Why are so many of these Nirvana songs I picked not on official albums? I'm not trying to be a snob!

This song is fantastic to me.

Maybe you're not interested in slurring anti-functional vocals and lyrics. Perhaps a guitar part that sounds like a lawnmower being thrown into a jet engine isn't on your list of things to help you unwind tonight. There is a chance that a radical lack of logical connection between chords would diminish your appreciation of any song. You could even prefer that a song's guitar solo sound something like what you would commonly term music.

You'd be forgiven for having these dainty tastes.

But there is a chance you are missing out on the caustic yet intelligent catharsis of a song like this.

A song "like" this? Is there another song like this?

Even more than "Aneurysm," "Curmudgeon" points the way from Nirvana's Nevermind sound to their In Utero endgame. The huge pounding drums of Dave Grohl are finding their voice here, especially in the savage eighth note onslaughts leading out of the choruses.

Nirvana, I must keep reminding you, was a weird band. They were weird people making music that was by and large weird sounding. Only a few songs were slightly more composed, cool, radio-friendly numbers. The band was put on this planet not just to end the conservative '80s reign of Guns N' Roses but to utterly confound the minds of those macho musical meatheads. Axl Rose wasn't just consigned to irrelevance by Kurt Cobain's undeniable gravitas; worse, as Rose trudged into exile, he had to watch Cobain send him off with a limp-wristed wave, an unblinking stare, and frozen, creepy smile. Delicious.