"The legend-making machine, one part genuine respect and one part opportunistic consumerism, was in full swing. Incredibly, since April of 1994, Nirvana and Pearl Jam have sold an identical 19 million albums, even though Nirvana has recorded no new material while Pearl Jam has released seven new studio albums, six live albums, and two compilations during that time."
"In marked contrast, Pearl Jam’s second album, Vs., released just one month later, sold 950,378 copies in its first week of release, setting a new record for opening sales and topping the combined sales of the rest of Billboard’s top ten that week (a list which included In Utero). Vs. was certified 5x multi-platinum by the end of 1993, and its record-breaking commercial success further highlighted In Utero’s relative commercial failure."
"In fact, more Nirvana records were purchased between April 1994 & April 1995 (10 million) than had been purchased during Cobain’s entire lifetime (6 million).The title “Spokesman of Generation X,” which had been shelved in the wake of In Utero’s initial failure,was resurrected &printed on tens of thousands of commemorative t-shirts. Courtney Love,Cobain’s widow, spoke to standing ovations across the country, standing in for her husband on the Lollapalooza festival circuit."
"As of March, 1994, Pearl Jam’s records had outsold Nirvana’s 11 million to 6 million, and it was Pearl Jam whose album remained in the top 10 while Nirvana was beginning to look like a one hit wonder. Given the revisionist history spewed by the rock pundits over the last decade and a half it may be hard to believe, but by early 1994 Pearl Jam, not Nirvana, was clearly America’s biggest new rock band."
It's his voice , his guitar , his passion , he came up with the arrangements .. Like who cares if he didn't write it ... He wrote way better songs then that anyway...
@MunisAwesome Cobain played Lithium and In Bloom just as many times as he played Teen Spirit, and never said he hated those songs. Cobain hated Teen Spirit because he did not write the lyrics to it and felt his success was based on a lie. Cobain was given the lyrics in 1986 when he was in Banff , and tried to rewrite the lyrics a couple of times because he could not find the original writer. He should have credited the writer as 'anonymous' but he wanted to be a superstar so he lied .
"An objective assessment of Nirvana’s career became virtually impossible in the aftermath of Cobain’s tragic death in April 1994. Sales of Nirvana’s records were immediately reinvigorated - In Utero went from certified platinum to 4x multi-platinum in the year after Cobain’s suicide, obscuring its initial sales disappointment and making it a bona fide hit. Sales of Nevermind, which had finally slowed, picked up again as well. "
@Strohy88 he didn't steal the lyrics. THe lyrics were given to him with the suggestion that he put the lyrics to a morphed version of the main riff from More than a Feeling. Everyone went gaga over Cobain because they thought he was being so modest about his big hits , not wanting to play them and saying the lyrics were meaningless etc. The reality is that Cobain was being more honest than modest, because he honestly didn't write the lyrics to his two biggest songs and hated them soon after.
"sales of In Utero were sluggish out of the gate. The album was certified platinum in November, but failed to go multi-platinum until after Cobain’s death the following April, a huge disappointment given the hype surrounding the release (and in comparison to the 5 million copies Nevermind had sold to date)."
@TestMeatDollSteak the whole point is that 'In Utero' only went platinum before Cobain's death because it got HUGE PR, based on the success of Nevermind.Cobain could have farted into a bagpipe and recorded it underwater while shitting his pants into a speedo , and the shit would have gotten onto MTV and onto radio.It was a depressing record that stalled once people realized how depressing Courtney Love was, and how correctoid Cobain was and even the tour sputtered.
Kurt clearly wrote all the lyrics and more than 90% of all the music that Nirvana recorded, and there is no good reason to believe otherwise. There are a lot of conspiracy theorists, Cobain-haters and tabloid junkies out there who are willing to believe anything that they read on the internet, so long as it agrees with their preconceptions that Kurt Cobain is somehow unworthy of his status as a gifted songwriter and all around fascinating person. Too bad, haters, you're all sadly mistaken.
