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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.
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.
"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 ...
Many musicians were vocal fans, including Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, after Al approached him for a version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in 1992’s “Smells Like Nirvana.” But some didn’t ...
MTV’s gentle prods towards playing major hits like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” had been firmly rebuffed and Colletti was concerned that Cobain’s guitar – a Martin D-18E, complete with a ...
I’d had the idea for kids’ reaction art to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for a few years. When I reconnected with old college pal Mark Brandau, an art teacher at the Arts & Communication ...
American musical comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song on his 1992 album Off the Deep End with the seven-second-long hidden track, "Bite Me." [16] Off the Deep End also featured the lead single "Smells Like Nirvana," a parody of the 1991 Nevermind single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and an album cover that parodied the cover of Nevermind.
The liner notes to Smells Like Bleach were written by Dave Thompson. In it, he describes Smells Like Bleach as Nirvana's "first ever tribute album." In actual fact, the tribute album Smells Like Nirvana: A Tribute to Nirvana was released before Smells Like Bleach (6 June 2000).