THIS IS LEGENDARY!!! First Time Reaction to Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
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Gen X'er here, this song and this band changed the landscape of music in the 90's. When this came out it was like a lightning bolt to the industry.
Oh, yes indeed. I served in the RAF when Nevermind came out. First to buy it. Soundtrack for me, of 1991.
The lead singer from one of the most popular 80's hair band said when he heard that song he knew it was the beginning of the end.
Or the nail in the coffin.
The song that sank a thousand bands' careers.
Graduated HS the year this dropped, completely changed music industry, Pearl Jam, AIC, Soundgarden, Faith No More,-- Closed the door on 80s hair metal.
Nirvana unplugged live. Kurt singing where did you sleep last night. Is truly heartbreaking. Rip kurt.
Gives me goosebumps every time.
I played the bootleg CD of this as I drove all the way across the Silk Road. Yeah, ‘twas awesome.
Amazing.
This was THE song/video that introduced most of America to grunge. This song was a force in the Fall of 91. One of the most influential albums in the past 40 years.
The guitar solo actually is longer, it’s edited here. Love your reaction! And I think your intuition about a revolutionary concept is right on! Kurt said he was trying to write the ultimate pop song and had the band Pixies in mind 🙏
This song single-handedly changed the face of music when it came out. It was more than a vibe, it was a whole culture.
Also, this song is responsible for killing off an entire era of music of '80s hair bands and paving the way to the Grunge era. It's a very important song in music history and "Nevermind" is one of the greatest albums of all time.
Nah - it was a reworking of British punk of the 70s mixed with the Cranberries drums beats.
Unfortunately, it did not completely kill them off. Bon Jovi kept making garbage and touring, So did Motley Crue, Poison still tours today.
@@USCFlash why unfortunately? I love Mötley Crüe and poison.
@@TerryTerryTerry The Cranberries didn't come out until 1993. Nirvana's first album was in 1989. What are you even talking about?
Defiantly people where tired of Aqua-Net and how fast you could play a lead guitar riff lead while drinking and chasing woman , Nirvana made it more (I can do that) but with a artistic mind.
The drummer has potential!!
Yeah potential to be in a meh band for 20 years
Yeah, he is also My Hero.
No, just a Pretender
He was okay....
I think I've seen him somewhere
“This song sounds like an anthem.” This song IS the anthem. There is no way to exaggerate how seismic this song’s impact on music and culture was. Nirvana was the tip of the vanguard that disrupted it all.
Breed, Come As You Are, In Bloom, Lithium, Drain You, Something in the Way...there are so many iconic songs from Nirvana.
RIP Kurt
If you want more Nirvana, Heart Shaped Box is another one of their hits. For a live performance, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" from their MTV Unplugged show.
The album version has a longer solo. Be advised Kurt was cryptic with lyrics and they were an afterthought to him, the drummer said they often rehearsed with no singing and they didn’t hear the vocal or melody until the studio recording, and Kurt admitted he wrote them going into the booth at times. The drummer btw went on to lead the popular band Foo Fighters.
When I was a Junior in high school, a friend brought this album in. After class he found a tape deck, popped it in, and pressed play. When that opening guitar riff came out, it was like a veil was lifted from my eyes and a new world of a different, ass-kicking, thoughtful genre of music lay before me. There was life before Nirvana, and life after Nirvana. Less then 3 years later Kurt was gone by his own hand. I remember the moment I found that out too in my college dorm room. I've never stopped listening to all their stuff. It will live forever thanks to people like you still discovering it today. Thanks Stacy!
I was so old when this happened, it never occurs to me that some people might be too young to know it. The world keeps turning.
You were so old? What are you dead now?
I was in high school.
@@WaffleSauze LOL
I’ve given up being shocked about anything anymore. And thank goodness we have reactors to relive some of the marvel of songs we’ve all heard a billion times. Keeps many bands evergreen to me.
