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1991 single by Nirvana

"Smells Similar Teen Spirit"
A blurred photo of the band with a thick border that has a background of water and the band's logo in large font above and the song title smaller below
Single past Nirvana
from the album Nevermind
B-side
  • "Bleed Y'all" (Great britain simply)
  • "Even in His Youth"
  • "Aneurysm"
Released September 10, 1991 (1991-09-10)
Recorded May 1991
Studio Audio City, Van Nuys, California
Genre
  • Grunge
  • alternative rock
  • difficult rock
Length
  • v:01 (album version)
  • iv:38 (single version)
Label DGC
Songwriter(southward)
  • Kurt Cobain
  • Krist Novoselic
  • Dave Grohl
Producer(south) Butch Vig
Craig Montgomery (mentioned)
Nirvana singles chronology
"Here She Comes Now / Venus in Furs"
(1991) 		"Smells Similar Teen Spirit"
(1991) 		"On a Plain"
(1991)
Nevermind track listing

13 tracks

  1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
  2. "In Blossom"
  3. "Come up every bit You Are"
  4. "Brood"
  5. "Lithium"
  6. "Polly"
  7. "Territorial Pissings"
  8. "Drain You"
  9. "Lounge Act"
  10. "Stay Away"
  11. "On a Manifestly"
  12. "Something in the Mode"
  13. "Endless, Nameless"
Alternative embrace
A blurred photo of the band with their logo superimposed and the song's title in script

US CD single
Music video
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" on YouTube

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song past American rock band Nirvana. Information technology is the opening track and lead single from the ring's second album, Nevermind (1991), released on DGC Records. The unexpected success of the vocal propelled Nevermind to the top of several albums charts at the start of 1992, an event oftentimes marked as the point when grunge entered the mainstream.[1]

"Smells Similar Teen Spirit" was Nirvana's biggest hit in virtually countries, charting high on music industry charts effectually the world in 1991 and 1992, including topping the charts of Kingdom of belgium, France, New Zealand and Espana. The song garnered widespread critical acclaim, including topping the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll. The vocal was dubbed an "anthem for blah kids" of Generation X, merely Nirvana grew uncomfortable with the attention it brought them. In the years since Kurt Cobain'due south death, listeners and critics have continued to praise "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" every bit one of the greatest songs of all fourth dimension.

The music video for the song is based on the concept of a loftier school pep rally which ends in chaos and riot, inspired by Jonathan Kaplan's 1979 film Over the Edge and the Ramones' film Rock 'n' Curlicue High School. Information technology won two MTV Video Music Awards, and was in heavy rotation on music television. In subsequent years Amy Finnerty, formerly of MTV's programming department, claimed the video "changed the unabridged look of MTV" past 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.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was included in the Rock and Scroll Hall of Fame's list of The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2001, the Recording Industry Clan of America (RIAA) ranked the vocal at number 80 on their Songs of the Century list. In 2002, NME ranked the vocal the number two on its list of "100 Greatest Singles of All Fourth dimension", while Kerrang! ranked it at number one on its listing of the "100 Greatest Singles of All Fourth dimension".[two] In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" fifth on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[3] In 2017, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Writing [edit]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was one of several songs written following Nirvana'southward starting time recording sessions with producer Butch Vig in 1990. Vocaliser and guitarist Kurt Cobain began writing it a few weeks before recording their second album, Nevermind, in 1991.[4] He said it was an attempt to write a vocal in the style of the Pixies, a band he admired:

I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to acknowledge it. When I heard the Pixies for the first fourth dimension, I connected with that ring and then heavily that I should have been in that band—or at least a Pixies comprehend band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and tranquillity and then loud and difficult.[five]

When Cobain presented the vocal to his bandmates, it comprised just the primary guitar riff and the chorus song melody.[half dozen] Cobain said the riff was "clichéd", similar to a riff by Boston or the Richard Berry vocal "Louie Louie".[5] Bassist Krist Novoselic dismissed it as "ridiculous"; in response, Cobain made the band play it for an hour and a half.[five] Somewhen, Novoselic began playing it more slowly, inspiring drummer Dave Grohl to create the pulsate crush,[viii] which drew from disco artists similar The Gap Band.[nine] Equally a result, it is the only song on Nevermind to credit all three band members every bit writers.[10]

