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"Come as You Are" is an alternative rock song that lasts for a duration of three minutes and thirty-eight seconds. [1] According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by BMG Rights Management, it is written in the time signature of common time, with a heavy rock tempo of 120 beats per minute. [1] "
"Scentless Apprentice" was written during a band rehearsal in 1992. Unlike most Nirvana songs, the guitar riff was written by Grohl, rather than Cobain. "It was such a cliché grunge Tad riff that I was reluctant to even jam on it," Cobain told Michael Azerrad, in the 1993 Nirvana biography, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. [3] "But I ...
The song begins with the narrator contemplating suicide with the lyrics "I never thought I'd die alone." [23] The lyrics continue: "I'm too depressed to go on / You'll be sorry when I'm gone." [7] "Adam's Song" includes a reference to "Come as You Are" by Nirvana. "Come as You Are" by Nirvana includes the lyrics "Take your time, hurry up, the ...
According to the 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad, the sound of Cobain smashing the guitar can be heard around 19:32 on the track. [4] A photograph of the destroyed guitar, a black Japanese Fender Stratocaster [7] [8] and not a Mosrite as claimed by Vig, [9] appears in Come As You Are. [4]
On April 24, 2020, "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" was performed as the opening song on a virtual Nirvana tribute concert by American musician, Post Malone. The 15-song concert was livestreamed on YouTube, and raised more than $4 million for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. [17] [18]
In his 1993 biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Azerrad described the song's title as "an update on Marx's description of religion as the 'opiate of the masses.'" [3] Gillian G. Gaar described it as "a song whose sing-along melody typically masks the disturbing quality of the lyric, which touches on the solace one can find in ...
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[3] Throughout the number, Cobain loudly snarls parodic lyrics insisting listeners to, "Come on over, and do the twist." [2] His lyrics for the song make fun of pop conventions and drug-use rituals ("shoot the shit"), ("beat me out of me"). [10] During the chorus, Cobain delivers a rousing round of catchy chants.