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"Come As You Are" - Nirvana
from the album Nevermind (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's song of the day comes from the grunge-rock band Nirvana, who changed the course of rock music and it's influence on pop culture with their breakthrough single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" which reached the top ten in America in the beginning of 1992. The second single from their landmark album Nevermind would be the midtempo brooding number "Come As You Are", written by the late Kurt Cobain and produced by Butch Vig. Based around a rolling guitar riff (that was allegedly cribbed from earlier songs from Killing Joke and the Damned), the "And I swear I don't have a gun" stuck out most of all, especially after the circumstances of Kurt's death...

"Come As You Are" became Nirvana's second song to reach the pop top-40 in the U.S., and their last physical single to do so. The track also spent four weeks at #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, as well as one week at that rank on their Modern Rock list. Internationally, the record did even better, reaching the top ten in New Zealand (#3), Ireland (#7), Italy (#8), Finland (#8), and the UK (#9). It also made the top-40 in France (#12), Belgium (#15), the Netherlands (#16), Spain (#16), Switzerland (#21), Germany (#22), Sweden (#24), Australia (#25), Canada (#27), and Austria (#28).

After album track "On A Plain" reached #25 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart, the third physical single from Nevermind, "Lithium", charted well on both the Mainstream (#16) and Modern (#25) Rock radio chart, but stalled down at #64 on the pop Hot 100 in America. Internationally, it topped the chart in Finland, and went to #5 in Ireland and #11 in the UK. The final single release from the album, the anti-critic "In Bloom", missed the pop chart, but scaled to #5 on the Mainstream Rock list.

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Here's the band performing the song live in 1992...

...and on their iconic MTV Unplugged show the year after...

And finally, from their Live and Loud MTV concert in 1993...

Up tomorrow: R&B singer goes it slow.