The title derives from a phrase written on Cobain'southward wall by his friend Kathleen Hanna, singer of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill: "Kurt smells similar Teen Spirit."[xi] [12] Hanna meant that Cobain smelled like the deodorant Teen Spirit, which she and Tobi Vail, his then-girlfriend, had discovered during a trip to the grocery store.[xiii] Cobain said he was unaware of the deodorant until months after the single was released, and had interpreted information technology every bit a revolutionary slogan, every bit they had been discussing riot and punk stone.[fourteen]

Recording [edit]

Prior to the album recording, the band sent Vig demos for songs including "Teen Spirit". While the sound was distorted due to the ring playing at a volume, Vig felt it had promise.[15] Vig and the band recorded "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, in May1991.[16] Vig suggested changes to the system, including moving a guitar advert lib to the chorus and shortening the chorus.[17] The band recorded the basic rail in three takes, and used the second take. Vig corrected some timing errors created by Cobain switching between his guitar effects pedals. Cobain recorded but 3 vocal takes; according to Vig, "I was lucky to ever get Kurt to exercise four takes."[18]

Composition [edit]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a grunge,[19] alternative rock,[twenty] and hard rock song.[21] It was recorded in the original key of F minor and follows a Fm-B ♭ m–A ♭ –D ♭ chord progression,[22] with the master guitar riff constructed from iv power chords played in a syncopated sixteenth note strum past Cobain.[23] The guitar chords were double tracked to create a "more powerful" sound.[24] The chords occasionally lapse into suspended chord voicings as a issue of Cobain playing the lesser four strings of the guitar for the thickness of sound.[23] The riff resembles that of Boston's 1976 hitting "More a Feeling",[6] though it is non identical.[22] Cobain said: "'Teen Spirit' was such a clichéd riff. It was and so close to a Boston riff or the Kingsmen's 'Louie, Louie'."[v] During the verses, Cobain used a Small Clone event pedal to add together a chorus event.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" uses a "somewhat conventional formal structure" consisting of four-, eight-, and twelve-bar sections, including an viii-bar poetry, an eight-bar pre-chorus, and a twelve-bar chorus.[25] Musicologist Graeme Downes, who led the band the Verlaines, says that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" illustrates developing variation.[26] Elements of the structure are marked with shifts in volume and dynamics, moving from quiet to loud several times. This construction of "quiet verses with wobbly, chorused guitar, followed by large, loud hardcore-inspired choruses" became an culling rock template.[27]

During the verses, the ring maintains the same chord progression as the chorus. Cobain plays a two-annotation guitar line over Novoselic's root-note 8th note bassline, which outlines the chord progression. Approaching the chorus, Cobain begins to play the same 2 notes on every beat of the measure and repeats the word "Hello".[22] Following the outset and 2d choruses, Cobain simultaneously sings the give-and-take "Yay" and performs a unison curve on his guitar.[28] After the second chorus, Cobain plays a 16-bar guitar solo restating his vocal melody from the verse and pre-chorus.[25] During the closing refrain, Cobain sings "A denial" repeatedly; his voice becomes strained from the force of yelling.[24]

Release and reception [edit]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was released to radio on Baronial 27, 1991. On September ten, it was released equally the atomic number 82 single from Nevermind, Nirvana's major label debut on DGC Records. The vocal did non initially chart, and it sold well only in regions of the United States with an established Nirvana fanbase.[29]

The single was intended to be a base-building alternative rock cutting from the album, and was not expected to exist a hit; the follow-up "Come as You Are" was planned as the single that could cross over to mainstream radio formats. However, campus and modern rock radio stations placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on heavy rotation. Danny Goldberg of Nirvana'due south direction firm Gold Mountain said: "None of us heard it as a crossover song, simply the public heard it and it was instantaneous ... They heard information technology on culling radio, and and so they rushed out similar lemmings to buy it."[30]