@MunisAwesome if he wrote the fucking song, he wouldn't care if people liked it the most. He'd be proud of it, and proud of bringing joy to thousands by playing it live. The real reason he hated those two songs was because he did not write the lyrics to them. Cobain did not write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit or to Come As You Are.
@TheCMKXer An interesting spin you're putting on the sales of In Utero. In Utero went into the charts at number one, and Heart Shaped Box was in heavy rotation on both MTV and commercial radio. It's true that sales of In Utero were eventually dwarfed by Pearl Jam's "Vs", and didn't match up to the sales of "Nevermind", but that hardly makes In Utero a "failure". Sales were further hindered by WalMart & Kmart's refusal to carry the album, & the album singles were not released in the US.
@TheCMKXer the real reason he hated Teen Spirit is because he was given the lyrics to the song when he was in Banff in 1986 & his lie about writing the song became the defining moment of his life.He almost had a breakdown right after performing the song live at Beehive Records, his first U.S. performance of it after it went huge on TV, because he realized the trap he'd put himself in. He was buried under an avalanche of critical acclaim that sickened him to the core because he did not write it.
you can change the settings on the amp to make it sound like other guitars its really simple im not denying that its a telecaster i just think its a mustang
i agree with everyone bellow this comment (except the first part of thridmoonrecordings comment) there was no specific word that goes there and if i recall right FOB & GD have done the same at concerts too.
the reason Cobain hated playing this song was because he didn't write the lyrics to it and Courtney :Love hated it. Cobain played all his other songs just as often, so the bullshit that he was sick of playing it so much is pure B.S. He played Love Buzz more often that he played Teen Spirit and never gave a shoit
@TestMeatDollSteak Cobain didn't write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit or to Come As You Are. The real writer came forward years ago. That's old news.
@pangborn25 Cobain was given the lyrics in 1986. It is fairly new information that hasn't made into the mainstream yet. Look up 'the true story behind the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit' for more information.
it's not courtney's tele..it's a prototype that fender gave to kurt to play around..courtney is right handed while the tele is left..originaly the guitar is without the heart sticker..i think kurt put it himself..
@endlessnamless420 wrong, he hated Smells Like Teen Spirit. He was still playing songs from Bleach and was not tired of them, though they were years older than Smells Like Teen Spririt. The real reason he hated the song Smells Like Teen Spirit was because he did not write the lyrics to it.
@MunisAwesome what do you mean he twists the subjects he brings up? He explained where and when he wrote the lyrics, what they meant, and how he gave them to Cobain.
@endlessnamless420 yes, he did hate the song. He did one grotesque parody of it and refused to play it on several occasions. One time Nirvana intentionally played only the beginning of the song live in front of one of their biggest ever crowds, and then stopped and refused to continue the song, which almost caused a riot. The song was not even very old so dont' give me the bullshit they were sick of playing it.The real reason he hated it was because he did not write the lyrics to it.
@MunisAwesome No, Cobain lied about writing the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit. He was given the lyrics in 1986 when he was in BAnff, along with the lyrics to Come As You Are. Look up 'The true story behind the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit' and read the first twenty pages of the thread. or see this link: topix . com /forum/who/nirvana/TAP8NSTHB7L2O1R6T
@pangborn25 there was not much wrong with the way the article was written. You think Cobain's grammar was better? Cobain did not write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit or to Come As You Are.
@DILLONSHWING no it is not bullshit. Cobain did not write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Stop calling him Kurt as though he is your personal friend. Cobain was given the lyrics in 1986 when the Melvins went to Banff to play a gig at Wild Bill's prior to going to Calgary for a gig at the National Hotel on May 14th.
