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"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 ...
"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.
[15] Will Bryant of Pitchfork wrote that "the four-chord riff that drags the song through the motions is an almost direct inversion of the famous 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' riff," [16] while Cobain biographer Charles R. Cross described the song as having "the same catchy soft/loud dynamic as "Teen Spirit," which "created a perfect Cobain ...
A promotional single was released in late 1991, but the song "never really was played" on the radio, according to DGC's director of publicity Jim Merlis, possibly because it was overshadowed by the popularity of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." [17] "Come As You Are" was released as the album's second commercial single instead in March 1992.
The title comes from the lyrics of Nirvana's 1991 single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". With the Lights Out was planned for release in 2001, but was delayed by a legal battle with Courtney Love, the widow of Nirvana singer, Kurt Cobain. [1] As of 2016, it had sold 546,000 copies in the US. [2]
Kurt Cobain’s mythical 1969 Fender Mustang electric guitar from Nirvana’s landmark 1991 music video, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was auctioned for nearly $5 million at Julien’s Auctions on ...
It first appeared as a B-side on the band's breakthrough "Smells Like Teen Spirit" single in September 1991. A second studio version was released on the rarities compilation Incesticide in December 1992. The song is believed to be about Cobain's relationship with Tobi Vail, of the American punk rock band, Bikini Kill. [3]
Smells like queer spirit: How '90s punks Pansy Division blazed a trail as one of rock's first openly gay bands ... Pansy Division’s side-splitting lyrics and balls-to-the-wall powerpop jams are ...