayy, ayy, ayy / [Pre-Chorus] / I know they tryna fuck with my vibe
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Nirvana – Drain You
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According to Kurt, this song was written about a dorky, old-fashioned kind of love. One of his favorite tracks, it was performed in most concerts ever since its composition up
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A7S – Nirvana
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[Intro] / Na-na-na / Na-na-na, na-na / Na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na, na-na / [Verse 1] / You took me to a state of mind / Oh, yeah, oh, yeah / A place I never thought I'd find / Oh
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Madeon – Nirvana
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Only there / Only there / You may find it hard to breathe / You may find it hard to breathe / Only there / Only there / You may find it hard to breathe / You may find it hard to
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Nirvana – Endless, Nameless
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This song was a random jam that broke out when they were trying to record “Lithium.” Kurt was so frustrated with their lack of progress that he spontaneously started playing this
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Candyland – Nirvana
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[Intro] / I wish we stayed the same / I got way too many thoughts, too many thoughts / [Verse 1] / I wish we stayed the same / I got way too many thoughts in my brain / I got
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Squeeze – Nirvana
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The children had all left home / The house was like a ship without a sail / They headed for the sunset / Where maybe they would find a holy grail / The bedrooms were all rigged up
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Adam Lambert – Nirvana
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[Verse 1] / When the stars are too cold / Frozen over the glow / On the edge of the night / We can be their light / So give me more than your touch / And give yourself to the rush
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Robinson – Nirvana
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[Intro] / (High) / (High) / (Ah, ah) / [Verse 1] / We were lost in a dream, when I saw you / Your blue eyes were shining like euphoria / Walking out the door of your house
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Behemoth – Post-God Nirvana
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[Verse 1] / O Libertine / Thy will be done / Shed the bondage ov vulvic slavery / Grind down the walls / Which veil the sun / Conquer today, my brethren, fearlessly / [Verse 2
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Nirvana – Tourette’s
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[Intro] / "Moderate Rock" / [Verse 1] / Mayday, every day, mayday! / Could've had a heart attack, my heart! / We don't know anything, my heart! / We all want something fair, my
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Li 9 – Palm Angels In Nirvana
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[Intro] / (Hey, Dog, what's up, man? / This shit hard) / [Verse 1] / 'Fore I let these tears fall down my eyes, I'll weep in silence / Even if I tried to sell my soul, they
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Nirvana – Paper Cuts
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This is track number six on Bleach. “Paper Cuts” is arguably the most intense song on the album, with jarring rhythms and screeching vocals.
The song depicts a child growing up in
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Eazy Mac – Nirvana
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[Verse] / Addressing the elephant in the room / It's been better since ever since I took medicines in the womb / I'm a 80's baby maybe it made me act a little crazy / And lately I'
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