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"Smells Like Nirvana" is a song parody written and performed by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. A parody of Nirvana 's song " Smells Like Teen Spirit ", it was released as the lead single from Yankovic's Off the Deep End album in April 1992.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band's second album, Nevermind (1991), released on DGC Records . The unexpected success of the song propelled Nevermind to the top of several albums charts at the start of 1992, an event often marked as the point when grunge ...
Entertainment Weekly reviewer David Browne noted that the video for Off the Deep End ' lead single "Smells Like Nirvana" was "an old-fashioned laugh riot", but that half of Yankovic's humor was merely visual, meaning that the songs without videos were not as funny. [27] The music video for "Smells Like Nirvana" achieved similar praise.
The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time was a music poll conducted in 2009 amongst listeners of Australian youth radio network Triple J.Over half a million votes were compiled, with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" collecting the highest number of votes.
Following the success of Off the Deep End ' s lead single "Smells Like Nirvana", Yankovic desired to release "You Don't Love Me Anymore" as the album's second single. [3] Yankovic's record label Scotti Brothers reluctantly adhered to the request, on the condition that the song's music video be a parody. [3]
In actual fact, the tribute album Smells Like Nirvana: A Tribute to Nirvana was released before Smells Like Bleach (6 June 2000). In the seventh paragraph, Thompson writes that "if the Hall of Fame has not collapsed beneath the weight of its own oxymoronic irrelevance by then, watch for Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl to be invited out to ...
The room was filled with the punchy yet ethereal beginning to the grunge band's biggest hit, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." "Everyone stopped what they were doing and everyone looked around," Hawk, 56 ...
"Aneurysm" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl. It first appeared as a B-side on the band's breakthrough "Smells Like Teen Spirit" single in September 1991.