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** ''Incesticide'' (1992) - a compilation of the B-sides and rarities
** ''Singles'' (1995)
** ''[[Self -Titled Album|Nirvana]]'' (2002) - a "one-CD history of the band"
** ''With the Lights Out'' (2004) - the massive box set
** ''Sliver: The Best of the Box'' (2005) - a condensed version of ''With the Lights Out''
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* [[Creator Breakdown]]: ''In Utero''.
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Kurt has moments of this on ''MTV Unplugged in New York'', crossed with [[Self -Deprecation]]. For example: before playing "The Man Who Sold the World", he says ''I guarantee you I will screw this song up. And I know exactly which part'', to which someone in the background (probably Dave) snarks ''Yeah, like he only screws up one part.'' Then, at the end of the song, ''I didn't screw it up, did I? But here's another one I could screw up''.
** Also in the same album, before playing ''About A Girl'', he states "This song is off our first album; most people don't own it."
** Even Krist has moments of this. When asked what is your favorite Nirvana song he replied something along the lines of Smells Like Teen Spirit, because "[[Money, Dear Boy|it bought my first house]]."
* [[Filk Song]]: "Scentless Apprentice" was based on the novel ''[[Perfume (Literature)|Perfume]]''.
* [[Garage Band]]: They started out this way.
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* [[Mis Blamed]]: Courtney didn't exactly help Kurt's state of mind, but she wasn't solely responsible for getting him hooked on heroin; that was mostly down to Kurt's "self-medicating" for the stomach problems he had suffered for most of his life. The Charles Cross biography suggests, however, that it was the reverse -- it was ''Kurt'' who got ''Courtney'' back onto heroin.
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: About a 5 or 6. Their softer stuff is usually a 2 or 3. On the other hand, "Endless, Nameless" is an 8, and might even go up to 9 if not for the quiet parts.
* [[NamesName's the Same]]: "Nirvana" was also the name of a psychedelic band formed in the UK in [[The Sixties]]. The elder Nirvana sued over the name and settled out of court, to the effect that both groups were allowed to continue using the name. The earlier band even recorded a cover of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SNhYrUnUCg&feature=related Lithium]", and [[What Could Have Been|intended to record an entire album of Cobain's material]] before his death put the kibosh on it.
* [[New Sound Album]]: ''MTV Unplugged in New York'' is perhaps the most obvious example for being acoustic; it was also Nirvana's first live album, and nearly half of the songs performed during the show were covers. Their three main studio albums also have distinct, albeit slightly more subtle, differences.
* [[Non -Appearing Title]]: Considering songs such as "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle", perfectly [[Justified Trope|justifiable]].
* [[Nose Yodeling]]
* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]: Nirvana are ''much'' more popular and well-known than many bands who inspired them, e. g. [[The Melvins]], [[Black Flag]], [[Celtic Frost]] and [[The Pixies]].
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: From Lounge Act: " 'til it's '''fucking''' gone."
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Cobain always made sure to plug his favorite bands in interviews and several of them (Meat Puppets, The Melvins, The Vaselines and [[Shonen Knife]], just to name a few) got major label record deals just because Cobain said he liked them. Nirvana also got a record contract thanks to the support of [[Sonic Youth]], a band they were all big fans of and quickly befriended afterwards.
* [[Pun -Based Title]]: ''Hormoaning'', ''Incesticide''.
* [[Rape As Drama]]: "Polly". They later did "Rape Me", which according to Kurt is about "sort of [[Laser -Guided Karma|poetic justice]], where a guy rapes a girl, ends up in jail, [[Prison Rape|and gets raped there.]]"
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Cobain screams "God is Gay" at the end of Stay Away. [[The Unintelligible|They probably avoided controversy because nobody could understand what Cobain was screaming.]]
* [[Retraux]]: For the "In Bloom" video, the band dressed up as a 1950s pop group. The video was shot with old Kinescope cameras.
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* [[Throw It In]]: While recording ''Bleach'', the band had been experimenting with Drop D tuning. Krist Novoselic accidentally left his bass in Drop D before recording "Blew", and this was the take that was used for the album because it just sounded cooler.
** ''Nevermind'' has two mistakes that were left in: on "Polly", Kurt accidentally starts the "Polly says" verse [[Four More Measures|too early]], pauses, and then re-starts on the right spot. This became a sort of [[Ascended Glitch]], even appearing on the faster "(New Wave) Polly" version from ''Incesticide''. During double-tracking for "Come As You Are", he similarly sang "And I don't have a gun" before the last "memoria, memoria" section was over, but saved the mistake.
* [[Title -Only Chorus]]: Something In The Way.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: [[Kurt Cobain]] allowed [[Weird Al]] to parody "Smells Like Teen Spirit" because it would be about the [[Indecipherable Lyrics]] due to Kurt's singing.
* [[Unplugged Version]]: Nirvana's performance on ''MTV Unplugged'' contains several of these. Pretty much any pop culture TV show featuring the band will feature the clip of Cobain singing "All in all is all we are" from the [[Unplugged Version]] of "All Apologies."
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