Come As You Are

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Written by: Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
Produced by: Butch Vig, Nirvana
Released: Sept. '91 on Geffen
Charts: 18 weeks
Top spot: No. 32

"It's just about people and what they're expected to act like," Kurt Cobain told an interviewer when asked about the second major hit off Nevermind. "The lines in the song are really contradictory. One after another, they're kind of a rebuttal to each other." The track is driven by a simple, undeniably catchy riff that producer Vig goosed with a flanged, subaquatic guitar effect. Cobain created a stir when news surfaced that he'd lifted the main riff from a 1985 song by U.K. art-metal band Killing Joke, whom Dave Grohl "paid back" twelve years later by playing drums on their 2003 album.

Appears on: Nevermind (Geffen)

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