Nirvana’s 10 best songs ranked: from Smells Like Teen Spirit, to Lithium

First formed in Washington in 1987, Nirvana are now remembered as the band who took the grunge sound of the Pacific Northwest global, smashing up the charts with their biggest hits, and re-igniting alternative rock in the process.

Though their classic line-up – Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic – were together for just four years before Cobain’s death, few other bands had such a profound cultural effect during the Nineties.

As the BBC gears up to explore Cobain’s legacy in new documentary Moments That Shook Music: Kurt Cobain – airing on April 13 – here’s a look back at the trio’s greatest