The video received its world premiere on MTV's tardily-night culling rock program 120 Minutes and proved so pop that the aqueduct began to air it during its regular daytime rotation.[31] MTV added the video to its "Buzz Bin" selection in October, where information technology stayed until mid-December. Past the end of the year, the song, music video, and the Nevermind album had become hits. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Nevermind became a rare cross-format miracle, reaching all the major stone radio formats including modern rock, hard rock, album rock, and college radio.[32]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was besides a critical and commercial success. It topped the 1991 Hamlet Phonation "Pazz & Jop" and Melody Maker year-end polls and reached number two on Rolling Stone's list of best singles of the year. The single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart the same week that Nevermind reached number 1 on the albums chart.[33] "Teen Spirit" hit number 1 on the Modern Stone Tracks chart and has been certified platinum (imillion copies shipped) by the Recording Manufacture Clan of America.[34] However, many American Elevation 40 stations were reluctant to play the song in regular rotation and restricted information technology to dark-time play.[35]

The single was also successful in other countries. In the United Kingdom, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" reached number vii and charted for 184 weeks.[36] The song was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Hard Rock Operation with Song and Best Rock Song.[37] Entertainment Weekly would afterwards name Nirvana'due south loss to Eric Clapton in the Best Stone Vocal category equally ane of the 10 biggest upsets in Grammy history.[38] Exterior the United states, the vocal topped the charts of Kingdom of belgium, France, New Zealand, and Kingdom of spain. It charted inside the top five of several European countries and reached number five in Australia. Information technology appeared on several year-end charts, including number ten in New Zealand, number 17 in Belgium and Deutschland, and number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 Yr-Stop Nautical chart.[39]

In the wake of Nirvana'southward success, Michael Azerrad wrote in a 1992 Rolling Stone article: "'Smells Similar Teen Spirit' is an anthem for (or is information technology against?) the 'Why Ask Why?' generation. Just don't call Cobain a spokesman for a generation."[twoscore] Nevertheless, the music press awarded the vocal an "canticle-of-a-generation" status, placing Cobain as a reluctant spokesman for Generation X.[41] The New York Times wrote that "'Smells Like Teen Spirit' could exist this generation's version of the Sex Pistols' 1976 unmarried, 'Anarchy in the U.Chiliad.', if it weren't for the bitter irony that pervades its title ... as Nirvana knows only too well, teen spirit is routinely bottled, shrink-wrapped and sold".[42]

Nirvana grew uncomfortable with the song's success and, in later on concerts, ofttimes excluded it from the set list.[43] Prior to the release of the ring's 1993 follow-up anthology In Utero, Novoselic remarked, "If information technology wasn't for 'Teen Spirit' I don't know how Nevermind would have done ... There are no 'Teen Spirits' on In Utero."[44] Cobain said in 1994, "I still like playing 'Teen Spirit', but it's almost an embarrassment to play it ... Anybody has focused on that song and so much."[5]

Legacy [edit]

Dubbed an "canticle for apathetic kids" of Generation X,[45] [46] in the years following Cobain's 1994 suicide and Nirvana'southward breakup "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has continued to garner critical acclamation, and is often listed as one of the greatest songs of all time. Information technology was inducted into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame'southward list of "The Songs That Shaped Rock and Ringlet" in 1997.[47] In 2000, VH1 rated the song at number forty-i on its "100 Greatest Rock Songs" list,[48] while MTV and Rolling Rock ranked it third on their articulation list of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs".[49] The Recording Industry Association of America placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number eighty on their 2001 "Songs of the Century" list.[fifty] In 2002, NME awarded the song the number two spot on its listing of "100 Greatest Singles of All Time",[51] with Kerrang! ranking it at number 1 on its own list of the "100 Greatest Singles of All Time".[ii] VH1 placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number one on its listing of "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years" in 2003,[52] while that same twelvemonth, the vocal came third in a Q poll of the "1001 All-time Songs Ever".[53] In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" fifth on its listing of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension".[54] The song was placed at number six in NME 'southward "Global Best Song Ever Poll" in 2005.[55] In 2022, it was included in the listing "The story of NME in lxx (mostly) seminal songs": Mark Beaumont wrote that with this vocal, Nirvana rejuvenated American rock, "honing the melodic roars of Husker Du, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth into an MTV friendly quiet-loud dynamic".[56]

