The two “risky” songs Kurt Cobain thought of as his signature tunes
Kurt Cobain regarded Nirvana's "All Apologies" and "Dumb" as career-defining tracks precisely because they diverged from grunge convention, blending melodic, REM-inspired pop sensibilities into a genre otherwise defined by distorted, sludgy guitar noise. This mattered to Cobain because he felt boxed in by the media's narrow portrayal of him and the band as purely aggressive…