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Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit- A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction 

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A good solid Rock style piece of music, and I really “got it”! I can say, “Yeah, smells like teen spirit!”. “Oh well, whatever, never mind”, it sounds great!
Here’s the link to the original song by Nirvana:
• Nirvana - Smells Like ...
Here's the link to Schubert's An Der Musik:
• An die Musik, D. 547
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@Mrvictorfernandes
@Mrvictorfernandes Год назад
Funnily enough, Schubert's "An die Musik" was chosen as my singing assignment when I studied vocal at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. While studying it I noticed the (almost) similarities in the opening vocal lines of this and "Teen Spirit" that, when I performed it live at the student recital, I sang some of Kurt's lyrics to fit over the Schubert melody, much to the chagrin and delight of various teachers and faculty in the audience that night. Seeing Ms. Shafer realize this Schubert/Cobain connection reinforced my feeling that I'm not alone in this observation. Godspeed, Amy, Vlad, and little Liesel...
@RaysDad
@RaysDad Год назад
I'm hearing only the most tenuous similarities between the two melodies. Maybe I need to go back and listen again (and again and again . . . ).
@elevenseven-yq4vu
@elevenseven-yq4vu Год назад
A "teenage spirit" might most desperately be in need of being "transposed into a better world" by music's "sweet, holy chords" (as Schober's lyrics in Schubert's song expressed it), so no wonder if some melodic parts in Nirvana's song reek of "An die Musik" ("to music"). Holde Kunst, indeed!
@remogatron1010
@remogatron1010 10 месяцев назад
I almost broke my neck banding my head to this song back then.
@xiola_skye
@xiola_skye 7 месяцев назад
Wow! Unbelievable connection... I love it!
@kentandersonrocks
@kentandersonrocks Год назад
Tom Petty noted that this song was like a scythe across the music scene, cutting down old tropes and opening the field again.
@PartTimeJedi
@PartTimeJedi Год назад
great analogy
@FURTHER_ADO
@FURTHER_ADO Год назад
Tom Petty noted..... It was an interview with VH1 not Why change your dialect bc she's a classical musician? I bet you typed with your pinky up too.
@ugaboj
@ugaboj Год назад
@@FURTHER_ADO What are you talking about? What OP wrote was a completely normal sentence. How you managed to see some kind of obnoxious pretentiousness in what he said is beyond me. Not to mention that you don't even know this person, so how do you know that they 'changed their dialect' and weren't just speaking as they would normally?
@ToxicTurtleIsMad
@ToxicTurtleIsMad Год назад
What a delusional thinking. This song has not a gram of importance related to anything.
@FURTHER_ADO
@FURTHER_ADO Год назад
@@ToxicTurtleIsMad watch out for Capt. Contrary. He always holds the opposite opinion on anything popular mmaaaaaannnnnn, even if he's never heard,watched, etc whatever he's telling you is trash. Hes a rebel.
@ichirofakename
@ichirofakename Год назад
In 1991 I was 39 years old, and I wore out my cassette of Nevermind (only cassette I ever wore out). Now in 2023 I'm 71 and this song still literally sends shivers up my spine. So it is not SOLELY teen music.
@spacewolfRIFF
@spacewolfRIFF Год назад
🫵🪨
@mina_en_suiza
@mina_en_suiza Год назад
I loved it then, I will love it forever.
@7king8debs79
@7king8debs79 Год назад
You're my hero! I'm 41 and try hard to listen to music that is current rather than sticking to the music of my youth. How did / do you feel about Soundgarden? What modern bands do you listen to? I would suggest Turnstile being at the top of the game.
@ichirofakename
@ichirofakename Год назад
@@7king8debs79 Thanks for the kind words but actually I lost touch with current music trends in the late 90's. I saw Soundgarden, they are ok, but I prefer the similar Mudhoney, who actually still perform. I love Be Your Own Pet, but only the stuff before 2015. The only current performers I pay attention to anymore are Sigur Rós and Jack White. Thanks for the Turnstyle tip, I'll check 'em out.
@7king8debs79
@7king8debs79 Год назад
@ichirofakename Sigur Ros are an incredible band. I saw them live a few years ago and almost wept. If you like that sound try 65daysofstatic - a very inventive band like Sigur. Who's the best band you've seen live?
@paradisefamilytravels3674
@paradisefamilytravels3674 Год назад
If you were a part of Gen X then this song changed your world. We went from hair metal and GnR on constant radio airplay to alternative music taking over in a moment. This song changed the culture completely and gave Gen X a voice and an anthem. Just what we needed! This song changed the music, fashion and attitude of the 90s completely.
@rhodriwilliams2891
@rhodriwilliams2891 Год назад
@@nathananderson3355agreed - Nirvana seemed a logical step from the preceding decade of SST & Sub Pop; Husker Du, Black Flag, Minutemen/Firehose etc… I guess ‘Nevermind’ & ‘Ten’ just took it to a new global & mainstream level… 🤷
@goldenageofdinosaurs7192
@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Год назад
@@nathananderson3355Right, so it went from 10% of genX’ers to 90% of genX’ers. A seismic change..
@TomB91381
@TomB91381 Год назад
So glad I found this, Kurt loved contradictions . You should give Oingo Boingo a listen. “Just another Day” would be one others have tried . Danny Elfman is behind it
@deadralynx1288
@deadralynx1288 Год назад
@@nathananderson3355 no teen listened to those emo borefests in the 90s. they got a huge boost from MTV. late 80s electro would have gone the way of 70s disco if not for music television.
@deadralynx1288
@deadralynx1288 Год назад
@@rhodriwilliams2891 nirvana was a break the glass cut from 70/80s 99% garbage music. NO person on the planet has any idea what SST & Sub Pop; Husker Du, Black Flag, Minutemen/Firehose is.
@gwengoodwin3992
@gwengoodwin3992 Год назад
The song is generally seen as an anthem of the alienation, disaffection, and frustration felt by teenagers in a cynical commercial world built by conscienceless adults. Not fun, but tortured. It is specifically a protest against the commercialization of rock music. Tori Amos sings a provocative, respectful cover of the song that shows it in a different light. I like the live version - just Tori and her piano and those lyrics. Live at Montreaux in 1992.