In the 2006 VH1 UK poll The Nation's Favourite Lyric, the line "I feel stupid and contagious / Here we are now, entertain us" was ranked the tertiary-favorite lyric by over thirteen,000 voters.[57] VH1 placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number i on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs Of The '90s" in 2007,[58] while Rolling Stone ranked it number ten on its listing of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".[59] In 2009, the song was voted number one for the third time in a row on the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time in Australia[60] (it was kickoff place previously in 1991[61] and 1998).[62] That year, VH1 ranked the song seventh on its list of the "100 Greatest Hard Stone Songs".[63] Despite previously proposing in its 2006 entry for Nevermind on "The All-Time 100 Albums" that "'Smells Similar Teen Spirit' ... may be the album's worst song",[64] Fourth dimension magazine later included it on its list of "The All-Fourth dimension 100 Songs" in 2011.[65] That same twelvemonth, "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" kept its number nine ranking on Rolling Rock 's updated list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time",[66] while in 2019, the magazine ranked information technology at number one in its list of "fifty Best Songs of the Nineties".[67] NME placed the song at number two on its list of the "100 Best Tracks Of The '90s" in 2012,[68] and at number one on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2014.[69] In 2015, the song was also named the most iconic song of all time according to a report past Goldsmith's Higher, which analysed various songs featured in numerous 'best best' lists, using belittling software to compare their key, BPM, chord variety, lyrical content, timbral variety, and sonic variance – the event of which designated the championship to this song.[seventy] In 2017, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[71]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was rereleased as a limited edition seven-inch vinyl single in December2011. In an attempt to emulate a successful 2009 Facebook campaign to promote Rage Against the Machine's song "Killing in the Proper name", an online entrada was launched to promote "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" to 2011 Christmas number one in the Great britain Singles Chart in protest at the dealings of The X Factor television series with the children's charity Rhythmix.[72] A similar entrada was also launched in Ireland to get the rails to 2011 Christmas number one in the Irish Singles Nautical chart.[73] The entrada resulted in the song reaching number 11 on the UK Singles Nautical chart, selling 30,000 copies.[74] According to Nielsen Music's twelvemonth-end report for 2019, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was the most-played song of the decade on mainstream stone radio with 145,000 spins. All of the songs in the top 10 were from the 1990s.[75] In June 2021, "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" became only the second vocal from the 1990s to reach 1 billion streams on the Spotify platform.[76] [77]

Lyrics and interpretation [edit]

The lyrics to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" were often hard for listeners to decipher, both due to their nonsensicality and considering of Cobain's slurred, guttural singing vocalisation. This problem was compounded by the fact that the Nevermind album liner notes did non include whatever lyrics for the songs bated from selected lyrical fragments. This incomprehensibility contributed to the early resistance from radio stations towards adding the song to their playlists; one Geffen promoter recalled that people from rock radio told her, "We can't play this. I can't understand what the guy is saying."[78] MTV went as far as to set up a version of the video that included the lyrics running across the lesser of the screen, which they aired when the video was added to their heavy rotation schedule.[31] The lyrics for the album—and some from earlier or alternate versions of the songs—were later released with the liner notes of the "Lithium" single in 1992. American stone critic Dave Marsh noted comments by disc jockeys of the time that the song was "the 'Louie Louie' of the nineties" and wrote, "Like 'Louie', simply more so, 'Teen Spirit' reveals its secrets reluctantly and then often incoherently."[79] Marsh, trying to decipher the lyrics, felt after reading the correct lyrics from the song'due south sheet music that "what I imagined was quite a bit better (at least, more gratifying) than what Nirvana actually sang", and added, "Worst of all, I'm non sure that I know more about [the meaning of] 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' now than earlier I plunked down for the official version of the facts."[80]

The book Teen Spirit: The Stories Behind Every Nirvana Song describes "Teen Spirit" every bit "a typically murky Cobain exploration of meaning and meaninglessness".[81] Azerrad plays upon the juxtaposition of Cobain's contradictory lyrics (such as "It'due south fun to lose and to pretend") and states "the point that emerges isn't just the disharmonize of two opposing ideas, but the confusion and anger that the conflict produces in the narrator—he's angry that he's dislocated". Azerrad'southward conclusion is that the song is "alternately a sarcastic reaction to the idea of actually having a revolution, yet it also embraces the idea". Additionally, the "famously obscure couplet"—"A mulatto, an albino / A mosquito, my libido"—is, according to Azerrad, "nothing more than two pairs of opposites, a funny way of saying the narrator is very horny".[82] In Heavier Than Heaven, Charles R. Cross' biography of Cobain, Cross argues that the song is a reference to Cobain'southward relationship with ex-girlfriend Tobi Vail. Cross cites the line "She'south over-bored and self-assured" and states the song "could non have been about anyone else". Cross backs up his argument with lyrics which were present in earlier drafts, such as "Who will be the King & Queen of the outcasted [sic] teens".[83] [84]

