“The best thing to hit rock and roll”: The profound moment Jack Black discovered Nirvana
Stick it to the man.
Nirvana
The 1990s rock legend Lars Ulrich initially hated watching: “Their attitude annoys me”
Not loving the attention.
The 1993 concert that Nirvana couldn’t stand watching: ‘We didn’t like many of them’
Not fitting in the right way.
The Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl always struggled to play: “I wanted to smash a guitar”
“Sometimes you want things to be just right…”
Dave Grohl was “afraid” of playing Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ after Kurt Cobain’s death: “It just seemed sort of forbidden”
“I was even afraid just to sit down at a drum set.”
The 1977 song Dave Grohl called “one of the greatest of all time”
The emergence of punk’s true voice.
The 1993 Nirvana song that makes Kurt Cobain’s daughter cry: “Feeling inadequate”
A stripped-back classic.
Exploring the five most mainstream selections from Kurt Cobain’s favourite albums list
In amongst The Frogs, Flipper, and Scratch Acid.