Nirvana Magazine

Rolling Stone Magazine released a list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in November 2004. It represents an eclectic mix of music spanning the past 50 years, and contains a wide variety of artists sharing the spotlight. The Rolling Stone 500 was compiled by 172 voters comprised of rock artists and well-known rock music experts, who submitted ranked lists of their favorite 50 Rock & Roll/Pop music songs. The songs were then tallied to create the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

It is one of many that populates Kurt Cobain's Journals, published posthumously in 2002, which detail the bands that the author was listening to and which provide an insight into the music that shaped Nirvana's sound.Then again, spend any amount of time with any member of Nirvana and the conversation soon turned to music in animated terms. While the band themselves struggled with the dehumanising influence that came with global superstardom, as individuals they never lost their passion for music itself.That said, there were moments of guilt-tripping brought on by an adhesion to an almost impractical punk rock code, the rules of which were often reductive and which Kurt himself realised where there to be broken…