"Teen Spirit" is widely interpreted as a teen revolution anthem, an interpretation reinforced past the music video.[43] In an interview conducted the day Nevermind was released, Cobain stated the vocal was most his friends, explaining, "Nosotros still feel as if we're teenagers considering nosotros don't follow the guidelines of what's expected of the states to be adults ... Information technology also has kind of a teen revolutionary theme."[10] In Michael Azerrad's biography Come equally You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Cobain said he felt a duty "to describe what I felt about my surroundings and my generation and people my age".[fourteen] He likewise said, "The entire song is made upwardly of contradictory ideas ... It's only making fun of the thought of having a revolution. But it'due south a nice thought."[82] As Cobain did more interviews, he changed his explanation of the song and rarely gave specifics about the meaning.[10] Grohl stated he does non believe the song has whatsoever message, and said, "Just seeing Kurt write the lyrics to a song 5 minutes before he first sings them, you just kind of find it a little bit hard to believe that the vocal has a lot to say about something. You need syllables to fill up upwardly this space or you need something that rhymes."[85]

Music video [edit]

Proclamation from the band encouraging people to participate in the making of the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

The Fender Mustang guitar played by Kurt Cobain in the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music video.

The music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was the first for director Samuel Bayer. Bayer believed he was hired because his test reel was so poor the band anticipated his production would be "punk" and "not corporate".[24] The video is based on the concept of a school concert which ends in chaos and anarchism, inspired by Jonathan Kaplan'south 1979 moving-picture show Over the Edge and the Ramones' flick Stone 'n' Scroll High School.[86] It had an estimated upkeep between $30,000 and $fifty,000.[87]

The video was filmed on Baronial 17, 1991,[88] on Stage 6 of GMT Studios in Culver City. The music video features Nirvana playing at a pep rally in a high school gym to an audition of apathetic students on bleachers, and cheerleaders wearing blackness dresses with the Circle-A agitator symbol. The video features an advent past Burton C. Bell, afterward known equally frontman of heavy metallic band Fear Factory.[89] Occasionally, the scene cuts to a janitor (played past Tony De La Rosa) wearing a navy blue one-piece and dancing with a push broom handle. The video ends with the students destroying the set and the band'south gear. The discontent was genuine; the extras that filled the bleachers had been forced to stay seated through numerous replays of the song for an entire afternoon of filming. Cobain convinced Bayer to allow the extras to mosh, and the set became a scene of chaos. "One time the kids came out dancing they only said 'fuck you lot', because they were so tired of his shit throughout the mean solar day", Cobain said.[xc] Cobain disliked Bayer'due south last edit and oversaw a re-edit of the video, creating the last version.[36] One of Cobain's major additions was the penultimate shot, a shut-up of his face after it had been obscured for nearly of the video.[90] Another major modify involved two sequences of a principal continuing next to a loudspeaker and getting sprayed with confetti, and a teacher dressed like a nerd dancing to the song with a "Dunce" cap before being tied to a basketball game hoop pole. Cobain had the main'southward footage entirely removed as well as virtually of the teacher's footage, aside from the ending scene which shows the teacher tied to the pole as the janitor sweeps the floor nearby.[91] Bayer said that dissimilar subsequent artists he worked with, Cobain was non vain, and was more than interested that "the video had something that was truly about what they were about".[86]