When I came home from the hospital after being born, my dad had Pink Floyd cranking in the car. Great start to life. Then it was everything else as I grew up Maiden.. Metallica… Megadeth… Alice In Chains… (so many things I’ve seen you react to years after my first reaction -
so freakin cool) ) Then I was was in high school, in the 90s - I’ll always remember the first time I heard, wait, no, seen seen this song on MTV. It was such a game changer! And I swear I had every single same facial expression that you did when I heard it for the first time! It marks the timeline. It was change.
when i was a lad, me and my bro heard this song AND under the bridge for the first time on the radio and they were played back to back. it was incredible and as mentioned by others, changed the music scene forever.
At 75 I have been lucky to have lived through so many different decades of evolving talent and still have these recordings to go back and relive and appreciate. We are all lucky since we have the big band era, roaring 20s, etc... recordings to enjoy that we were not born yet to witness. We can actually see and hear these amazing artist!!!!!
We love Stacey,
She's contagious,
She's so awesome,
You can't blame us
This song came out the summer I graduated high school. Literally changed music overnight and as far as I'm concerned, officially ushered in the 90's. Good times!!
I was a young teenager when this song came out, it really captures the emotions of teenage angst as well as the attitude of being a teenager ('whatever, nevermind'). That's why the title is so fitting, while the lyrics unapologetically announce the band and what they're about to the world. This song also made Grunge mainstream, the whole Seattle scene of Grunge bands exploded together with Nirvana leading the way and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden right behind.
The perfect introduction song to this amazing band, I hope you check out lots more from them. Their Unplugged live set on MTV is a must at some point.
Kurt's girlfriend (Tobi Vail) and her friend were in a supermarket and saw a spray deodorant called "Teen Spirit". They were joking around about "what does teen spirit smell like?". Tobi wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on the wall in his apartment. Kurt wrote this song after they broke up. He said he wanted to write the "ultimate pop song" about teen rebellion and indifference. He's actually mocking revolutionary ideals and talking about how hard it is to be a teen and the anxiety and fear they experience in things like losing their virginity. The lyrics are intentionally cryptic so the listener can interpret it the way they want. They mean whatever you want them to.
Wow thank you for the back story and for the lyric explanation! That makes a lot of sense to me
@@mckrackin5324 very well said and I will concur with this story
Kathleen Hannah wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on Kurt's wall. Hannah was Tobi's bandmate on Bikini Kill and Kurt's friend.
@ Sounds right. It's been a while. Thanks.
Wow, I remember that deodorant; never connected it with the song.
Now you need to watch "Smells Like Nirvana" from Weird Al Yankovic
Came here to say that.👍
YES!!!
Yes!
YES!! 😀
Agree.
In 1993 I got to see Nirvana in concert. Best concert ever!
So did I, in San Diego
The solo is longer on the album version. It's been shortened for the radio and MTV edit.
This song, and the complete album were unexpected success. Brutal and universal. Of course, Nirvana was one of the possible futures, but not more than Mudhoney. They were even not the band everyone was talking about. We were all reading interviews of Sonic Youth, listened to the Pixies and REM. Dire Straits and UB40 were the bestselling bands.
And one day, on the radio, Teen Spirit... A shock. We listened again. And again. And again. And we loved it. Then came Lithium, and Stay Away. It was talking to us. It was us. Cobain was shouting all he had inside him. And we understood him. Or we thought we did. The rest is History.
Kurt, as he did with all of their music, left the song meanings open to interpretation.
He made that very clear in many interviews.
In Seattle back in the late 80's we used to go clubbing and hear such great bands as Sound Garden, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Alice n Chains and so many more. We thought that 1 or 2 of these bands would make it big and would bet on which one we thought had the best chance. The lead singer of Mother Love bone, Andy Wood died and so the band went out and got Eddie Vedder to lead and changed the band name to Pearl Jam. What other town ever had 4 such unbelievable lead singers like my home town of Seattle did. Those really were great times.
I had never heard of Mother Love Bone until years later one of their songs, This Is Shan-gri-la, was selected for the 2006 EASports NCAA Football video game’s soundtrack. It was one of my favorite songs on the soundtrack. Had to look up the group for more such songs. That whole soundtrack was damn good.
