# About a Girl guitar solo > Kurt Cobain's guitar solo on About a Girl by Nirvana (1989) starts at about 1:53. From the album Bleach. Ranked #515 of all time across 80 lists. Canonical URL: Nirvana, 1989, from *Bleach*. Solo by *Kurt Cobain*. A Beatles-influenced pop song whose tidy, melodic break showed Cobain's songcraft early on. About a Girl by Nirvana is ranked #515 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Kurt Cobain and the song was released in 1989. ## In our lists - [The Best Nirvana Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/nirvana-guitar-solos/) — #11 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1989](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1989/) — #10 - [15 Easy Guitar Solos to Learn First (Easiest to Hardest)](https://greatestsolos.com/list/easy-guitar-solos/) — #5 ## Sources - [Musician Tuts: The 51 Best Guitar Solos Of All Time](https://musiciantuts.com/best-guitar-solos/) ### Who played the guitar solo on About a Girl? Kurt Cobain played the solo on Nirvana's About a Girl (1989). ### Where does About a Girl rank among the greatest guitar solos? #515 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)