@soundofnellody262
@soundofnellody262 Год назад
Thank you for this tip. I love Tori Amos but never knew about this cover. I will check her live perfomance :D
@foreveryoungpisces7426
@foreveryoungpisces7426 Год назад
Patti Smith has a version too.
@StonerMatt
@StonerMatt Год назад
the name of the song "smells like teen spirit" is misleading and has nothing to do with an on-purpose teenage anthem...it was a private joke with one close friend at the time, Kathleen Hannah (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre) because Cobain at the time was in a relationship with Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill drummer) who used "Teen Spirit" a discount deodorant spray adn it was a mockery by Kathleen Hannah that KC thought was fun to re-use...
@noncounterproductive4596
@noncounterproductive4596 Год назад
@@StonerMatt According to information that I find online, Kurt Cobain did not know that Teen Spirit was a deodorant when he wrote the song. He made up his own meaning.
@MusicMissionary
@MusicMissionary Год назад
​@@noncounterproductive4596that makes it even cooler.
@BaumiTor
@BaumiTor Год назад
It's amazing how you managed to discuss this song so accurately without using the term "angst" a single time. Greetings from Germany
@philshorten3221
@philshorten3221 Год назад
Nobody EVER played the Harp along to Smells like Teen Spirit .... UNTIL NOW! 😂😂😂
@rwm4738
@rwm4738 6 месяцев назад
I did once during my harp phase, but that was a while back, and I try to forget about those days.
@herbie5263
@herbie5263 6 месяцев назад
Yeah, so good! :)
@sambirch6784
@sambirch6784 Год назад
For many teens in the 90's this song had a seismic effect. I had a friend who got into Nirvana early on, when the album Bleach came out, so when Nevermind was released we were eagerly waiting. 'Teen Spirit' was the obvious hit on the album but it was full of great songs with energy, rage and disaffection. It gave a voice to a generation of people who were unhappy with their lives but struggled to express it.
@theelvenwtich
@theelvenwtich Год назад
I hope I am not the only one that still can't express it properly.
@rowenatulley852
@rowenatulley852 Год назад
It had an effect on me as an adult . . .
@markwatson6579
@markwatson6579 Год назад
This song may not have happened without Punk Rock in the late 70s so worth listening to some to put this song into context . The Sex Pistols is the place to start imo
@ImaDieHrderLkeMyKidBruceWillis
“Bleach” is a GREAT album, btw.
@michaeltaylor8835
@michaeltaylor8835 Год назад
That feeling is still there
@jamesjohnson-en3cu
@jamesjohnson-en3cu Год назад
You just have to remember what it was like to be a teen… Introspective, unsure, feigning apathy, and then- releasing all that potential power you don’t really know how to channel. Like Punk, Grunge is less about composition and musicality and more about attitude. Something in the quality of Kurt’s voice was instantly relatable to the misfits of that generation.
@markbuchanan2694
@markbuchanan2694 Год назад
i love her very vanilla innocence. definitely embracing purity outside of her comfort zone. her reactions upon hearing TS for the first time, priceless. then her breakdown of the song in her own language resinates with what many many others have said about Teen Spirit, which is a goid thing. Cause it's such a simple song, but its how it grabs you and takes you on that journey is testimony to it's brilliance. well done harp lady 😊
@thekaratekidpartii2169
@thekaratekidpartii2169 Год назад
This has such a sad and melancholic melody I am surprised it wasn't mentioned. In fact, I think this is what the song taps into and the reason for its popularity. Not the energy (although it has energy). And not the contrasting elements (although it certainly has contrasting elements). But rather, this gloomy depressed mood which is expressed so perfectly and unpretentiously in a song that plugs itself right into the mains of that feeling.
@docsavage8640
@docsavage8640 Год назад
Unpretentiously? 😆 🤣 😂
@Babomomebeo
@Babomomebeo Год назад
@@thekaratekidpartii2169 wheels on the bus is overrated
@Britton_Thompson
@Britton_Thompson Год назад
​​​​​@@docsavage8640Do you not know who wrote those lyrics? Kurt Cobain was probably the most genuinely melancholic artist since Vincent Van Gogh for Chrissakes.... I'm old enough to have lived through it so I still remember it: The mainstream's criticism of Kurt Cobain from 1991-94 was that he needed to smile more. That his dour countenance was unattractive. There were endless panels of brand managers & PR agents encouraging him to have more fun, and show more appreciation for his success. Tabloid magazines and TV shows like Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood would always have sections devoted to solving why this guy was so angry and depressed despite being rich and famous with a celebrity wife and new baby. The paparazzi followed him and Courtney relentlessly just to hopefully get a photo of him being happy when no one was looking. Let me tell ya..... few were captured. Kurt was a riddle no one could crack. The paparazzi in America was actually founded on chasing rock stars in the 80s. Nowadays they chase no-talent 304s like the Kardashians, but back in those days the public wanted to see Van Halen, Motley Crue, and Guns N Roses' backstage debauchery, or the relationships of rock stars and supermodels. The paparazzi had the in-road to rock n roll at the time. They had sources everywhere. The only constant was Kurt Cobain never being anyone but the pissed off punk rocker you saw in his music videos.
@leosonic
@leosonic 18 дней назад
The Tori Amos cover highlights this melancholy very well.
@ponkor
@ponkor Год назад
Thank-you for this review. I was 14 years old when this dropped... And it changed everything.. Myself, my friends,...we all changed. 🙏 thank you Kurt.
@jasonemikel
@jasonemikel 9 месяцев назад
Yes. I said that out loud to myself the first time I saw this. I guess I was 20? I said, "the world just changed." And it did. Overnight.
@josephglaser4644
@josephglaser4644 2 месяца назад
I was 12 grew up 30 minutes from Aberdeen. Everything changed.
@terrencekelly2508
@terrencekelly2508 Год назад
Like other posters mentioned in the comments, this song came out at the tail end of almost a decade of hair bands and glam rock. This song smashed all those stereotypes of dudes wearing hairspray and make up. It might not be the best or most sophisticated song but it was needed and us gen xers loved it!
@Marnee4191
@Marnee4191 Год назад
"it was needed" - that's the best 3 word description of why this song and band were so effective and so loved.