I can never get enough of watching Kurt Cobain prove to people who weren't born yet that he's one of the immortals for a reason
Weird Al Smells like Nirvana has to come next😂🎉
There are a lot of Nirvana songs you need to hear, so here are a few recommendations: "You Know You're Right" (the last song Kurt recorded), "The Man Who Sold the World," "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" (both are from MTV Unplugged), "Heart Shaped Box," "All Apologies," "In Bloom," "Lithium," "Come As You Are," "Sliver," and "Breed."
Well those are the easy ones. (they are great of course)
I always recommend a bit more obscure ones that I love and are pretty amazing.
Love Buzz (live Paradiso in AMsterdam...in fact that whole gig is great and easily seen online)
About a girl (original and unplugged)
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam (original and unplugged)
Aneurysm
Been A Son
Polly
Floyd The Barber
Something in the Way
Lounge Act
School
Dive
Scentless Apprentice
Rape Me
Frances Farmer Will Have
Her Revenge on Seattle
Dumb
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Molly's Lips
Son of a Gun
Plateau
Oh Me
Lake of Fire
Old Age
Do Re Mi
Sappy
Here She Comes Now (acoustic and electric)
I Hate Myself and Want to Die
I lived in Munich back then and I attended the last ever Nirvana concert ever in Munich March 1994
Grunge according to Mudhoney, "You sing about dogs, you sing about being sick, you know five chords but you don't play more then three in any one song." This song actually got a lot of crap from people in the scene due to the similarities to Mudhoney's "Touch Me I'm Sick." Right place, right time, right sound. It changed everything in both pop and rock. As a Gen X'r this is what we point to as the moment when we kind of collectively decided we just watched our futures get sold out from under us, so let's just watch the whole thing burn to the ground.
By far the best thing about the Nirvana video is Weird Al Yankovic's parody of it which Dave grohl later said that's how he knew Nirvana had finally hit the big time when he saw it "Our music's loud, & incoherent. Boy this oughta, bug your parents!" 😂
It’s hard to bargle snargle marmph with all these marbles in my mouf.
@sean---the-other-one Dick Van Patten in a grunge rock video, square peg in a round hole.
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Kurt: yea
Sheep: baaa
I remember the first time I heard this song, I was at work driving around with a co worker and we were like wth is this. We pulled over and just sat in awe. Was so different from what we were used to. Love your reactions.
Nobody compares to Nirvana ...i was there in the day i am 60 years old and saw them in 91 ,,, they got rid of Hair BANDS and Guns and Roses..I went to see them in Hollywood and everyone told me they were a one hit wonder and didnt want to drive up from Long Beach ,,THEE BEST CONCERT I EVER WENT TO ..I was only 26 and will never forget that concert ...Kurt Learned from The Pixies and I dont think your ready for the Pixies your brain is not ready...30 years and the young minds cant do better today unfortunately.
Kurt Cobain (The lead singer) was a Legend to rock world . When he was a teenager , his uncle asked him if he wanted a Bike , or a Guitar , And he picked guitar . Everyday after school he would do nothing but practice . The kid who was going in school . Krist Novoselic , was weird as well as Kurt was , and he asked Krist to form a band , and Nirvana was born . The went tru more than 3 drummers , but at the end they picked Dave Grohl . The relased their first studio album "Bleach" and everyone liked it . He got kicked out of his house after his pare ts were devorced . And song " Something in the way" is a song that describes his lifestyle at the time , he slept under bridges , at friends front porches , couches , sofas ... They soon relased "Nevermind" which took over the world fast , They sould 30 milion copies i think . The storry of song "Smells Like teen spirit " is funny , Kurt and his friends were out drinking , whit spray paint of course . And his friend painted "Kurt smells like teen spirit " which is a deotoraint . Kurt soon found Kourtney Love , and after some time , they wrestled . And they had a baby . Francis Bean Cobain . Their last studio album is "In outero " . Kurt had soo much respect for women , he stoped SA so many times , never Se*ually insulted women , He was Left handed , He had Adhd , Sadly he suffered from drug addiction and deppresion , and he commited suicide by Shotgun , On April 5 1994 . Which was the end of Nirvana . He was a Legend . 1967-1994🕊️♥️
When this came out everybody felt the same way you did. It was so unique that it changed musical history. It opened the door for older blues rock bands that got put on the shelf by the hair bands to return. The Greg Allman from the Allman Brothers have directly said Nirvana saved their careers.
