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37-616: A welcome sign to the city installed in 2005 which obliquely says " Come As You Are ", but does not mention Cobain by name, was the first official recognition of the musician who died by suicide in April 1994. The Memorial Park, initially built in Felony Flats on city-owned land near his Aberdeen home in 2011, and maintained by local volunteers as Kurt Cobain Landing, was adopted by the city of Aberdeen in 2015, 21 years after his death. As recently as 2011,

74-553: A "base-building alternative cut", while "Come as You Are" would be able to cross over into other radio formats. However, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" became a surprise hit and boosted the band's popularity, whereas "Come as You Are" served to maintain it. After its release as a single in March 1992, "Come as You Are" peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The single stayed on the chart for 18 weeks. The song also reached number three on

111-458: A chandelier as water begins to flow into the room as well as a dog wearing a cone collar trying to go down stairs, a baby swimming underwater (a reference to the cover of Nevermind ), and a pistol sinking. Towards the end, a clip of the band appears, with Cobain in the front, lying on the ground and kissing the camera. The music video was placed into heavy rotation on MTV in the US. It was placed into

148-429: A collage of Nirvana-related graffiti under the bridge itself. Come as You Are (Nirvana song) " Come as You Are " is a song by American rock band Nirvana , written by frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain . It is the third track and the second single from the band's second studio album Nevermind , the single released in March 1992. It was the band's second and final American top 40 hit, reaching number 32 on

185-467: A friend, as a trend, as a known enemy", for some, was further allegory of addiction to the drug. After Cobain's death, Sub Pop records approached G. Alan Marlatt at the University of Washington to set up a memorial fund to establish an addiction treatment center titled the "Come as You Are" center, but the funding fell through after the record label was sold to Warner Music Group . Cobain described

222-479: A gun' gives 'Come as You Are' an edge it was never meant to have when [ Nevermind ] was first released in 1991." Deming reasons that the "I don't have a gun" lyric is Cobain's "attempt to reassure listeners that ... his target is the world at large rather than the individuals in it, and that there was still room in this damaged world for everyone." Others have suggested the lyrics regarding the "gun" are metaphors for escapism and turmoil found in heroin usage. Wary of

259-462: A lawsuit but that it was either thrown out of court, or that it was dropped following Cobain's death. Geordie Walker , Killing Joke's guitar player, said that the band was "very pissed off about that, but it's obvious to everyone. We had two separate musicologists' reports saying it was. Our publisher sent their publisher a letter saying it was and they went 'Boo, never heard of ya!', but the hysterical thing about Nirvana saying they'd never heard of us

296-572: A motion not to rename the adjacent Young Street Bridge after Cobain was applauded at a city council meeting. The lyrics of the Nirvana song " Something in the Way " are about the Young Street Bridge. The lyrics to the song are etched on an aluminum plaque posted in the park. A granite memorial headstone inscribed with Cobain quotes rests in the park. Part of one of the quotes was sandblasted away because

333-417: Is an audio recording technique in which a performer sings or plays along with their own prerecorded performance, usually to produce a stronger or bigger sound than can be obtained with a single voice or instrument. It is a form of overdubbing ; the distinction comes from the doubling of a part, as opposed to recording a different part to go with the first. The effect can be further enhanced by panning one of

370-556: Is used to give one singer a fuller sound. Double tracking was pioneered by Buddy Holly . John Lennon particularly enjoyed using the technique for his vocals while in the Beatles. Lennon's post-Beatles albums frequently employed doubling echo on his vocals in place of the ADT. Some critics complained that the effect gave the impression that Lennon recorded all his vocals in a bathroom, but some performers, like Black Francis and Paul Simon , value

407-471: The Billboard Hot 100 , and second UK top 10 hit, reaching number nine on the UK Singles Chart . The single reached the top 10 in eight countries and the top 40 in eleven further countries. The unexpected success of the album's lead single, " Smells Like Teen Spirit " drew Nirvana to mainstream success, with Nevermind being released two weeks after the single's release. Following the album's release,

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444-496: The Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart with a 267 percent increase to 2000 downloads sold and a 30 percent increase to 2.8 million US streams in week ending March 14, 2019. The song " Adam's Song " by Blink-182 references "Come as You Are." "Come as You Are" features the lyrics, "Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, don't be late," while "Adam's Song," in turn, features the lyrics, "I took my time, I hurried up,

481-616: The Billboard Mainstream and Modern Rock Tracks charts. The single also broke the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart , peaking at the ninth spot, where it was also the week's highest new entry. In Israel, it was voted in at number 3 on the IBA 's "Voice of Israel" singles chart. This song ranked number 82 in Blender ' s "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born", and 452nd on Rolling Stone 's " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ". In 2019,

