Aero Zepellin

Songwriters: Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic
Album: Incesticide (1992)

This is an awesome Nirvana song and probably a little underrated. And it's also a pretty straightforward song.

What's a season in a right if you can't have anything
What's the reason in a rhyme if a plan means anything
What's the meaning in a crime, it's a fan if anything
Where's the learning in a line, it's a brand, it's a brand

How a culture comes again, it was all here yesterday
And you swear it's not a trend, doesn't matter anyway
There's only here to talk to friends, nothing new is everyday
You could shit upon the stage, they'll be fans

They'll be fans [alt: If you brand] [x3]

[x2]
All the kids will eat it up, if it's packaged properly
Steal a sound and imitate, keep a format equally
Not an ode, just the facts, where our world is nowadays
An idea is what we lack, it doesn't matter anyways

Hey ... [x7]

If you still don't get it, he's trying to say that people today don't make a selection of good and bad, what you give them they will listen, music-wise, or watch, movie-wise, etc. 
More puzzling than the song's meaning is it's title. It's obviously a reference to bands Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin. One source claims Kurt grew up with the sounds of Aerosmith and he himself stated in one interview that he wanted NIRVANA to partly sound like Led Zeppelin and NIRVANA also did a few covers of their songs.


Audio:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgF3W_CQrk
Live:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jesWdHMOMYM

About a Girl

Songwriter: Kurt Cobain
Album: Bleach (1989)

Seeing the title, you'd think the song has a self-explanatory meaning and, while it kinda does, there's more to it than just being 'about a girl'. Kurt Cobain actually wrote this song for his then-girlfriend, Tracy Marander. She was pushing him to write a song about her because he can write songs about anything but her and that's how it was made. But look at the lyrics:

I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend
I don't think you fit this shoe
I do, won't you have a clue

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free

I'm standing in your line
I do hope you have the time
I do pick a number too
I do keep a date with you

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free

I need an easy friend
I do whip her in to land
I do think you fit this shoe
I do won't you have a clue

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
No I can't see you every night
Free
I do
I do
I do
I do

He says he can't see her for free, he means that he's literally paying for the relationship. At the time, she was saying that Kurt should find a better paid job than music and it's said that her greed ruined the relationship.
Kurt thought about not putting the song on the album Bleach because it sounds too pop, but the producer convinced him to. He wrote the song after listening to the Beatles' album Meet the Beatles! a few times.

Audio:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WedEkDQltA
MTV Unplugged official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhcttcXcRYY
Live At Reading - official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YleoyKFfHaY
Live & Loud video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV7JHSlr23g