The fourth track on Nirvana’s debut album Bleach, “School” masterfully infuses simplistic yet all-telling and somewhat indulgent lyrics and a hard hitting riff with an unmistakable intro, one that has become a staple of fans' memories throughout the years.

Cobain himself described the song as representing the Seattle grunge scene parallel to the cliques and ‘featured’ groups at high school. Towards the end of the band’s 1989 Europe tour, he was noted as having to “look out in the audience and all he could see were the kind of people who used to beat him up at school”, which progressively lead to future tracks directed towards this fanbase, the most notable being “In Bloom” on Nevermind.

It was often requested at concerts throughout the band’s entire inception life, and included on home video releases such Live at the Paramount, Live at Reading, and (more recently) Live and Loud, in addition to the twentieth anniversary reissue of Bleach, orchestrated by Geffen, that included the Pine Street Theater live version.