518-808: The Buzz Bin on MTV Europe , before being placed into active and heavy rotation. It was also played on MTV Australia , Rage and Video Smash Hits in Australia. In 2005, a sign was put up in Aberdeen, Washington , Cobain's hometown, that reads "Welcome to Aberdeen: Come As You Are" as a tribute to Cobain. The sign was paid for and created by the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee, a non-profit organization created in May 2004 to honor Cobain. Founded by author Jeff Burlingame and Aberdeen City Councilman Paul Fritts,

555-426: The sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by BMG Rights Management , it is written in the time signature of common time , with a heavy rock tempo of 120 beats per minute . "Come as You Are" is composed in the key of E minor , while Kurt Cobain's vocal range spans one octave and one note , from a low of E 3 to a high of F ♯ 4 . The song alternates between the chords of E and D during

592-482: The 1990s on Spotify . According to Nielsen Music 's year-end report for 2019, "Come as You Are" was the third most-played song of the decade on mainstream rock radio with 134,000 spins. All of the songs in the top 10 were from the 1990s. The music video was directed by Kevin Kerslake , who later directed the videos for " Lithium ", " In Bloom ", and " Sliver ", as well as Pantera 's music video for " This Love ". After

629-410: The band and its management company debated whether to release "Come as You Are" or " In Bloom " as the next single from the album due to Cobain's concerns over similarity of the former with Killing Joke song " Eighties " (1984). After some persuasion by the management company, Cobain agreed to release "Come as You Are" as the second single because of its commercial potential. Killing Joke were upset over

666-425: The bridge for a time, and while most who knew him don’t think he did, it was clearly one of his preferred hangouts. Set along the banks of the murky Wishkah River, the strangely appealing little park features a guitar sculpture, a likeness of Cobain with the lyrics to "Something in the Way," a headstone with some amusing Cobain quotes (sample: "I’m a walking bacterial infection"), a Kurt Cobain "air guitar" sculpture and

703-1085: The choice was mine, I didn't think enough." The song was also featured in the closing credits of the Season 2 finale of the Apple TV+ alternative history series For All Mankind . "Come As You Are (House Mix)" is an electronic tribute with trumpeter Maurice "Mobetta" Brown and house music DJ Chip E. from Nirvana Reimagined as House and Techno by producers Jonathan Hay and Cain McKnight. UK 7" single (DGCS 7) US 7" single (DGCS7-19120-A) UK 12" single (DGCT 7) UK 12" picture disc (DGCTP 7) UK CD single (GED 21715) US CD single (DGCDS-21707) Japanese mini CD single (MVDG-8) US cassette single (DGCCS-19120) Australian cassette single (DGCCS19065) Personnel adapted from Nevermind liner notes Nirvana Technical Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Double tracking Double tracking or doubling

740-503: The city mayor found the phrase "[drugs] will fuck you up" offensive. Cobain immortalized the bridge through music, but now the bridge immortalizes Cobain. Aberdeen’s must-see Cobain site is a small park, opened in 2011 by the Kurt Cobain Memorial Foundation, called Kurt Cobain Landing, which sits at the foot of the Young Street Bridge, the inspiration for the song "Something in the Way." Cobain claimed that he lived under

777-542: The committee also plans to create a Kurt Cobain Memorial Park and a youth center in Aberdeen. The song appears in two scenes of Definitely, Maybe , a 2008 film starring Ryan Reynolds , and is a thematic element. The 2016 film As You Are was named after the Nirvana track. The plot "revolves around a trio of high schoolers in the 1990s, trying to find their way through the difficult maze of adolescence." A cover of

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814-631: The cover artwork of Nevermind . Rolling Stone ranked "Come as You Are" 445th on its list of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ", and it placed 452nd on the 2010 edition of the list. "Come as You Are" was one of the few new songs Nirvana recorded onto the rehearsal tape the group sent to producer Butch Vig prior to the recording of Nevermind in 1991. The group recorded the song with Vig during album sessions at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys , California , in early 1991. Cobain recorded his guitar solo in two takes, as well as three takes of vocals, of which

851-410: The first was used. Vig then asked Cobain to double track his vocals throughout the entire song. During the harmony overdub session, Cobain accidentally sang the phrase "And I don't have a gun" too early, appearing the fourth time he sings the word "memoria" after the guitar solo. When this mistake was discovered, Cobain decided to keep it in the final recording. Vig sampled Cobain singing "memoria" from

888-584: The lyrics of "Come as You Are" as contradictory, and said the song was about "people and what they're expected to act like." Pointing to the line "Take your time, hurry up, choice is yours, don't be late," essayist Catherine J. Creswell writes that in Cobain's lyrics, "[p]hrases clump into strings of empty clichés whose own ostensible meaning is forced into contradictions or simple rhyme sound." In light of Cobain's suicide in 1994, AllMusic 's Mark Deming suggests that hearing "Cobain sing 'and I swear that I don't have

