10 Weirdest Rock Songs By Legendary Artists

10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter - Nirvana

In a post Nevermind world, Nirvana could have released anything that they wanted to and it would have sold like gangbusters. Since Kurt Cobain singlehandedly changed the rock community overnight, all eyes were on him to see what new direction that the grunge bandwagon was going to take next. It was time to see what you could get away with, and Nirvana tested that theory many times on In Utero.

As much as song snippets like Very Ape or tourette's could be seen as Nirvana's weirdest song, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter is where things really start to go off the rails. From a raw sonic standpoint, never has a song title not matched up to its actual sound, as Kurt makes caustic noise on his guitar before going into a proto metal style riff through most of the verses. Once things mellow out though, Kurt is just getting started, stringing together lyrics that paint a sad picture of just how much he was hurting after the band's rapid success.

Compared to the hints of beauty on the rest of the record, this almost feels like the band are halfway to making a good Nirvana track with elements of torture sprinkled into the mix as well. Kurt could still write hit songs, but this was probably a more accurate depiction of what was going on behind the scenes. Underneath all of those platinum records, things were slowly starting to fall apart.