“Smells Like Teen Spirit” is a song by American rock band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band’s second album, Nevermind. The song garnered widespread critical acclaim, including topping the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics’ poll. In 2017, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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“Smells Like Teen Spirit” is a song by American rock band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band’s second album, Nevermind. The song garnered widespread critical acclaim, including topping the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics’ poll. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song ninth on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2017, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The music video for the song is based on the concept of a school concert which ends in anarchy and riot, inspired by Jonathan Kaplan’s 1979 film Over the Edge and the Ramones’ film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. It won two MTV Video Music Awards, which was in heavy rotation on music television. In subsequent years Amy Finnerty, formerly of MTV’s programming department, claimed the video \”changed the entire look of MTV\” by giving the channel \”a whole new generation to sell to. In 2000 the Guinness World Records named \”Smells like Teen Spirit\” the most played video on MTV Europe. In 2001, The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it at number 80 on their Songs of the Century list. In 2002, NME ranked it the number two on their list of the \”100 Greatest Singles of All time\”, while Kerrang! ranked it number one on itsList of the 100 greatest songs of all time. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain said that he was trying to write a song in the style of the Pixies, a band he greatly admired.
Cobain came up with the song’s title when his friend Kathleen Hanna, the lead singer of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill, wrote \”Kurt smells likeTeen Spirit\” on his wall. He said he was unaware of the deodorant until months after the single was released, and had interpreted it as a revolutionary slogan, as they had been discussing anarchism and punk rock. The band recorded the basic track in three takes and used the second take to create the chorus. It was, along with \”Come as You Are, one of several songs written following Nirvana’s first recording sessions with producer Butch Vig in 1990. The group recorded the song in May 1991 at Sound City recording studio in California, and it is only the only song on Nevermind to credit all three band members as writers. In the years since Cobain’s death, listeners and critics have continued to praise the song as one of the greatest Songs of all Time. For more information on how to get your hands on a copy of Nevermind, go to: http://www.dGC Records.com/nirvana/nevermind/Nevermind-songs/smells-like-teensy-spirit.html. For the full version of the song, visit www.soundcity.co.uk/. For more details on the track, visit http:// www.npr.org/n/never-mind/songs.
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