Interesting results! I want to make a small case for the last-place finisher here, coming in at a whopping 3% of the votes.

The whole song is amazing, but that's a given, else it doesn't belong in a top 4 list. But many other "Best Nirvana" songs have this top 20, too.

1/ https://twitter.com/prof_goldberg/status/1283243476377841664

Krist's base line is fantastic, but in particular I'd like to stan for the third & final verse. There's no guitar solo; the band goes right into that final verse and chorus.

Listen to Kurt's singing: he's barely singing by this point. He's yelling, almost screaming.

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The last minute of this song CAPTURES Nirvana, or at least a critical part of the band's magic. Don't degrade this by describing it as angst. It's a helluva lot more than angst. It's ANGUISH. It's ANGER. It's RAGE. And you can hear it in the vocals, the frenetic tempo.

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And though the song is obviously about a lover, the anguish & rage that screams from the song is rooted in so. much. more.

I stan relentlessly for Gen X, not only b/c we're so frequently forgotten, but also b/c so much of worst ish milennials are experiencing began w/ Gen X.

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Gen X was the first group to go into substantial college debt, for example. We experienced directly the true horrors of being booted off our parent's health insurance while costs were skyrocketing.

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Gen X saw it. Cobain did not complete suicide b/c of a jilted intimate partnership. He hated the world, and he hated who he was in the world. And I remember, so distinctly, being astonished by a music that seemed to reflect the anguish. It's not angst. It's ANGER.

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(Speaking of anger, obviously not a damn coincidence that Nirvana overlapped with and even toured with RATM).

I have this powerful memory of attending a house party, standing outside w/ friends, all of us yelling the final verse of Lounge Act until we were hoarse.

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Watching my friend Joseph, his eyes screwed shut, fists balled up, body literally shaking with emotion and anger as he roared the lyrics to the final verse.

Sure, we were privileged, spoiled teenagers. But the anger Nirvana tapped into was real.

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We felt it, even if we were fortunate enough to be mostly insulated. And some of what is happening socially in the US is deeply connected to the drivers and sources of the anguish and rage Nirvana embodied. Nirvana matters. Gen X matters.

Lounge Act matters.

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That said, of course I recognize why most voters picked HSB and SLTS. Both are musically superior to Lounge Act, I think. But Lounge Act captures some of that anger and rage in a way only a few other Nirvana songs do, IMO.

10/10