BEST Nirvana Song

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i'd say "Aneurysm"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 7 October 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Freebird

― feminazi (feminazi), Friday, 7 October 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

this is tough, they half about a half-dozen singles that are all about equally good.

I'll say "Come As You Are".

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 7 October 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

Negative Creep.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 7 October 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Not just because of the title, but my favorite is currently "I Hate Myself And Want To Die."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 7 October 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

dive

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 7 October 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

"drain you" but "I hate myself and want to die" kicks a lot of ass too

― richard wood johnson, Friday, 7 October 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Moustache, Scoff, or Breed.

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

"Come As You Are" followed closely by "SLTS" then "Negative Creep"

― Aaron A, Friday, 7 October 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

So far, no mention of any In Utero songs, just about all 12 of which are better than everthing above.

― Nigel (Nigel), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

All Apologies, In Utero version. Followed by Teen Spirit, Drain You and In Bloom.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 7 October 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

verse chorus verse

― 6335, Friday, 7 October 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

radio friendly unit shifter

― rssl, Friday, 7 October 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

Come as you Are gets props for blatantly ripping off Killing Joke, which is usually a very very good thing.

Honestly, I liked a lot of their covers from Unplugged the best!

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Sliver

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 October 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

Ditto.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

i'd say "Aneurysm"

So would I

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

they dont have a song called ditto

― lol, Friday, 7 October 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

Tiny Goddess

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

do
rei
mi

― piscesboy, Friday, 7 October 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

in bloom ( don't know what it means ).
were they influenced by new order - not naming the songs after what they sing.

― retroboy, Friday, 7 October 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

School

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 7 October 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

the cover of "turnaround" on Insecsticide

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 7 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

TRICK QUESTION

all nirvana songs were equally crappy shit

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!, Friday, 7 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

The Man Who Sold the World

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

"Aneurysm" thirded.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Here are the best, by album. Covers shouldn't count.

Bleach: Paper Cuts
Nevermind: On a Plain
Incesticide: Aneurysm
In Utero: Penny Royal Tea

― Nigel (Nigel), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

the 'turnaround' cover is catchy as.

what are people's general opinions on incesticide?

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Incesticide=A more manageable version of the box set (which was the concept on steroids.)

― The Homeliness of The Long Distance Punner (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

hahah. well put!

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

do
rei
mi
-- piscesboy (piscesxx...), October 7th, 2005.

_______________________

my arse.

'scentless apprentice' this week.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

drain you, but many times, my favorite PART of a nirvana song is the very end of all apologies, where its just like an instrumental verse as outro, but its like 30% more ass-kicking. i LOVE that playing-the-same-thing-again-but-just-harder thing

― 69 (plsmith), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

INCESTICIDE sleeve notes fyi:

http://members.fortunecity.com/myparasite/incesticide.htm

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Serve the Servants

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

"Negative Creep" cuz it was the 1st Nirvana song I loved. During the summer of '89, I didn't listen to anything but this song, "Sweat Loaf" and "Surf Combat".

"Scentless Apprentice" cuz while listening to it on mushrooms (once upon a time), the drums sounded "rectangular" in pleasing + reassuring ways.

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

School.

― Davey D (Dave Depper), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I mean Scentless Apprentice.

― Davey D (Dave Depper), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

No love for "Drain You"?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

drain you

-- 69 (plsmit...), February 8th, 2007. (plsmith)

― whatever i do, it's right (teenagequiet), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Smells Like Teen Spirit"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Milk It

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

At least we can collectively agree that "In Utero" is by far the best album... yeah?

― Davey D (Dave Depper), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

do
rei
mi
-- piscesboy (piscesxx...), October 7th, 2005.

Do any recordings of this exist outside the home demo version that's on the box set/boots?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Incesticide is their weirdest record, and I like to think it defines Nirvana's sound more than the rest.

I think most agree that a single-disc sequel to Incesticide including the best versions of the remaining non-album tracks would have been preferred to the bloated boxed-set that Courtney Love assembled.. the "Sliver" disc was supposed to take care of this, which was instead nothing more than a "Best of the box" collection that nobody asked for.

"Do Re Mi" was only recorded solo acoustic.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 8 February 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Lounge Act": listen to how the first two "choruses" ("And I've got this friend...") swing (it's in the bass); then it comes back louder and harder the third time, but this time the swing is in the drums and the bass. It's the only song of theirs for which I understand the "Beatles '65" comparisons. A keeper...

― Euler (Euler), Thursday, 8 February 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

A full-band rendition of "Do Re Mi" (or at least an Unplugged version) would have probably obliterated everything else in their catalog. But taken as it is, it's still, sadly, a bit tentative.

So I'll go with "Scentless Apprentice."

― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Thursday, 8 February 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

A full-band rendition of "Do Re Mi" (or at least an Unplugged version) would have probably obliterated everything else in their catalog... -- Erroneous Botch (josephcotte...), February 8th, 2007.