@Silver_Bullet1999
@Silver_Bullet1999 Год назад
While the song is an anthem for teenage angst, it’s also the antithesis to the complexities of the more the more skillful bands (think Metallica). This is essentially what Nirvana is. Ironically enough, Kurt Cobain highlighted what can come from mastering the basics. Basics meaning simple power chords and arpeggios based on those chords. He wrote vocal melodies that were perfect for his guitar riffs. Songs like “Heart-Shaped Box”, “Pennyroyal Tea”, “Serve the Servants”, “Lithium”, and “Drain You” all have very sophisticated, yet playful chord progressions that fun to listen, sing along, or play guitar with. These are also worth checking out at some point When you add Dave Grohl’s thunderous drums and Krist Novoselic’s heavy-hitting bass lines, and the emotion-filled vocals (and lyrics) of Kurt Cobain you get some of the most sonically pleasing, accessible and expressive music that has given a voice to the feelings and emotions of so many to this day. RIP Kurt Cobain 🙏
@Marnee4191
@Marnee4191 Год назад
What's insane is that I was in my mid 20s when this came out and I was huge into the grunge sound (and then nu metal) as I hated the 80s rock and hair bands. (I also liked the heavy metal which we called "thrash" such as Metallica and Metal Church.) But I never had MtV, so I maybe saw half of one Nirvana video. And I NEVER KNEW KURT COBAINE PLAYED GUITAR UNTIL TODAY. I thought he just did vocals. How did I never know Kurt played guitar?! Anyway, I agree with your analysis!
@y2jace124
@y2jace124 Год назад
For me, its the melody writing of Kurt Cobain, its very underated in my opinion. Everytime I hear this song played on piano, it makes my eyes water with a mix of emotions. Its hauntingly beautiful.
@markxv2267
@markxv2267 Год назад
Why do you think its very underrated?
@petersilva037
@petersilva037 Год назад
You mean the Tori Amos version? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HaAI3jI7uCc.html&ab_channel=GeorgeBopper
@heidichristensen7919
@heidichristensen7919 Год назад
I’ve heard some (Rick Beato for one) say they think Kurt was one of the best melody writer ever.
@qbsrd
@qbsrd Год назад
​@@heidichristensen7919 From a technical standpoint, Kurt Cobain songwriting skills are only recognized now. Before that, Kurt Cobain was criticized for his lack of technicality on the guitar and the fact that his song are simple to play. It took years for lot a people to recognize that to play a Nirvana song is fairly easy but to write like Kurt did is a different task.
@heidichristensen7919
@heidichristensen7919 Год назад
@@qbsrd it’s sad. I live in Seattle, and even I didn’t appreciate Nirvana or grunge in general until about 10 years ago.
@hadz8671
@hadz8671 Год назад
Now I have heard Nirvana with harp accompaniment - my life is complete!
@jmuench420
@jmuench420 Год назад
Not with a harp but worth a listen: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_NlQ1sMl1d4.html&ab_channel=PostmodernJukebox
@G60syncro
@G60syncro Год назад
Rick Beato in one of his videos explained how Kurt Cobain would write these super rich melodies and he would also play lots of diminished chords, leaving out the notes he would sing on top of the mix to really get that vocal through!
@mina_en_suiza
@mina_en_suiza Год назад
Rick Beato is wonderful.
@DaLeSy.
@DaLeSy. 6 месяцев назад
Really, I wonder why I haven't seen any diminished chords come up yet when following youtube videos for nirvana tutorials. Although I don't really know what a diminished chord looks like. I just recall a lot of power chords and open chords.
@mattwalsh9413
@mattwalsh9413 5 месяцев назад
there are no diminished chords on nevermind on the guitar. he means something else i guess. @@DaLeSy.
@samdeakins7176
@samdeakins7176 5 месяцев назад
@@mattwalsh9413 yes the notes in the melody and bass fill out the basic chords of the guitar parts in to more interesting chords.
@vonVile
@vonVile Год назад
The reason the song a hit is that it was nothing that was currently playing on the radio at that time. It was the end of the glam/hair heavy metal era of the 1980s. Heavy metal was becoming too corporate and safe losing its wild dark roots. Nirvana went back too the era of 1970s punk where it was more raw and chaotic. This fresh unexpected sound shook up the industry. I suggest doing "Heart Shaped Box" next.
@iloveresses7277
@iloveresses7277 8 месяцев назад
It's almost like someone splashing cold water on your face. It's almost shocking and unexpected compared to basically anything out at the time. It forces you to take notice of it. As the song progresses you can almost feel the music industry evolving in real time and pop culture entering into a new era. Granted I was 10 when this came out so my memories of the era might be mixed with what I've learned since then but I can't help but feel that way every time I hear that song. 80s music feels like its before my era but from Nirvana on it actually feels like "my" era of music.
@ericbuckland3938
@ericbuckland3938 Год назад
I was 30 when Nevermind was released, and it felt like a great release, a return to my teenage years in the ‘70s. The raw energy was so welcome after the hair bands of the ‘80s. Now in my early 60’s I can still feel it. I loved your take on this! Thank you!
@kevinroebke8050
@kevinroebke8050 11 месяцев назад
I totally get that. I was 34 at the time and had never been turned on by '80's metal. Nirvana and '90's music in general as you say, felt like a return to a '70's sensibility. My kids were teens in the '90's so I got lots of exposure through them (as well as turning them on to '60's and '70's rock).
@jonlohrenz5446
@jonlohrenz5446 Год назад
It’s interesting how you mentioned that the “hey, yay” section could have repeated a couple more times. When they wrote this song initially that’s actually how they played it. The producer Butch Vig told them to cut that part in half and they did. There is actually a rough demo version out there where they play that part longer.
@Marnee4191
@Marnee4191 Год назад
Somebody very early on in this channel told Amy she would make a fantastic producer. And after watching so many videos, I agree.