This is a song, the grunge's version of a "anti song" such as the movie "Gladiator" where Marcus says"Are you not entertained?" The music changed a culture, telling the music industry to piss off.
I have a vivid memory of the first time I saw this music video. John Norris was VJing (he normally did the news on MTV). He said they got a bunch of complaints that no one could understand the words. So MTV superimposed sub titles on the video. I was 12 at the time. As the song started to play I didn't know what it was, I just knew it was for me. It still resonates the same way with me all these years later.
Gen Xer here (circa 1977), and this was my youth-back when we were forced to learn how to entertain ourselves. Which, tragically enough, wasn't always with the most positive of outcomes. We certainly had fun in the seemingly short time that it lasted, though. 🤘🏼♥️♾️
RIP to my two favorite musicians from that era:
Kurt D. Cobain (Nirvana)
2/20/67-4/5/94
Layne T. Staley (AIC)
8/22/67-4/5/02
I was 17 when this song was released and it had an impact on my psyche.
I still remember when this song and video came out back in 1991...it changed everything, truly. We had never heard or seen anything like it before. Those few years up until Kurt's tragic death, Nirvana ruled music. It's a shame, it's a bygone era that we will never get back, but their legacy endures.
So happy to hear this song ❤️
Early 90's I lived in Hsinchu, Taiwan and we played this song constantly at Barfly II as the night wound down...
Sooo many good memories 😆🥲❤️🔥
If we could see the stats for number of worldwide radio plays for every song ever, I'd be willing to bet that this one would be way up towards the top!
Nirvana's drummer is Dave Grohl, founder of the Foo Fighters. greetings from Argentina
Great reaction. You say how it "looks so 90's" - this video defined that aesthetic. There had been a lot of great bands bubbling up in Seattle in the late 80's (Soundgarden, AIC, Green River/Mother Love Bone), but it was this song that broke the whole scene WIDE open. Everything changed after that.
YOU GOT IT! This is the exact response I had also when I heard them the first time. Bravo!
lol Kurt and Nirvana on tour, with a band called Calamity Jane. I know the singer of Calamity Jane, Gilly is a hairdresser in PDX. I live there and used to get my hair did there. In the early 90’s in South America gigs they threw rocks at Calamity Jane like Serious Sexist fans “girls can’t rock” and Courney told her to get out there and play but she didn’t wanna get hurt. Kurt Dave and Krist played liek three songs a fake jam on a mini drum kit and said “No Teen Spirit Tonite!”
Nirvana was exactly what we need in the 90s. A lot a people will recommend songs of the Mtv.unplugged. My suggestion is that you listen more album songs and some live before, so you will understand wy the Nirvana's unplugged was the best of all. Song recommend.. "school" "aneurisms" "in bloom" "come as you are" "lithium" "territorial peesing" heart shaped box" "drain you"; "lounge act" "serve the servant" ufff so much more.. the do the unplugged
Stacey is absolutely stunning her smile is the highlight of my day thank you for the reaction ❤
One of the most intense songs ive ever heard. Remarkable. You cant help but pay attention to it.
"It's your crossword puzzle, you tell me what the lyrics mean to you?" Kurt was a riddle, wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery. Kurt's girlfriend said he "Smelled like Teen Spirit" meaning her deodorant, but he didn't know that. I cannot wait for you to take this journey and witness Unplugged finally.
Nirvana Unplugged: Where Did You Sleep Last Night.
That whole Unplugged session was iconic
Fantastic performance!
this can't be recommended more, it's such an incredible performance. The 90's MTV Unplugged era is unmatched. SOOO many great sets back then.
This song came along at a time when I was beginning to sour on rock music. I still remember the first time I heard it. I was reading with MTV on in the background. I heard that bare guitar at the start and thought, "This is different", so I started to pay attention. When Dave Grohl came in on the drums I knew that rock wasn't dead after all.