925-489: The main video shoot. Kerslake projected this footage in the background of many shots in the main part of the video. The video features the band in a dark room, where the appearance of falling water in front of the band distorts and blurs the band members' forms (an idea suggested by Cobain). Throughout the video, clips such as cells multiplying at an incredible rate and an unborn organism in its embryonic stages are shown. The video also features Kurt Cobain swinging violently on

962-426: The melody of the song." Many have speculated the song to be about heroin , which Cobain was struggling with at the time of writing and recording. The lyrics "Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach" speak directly to a Seattle -area HIV prevention campaign from the time period encouraging addicts to sterilize their needles with bleach before using them with the tagline "If doused in mud, soak in bleach", and "As

999-501: The middle of the song and placed it in the background of the song near the end twice. The band also performed an acoustic version of the song on MTV Unplugged on November 18, 1993. The recording later appeared on MTV Unplugged in New York in November 1994. "Come as You Are" is an alternative rock song that lasts for a duration of three minutes and thirty-eight seconds. According to

1036-543: The performances hard left and the other hard right in the stereo field. Artificial or automatic double tracking , also known as ADT, was developed at Abbey Road Studios by engineers recording The Beatles in the 1960s. It used variable speed tape recorders connected in such a way as to mimic the effect created by double tracking. ADT produced a unique sound that could be imitated but not precisely duplicated by later analog and digital delay devices, which are capable of producing an effect called doubling echo . The effect

1073-428: The similarity between the main riff of "Come as You Are" and English post-punk band Killing Joke 's 1985 single " Eighties ", Nirvana and its management were unsure about releasing the song as the second single from Nevermind . Danny Goldberg, head of Nirvana's management Gold Mountain, later revealed that "[w]e couldn't decide between 'Come as You Are' and 'In Bloom.' Kurt was nervous about 'Come as You Are' because it

1110-472: The song ever since. He is joined by the rest of the band for the first verse, which is moody and subdued. Once the band reaches the chorus, the song reaches full volume. The shift in dynamics is a technique Nirvana used on many of its songs. The song features one of Cobain's longest guitar solos. "Kurt really did not play a lot of solos," Vig said. "This one is more of a melodic part based on the vocal melody. It's not trying to show off pyrotechnics. It complements

1147-422: The song was placed at number 17 on Rolling Stone ' s ranking of 102 Nirvana songs. Although members of Killing Joke claimed the main guitar riff of "Come as You Are" plagiarized the riff of "Eighties", the band reportedly did not file a copyright infringement lawsuit, which Rolling Stone magazine attributes to "personal and financial reasons". However, conflicting reports state that Killing Joke did file

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1184-505: The song, and there were rumors that a lawsuit had been filed over the song, though the suit never materialized. Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker was said to be upset about the whole situation, and he felt that Nirvana handled the matter poorly. Similarities between "Come as You Are" and "Life Goes On" by the Damned have also been noted. The music video for "Come as You Are" was directed by Kevin Kerslake , who drew inspiration for it from

1221-651: The song, performed by Civil Twilight , appears in the end scene of the Defiance episode Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go . Elvis impersonator Jim "The King" Brown also covered the song on his 1998 album Gravelands . A remix of the song was used for trailers of Marvel 's 2017 Netflix series The Defenders . It also made an appearance in the 2019 film Captain Marvel , and subsequently peaked at number 11 on

1258-518: The unsatisfactory experience filming the " Smells Like Teen Spirit " video with Samuel Bayer , Cobain selected Kerslake due to his impressionistic style. Cobain was unable to formulate any ideas beyond homaging the Nevermind album cover and including "a lot of purples and reds", so he let Kerslake conceptualize the clip. The band shot outdoor footage in a park in Hollywood Hills a few days prior to

1295-404: The verses and E and G in the pre-chorus, while at the refrain it changes to the chord progression of A–C . It begins with Cobain playing an unaccompanied guitar riff for eight seconds. Cobain used an Electro-Harmonix Small Clone guitar chorus pedal to give his instrument a "watery" or "echoey" tone during the verses and pre-choruses and as a result of which, the pedal has been associated with

1332-461: Was that they'd already sent us a Christmas card!" Later it was also noted that a third song, the Damned 's "Life Goes On", pre-dated both and contained a similar riff to both songs. In 1999, "Come as You Are" was voted in at number 49 in Kerrang! magazine's "100 Greatest Rock Tracks Ever!". As of April 2016, according to Business Insider , "Come as You Are" was the sixth most streamed song from

1369-436: Was too similar to a Killing Joke song but we all thought it was still the better song to go with. And, he was right, Killing Joke later did complain about it." Nirvana biographer Everett True writes that "Come as You Are" was eventually chosen for release as a single because "Goldberg favoured the more obviously commercial song". It was anticipated that the first single from Nevermind , " Smells Like Teen Spirit ", would be

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