@gdfather13
@gdfather13 Год назад
You miss the point in the high school analogy about being stupid and not worrying about college applications. College was/is not affordable or practical... 23% of Americans could afford or navigate that in the late 1980's. This is the voice of the highly talented and visionary few that did not fit into the socio economic or academic mold. Society had no place for them. The beauty about Nirvana is that their early music, and to some great extent their later music, reflects a raw voice of a couple of kids from an impoverished logging town, with no opportunities, while being bombarded by cable and MTV... The poverty and inability to do anything of meaning (and therefore apathy and rage) cannot be underestimated. This is not a song about college bout teenagers dibbling over their choices and partying. It is a scream for help and for survival in a world that is insane and doesn't make sense to them and has no opportunities for them (not that many would be of interest).
@todd3812
@todd3812 Год назад
I'm in my mid-50s and this song is so raw, simple, unsophisticated, and primitive that it cuts through all the bubble gum spandex rock of the 80s. It satisfies at a deeper level. I'm proof you don't need to be a teenager to appreciate the unrefined things in life.
@foreignmilk5589
@foreignmilk5589 Год назад
i felt the same way when the strokes first came out
@zhukie
@zhukie 4 месяца назад
You're the same age as me then...Kurt would be 57 if he was alive now
@adelaideharper9201
@adelaideharper9201 Год назад
Nirvana is arguably the most influential band of the whole of the 1990s. They completely changed the face of popular music. Nirvana influenced every genre of popular music and ultimately popularized alternate rock, pop rock, and even associated metal groups. Their influence has been felt in the entirety of the "bad boy" eras of Pop, Rock, and even leaking into moody Rap and Hip Hop pieces time and again.
@markvanderstelt8999
@markvanderstelt8999 Год назад
ya arguable is the correct word.
@PeterTea
@PeterTea Год назад
The “stutter” that you refer to at the beginning of the song always had a bit of an echo of a hip hop beat where the DJ is scratching out an LP. It also has the power of a dam bursting which is about to throw a sonic tidal wave at you. 🎶 🌊
@ksqwerty1
@ksqwerty1 Год назад
Nirvana changed western culture with one song. And I’m thrilled I was there for it.
@ilcontefranz7746
@ilcontefranz7746 9 месяцев назад
Yeah but we need another Nirvana, right now.
@mabusestestament
@mabusestestament 5 месяцев назад
For a while. We’re right back where we started, in a way. Or set back even further, actually.
@DefenestrateYourself
@DefenestrateYourself 4 месяца назад
@@mabusestestament vague platitudes like this don’t add anything of value to the conversation. Feel free to elaborate if you have anything of substance to contribute
@mabusestestament
@mabusestestament 4 месяца назад
@@DefenestrateYourself Only if you say please.
@DefenestrateYourself
@DefenestrateYourself 4 месяца назад
@@mabusestestament dance monkey, dance
@FirstLast-zk5ow
@FirstLast-zk5ow Год назад
I love how she analyzes. So in touch and unbiased. Giving a truth and honest take. While going deep at the same time. #wantmore
@heffatheanimal2200
@heffatheanimal2200 Год назад
Yass! Really get that too. And the feeling that regardless of whether it's her sort of music, she's enthusiastic about it , the elements, the composition and what it creates. A genuine openness to learning and teaching. I can easily imagine Amy sitting down with Dave Grohl (or many other metal/rock musicians) in a studio and spending hours engrossed in deep diving
@baronvonaux8294
@baronvonaux8294 Год назад
Are you serious? She is literally pretending to have never heard Nirvana or Smells Like Teen Spirit before. This is so obviously bullshit.
@LeeKennison
@LeeKennison Год назад
Great reaction and analysis, glad you finally got to this one. I was certainly one of the ones advocating in the comments for you to do this during the Rock History series, since I think it is one of the more important songs to represent the 90s. While I thought it was important from a rock history perspective, I didn't think you would particularly enjoy it. So I was pleasantly surprised that you appreciated it more than I thought you would. I think having a years worth of rock listening experience has helped you appreciate it more now than you would have earlier in your journey.
@Marnee4191
@Marnee4191 Год назад
I was thinking basically the same!
@LeeKennison
@LeeKennison Год назад
@@Marnee4191 Hey Marnee! Good to see you here. I haven't seen you around for awhile. Although I haven't been reading through the comments as much lately so I may have missed some you have been making.
@Feniremmen1
@Feniremmen1 Год назад
As a kid of the 70’s, it’s recognizably the most important song of the 90’s. Everything was different before.
@cristianovia
@cristianovia Год назад
The year 1991 has been exceptional for bringing us a tons of iconic songs and albums and this is one of these. November Rain by Guns and Roses is even better to me, Losing my Religion by REM, One by U2, Innuendo (the whole slbum) by Queen, Under the Bridge by RHCP and Nothing else Matters by Metallica, just to name a few. What a great year of music!
@Feniremmen1
@Feniremmen1 Год назад
@@cristianovia yes. Such a great year of amazing albums. REM were finally considered mainstream and were one of the bands that laid the foundation for the decade to come. I think the point about smells like teen spirit is that it really laid waste to the previous landscape. I didn’t let go of all that I loved before, but somehow anything was possible.
@houdin654jeff
@houdin654jeff Год назад
I’m glad you brought up the drums, I think it’s the first time on this channel that you’ve heard the work of Dave Grohl. He’s an amazing drummer, but also a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, piano, and bass at least). After Cobain’s death, he formed his own group called Foo Fighters, actually releasing an initial album where he played every part of every track before getting together a band to play live and record other albums. Hopefully their work will show up here eventually.
@anguskerr1872
@anguskerr1872 9 месяцев назад
Lovely reaction. This is from my generation (I'm now 58) and I still relate to it, even though it's a long time since I was a teenager! One thing I would like to mention, is that if you notice here, Kurt is singing in a lower register in the verses, and the guitar drops out to give the vocal sonic space to breathe in the song. The guitar and voice occupy similar sonic space, so it's often a trick producers use to get a vocal more room, especially with a baritone vocal. (not to say Kurt is a baritone) which would otherwise be lost in a dense mix. When the guitars come in on the chorus, the vocal is higher and more intense, and can compete with the guitars.
@althealligator1467
@althealligator1467 9 месяцев назад
I do wonder then how, for example in Creep, you can hear the vocals so clearly? In the chorus, they're in the same, actually a bit lower register than Kurt's vocals in Teen Spirit, so with the super loud distorted guitar, why can we hear them so clearly?
