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There’s a new Kurt Cobain documentary airing on BBC this Saturday
To mark the 30th anniversary of his passing last Friday, the BBC will be airing a brand-new documentary entitled Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music this weekend.
How well do you know Nirvana's lyrics? Test your knowledge in this rather tricky quiz!
"Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second-rate Freudian evaluation of my lyrics, when 90 percent of the time they've transcribed them incorrectly?" Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain once wrote. And it’s true – his often wilfully unintelligible delivery was what led “Weird Al” Yankovic to the pitch-perfect parody Smells lIke Nirvana: “It’s hard to bargle nawdle zouss with all these marbles in my mouth”.
Nonetheless, some will have seeped in over the years...
How did you do? Manage to get a perfect score? Or did you stink like a certain deodorant? Here are the answers to see where you might have tripped up:
Nirvana lyric quiz answers
1. 9
2. Duluth
3. All Apologies
4. 'I'm not gonna crack'
5. Antacid
6. A hangover
7. Pisces
8. I Hate Myself And Want To Die
9. Verse Chorus Verse
10. Don't
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