smells like teen spirit was written by him, he thought it meant something about school, because tobi vails friend wrote kurt smells like teen spirit on his wall in his apartment teen spirit is a deodorant . years later an interviewer asked him why he wrote a song about deodorant, he didnt know, balh
@OzKnosis what gets me is how some people, a dwindling minority, still claim that Cobain was some kind of a genius, but when you ask them what Cobain's crowning glory, the biggest evidence of his 'genius', the song Smells Like Teen Spirit, meant, they don't have a fucking clue. All they know is what they were programmed by MTV to believe like some fucking cult zombie. Cobain genius. Cobain genius. Cobain genius. Its fucking pathetic. Ask them what Smells Like Teen Spirit was about? Answer:dunno
@TheCMKXer Blahblahblah, your subjective opinion only :-/ I bought "In Utero" the day it came out, and loved it far more than I did Nevermind, and plenty of my friends loved In Utero, too. Nirvana made an intentionally mainstream-sounding record w/ Nevermind, and intentionally went w/ a harsher sound w/ "In Utero" Most of the songs that appear on In Utero were written at the same time Kurt wrote the Nevermind stuff, there's not much difference in the songwriting between the two albums.
OMG fark! ... I was nearly killed in the 3rd row when they started playing this song --- thats when I learnt what a mosh pit was really about. lol. *facepalm* Wicked upload. Thankies.
@LukeGriffths121 Cobain was almost illiterate, read his journal. He hated Smells Like Teen Spirit because he had lied about writing the lyrics to it. He was not a genius. He lied about the lyrics to his two most popular songs.
If kurt cobain wouldn't have died imagine how good nirvana would be today(even though they would of probably broke up) how many more hits they could of had today. They could the best band of all time.
@TheCMKXer I'm going with the guy above me. It's the internet and the person who "wrote" that article wasn't even concerned with grammar. It seems, just a little suspect........or bullshit.
@LukeGriffths121 Courtney Love knew how to fake Cobain's hand writing. Cobain was given the lyrics in 1986 and did not use them at first because he wanted to put out his own original album, and also because he could not find the original writer. When he needed good material for Nevermind ,which was his big shot a the bigtime with Geffen, he decided to go ahead and do the songs. That crap in his journal was him trying to REWRITE the lyrics. He was almost illiterate.
@endlessnamless420 look up the search term : 'the true story behind the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit' you will know the real story behind the song and what the lyrics mean
@TheCMKXer Also the fact that your writer has no evidence as well or atleast references. And he twists a lot of the subjects he brings up. And It was made by the whole band. Kurt only had around 33% of the credit. Because Krist and Dave also helped write the song and create the sound for it. I can also confirm that for you if you want. The only thing he did copy was the name, Because a friend he had before Nirvana was made or famous said Smells Like Kurt Spirit.
when i see nirvana live it always seems to me like kurt is talking to the crowd with his lyrics. like his own language in a way. idk to me its amazing
best of them live I've heard so far.
wow. ive never seen kurt with a tele. Those are my all time favorite guitars!
Smells like teen spirit sounds the best with a Fender Telecaster!
kurt and nirvana toured pretty much everywhere, which shows he rocks!
I was there!!!! 13 years old at the time
"The legend-making machine, one part genuine respect and one part opportunistic consumerism, was in full swing. Incredibly, since April of 1994, Nirvana and Pearl Jam have sold an identical 19 million albums, even though Nirvana has recorded no new material while Pearl Jam has released seven new studio albums, six live albums, and two compilations during that time."
awesome! he sang it well!
"In marked contrast, Pearl Jam’s second album, Vs., released just one month later, sold 950,378 copies in its first week of release, setting a new record for opening sales and topping the combined sales of the rest of Billboard’s top ten that week (a list which included In Utero). Vs. was certified 5x multi-platinum by the end of 1993, and its record-breaking commercial success further highlighted In Utero’s relative commercial failure."
krist at his best :D awesome bassplayer
he's playing faster than the album version because he started to hate to have to play this song, but knew it was such a crowd pleaser.
"In fact, more Nirvana records were purchased between April 1994 & April 1995 (10 million) than had been purchased during Cobain’s entire lifetime (6 million).The title “Spokesman of Generation X,” which had been shelved in the wake of In Utero’s initial failure,was resurrected &printed on tens of thousands of commemorative t-shirts. Courtney Love,Cobain’s widow, spoke to standing ovations across the country, standing in for her husband on the Lollapalooza festival circuit."
great great great version of smell......
