The 1991 Nirvana song with a glaring mistake in it: “Kurt came in too early”By the time the 1990s started, the general feeling was that the ’80s had been going on for far too long. A new act needed to come along to wake everybody up, and that band’s name was Nirvana. For all of the album’s explosive moments, though, some of its greatest power came when Nirvana eased off the distortion. While Kurt Cobain was never the most lyrical songwriter, ‘Polly’ was the most story-driven song on the project. Throughout the song, Cobain takes on the role of the aggressor, sticking to an acoustic guitar with only the occasional cymbal hits in the background.