About a Girl
Song by Kurt CobainWikipedia
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Search complete. 20 mentions across 8 episodes found for "About a Girl".
Oct 24, 2026
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Hit number two on the U.S. charts, number eight in the U.K., got them a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
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In 1994, Nirvana released About a Girl.
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This was off of their debut album from 1989 called Bleach.
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The live version was posthumously released to promote their MTV Unplugged in New York album.
Kevin DevineHOST
And what's funny is Bleach is kind of like their sludge record.
Kevin DevineHOST
But then he's got About a Girl on there, which he was a little embarrassed of with About a Girl.
Kevin DevineHOST
Because it's like, well, it sounds like R.E.M.
Kevin DevineHOST
It sounds like the Beatles.
Kevin DevineHOST
I think it just was like...
Kevin DevineHOST
But then you're like, well, maybe that was a response to getting signed by Geffen.
Kevin DevineHOST
But then you go back and you're like, About a Girl was on Bleach.
Kevin DevineHOST
Sliver and Dive were on singles that became Incesticide.
KevinHOST
And what's funny is Bleach is kind of like their sludge record.
KevinHOST
But then he's got About a Girl on there, which he was a little embarrassed of with About a Girl.
KevinHOST
Because it's like, well, it sounds like R.E.M.
KevinHOST
It sounds like the Beatles.
KevinHOST
And on Incesticide, which if you listen to Incesticide, what's funny is in utero, almost... has more in common in some ways.
KevinHOST
It's like an evolutionary step, but it's got more in common with incesticide even than it does with Nevermind, because they're bringing back some of this weird shit that we just listened to, this scratchy like, but he's feeding it to the structure he's learned and this like thing.
KevinHOST
And so I think what you're talking about about when did it happen, what's nuts is, they were opening for sonic youth with with nevermind done in their pocket they were playing those songs on so it wasn't like i think it just was like but then you you're like well maybe that was a response to getting signed by geffen but then you go back and you're like about a girl was on bleach sliver and dive were on uh singles that became incesticide those are like pop songs verse chorus verse it's true like so i think he just had all of these spheres of influence and then i think something about i really do think this is like not to and then i'll stop but this like and it's in this song too his vocalizations when he screams and when he like they're feminine in a way they're more like than they are like a dude like there's something in it yeah
CaseyHOST
it's true
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Elsa ChangCORRESPONDENT
Any guesses? That is Nirvana singing the song About a Girl.
Elsa ChangCORRESPONDENT
That is just one of the many recordings that Aadam Jacobs features in his now digitized collection on the website Internet Archive.
Elsa ChangCORRESPONDENT
Jacobs joins us now from Chicago.
Elsa ChangCORRESPONDENT
Well, what's really cool is because these bands that you captured, they were just starting out, right? They were still playing small clubs.
Elsa ChangCORRESPONDENT
And you capture these really interesting moments.
Elsa ChangCORRESPONDENT
Like with that song we just played about a girl by Nirvana.
Elsa ChangCORRESPONDENT
This is how the crowd reacted to the end of that song when it was played at the Dreamers Club in Chicago.
Brian FallonGUEST
wow, I'm shocked.
Brian FallonGUEST
It's really not in there? About a Girl, is that up there?
Gwynedd StuartHOST
Yeah.
Brian FallonGUEST
About a Girl's
Tim KasherHOST
on there, yeah.
Brian FallonGUEST
Wow, I can't believe that that beat all apologies.
Brian FallonGUEST
Yeah.
Brian FallonGUEST
Batman soundtrack, right.
Ryan FoxHOST
he likes the most.
Troy RunstenHOST
So this is of no fault to Nirvana, and if anything, it's, it's, uh, actually praise for Nirvana over anything, but when that f- About a Girl, anytime I hear that song-
Ryan FoxHOST
Oh
Troy RunstenHOST
...
Troy RunstenHOST
... necessarily.
Troy RunstenHOST
It's just, like, it's okay, you know? It just, it just doesn't get me excited, I guess is w- is all I'm saying.
Ryan FoxHOST
You know what does get you excited probably? Um, not About a Girl, but we have a song here by Swolevana called About Boobs.
Troy RunstenHOST
Swolevana?
TopherHOST
Yeah.
TopherHOST
Uh, Puddle of Mudd redid About a Girl.
TopherHOST
Nirvana's About a Girl.
MarkHOST
Oh, God.
TopherHOST
Um, his, his vocals were just shit on it.
Nate GoyerHOST
Uh, but, uh, Chad goes deep into the early Nirvana stories.
Nate GoyerHOST
He explains how the song About a Girl got its name.
Nate GoyerHOST
Uh, he talks about [laughs] the one time that Kurt openly praised his drumming.
Nate GoyerHOST
Uh, he tells me about getting knocked out cold by Krist's bass at the show where the Bleach cover photo was taken.
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Chad ChanningGUEST
Uh, yeah.
Chad ChanningGUEST
Sometimes, uh, you know, like with, y- you know, song titles and things were different.
Chad ChanningGUEST
I mean, I, this, this is something I've brought up before, um, uh, was, uh, when we were first learning, um, the song About a Girl, and, uh, Kurt was playing, starts playing the song, and I start playing.
Chad ChanningGUEST
And I almost, I mean, everything that I, that I play on that record was pretty close to what I originally started playing when I started playing it.