When I heard it for the first time new, his voice absolutely drew me in. That's just how it felt to most of us back then. Kurt is missed.
Your reaction is priceless. Don't be surprised you are blown away by this it's probably in the top 10 rock tracks of all time. Although short lived Nirvana are one of the best rock groups ever and this is their pin up track. For me its a little heavy to listen to regularly. "Come as you are" is their best track in my opinion. The MTV unplugged version is probably the one to listen to.
First time my friends and I heard Nirvana was on college radio, KXLU in LA. It was a song off Bleach, might have been Floyd the Barber or Blew, can't remember, but that led us to go see them play at Jabberjaw tiny little all ages coffee house in a shitty part of LA. and that was our first time hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit. Our world changed in that very moment.
Gawd, this brings back a lot of memories of my time in Seattle in the 90's. Whenever a reactor chooses grunge music, I get a flood of memories of the concerts and parties I was a part of back in those days. Granted, some of those memories are a bit foggy (not just by time) but it does my heart good to remember them. Nirvana was just a local band when I was first exposed to them and certainly didn't expect their rise to fame. I love your reaction, Stacey! Now, more than 30 years later, I am so pleased to see younger folks find this music and enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you for giving this old grizzled fossil a bit of joy! Blessings!
oh, you're absolute cuteness
Stacy, many grunge bands considered the great NEIL YOUNG to be the "godfather of grunge".
Neil Young began his career in the 1960's and had two halves to his music - an acoustic guitar country rock sound with some tender ballads that he wrote, and a hard rock sound when he played his electric guitar like a force of nature.
By the time grunge began in the 1990's, Neil was a legendary singer / songwriter and an incredible guitarist. Pearl Jam especially revered Neil Young and even was his backing band on his album, "Mirror Ball".
After Nirvana's Kurt Cobain's tragic death, Neil wrote a song about him called "Sleeps with Angels".
Here's the link to Neil Young and his backing band, Crazy Horse taking the stage with his song, "HEY, HEY, MY, MY", which was originally recorded in 1979, long before grunge began.
It ROCKS.
ruclips.net/video/w_hoW6qmeOo/видео.htmlsi=DOp991G0d8nwB95N
Stacy.. you are just .. in a word.. Breathtaking! I LOVE that huge smile, combined with your Head Banging, and that awesome Giggle! I love you had the lyrics. We had NO CLUE what Kurt was saying, when this came out!! We just BLASTED the sound. Your love for Heavy Metal, or "Rock Music” is awe inspiring. Never be afraid to show those beautiful emotions. Being Unique, is your gift to us. So THANK YOU!! #Giggles🌹🎸🌹🙏🙏
Had the surprise to have seen them when they where stuill an underground band doing club shows around Europe, they did two shows in The Netherlands, no more then 400 people in the audience, year later this came out... holy moly !!!
Grok says - Kurt Cobain mentioned that Nirvana's song **"Smells Like Teen Spirit"** was an attempt to write a song in the style of the Pixies. He admired the Pixies' dynamic shifts between quiet verses and loud choruses, which he emulated in "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
The first time I heard it when it was released I thought it was The Pixies
@@djpeternice wouldn’t it be cool if the Pixies put their own spin of this song - that would be epic! Shame Kim’s influence would be missing tho
I think that the appeal from Nirvana, is to watch them live, to see the feeling Kurt gave to all with his energy, that's what grunge is!