Like the song itself, the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" received positive reviews. Rolling Stone writer David Fricke described the video as looking like "the greatest gig you lot could ever imagine".[24] In addition to a number-one placing in the singles category, "Teen Spirit" too topped the music video category in the Village Vocalism 's 1991 "Pazz & Jop" poll.[92] The video won Nirvana the Best New Artist and Best Alternative Group awards at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards,[93] and in 2000 the Guinness Earth Records named "Teen Spirit" the Almost Played Video on MTV Europe.[94] In subsequent years Amy Finnerty, formerly of MTV's Programming department, claimed the video "changed the entire look of MTV" by giving them "a whole new generation to sell to".[24] Rolling Stone placed the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number two on their 1993 list of "The 100 Top Music Videos".[95] MTV ranked the song's music video at number three on its "100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made" list in 1999.[96] VH1 placed the debut of the "Teen Spirit" video at number eighteen on its 2000 list of "100 Greatest Stone & Roll Moments on Idiot box", noting that it made alternative rock "a commercial and pop culture force".[97] In 2001, VH1 named it the fourth-greatest video.[98] The video was parodied in "Weird Al" Yankovic's music video for "Smells Like Nirvana"[99] and in Bob Sinclar's 2006 music video for "Rock This Party (Everybody Trip the light fantastic Now)".[ commendation needed ] By Dec 25, 2019, the video had been viewed 1 billion times on YouTube.[100]

Live performances [edit]

"Smells Similar Teen Spirit" was offset performed alive on April 17, 1991 at the OK Hotel in Seattle, Washington.[101] The functioning is featured on the DVD of the 2004 box ready With the Lights Out, while shorter clips are included on the Classic Albums' Nevermind DVD, also as the documentary pic Hype!. As the song'due south lyrics had non yet been entirely written, there are notable differences betwixt information technology and the terminal version. For example, the kickoff performance started with "Come up out and play, make up the rules" instead of the eventual opening of "Load up on guns, bring your friends". A recording of the earlier version appears on With the Lights Out and again on Sliver: The All-time of the Box. A similar early on live performance of the song is found in the documentary 1991: The Yr Punk Broke, filmed during a 1991 summer tour in Europe with Sonic Youth.[ citation needed ]

The international television debut performance of the song was on Nov eight, 1991 on UK Television show The Word.[102] Cobain opened past declaring that: "I want everyone in this room to know that Courtney Love, the pb singer of the sensational popular grouping Hole, is the best fuck in the globe".[103]

Nirvana frequently altered the vocal's lyrics and tempo for live performances. Some live performances of the song had the line "our fiddling grouping has always been" changed to "our piffling tribe has always been", which tin be heard on the 1996 live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah. Rolling Rock remarked that the Wishkah version of "Teen Spirit" "[institute] Cobain's guitar reeling outside the song's melodic boundaries and sparking new life in that about played-out hitting".[104] A notable alternating performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" occurred on BBC'south Top of the Pops in 1991, during which the band refused to mime to the pre-recorded backing track and Cobain sang in a deliberately low voice and altered numerous lyrics in the vocal (for example, "Load upwards on guns, bring your friends" became "Load up on drugs, impale your friends"). Cobain afterward said he was trying to sound like former Smiths frontman Morrissey.[105] When Elevation of the Pops was cancelled in 2006, The Observer listed Nirvana's functioning of "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" equally the third greatest in the testify's history.[106] This performance can exist found on the 1994 domicile video Live! This night! Sold Out!!.[107]

Parodies and covers [edit]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" has inspired a few parodies. "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song in 1992 with "Smells Like Nirvana", a vocal nigh Nirvana itself. Cobain rapidly gave permission, but asked, "It's not near food, is it?" Yankovic answered, "No, it's virtually how nobody can empathize your lyrics." Upon hearing the parody, Cobain and his ring members laughed hysterically. Yankovic has said Cobain told him he realized that Nirvana had "made information technology" when he heard the parody.[108] In 1995, the queercore band Pansy Partitioning recorded a parody of the song called "Smells Similar Queer Spirit" for its Pile Up album. Pansy Partitioning guitarist Jon Ginoli insisted that his band's version of the vocal was not a parody but "an appreciating tribute".[26] Tori Amos recorded the song and released it in 1992 on her "Crucify" EP single. Dave Grohl commented on the Amos encompass of the song in 1996, saying it was "pretty hilarious".[109]

The vocal has been covered in films. In the 2001 film Moulin Rouge!, it was sung during the "Tin can Can" scene introducing the titular nightclub.[110] In the 2011 moving picture The Muppets and its soundtrack, one of the acts of the Muppet Telethon involves Rowlf the Domestic dog, Link Hogthrob, Sam Eagle, and Beaker performing the vocal as a barbershop quartet, where unwilling special guest Jack Blackness accuses them of "ruining one of the greatest songs of all fourth dimension".[111] [112] A cover of the song is heard in the opening credits sequence of the 2021 film Blackness Widow.[113] In the 2015 film Pan, a version of the vocal is sung past Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman) and the miners when Peter (Levi Miller) first arrives in Neverland.[114]

Formats and rail listing [edit]

All lyrics are written by Kurt Cobain, except "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" (Cobain, Grohl, Novoselic); all music is equanimous by Nirvana, except "Drain You lot" (Cobain).

