Sorry but that arguement is as plainly stupid as not having “Like a Rolling Stone” in the top ten of Dylan.

10 Smells Like Teen Spirit
9 With Arms Wide Open
8 Photograph
7 Learn To Fly
6 Down
5 Jeremy
4 Nookie
3 No Rain
2 Glycerin
1 Spoonman

With the exclusion of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” I think it’s safe to assume that this was is more along the lines of “smells like comment-baiting.”

You think it’s safe to assume we hired James Jackson Toth, an acclaimed songwriter (bka Wooden Wand) and outstanding critic in his own right, to write 3200 words on Nirvana … to troll commenters?

Nah, you have my word — hand to heart — we approached this with no such intention, and James was given no such direction (and to be clear, no writer with whom I’ve worked has EVER been told directly or indirectly to be “more controversial”). I’ll be totally straight with you: In this case, we actually considered asking James to reconsider his decision to leave Teen Spirit off the list, before finally deciding that doing so would have been kind of invasive and dishonest. That said, if I had written this list, Teen Spirit would have been No. 1. But I hold James’ opinions on music in the highest esteem, and they’re presented here unaltered, and they are 100-percent sincere.

I feel like if you go see an 88 year old man play music, you shouldn’t go in expecting a particularly tight set.

And I’m sure this was a really awful performance, but if you hate it, just go. Don’t boo a living legend. Do you really want to look back at the end of your life and say “One time, I boo’d BB King because he wasted about 30 minutes of my time.”

“STOP BEING OLD!”

I admit this show sounds like it was pretty rough, but booing BB King? If I did that I would feel unclean for weeks.

Why would I click play on that? Reading it is sad enough.

No Smells Like Teen Spirit.

How hip.

Oh, he’s an acclaimed songwriter AND outstanding critic? Oh, my bad. He definitely knows how to pick Nirvana “top” lists, then…

The fact that he put “All Apologies” from MTV Unplugged as the #1 song is enough for me and many others to figure out he wasn’t the best decision for this list. This list is crappola.

And your “outstanding critic” wrote “No Apologies” in the first sentence of the “All Apologies” section…he must have been studying Rolling Stone’s list (titled that) first. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/no-apologies-all-102-nirvana-songs-ranked-20140227/1-smells-like-teen-spirit-0295597

Edit: You’re lucky I was kind enough to delete the above embedded picture. Please don’t troll me. You have no idea what buttons you are pushing.

Maybe you should stop posting terrible comments.

Do you know what this is, you smart fuck?

http://i872.photobucket.com/albums/ab289/awkwardsound/douchebags_zps7011f5dc.jpg

Who gave this old fart a guitar?

This dentist is insane. I went there once and instead of suggesting to pull my tooth he just wanted to replace me with a clone! What a wack-job!

“We can recreate you” they said… even Canadian insurance doesn’t really cover that sort of thing.