Nirvana's headline performance at the 1992 Reading Festival has topped an NME poll of the top 40 Nirvana moments, staged to coincide with what would have been Kurt Cobain's 40th birthday. The iconic festival set competed with the band's legendary MTV Unplugged performance and controversial appearances on The Word and Top Of The Pops. Strangely the moment Kurt put the gun in his mouth didn't appear. Oh damn, there I go again, forgetting Nirvana are untouchable.
Anyway, here's the top ten, the full forty is on http://www.nme.com.
1. Reading Festival 1992
2. MTV Unplugged
3. 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
4. Singing the wrong words on 'Top Of The Pops'
5. 'Nevermind' knocking Michael Jackson off the top of the US charts
6. The band's performance on 'The Word'
7. The 'Nevermind' album cover
8. 'Come As You Are'
9. Starting a food fight and getting thrown out of the 'Nevermind' launch party
10. Pretending to be Madonna's representatives and crank calling The Lemonheads