Promo editions (United states) [edit]

Yellow 12" single (PRO-A-4314) [Discogs 8]

  1. "Smells Similar Teen Spirit" – four:three08
  2. "Even in His Youth" PU – iv:20 three:03
  3. "Aneurysm" PU – 4:447

White-labeled 12" single (PRO-A-4365) [Discogs 9]

  1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" – five:01
  • Features album version of title song on both sides.

Cassette unmarried (4066) [Discogs 10]

  1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" – 5:00
  • Features album version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

CD single (PRO-CD-4308) [Discogs eleven]

  1. "Smells Similar Teen Spirit"Edit – 4:308
  2. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"LP – 5:05[note 2]

Personnel [edit]

Nirvana

  • Kurt Cobain – vocals,* guitars*
  • Krist Novoselic (uncredited) – bass
  • Dave Grohl (uncredited) – drums, backing vocals on "Drain You"

Technical personnel

* Uncredited role.
dagger Appears in all release formats, except for United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland 7" and some promos.
double-dagger Paired with the track "Even in His Youth" on CD and promo 12" only; also separately on UK 12" (film disc).

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Bibliography [edit]

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  • Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind [DVD]. Isis Productions, 2004.
  • Berkenstadt, Jim; Cross, Charles. Archetype Rock Albums: Nevermind. Nirvana. Schirmer, 1998. ISBN 0-02-864775-0
  • Crisafulli, Chuck. Teen Spirit: The Stories Behind Every Nirvana Vocal. Carlton, 1996. ISBN 0-684-83356-5
  • Cross, Charles R. Heavier Than Heaven. Hyperion, 2001. ISBN 0-7868-6505-9
  • Marsh, Dave. Louie Louie. Hyperion, 1993. ISBN ane-56282-865-vii
  • Rooksby, Rikki. Inside Classic Rock Tracks. Backbeat, 2001. ISBN 0-87930-654-viii
  • Starr, Larry; Waterman, Christopher. American Pop Music: From Minstrelsy to MTV. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-xix-510854-X

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ At least as indicated on the dorsum of sleeve and inside the disc.
  2. ^ This "LP version" of the rail is iv–5 seconds longer than the anthology one. Probably a typo or silence.

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Discogs releases [edit]

  1. ^
    • "Geffen Records, Inc."-printed
    • David Geffen Company characterization (misprint)
    • David Geffen Company label
  2. ^ US versions
    • ane
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5
    • Australian version
    • Australasian version
  3. ^
    • Compact Disc Maxi-Single (promo, digipak) – US version
    • Compact Disc Maxi-Unmarried (standard, digipak) – US version
    • Compact Disc Maxi-Single (repress, digipak) – U.s. version
    • Meaty Disc Maxi-Single (card sleeve) – Australian version
  4. ^
    • Special edition (with badge)
    • Radio Promo Version
    • Black paper labels
    • Jukebox, black injection labels
    • Silver moulded labels
  5. ^
    • Mispress
    • Normal
  6. ^ Special Express Edition
  7. ^
    • "Blue" digipak
    • "Green" digipak
    • "Blue" digipak (repress)
  8. ^ Promo 12-inch yellowish vinyl (33 1/three rpm, translucent)
  9. ^ Promo 12-inch black vinyl in white packaging (33 1/3 rpm)
  10. ^ Promotional re-create
  11. ^ Promotional copy

Further reading [edit]

  • Bradley, Adam (2017). "Figurative Language". The Poetry of Pop. Yale University Press. pp. 153–154. ISBN978-0300165029. An analysis of the song's use of figurative language.

External links [edit]

  • Smells Like Teen Spirit at MusicBrainz
  • "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (official music video) on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit

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