Kurt Cobain died twenty years ago this week. A couple years after that, Lorde was born, and last night she was one of four women who replaced Nirvana's late singer as the Seattle band reunited for their Rock Hall of Fame induction.

Cobain's widow Courtney Love made nice with Nirvana, calling Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic "family" and saying, "I just wish that Kurt was here to hear this and feel this and be this. Twenty years ago, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame maybe wasn't… But tonight he really would have appreciated it. And I just want to give this [award] to Francis, our daughter, who's not here because she's ill."

Nirvana was inducted by Cobain's close friend, REM's Michael Stipe, before Grohl grabbed his drums, Novoselic strapped on his bass, late-joining Pat Smear git his guitar and the surviving members played a four-song set of Nirvana songs, possibly for the first time since Kurt's death. Replacing him would have been a monumental task for anyone, but one has to imagine that Cobain would have liked the cast of women that were brought in.

The legendary rock goddess Joan Jett performed "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, another close friend of the band, sang "Aneurysm", St. Vincent tackled "Lithium" and Lorde closed the set with "All Apologies."

Joan Jett joins Nirvana for "Smells Like Teen Spirit"