@andymccabe6712
@andymccabe6712 Год назад
This sing still sends a shiver up my spine 32 years after it's release....wonderful...!!
@aires69uk
@aires69uk Год назад
Energetic.. cinematic.. power.. this song set the tone for the early 90's.. it was a moment in time that will never come again.
@MordicusEgg
@MordicusEgg Год назад
This is a fabulous analysis! I love that Amy focused on how teens would relate to this; because I was already an adult when this became popular, I was more focused on it as a piece that was critical of the music industry, and the culture that surrounded it.
@dvpe
@dvpe Год назад
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l1ZnWc-sFd0.html
@steveberkery6128
@steveberkery6128 Год назад
I was 23 when I first heard this song, and I understood it immediately. Profoundly. I’m so happy it continues to have the same impact on new listeners. That is what great music does.
@johnmontonye9660
@johnmontonye9660 Год назад
I love this break down. To this day I’m stirred by a memory of this song - as if a “where were you when moment.” I was from the Seattle area, so had heard grunge, been in mosh pits, so the sound wasn’t entirely new to me. But then I went off to school at the Naval Academy, where freedom gets stripped from you the first year, and they try to break you down. It was not an easy time. Being on the sailing team there, I was able to get away from it by going to the sailboat I was crew on, and studying there. One day on the boat studying, I had the radio on, and then the DJ announced “and now here’s a new track from a Seattle band, Nirvana, called ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit.’” Then that Seattle sound, and then the drums rolling in, and then for a moment it was the biggest release of stress … like I was free in lifting a big middle finger to my small world … I felt home, I felt free, I yelled and screamed in complete joy.
@dvpe
@dvpe Год назад
this is a breakdown... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l1ZnWc-sFd0.html
@lisawilliams8180
@lisawilliams8180 Год назад
What a beautiful, vivid telling of this story! Made me tear up a bit. Thank you for sharing!
@carcarjinks1430
@carcarjinks1430 Год назад
kurt turned nasal singing into an art form. his singing voice was basically everything a vocal teacher would tell you not to do, but he made it into his own style.
@rogerwitte
@rogerwitte Год назад
I remember being very confused by all the noise when I first listened to "Nevermind". It wasn't until after I heard the "MTV unplugged" recording that I was able to return to the original recording and hear the song structure under the arrangement. I also find it interesting that while most singers who have a message in the lyrics are very careful about enunciation, Kurt Cobain is almost singing in a drawl (obviously intentionally rather than through any lack of ability).
@artyplantsman9900
@artyplantsman9900 Год назад
Same. It took Unplugged to really turn me on to Nirvana.
@iwjiv
@iwjiv 2 дня назад
I was 21 when this came out & I was raised on 70s & 80s soul, hip hop with sprinkles of rock, blues, jazz, and gospel, so essentially the 1st 2 are my foundation but I listen to a bit of anything that catches my ear. The melody & baseline of TS sold me on the song & years later, in the 2000s, I exposed my youngest daughter & my son to it. We have rocked out to TS on more than 1 occasion over the years.
@tenderbiscuit
@tenderbiscuit Год назад
One of the things I love about this song, is that at the same time it is using that "teen energy" like so many other rock songs, it is being critical of that attitude. "We're stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us!" Love your channel. I have been wondering lately what you might do with a song by the group Sonic Youth. In particular, their song "Schizophrenia" would be a really nice one to review, I think. Just a thought.
@tenderbiscuit
@tenderbiscuit Год назад
Also, I remember being 22 in a bar with a whole bunch of other young folks people clad in the uniform of that time (motorcycle jackets and long hair) and watching everyone's head start banging to this song when it came on. It was actually a really beautiful moment.
@Steve-nu1md
@Steve-nu1md Год назад
Wow.....the harp and Kurt's voice....you bring tears to my eyes.....thank you for this understanding of the feel of the music
@garysimonson1135
@garysimonson1135 Год назад
This song changed EVERYTHING. I was 11 and living in California at the time - but suddenly everyone was dressing like they were from Seattle. So many Grunge bands came out of Seattle and changed the culture and the fashion of the times in the early 90s.
@albertorusso346
@albertorusso346 19 дней назад
I am nearly 50yo and every time I hear SLTS I go back to those sweaty moshy liberating moments of craziness we had in clubs, in the car, in the streets and whenever else we felt to let our guard down and be ourselves. I found your analysis touching and truthful to what my generation experienced by listening to this masterpiece. Thank you
@mipsungvuclam
@mipsungvuclam Год назад
Never thought I would hear the bass line played on a harp!😂 I love this channel!!!
@dichotomous9403
@dichotomous9403 Год назад
As a teenager, I spent 90% of my money on music, 40% of that was taking chances on bands I'd never heard. The day Nevermind came out, well before this video was released, I was at my go-to music shop looking for new music and the owner, Brandt (RIP) said I needed to check out this band, Nirvana. I asked who they sounded like. He said they don't sound like anyone. "Uh huh," I said, "No really, everyone sounds like someone. if you had to, who would you compare them to." He paused to think about it. Eventually, he came back with , "it's like Metallica meets the Beatles." I said, "I"m in."
@georgeresso6835
@georgeresso6835 Год назад
kurt had a knack for singing a melody that often times was the missing note in the chords he was playing
@AlesStibal
@AlesStibal Год назад
For me the song is unique for its exceptional dynamics. Melancholy and perhaps even lethargy changing into unleashed push. Personally, I love drums with heavy cymbal hits and interesting pattern which allows to feel the charge when it awakes.
@lupcokotevski2907
@lupcokotevski2907 Год назад
The song is an expression of humanity by channelling the raw emotion of a disaffected generation of youth. Its a song with profound meaning that technique and composition alone can never convey at such scale.
@VintageWanderer
@VintageWanderer Год назад
They got some of their dynamics from Pixies. The pixies played very soft and very loud giving them a sharp dynamic contrast. Nirvana was a breath of fresh air for us Generation X kids. Coming off the boring hair metal of the 1980's we needed this desperately. Cheers,
@dottore3870
@dottore3870 Год назад
Indeed. I remember an interview with Dave Grohl stating that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was an actual Pixie's rip-off.
