10 Amazing Rock Songs That Got Banned

By the time that Nevermind hit the top of the charts and Nirvana became a household name, Kurt Cobain was getting increasingly apathetic about his place as a celebrity. The life and times of a rich rock star wasn't the life that he had really aimed for, and he was slowly starting to lose patience with people thinking that he was some rock and roll god all the time. So when In Utero came out with a suspicious title at the front, some stores banned it before they even heard the song.

Then again, it's easy to understand why a song titled Rape Me wouldn't go over that smoothly, with a lot of people getting offended and thinking that Kurt was using that word only to shock people. Although there was a certain shock factor that came with it, Kurt was actually using it deliberately, having already written a song about sexual assault the album before on Polly. If anything, this is the kind of sequel, where Kurt lashes out in anger and asks anyone who would even think of doing this to do it to him instead.

Seeing how some fans could never understand what Kurt was saying at the best of times though, the censored version of the song entitled Waif Me worked just as well, only to completely bypass the message that Kurt was trying to spread in the first place. You can try to "think of the children" all you want, but what could have been one of the more scathing cuts against sexual assault ended up becoming just another grunge song about nothing after it went through the radio-approved meat grinder.