"As of March, 1994, Pearl Jam’s records had outsold Nirvana’s 11 million to 6 million, and it was Pearl Jam whose album remained in the top 10 while Nirvana was beginning to look like a one hit wonder. Given the revisionist history spewed by the rock pundits over the last decade and a half it may be hard to believe, but by early 1994 Pearl Jam, not Nirvana, was clearly America’s biggest new rock band."
It's his voice , his guitar , his passion , he came up with the arrangements .. Like who cares if he didn't write it ... He wrote way better songs then that anyway...
Unique music, the genie is out of the bottle it appears.
Excelente Video!
Kurt fue, es y seguirá siendo el Mejor!
wow cool man.. You are really lucky.. You actually saw Kurt playing!
nirvana best band ever
that guy walkin by made me crack
notice when you try to look this song up on utube it suggests only "smells like team spirit"
It's the sunburst tele from the Come As You Are video
spray painted blue.
dude its a tele you can see and hear. very distinctive sound.
@MunisAwesome Cobain played Lithium and In Bloom just as many times as he played Teen Spirit, and never said he hated those songs. Cobain hated Teen Spirit because he did not write the lyrics to it and felt his success was based on a lie.
Cobain was given the lyrics in 1986 when he was in Banff , and tried to rewrite the lyrics a couple of times
because he could not find the original writer. He should have credited the writer as 'anonymous' but he wanted to be a superstar so he lied .
bass and guitar too ^^
LOL! the dude who casually just walks across the stage!
i agree
"An objective assessment of Nirvana’s career became virtually impossible in the aftermath of Cobain’s tragic death in April 1994. Sales of Nirvana’s records were immediately reinvigorated - In Utero went from certified platinum to 4x multi-platinum in the year after Cobain’s suicide, obscuring its initial sales disappointment and making it a bona fide hit. Sales of Nevermind, which had finally slowed, picked up again as well. "
yeah Sweet addiction you are for me!
@Strohy88 he didn't steal the lyrics. THe lyrics were given to him with the suggestion that he put the lyrics to a morphed version of the main riff from More than a Feeling.
Everyone went gaga over Cobain because they thought he was being so modest about his big hits , not wanting to play them and saying the lyrics were meaningless etc. The reality is that Cobain was being more honest than modest, because he honestly didn't write the lyrics to his two biggest songs and hated them soon after.
"sales of In Utero were sluggish out of the gate. The album was certified platinum in November, but failed to go multi-platinum until after Cobain’s death the following April, a huge disappointment given the hype surrounding the release (and in comparison to the 5 million copies Nevermind had sold to date)."
@TestMeatDollSteak the whole point is that 'In Utero' only went platinum before Cobain's death because it got HUGE PR, based on the success of Nevermind.Cobain could have farted into a bagpipe and recorded it underwater while shitting his pants into a speedo , and the shit would have gotten onto MTV and onto radio.It was a depressing record that stalled once people realized how depressing Courtney Love was, and how correctoid Cobain was and even the tour sputtered.
Kurt clearly wrote all the lyrics and more than 90% of all the music that Nirvana recorded, and there is no good reason to believe otherwise. There are a lot of conspiracy theorists, Cobain-haters and tabloid junkies out there who are willing to believe anything that they read on the internet, so long as it agrees with their preconceptions that Kurt Cobain is somehow unworthy of his status as a gifted songwriter and all around fascinating person. Too bad, haters, you're all sadly mistaken.
Kurt with his “
@TheCMKXer He did write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen spirit... Along with Krist, and Dave. There is no conspiracy theory surrounding the song...
@MunisAwesome if he wrote the fucking song, he wouldn't care if people liked it the most.
He'd be proud of it, and proud of bringing joy to thousands by playing it live. The real reason
he hated those two songs was because he did not write the lyrics to them. Cobain did
not write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit or to Come As You Are.
@TheCMKXer An interesting spin you're putting on the sales of In Utero. In Utero went into the charts at number one, and Heart Shaped Box was in heavy rotation on both MTV and commercial radio. It's true that sales of In Utero were eventually dwarfed by Pearl Jam's "Vs", and didn't match up to the sales of "Nevermind", but that hardly makes In Utero a "failure". Sales were further hindered by WalMart & Kmart's refusal to carry the album, & the album singles were not released in the US.