@TheBrian08
@TheBrian08 Год назад
Kurt was a huge fan of the Beatles since very early childhood
@NotBenCoultry
@NotBenCoultry Год назад
The thing that feels good to me about a lot of these songs is the way they release aggression and anger type moods in higher form through catharsis, but musically here it's the restrained and somewhat wobbly tension of the teenage mind (clean guitar through a flanger pedal) being blasted into surprisingly explosive release with a really good, even distorted tone. I love that it sounds like corduroy to you, we wore a lot of it in this era lmao
@anthonyv6962
@anthonyv6962 Год назад
A couple of contributing factors that made this song so impactful are the following. In the decade before this commercial radio was dominated by hair metal bands that were dying a slow death and classic rock that appeared to be immortal. At the other end of the spectrum was Michael Jackson and other stale R&B acts that interestingly were about to be dethroned by a wave of new Hip Hop. People were ready for a new era of music, and it was bubbling just under the surface with acts like Janes Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers. What the Nirvana Album had that shot it to the moon was for one the production of this album. While masquerading as a grunge or punk act this album has a made for radio pop production sound. Really well produced. Not nearly as raw as the previously mentioned acts. The songs were so catchy and easy to sing along with without having to know the words. Kurt wrote songs that had a pop sensibility. Not forgetting that the rhythm section had such driving catchy grooves. It was a perfect storm of factors that sent them to the stratosphere.
@kyrretraaviklaberg9427
@kyrretraaviklaberg9427 18 дней назад
Actually the "hey" part was repeated four times in studio in the earlier rendition, but Butch Vig (the sound engineer for Nevermind) suggested that they halved it, and they agreed. AND: the version of the song you're listening to halves the intro where the heavy gitars are, and halves the guitar solo...
@ryandean3162
@ryandean3162 Год назад
Broad As. Nirvahhnahh. Super influential on the 90s and everything that came after. Kind of famous for being difficult to understand what he's singing. Weird Al's parody of this song, Smells Like Nirvana, is all about that. The first verse is "What is this song all about?/Can't figure any lyrics out/How do the words to it go?/I wish you'd tell me, I don't know." Speaking of Weird Al, I don't know if you'd ever want to do him on the channel, though he's kind of an important undercurrent of the music world for the last 40 years or so, but doesn't just do rock songs. Might be fun to give the music videos a watch on your own though. Another good one for you, given where you grew up, would be his parody video of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise called Amish Paradise, though it's more Lancaster than other communities. His first big hit was a parody of Queen's Another One Bites the Dust called Another One Rides the Bus. Also, rather good to watch the music videos in general for any song from the 80s to the 2000s or so or whenever MTV stopped actually being MTV. They are kind of important for the time.
@houseson
@houseson Год назад
She should do weird al's version! Yes!
@bernhardkrickl3567
@bernhardkrickl3567 Год назад
Accolades aside, Grunge in general and this song in particular really shaped popular music history. Rock and Metal music wasn't the same afterwards. I was reaching the end of my teenage years when that song hit and I remember exactly how it felt: It was totally different from everything I had loved in the 80s but it felt so right! It felt like something that desperately needed to happen. A revolution.
@pnshr88
@pnshr88 Год назад
In an interview with Pharrell, Dave Grohl(Nirvana's drummer) stated that most of his beats on Nevermore were basically disco/funk beats such as the very beginning of Smells Like Teen Spirit is The Gap Bands - Early In The Morning
@jasonemikel
@jasonemikel 9 месяцев назад
I laughed so hard at Pharrell's reaction. It was so authentic.
@neilfraser1235
@neilfraser1235 Год назад
Watching Mary play Nirvana on her harp made my day
@tigerlily8447
@tigerlily8447 Год назад
Who is Mary? 😂
@dondebomm6329
@dondebomm6329 Год назад
In the late 90's I had just moved into an apartment on the 2nd with my newlywed wife. New neighbors moved in the 1st floor, two young men who loved to party into the wee hours playing loud music. Despite my requests to stop being loud by 10 pm they continued until I had enough. One early morning when knew they were hung over I decided to play my music...full blast. You guessed it, the first 30 seconds of smells like teen spirit shaking the whole building was enough to suddenly respect my requests. 😂
@chrisofnottingham
@chrisofnottingham Год назад
It only took me about 20 years to notice that title of the song isn't in the lyrics :-) And yet, that title is an important part of the song's mood and identity.
@floretionguru2977
@floretionguru2977 Год назад
Love your wonderful reactions and insightful analysis- now you have a frame of reference for Weird Al's Smells Like Nirvana :). ps I much prefer you watch a video first as you do here without commenting too much and then returning as I think it has an effect when there are a lot of interuptions.
@ferniek5000
@ferniek5000 Год назад
I heard this song when it first came out on MTV. I found it so deeply disturbing, I had to turn it off (against my sister's protests). It really connected with me and I could feel the pain and was discomforted by it. I appreciate it deeply still today, but also feel the trouble in it. There is power, a strong magnet there, but it has never been a happy entertainment for me.
@VinsPol247
@VinsPol247 Год назад
Great review. It was 1993 when I had the honor of seeing Nirvana in concert. Kurt sounds just the same in concert as he did on the album. Best concert ever!
@nianfiedler5291
@nianfiedler5291 Год назад
I saw them as well. He certainly did not sound like he did on the album. But great show nonetheless
@WayneKitching
@WayneKitching Год назад
Now Amy must do "Smells like Nirvana" by Weird Al Yankovic.
@heidichristensen7919
@heidichristensen7919 Год назад
I’ve heard a few breakdowns of Nirvanas music, but hearing from a classical viewpoint is fascinating. Going to look for your Beatles videos now!
@stpetie7686
@stpetie7686 Год назад
Good plan. Don't stop with the Beatles, though. She has impressive insights on pretty much every song she analyzes.
16 дней назад
Thank you so very much for your never prejudiced approach. Your statements open up my view on the kind of music I always felt.
@ed.z.
@ed.z. Год назад
Bravo! for listening to whole piece first before breaking it down.
