270 - Nirvana Come As You Are 1991

"Come As You Are" was the second single from Nirvana’s hit album "Nevermind". This song along with "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "In Bloom", and "Lithium" were the highlights of the ‘first’ commercially successful grunge album. "Come As You Are" is relatively softer than the heavily over wrought guitar sound in other songs. It is often said that the main riff was taken from a Killing Joke song. When "Nevermind" was released, members of the British post-punk band Killing Joke claimed the main guitar riff of "Come As You Are" plagiarized the riff of their own single, "Eighties". The band, however, did not file a copyright infringement lawsuit, which according to Rolling Stone was "due to personal and financial reasons". In some interviews, Jaz Coleman stated he did not file a lawsuit because the members of Nirvana openly confessed to him that they indeed took the riff, which he said was all he wanted to hear.