@TheCMKXer the real reason he hated Teen Spirit is because he was given the lyrics to the song when he was in Banff in 1986 & his lie about writing the song became the defining moment of his life.He almost had a breakdown right after performing the song live at Beehive Records, his first U.S. performance of it after it went huge on TV, because he realized the trap he'd put himself in. He was buried under an avalanche of critical acclaim that sickened him to the core because he did not write it.
you can change the settings on the amp to make it sound like other guitars its really simple im not denying that its a telecaster i just think its a mustang
ya its a telecaster Courtney carved a heart into it kinda above the pickgard
@endlessnamless420 he was not tired of playing it , it was a brand new song and he hated it because he did not write the lyrics to it.
i agree with everyone bellow this comment (except the first part of thridmoonrecordings comment) there was no specific word that goes there and if i recall right FOB & GD have done the same at concerts too.
I saw a photo of him playing the very same Tele, Maybe it was from this concert.
the reason Cobain hated playing this song was because he didn't write the lyrics to it and Courtney :Love hated it. Cobain played all his other songs just as often, so the bullshit that he was sick of playing it so much is pure B.S. He played Love Buzz more often that he played Teen Spirit and never gave a shoit
@iHateThisShirt It is.
@TestMeatDollSteak Cobain didn't write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit or to Come As You Are. The real writer came forward years ago. That's old news.
@pangborn25 Cobain was given the lyrics in 1986. It is fairly new information that hasn't made into the mainstream yet. Look up 'the true story behind the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit' for more information.
it's not courtney's tele..it's a prototype that fender gave to kurt to play around..courtney is right handed while the tele is left..originaly the guitar is without the heart sticker..i think kurt put it himself..
@bobywade517 they already are.
Kurt with a telecaster wow
@endlessnamless420 wrong, he hated Smells Like Teen Spirit. He was still playing songs from Bleach and was not tired of them, though they were years older than Smells Like Teen Spririt. The real reason he hated the song Smells Like Teen Spirit was because he did not write the lyrics to it.
they look pretty young :P
@MunisAwesome what do you mean he twists the subjects he brings up? He explained where and when he wrote the lyrics, what they meant, and how he gave them to Cobain.
@endlessnamless420 yes, he did hate the song. He did one grotesque parody of it and refused to play it on several occasions. One time Nirvana intentionally played only the beginning of the song live in front of one of their biggest ever crowds, and then stopped and refused to continue the song, which almost caused a riot. The song was not even very old so dont' give me the bullshit they were sick of playing it.The real reason he hated it was because he did not write the lyrics to it.
@MunisAwesome No, Cobain lied about writing the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit. He was given the lyrics in 1986 when he was in BAnff, along with the lyrics to Come As You Are. Look up 'The true story behind the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit' and read the first twenty pages of the thread. or see this link:
topix . com /forum/who/nirvana/TAP8NSTHB7L2O1R6T
he can listen to what every want to ok? note: i grew up on nirvana so i know what im talking about.
during the guitar solo the bass cuts off, it makes a big difference... just listen. (2:48)
his blue tele had a sunburst kind of fade init which is why i think its the mustang cuz the mustangs just one flat color
fuckin perfect!!!!!
@pangborn25 there was not much wrong with the way the article was written. You think Cobain's grammar was better? Cobain did not write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit or to Come As You Are.
@CLOVERFEILD1234 obviously
@DILLONSHWING no it is not bullshit. Cobain did not write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Stop calling him Kurt as though he is your personal friend.
Cobain was given the lyrics in 1986 when the Melvins went to Banff to play a gig at Wild Bill's prior to going to Calgary for a gig at the National Hotel on May 14th.