@ericwebster28
@ericwebster28 Год назад
You should check out “Weird Al” Yankovic’sp parody of this song called “Smells Like Nirvana”. He changed the lyrics to make fun of Kurt Cobain’s lack of pronunciation and mimicked many elements of the music video with complete accuracy.
@dago87able
@dago87able Год назад
I simply loved this
@allisonal
@allisonal Год назад
The lyrics always remind me now of a study I read about in an old book on physical touch between animals such as humans. They were looking at groups of strangers and people’s comfort levels with being themselves within the group. I forget the specifics of the experimental setup-they might have asked the group to work together to accomplish a task, or something like that. What they found was, people felt much more comfortable being themselves and being around this group of (vetted) strangers when the lights were off and they had to rely more on touch than vision to interface with other people. Makes sense: touch is inherently connecting, sight is inherently disconnecting-we feel other people connected to us, we see them apart from us. Maybe, scientifically speaking, that’s the function of the dim basements and school dances teenagers tend to hang out in: facilitates social connection and self-expression within the group, without reliance on any substances! Anyway, I first heard this song when I was very much the target audience, and it completely changed my worldview and the types of music I wanted to listen to. Just like it did to the music industry as a whole when it exploded onto the scene. There’s a clear “before” and “after” tied directly to this song, in my mind. Speaking of contrast, I think it’s best understood in contrast with what came directly before (whether we’re talking about cheesy 80s music, or the singsongy stuff kids might hear a lot of in grade school, etc before they gain control over their listening experience.)
@ryanstansfield5156
@ryanstansfield5156 Год назад
Great reaction and reflections! Another part II think is important is, for those teens for whom this track resonates, this song is really accessible to play for those starting their musical journeys (like many Nirvana songs!). So, not only is it a release of teenage angst because of listening to it, but also because young musicians can pick up an instrument, play it quite easily, and release that angst through being part of the music and connecting more cathartically. For me and I'm sure many others, these were the first rock songs I learned.
@style5571
@style5571 12 дней назад
Listening to this brings back a nostalgic feeling that's so visceral. It's a feeling I love it and hate it at the same time. Amazing song.
@patriciamckean4682
@patriciamckean4682 Год назад
Tori Amos does a cover of this song on extended album Little Earthquakes. Just a piano and her vocals. Its stripped down and shows how beautiful this song is.
@thonnibrandao4769
@thonnibrandao4769 2 месяца назад
I'm 43 years old, and I feel my "teenage" side as an intrinsic pattern of myself. That kind of message "I don't belong here" is strong for me because of the problems with mental health, difficulties trying to be like the others and feeling like I'm different. I think that's the real message of this song and Kurt was that kind of guy. I'll see the reaction of "Creep"; same vibe.
@curtislow255
@curtislow255 Год назад
That sustained feedback during the third verse is the icing on the cake of this song. Always loved that part.
@mirkus21
@mirkus21 Год назад
There are many songs from Nirvana that I like more than this... but this hit the spot that makes somehow great or big and gather the people!!! Thank you for your work!!! Much appreciated!!! From Argentina...
@gino88
@gino88 Год назад
Leave it to Amy to catch part of the melody might be a Schubert cover. I love it.
@garryiglesias4074
@garryiglesias4074 Год назад
Contrast is a "trademark" of grunge, it's been used in many music, of course (Beethoven), but one of the grunge precursors on this were the "Pixies", another band to add to your list :).
@furryhoof647
@furryhoof647 Год назад
Which song would you want her to analyze? So much variation, it's hard to choose a song that defines the Pixies sound. My vote is for Caribou. I wish more alternative rock bands had incorporated surf into their sound like the pixies did. I love the surf in Joey Santiago's guitar so much that i tried to get into actual surf music but it was too much, the Pixies just sprinkle it in, leaving me wanting more.
@garryiglesias4074
@garryiglesias4074 Год назад
@@furryhoof647 "Monkey Goes To Heaven", "Gigantic", obviously the hit "Where is my mind", so many to mention ! :) Caribou yes, as the proud father of a canadian boy, I love this song too :).
@elevenseven-yq4vu
@elevenseven-yq4vu Год назад
I would recommend "Wave of Mutilation" or "Debaser".
@garryiglesias4074
@garryiglesias4074 Год назад
@@elevenseven-yq4vu Yeah, Debaser of course, how could I forget, and I love Wave of mutilation too.. Indeed, problem is, when you really like a band's work, it's often difficult to reduce to one or two tracks, so many good stuff I'd put most as #1 :)
@furryhoof647
@furryhoof647 Год назад
@@elevenseven-yq4vuWhile Debaser is glorious and iconic among Pixies fans, i dunno if a classical musician can appreciate it at first hearing, or ever. Wave of Mutilation is definitely one of the songs i recommend to new listeners, and Where is my mind. My very hard to choose top 5: Caribou Velouria River Euphrates (i think i'm alone on this one) Tie between Levitate Me, Nimrod's Son, Wave of Mutilation and Crackity Jones (lol i cheated)
@TestMeatDollSteak
@TestMeatDollSteak Год назад
Fun fact: the lyric “a mulatto, an albino / a mosquito, my libido”, which comes at the end of the song’s chorus, might sound like a juxtaposition of random words that happen to share similar phonetics, but it is actually kind of a witty, under-the-radar way to communicate to the listener that the song’s narrator is very horny. It’s intended to be understood as two pairs of opposites - mulattos are people with a lot of skin pigmentation, albinos have no skin pigmentation; mosquitoes are very small, his libido is therefore very large. I always thought that was kind of cool and clever. Most rock singers, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s, were much more blatant and vulgar with their sexual proclamations in their music. Kurt put it out there, but he deliberately obscured it.
@MetalGearyaTV
@MetalGearyaTV Год назад
Nirvana fanboy is trying to find a deep meaning when there is no one.
@TestMeatDollSteak
@TestMeatDollSteak Год назад
@@MetalGearyaTV - Troll is trying to troll harder, but fails and remains flaccid.
@MetalGearyaTV
@MetalGearyaTV Год назад
@@TestMeatDollSteak Cobain was an atrocious lyricist, and it's basically a fact. He put no effort in his work, it's well known.