I can tell you Stacey the Grunge Era was some of the best music performed with heart and soul that you could feel. I moved to Chicago's Lincoln Park area near Wrigley Field back in 1990 and could see the transition from heavy Punk Rock and New Wave then to Grunge. We had The Aragon Theater and The Metro as well as small clubs. I saw Eddie Vetter perform a solo show for 15 people a few years before forming Peal Jam you could tell he was special. I wandered into the Metro and saw a New band called Nirvana which was a rough basement club similar to CBGB that fit a hundred people or so. I am telling you Curt Cobain was amazing - he liked meeting people between sets he was a small funny and bit shy totally artisticly wierd. We were there the night the Band Hole played with the Lead Singer Courtney Love. I understand that's where they met and then had that epic Rock and Roll Romance. Did you know Dave Grohl was Nirvana's drummer who went on to form the Foo Fighters which I love. We saw countless others Counting Crows, Third Eye Blind, and Matchbox 20 this was an awesome era. The clubs were so active nobody stayed home and it was a total vibe. As you know the real center of Grunge was Seattle which was just putting out new bands every week - Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and so many. They all used minimal instruments and basic effects pedals to create that signature sound.
idk, maybe I"m too old, but I sing every song you react to. Maybe, I was borned around good music, and thanks for that. And thanks for all of your reactions, Stacey.
Excellent as always, I am delighted that you discovered this group which became in the space of a few titles and months a real social phenomenon at the time. Nirvana and its singer Kurt Kobain had become the idol of an entire generation. And you're really, really close to the truth when you say it was an anthem for teenagers. 🤘Grunge is not dead
Having lived, learned, and loved through the 90’s I can tell you when the grunge era hit, it was glorious. Great reaction and review 👊🏻
The drummer, David Grohl, became the lead singer of Foo Fighters!!!!
You can like or dislike Nirvana or Grunge as a whole but you can’t deny the impact this song had when it first came out
Last of GenX here. I was in Junior High when this came out. NOTHING in music since has topped this moment - it changed everything
Still loving your reactions! I know you’re loving the grunge movement, and that you dig on Pearl Jam-I recommend checking out Mother Love Bone. They were essentially what Pearl Jam became-or, more accurately, you could say there would not have been Pearl Jam if Andrew Wood hadn’t died…either way, I think you’d love them…they’ll never get enough love. Keep it up Stacy-you’re the best! ❤😊
I'm just baffled on HOW you've not heard this before...??? 😮
It's like saying you've never heard of Coca Cola, Star Wars
or chocolate???? They were like the biggest band in the world
at one point. I mean, even if you don't listen to the music style
or if it was before your time, you can still know...? Can't you?
Anyhuu, glad you've found them!!!!
It's really fun watching you find new artists. Keep it up!
Be safe
Nirvana was the first gig I ever went to when I was 13. The venue was a tiny church in Norwick UK.
This was in early '91 just before they released Nevermind and became famous.
I believe you but I think you are messing up your dates a bit, I assume you are talking about the gig at The Waterfront in Norwich?
That was on October 29, 1990 - about 11 months before the release of Nevermind. Also it is very cool to think that was Dave Grohl's third week in the band!
ALso funny is Kurt had short hair and was wearing an infamous black tee shirt from the All female band L7, with the name of their album "Smell the Magic" on it....which has a gal standing up, and you see a dude under her (back of his head) in her....crotchal region. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There are a couple of pics floating around on teh net of thaxt show, one with a decent crowd shot, so maybe you can see your younger self there! 👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
Why can I see Stacey in an Air Band as the lead, and killin' it as well. Never the less, you are so entertaining to watch when you react to a song.
OMG. Your face!! Your eyes are wide and beautiful. You look totally invested in this song. You’re a dance diva, it oozes from your face and body. It’s getting more obvious as the song goes on! I’m guessing this is on your playlist???? Amazing Stacey!! 😵💫
That singer has potential. Bet he's famous in a few years.
I can't believe you've never heard it before. It's such a well-known song that it seems impossible not to know it 👀
VH1 had a show called Classic Albums, and they did an episode on Nevermind which is the album this track was on. They were interviewing an 80s hair metal band (I don't remember which one) who said after this song debuted on MTV they all looked at each other and said "What the F**K are we going do now??" :D
Fun fact: the producers of the video didn’t think the original girls brought into be cheerleaders, looked “slutty” enough so, they sent out members of their crew to recruit girls from the local strip clubs.
Funny that Stacy looks like my wife from the early 90s and loves grunge music. My wife would go to grunge concerts in abandoned Seattle warehouses where a lot of these bands started. Would Stacey do something crazy like that? 😊❤ My adorable wife loved those days.