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i know. tragic really.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 9 February 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have to be very unoriginal here and say "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Really, there is something very special about that song, and there was a reason why it singlehandedly brought "alternative" music out into the mainstream.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 9 February 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Although "Tiny Godess" was surely a good call too :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 9 February 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I heard the live version of "Drain You" found on From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah and it fuckin' slayed.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

ditto 'aneurysm' off same. fuck me.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

At least we can collectively agree that "In Utero" is by far the best album... yeah?

Hmm... Not sure. Despite the obvious major-label pandering of Nevermind, you can't deny it contains some of the most effective pop-rock every made. In Utero has some incredible parts, but feels rushed and incomplete to me.

Anyway: 'Drain You'

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

"pandering"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Drain You from the Canal+ studio obviously.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=w9y_jn6_hgU

― MRZBW (MRZBW), Friday, 9 February 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

drain you
-- 69 (plsmit...), February 8th, 2007. (plsmith)

-- whatever i do, it's right (teenagequie...), February 8th, 2007 9:52 PM. (later)

How'd I miss that? Anyway, nice to know I'm not alone.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

for me some days it's "dive," some days it's "drain you" - that section coming outta the SY noizywannabe back into the riff, just played heavier and awesomer is one of the times when they most deserve their name - but actually most of the time now it's "radio friendly unit shifter" - it's just like the fullest expression of in utero's aesthetic, it rocks SO HARD, and that middle eight (is it a middle eight? i dunno, the part in the middle) is like "hey, sorry we actually have a really tough time not being catchy even when we're trying to be super alienating"

― little buckaroo!! (teenagequiet), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Come As You Are" is nice.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 9 February 2007 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

drain you for me is a close second after aneurysm, followed by dive

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dear lord, am I the first person to pick "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle?" Thought we had a similar thread where that was the most popular choice? It's all about the feedback squeals in any case. RFUS is awesome too though (and "Lounge Act" is my poppy choice.)

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i'm saying aneurysm followed by frances farmer and then maybe lovebuzz

― francisf (aaron ef.), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

lounge act is really underrated

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

lounge act is really underrated

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

i'll go with "sappy," if only because no one else has mentioned it yet.

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

This was the one I was thinking of. It wasn't a landslide like I remembered but there were a number of votes.

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm surprised no one's said "Blew"; that'd be my pick.

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, no "Moist Vagina" love?

You know, I'm going to champion something obvious: "Heart Shaped Box".

― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

"frances farmer" was my all-time fav back in the day.

heard "in bloom" on the radio driving home the other night and it sounded incredibly fierce and powerful even after all this time - moreso than the other hits, for some reason.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

Serve The Servants. The idea of starting off an album with "teenaged angst has paid off well/now I'm bored and old" has always amused me, more so now that I'm six years older than Cobain was when he sang that lyric at the ripe old age of 26.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

school
hairspray queen
breed

― simon gabriel (one off), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

surprised nobody's mentioned "Rainbow Chaser" yet...

― hank (hank s), Sunday, 11 February 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Smells Like Teen Spirit.

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Sunday, 11 February 2007 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

I raved about "Frances Farmer" on the other thread, and I'm going to do so here too. Everything from the walk-up-to-you-whispering-and-then-bellow intro to the perfect climb-back-up-to-the-tonic outro.

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 11 February 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Boring choice, but "All Apologies" on In Utero has long been my favorite. And despite being an obvious soundtrack choice for the scene, I thought it was used perfectly in the final season of Six Feet Under.

― Adam Harrison-Friday (AdamFriday), Sunday, 11 February 2007 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

A full-band rendition of "Do Re Mi" (or at least an Unplugged version) would have probably obliterated everything else in their catalog. But taken as it is, it's still, sadly, a bit tentative.

Okay my mistake. Turns out there is actually a full band rendition of this song that exists - a 4-track demo recorded with Pat Smear and Eric Erlandson with Cobain playing drums and singing, recorded March 1994.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 February 2007 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

WHOA.

― marmotwolof, Thursday, 22 February 2007 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DO I SHOT BOOTLEG

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

Heart Shaped Box
Lithium
Come As You Are
Drain You
Aneurysm
Dive
Scentless Apprentice
Very Ape
Frances Farmer
Serve the Servants
About A Girl
Milk It
On A Plain
Pennyroyal Tea
School

Ach, I could go on and on. But I won't.

― Stew, Thursday, 22 February 2007 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

anything courtney wrote on in utero
(alternate answer:doll parts)

― pinkmoose, Thursday, 22 February 2007 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

And the best smashing pumpkins song is "Celebrity Skin"

― billstevejim, Friday, 23 February 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

do re mi

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 02:55 (nine years ago)

anything courtney wrote on in utero
(alternate answer:doll parts)
― pinkmoose, Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:30 AM (9 years ago)

hmmm

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 03:08 (nine years ago)

"Unsatisfied" from Let It Be is the best Nirvana song.

― King Nagl (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 03:19 (nine years ago)

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