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* [[Album Title Drop]]: From "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the line "Oh well whatever ''Nevermind''."
** "Come as You Are," also on ''Nevermind'', actually has the title drop from their ''previous'' album, ''Bleach'':
{{quote| "Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach. As I want you to be."}}
* [[Alternative Rock]]
* [[Author Existence Failure|Artist Existence Failure]]: Cobain, who [[Ate His Gun]].
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* [[Grunge]]: The poster boys of the genre.
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Surprisingly for an early 90's band, but it pops up in "All Apologies":
{{quote| What else should I say?<br />
Everyone is gay }}
** Though there are suggestions that Kurt ''meant'' to say the modern meaning of the word.
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** ''Nevermind'' also has two unplugged songs, "Polly" (which, in an inversion, they also played electrically as "(New Wave) Polly") and "Something in the Way".
* [[Wham! Line]]: Kurt Cobain shows off his talents as a lyricist with the first two lines of "Polly".
{{quote| Polly wants a cracker<br />
Think I should get off her first }}
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: Kurt himself lampshaded this in "On a Plain", with the line ''What the hell am I trying to say?''. Then again, that is a song about writer's block...
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