Legends say Dave Grohl was so high when they made this music video he transcended to a higher plane of existence and became one with several universes before he came down from his trip.
What a Song! Stunning! Ciao Stacey, be blessed....
So Sad about Kurt….. Still can’t believe his death and the way he died!!!!!!! So Sad and yet it still happens …. We need more ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ people love and keep in contact with your friends!!!
I was 16 when this song dropped… it was a HUGE hit all around the world … it was Gen X’s break out similar yo when the beatles played Ed Sullivan … what younger generations can’t understand is how big the impact of this song was… this song was loved by all races in many countries … i really can’t convey . It is great to see younger generations discovering Nirvana … you shoukd also check out Foo Fighters the band stared by Dave Grohl the drummer
For me, the best American band ever, who made it in UK before the US. Kurt's vocals are just bloody awesome 👍
while not the first Grunge band ever heard " I knew of Alice In Chains and Soundgarden a year before Nirvana" but this song was the unofficial anthem of the 90's Seattle Grunge scene. After Kurt Cobaine's "vocalist" death in 94 the band disbanded . Dave Grohl the drummer is now guitar player and vocalist for Foo Fighters
The whole album is timeless. I never get sick of listening to it.
This is such an iconic song. It symbolizes the whole era of grunge music. It came out at the height of MTV so people of all musical tastes knew it. Come as You Are should be next.
I grew up to their songs. They're a way of life to me, not just a band. Memories that are carved for eternity on my life timeline listening to them with friends, with my late girlfriend - God rest her soul - my relatives, on my own, for thousands of times. I used to listen to them when I was a kid in Dubai, purchased their records from a friend of mine who worked for a CD and records store in Dubai, where most of their albums were prohibited because it contained explicit material, getting them for me from abroad, hiding the CDs in other boxes and the original Nirvana box hidden in a bag, lol, it was an adventure. When we first arrived in Egypt in 1998, there was a trend, people would make best hits albums for any band and put it on tape, cassette, my mom bought me one of those on my birthday, I played it for hours on my Walkman, while smoking Marlboro reds, like there was no tomorrow. A friend of mine introduced me more to them and the Foo Fighters, he was one ofy best friends, an Egyptian - American, who sadly died in Syria, went as a freedom fighter to fight off the oppressive regime in Syria. Long story short, one of the best and smartest bands ever, they changed the face of hard rock forever.
You will LOVE the unplugged of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night.”
You should totally check out the Foo Fighters! The drunmmer from Nirvana, Dave Grohl, created this band with other members of Nirvana after Kirk Cobain, Nirvana's lead singer, passed away. Some songs you add to your list are : "Everlong", "Learn to Fly", "My Hero" , " The Pretender" etc....!!
We had some crazy parties in the nineties with my buddies on this music! Great times!
It's great that you Martians are finally getting to hear some Earth music.❤️
One reason the intro might have sounded familiar is the riff bears a bit of similarity to Boston's More Than a Feeling, which I know you love! In fact, Nirvana had fun with the comparison and once did a live mashup of the two songs.
I promise you want to immediately do Weird Al Yankovic's "Smells Like Nirvana" now. It's the perfect complement.
The gargling is my favourite part
My first week of college - EVERYBODY was talking about this new band Nirvana. We needed them. Hard rock had gotten so corny in the early 90s (glam metal). Grunge brought it back.
And then, a little over four months later, Tori Amos released her piano cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on her Little Earthquakes EP. The lyrics are the same, but man oh man does Tori's cover hit different and hit HARD.
Nirvana was transformational. Check out “Day’s of the New” and “Stabbing Westward”. 90’s music was great.
I always though that the last lyrics "A denial" sounded like "Run and die young" and the fact that he did I can't stop earring that even more 🥲Amazing song ! I Love Nirvana 😎
Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of this song titled Smells like Nirvana. When you did a mainstream song that has a matching pair everyone should mention the Weird Al version.
Now you need to react to Weird Al’s Smells Like Nirvana while this video is fresh in your mind.
Thank you for react to this banger, Stacey! Love it!