Nirvana (with Lorde): All Apologies (2014)
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The melody to 'All Apologies' is so simple it seems as though someone, somewhere, must always have been singing it. Appropriately, it followed Kurt Cobain around for years in different forms: His undated acoustic home demo, thought to have originated around 1990, was pleading and sincere, while the version the band tracked in 1991 but left off Nevermind was sardonic and sloppy. As the song lurched towards its final self, sharpening early lyrics and gaining a cello, it began to radiate a vast, frightening exhaustion. Feelings this big trail us for years before revealing their awesome face, and by the time Cobain was onstage performing it for MTV Unplugged: Live in New York, it had the clarity and finality of epiphany. It’s always been interpreted as a suicide note, but really it’s just a master statement. The song held everything: tenderness and bitterness, anger and acceptance, love and hatred, resignation and revelation. What else could he say?
Jayson Greene for Pitchfork’s 250 Best Songs of the 1990s
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Also Rebecca’s earrings are once again killing it in this episode and I want them
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choking on the ashes of her enemy
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i fw nirvana especially this song
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