@OzKnosis actually he just agreed to the rumor he kinda stole the riff but he never stole lyrics
smells like teen spirit was written by him, he thought it meant something about school, because tobi vails friend wrote kurt smells like teen spirit on his wall in his apartment teen spirit is a deodorant . years later an interviewer asked him why he wrote a song about deodorant, he didnt know, balh
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la telecaster es vacana
@OzKnosis what gets me is how some people, a dwindling minority, still claim that Cobain was some kind of a genius, but when you ask them what Cobain's crowning glory, the biggest evidence of his 'genius', the song Smells Like Teen Spirit, meant, they don't have a fucking clue. All they know is what they were programmed by MTV to believe like some fucking cult zombie. Cobain genius. Cobain genius. Cobain genius. Its fucking pathetic. Ask them what Smells Like Teen Spirit was about? Answer:dunno
@TheCMKXer Blahblahblah, your subjective opinion only :-/ I bought "In Utero" the day it came out, and loved it far more than I did Nevermind, and plenty of my friends loved In Utero, too. Nirvana made an intentionally mainstream-sounding record w/ Nevermind, and intentionally went w/ a harsher sound w/ "In Utero" Most of the songs that appear on In Utero were written at the same time Kurt wrote the Nevermind stuff, there's not much difference in the songwriting between the two albums.
is that Kurts tele which is in californication?
@LukeGriffths121 Cobain did not write the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit or to Come As You Are.
OMG fark! ... I was nearly killed in the 3rd row when they started playing this song --- thats when I learnt what a mosh pit was really about. lol.
*facepalm*
Wicked upload. Thankies.
I'm pretty sure thats the Fender Mustang not the Telecaster Cause its the blue one
fucking awsome
@LukeGriffths121 Cobain was almost illiterate, read his journal. He hated Smells Like Teen Spirit because he had lied about writing the lyrics to it. He was not a genius.
He lied about the lyrics to his two most popular songs.
Rare to see Kurt using telecaster
was this urge overkills tele? that kurt borrowed
Sydney*
@TestMeatDollSteak No, Rodney King, we can't all just get along. Differing opinions are bound to result in arguments from time to time.
hey kurt use fender telecaster
@TheCMKXer That's a real cool story, bro.
its so weird hearing this song with a telecaster
I can’t hear the difference
@TheCMKXer Ummm. Yeah he kind of did. Unless your suggesting it was like a Motley Crue cover? 'Cause that would just be delightfully ironic.
If kurt cobain wouldn't have died imagine how good nirvana would be today(even though they would of probably broke up) how many more hits they could of had today. They could the best band of all time.
@TheCMKXer I'm going with the guy above me. It's the internet and the person who "wrote" that article wasn't even concerned with grammar. It seems, just a little suspect........or bullshit.
it's not the wrong words! he has sang this song multiple times using either of this words! there is no specific lyric in this part of the song
nice kurt never really used a telecaster much
i wonder if daniel johns is o the audience:D
@LukeGriffths121 Courtney Love knew how to fake Cobain's hand writing. Cobain was given the lyrics in 1986
and did not use them at first because he wanted to put out his own original album, and also because he could not find the original writer. When he needed good material for Nevermind ,which was his big shot a the bigtime with Geffen, he decided to go ahead and do the songs. That crap in his journal was him trying to REWRITE the lyrics. He was almost illiterate.
Troll vs Troll. Awesome
@OzKnosis Could say that about Axl Rose and not just for the whole stupid between Nirvana and GN'R
ahh the chorus pedal
tele?
a Tele thats rare eh!!!
@endlessnamless420 look up the search term :
'the true story behind the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit'
you will know the real story behind the song and what the
lyrics mean
@TheCMKXer Also the fact that your writer has no evidence as well or atleast references. And he twists a lot of the subjects he brings up. And It was made by the whole band. Kurt only had around 33% of the credit. Because Krist and Dave also helped write the song and create the sound for it. I can also confirm that for you if you want. The only thing he did copy was the name, Because a friend he had before Nirvana was made or famous said Smells Like Kurt Spirit.
@LukeGriffths121 Cobain didn't write the lyrics to Teen Spirit or Come As You ARe. Everyone knows now, get up to speed. THat came out years ago.
Why does Dave's drum fill sound a little bit different?
@TheCMKXer Dude I already told you to move it to the inbox. The character limit is annoying.
okay
haha, well said my friend