Give It A Chance with Kevin Devine and Casey Jost
Oct 22, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 28 segments
Kevin and Casey celebrate the 35th anniversary of Nevermind by revisiting two of Nirvana’s most polarizing tracks, “Hairspray Queen” and “You Know You’re Right.” From Kurt Cobain’s experimental…
Kevin DevineHost
Casey JostHost
Well, I can definitely – we can do a debate society thing where we take – I can see every – Well, that's insane to say.
I can imagine a number of the criticisms of this song, both by fans and by people who don't like the band at all in the first place.
And I will give the caveat before we try to do any of that, that that was delightful.
And, uh, and this is like, you know, what's interesting is that it might be the worst Nirvana song, you know, because it, because it's like structurally, but, but that, but it's still far better than a lot of, especially it's so, it seems like it's a really early song.
It's an early track for them and they're experimenting and there's elements of it that are so, even just like the word play of it is very much even like, like teen smells like teen spirit in that it's like, you know, like just changing a word slightly, you know, with like, I was your mind, you were mine, you would mind, you were mine, like stuff like that.
Well, I can definitely – we can do a debate society thing where we take – I can see every – Well, that's insane to say.
I can imagine a number of the criticisms of this song, both by fans and by people who don't like the band at all in the first place.
And I will give the caveat before we try to do any of that, that that was delightful.
And, uh, and this is like, you know, what's interesting is that it might be the worst Nirvana song, you know, because it, because it's like structurally, but, but that, but it's still far better than a lot of, especially it's so, it seems like it's a really early song.
It's an early track for them and they're experimenting and there's elements of it that are so, even just like the word play of it is very much even like, like teen smells like teen spirit in that it's like, you know, like just changing a word slightly, you know, with like, I was your mind, you were mine, you would mind, you were mine, like stuff like that.
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