Smells Like Teen Spirit
Discussion
MartinQ said:
In that case, I'll say happy birthday! 
I was only 11 at the time (not my birthday though), but it made a big impression. It probably helped define my music taste today.
Thank you I was only 11 at the time (not my birthday though), but it made a big impression. It probably helped define my music taste today.
On topic I have Apple by Mother Love Bone in the CD player in the car at the moment. Off topic, maybe, there were two songs my older daughter (18 in November) would always kick to when In Vitro whilst I was driving me and Mrs Champers to work; Because The Night by The Patti Smith Group and Smells Like Teen Spirit; true dat 
It's funny to think that it's a 25 year old song. It's relevance has faded with time but it was once at a spearhead of talent-free music that saw audiences regressing to listening to rather dreary rock for a few years. Luckily, it wasn't to last. They say artists are immortalised by their untimely passing and Nirvana still hold some mystique ahead of all their other grunge rock peers, due to Cobain's death, because they didn't slide into irrelevance like all the other grunge and alt bands did.
davepoth said:
I can't work out whether "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was a genius work of prescience, or if guitar music has been moribund since - but the song, and the video that go with it, really don't look as old-fashioned as the Beatles would have done in 1991.
Way back I used to think the song's title referred cleverly to a generation of young American rockers, revelling in drugs, sex and music (don't know why), doing the new Seattle grunge scene. Later I found out 'teen spirit' was, in fact, a popular deodorant that Kurt used. 
What a mug.
[quote=Löyly]It's funny to think that it's a 25 year old song. It's relevance has faded with time but it was once at a spearhead of talent-free music that saw audiences regressing to listening to rather dreary rock for a few years. Luckily, it wasn't to last. They say artists are immortalised by their untimely passing and Nirvana still hold some mystique ahead of all their other grunge rock peers, due to Cobain's death, because they didn't slide into irrelevance like all the other grunge and alt bands did.
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I'd hardly say pearl jam have slid into relevance .
They record what they want when they want , they tour when they want and they wear what they want .
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I'd hardly say pearl jam have slid into relevance .
They record what they want when they want , they tour when they want and they wear what they want .
[quote=Löyly]It's relevance has faded with time
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Probably true. However, it's also responsible for another generation of Nirvana appreciation after my teenage daughter stuck her head round the door and asked what that song was that I was playing REALLY loudly ! Wasn't a complaint; she wanted to know who it was so she could listen on Spotify !
Nevermind is an album which I listened to back in the day and enjoyed, but living in the UK it seemed sort of remote in terms of its relevance - enjoyed the music, but wasn't caught up in 'the scene' because there wasn't really a grunge scene in darkest Essex back in the early 90's
I didn't listen to it for quite a while until the movie 'Sound City' was released, and that oddly gave it a clearer context some 20 years later, and triggered a different type of appreciation for it - not just out of nostalgia, but because I was clearer on what music I really liked.
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Probably true. However, it's also responsible for another generation of Nirvana appreciation after my teenage daughter stuck her head round the door and asked what that song was that I was playing REALLY loudly ! Wasn't a complaint; she wanted to know who it was so she could listen on Spotify !
Nevermind is an album which I listened to back in the day and enjoyed, but living in the UK it seemed sort of remote in terms of its relevance - enjoyed the music, but wasn't caught up in 'the scene' because there wasn't really a grunge scene in darkest Essex back in the early 90's
I didn't listen to it for quite a while until the movie 'Sound City' was released, and that oddly gave it a clearer context some 20 years later, and triggered a different type of appreciation for it - not just out of nostalgia, but because I was clearer on what music I really liked.
I'm fond of Nirvana. I'm too young to remember the band at its peak but, as has already been said, they have a mysticism around them due to Cobain's suicide. There were a lot of other bands producing grunge records around the same time - if any of you would like to hear more there's a YouTube channel uploading a lot of obscure albums.
https://www.youtube.com/user/kyo221/videos
Suffice it to say, not every album is superb, but there are tracks there you're unlikely to hear elsewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/user/kyo221/videos
Suffice it to say, not every album is superb, but there are tracks there you're unlikely to hear elsewhere.
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