@MetalGearyaTV
@MetalGearyaTV Год назад
@@TestMeatDollSteak Your analysis is full of holes and very incoherent. For example, a mulatto and an albino are types of a human (with different pigmentation), but a moquito and libido are incomparable things. Libido is not even a thing actually. So how can you compare it with any of this? Mulatto is something high in pigmentation and is going first, while libido is going second in a line when it should have been first actually. There's no structural cohesion here. You just want to attribute some meaning when it's not present here.
@marysweeney7370
@marysweeney7370 Год назад
I remember being utterly motionless my heart pounding mouth open, couldn't believe what I was hearing ,I was stunned it was so good, when the song came on the radio. Real rock was back!!! Oh that tiresome, insipid 80's music was swept away with this one song. It was earth shattering at the time. I still love grunge For me, it was about the sound first, the alienation second!
@naysay02
@naysay02 9 месяцев назад
i wasn’t even a teen and remember the song just blew me away. i was off the couch, headbanging, lurching. couldn’t help it. my first nirvana song and what an experience it was. rip kurt
@freeman4real
@freeman4real 2 месяца назад
I personally love Kurt and his music because alot of his stuff sounds the way I feel. So to have music that sonically sounds the way i feel alot of the time was special. Their unplugged album is one of my all time favorites.
@BrendanAshton
@BrendanAshton Год назад
Great analysis and interpretation. It captures that feeling and gives the chance to release it out.
@Giack7
@Giack7 Месяц назад
I think in my teens this song just made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world feeling whatever I was feeling.. it was all in this song and in Nevermind, of course, I don't know if I would have make it out that time without Nirvana... But I am pretty sure I did because of Nirvana. now I am 41, I've listen to a lot of music.. and still do... I can not say this is my favorite listening.. but I still never get tired of it and it still speaks to me and what I feel now.
@Hartlor_Tayley
@Hartlor_Tayley Год назад
This was a very fun and insightful video.
@mk-vi5qw
@mk-vi5qw 12 дней назад
Also a teacher here, but for me this song is more a feel, than an age. A feel, that smells like the teenage years, but isn't bound to them. It's also way more desperate, than just 'having fun'. It's a really ambivalent feeling, hard to put into words, but easy to put into unshaped body movements...
@cjonesufc
@cjonesufc Год назад
You just made a connection for me. I’m a huge fan of an underground rapper out of New York named Aesop Rock. He has a line in a song called “Bug Zapper” where he says… “I still row boats out of bottles without abandon To shrink into the sunset bumpin Pachelbel’s Cannon” And now I understand. Time to check out that piece.
@kimchristensen453
@kimchristensen453 4 месяца назад
I love how Kurts voice in the verses verve in and out snaking along with the bass line groove. It's a very nice complementary contrast.
@d-pod_L
@d-pod_L Год назад
Let's hope for some Pixies after this
@BellsCuriosityShop
@BellsCuriosityShop Год назад
Debaser or Holiday Song would be the obvious ones for me. Monkey would be a cop out.
@DonTrump-sv1si
@DonTrump-sv1si Год назад
The only thing about hearing this song, for the first time, now in 2023, is that there has been so many bands that have mimicked this sound. You have to realize when this song hit the airways, back in 92, no one had ever heard anything even remotely like this. Just the shock factor of something so powerfully distorted, with drums that sounded like they were drilling your head was enough to change music. Now hearing something like this isnt so shocking. Even if you havnt heard this before im sure you heard something similar.
@tudo_e_possivel
@tudo_e_possivel Год назад
Thanks to this song, I became a fan of music. All styles of good music. More than this: I became a fan of all kinds of art. Even more than this: I became an artist myself...
@JohnSmith-w5b
@JohnSmith-w5b Год назад
Wish we had more punk and grunge today
@Kevvinm
@Kevvinm Год назад
The chats or Amyl and the Sniffers, give them a listen.
@svenvervloet1273
@svenvervloet1273 Год назад
Recorded in the pre-Protools area, in the'90 's where there was still room for "imperfection". Beats per minute vary all the time during this song, and give it such a huge dynamic feel, made and played by humans, not machines that would "correct" every beat. Still an amazing song after 30 years. Please do the imperfect Afghan Whigs too (song: Bulletproof). Great reviews, thanks!
@srdjr6760
@srdjr6760 Год назад
Funny you should mention Pro Tools. Butch Vig used an early version ( not yet called Pro Tools) to put "Something in the Way" together. Kurt played it laying on his back and strumming a crappy acoustic. Butch had a hard time adding in the other instrumentation.
@dvpe
@dvpe Год назад
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l1ZnWc-sFd0.html
@vytallicaq.6881
@vytallicaq.6881 Год назад
Love the sauna/cold plunge analogy. That applies as well to the iconic "2112" by Rush. That one being additionally interspersed with some lovely, melodic intricacies throughout. I love your descriptive style Amy! 👏
@GiordanoBruno42
@GiordanoBruno42 Год назад
I wholeheartedly recommend dedicating a series to radiohead eventually! A few tracks from each album of theirs would mak for a great series, which would show the noteworthy progression of Radiohead's music over the decades. I'd be extremely excited to see a reaction to any track from the album "In Rainbows" Much love and respect
@stevenmcmahon6110
@stevenmcmahon6110 5 месяцев назад
I've been watching your videos for a couple of months now, I love them. All the music you are reviewing, is music I grew up with. It's great to see a classical musician look at this music technically and see the beauty in rock music that other classical musicians would disregard because it's different from what they've heard most of their life. I'd love to have long discussions about music with you but that'll never happen because we come from completely different lives, but that is what's great about your videos. Love your videos, keep doing what you're doing
@robertpetre9378
@robertpetre9378 Год назад
It’s fascinating what you can do with a couple of powerchords and an F sharp, minor pentatonic scale 😅. I remember reading in Kurt Cobain‘s autobiography heavier than heaven that he wanted to create a sound that had the melodic feel of the Beatles, and the heaviness of AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin in one.
@DustySoul257
@DustySoul257 Год назад
"Heavier Than Heaven" is NOT an autobiography. Charles R. Cross, a well regarded music publisher, journalist, and historian in Seattle wrote the biography about Kurt. I gave him a few suggestions in advance on who to interview in Aberdeen for his book, as Aberdeen is my hometown.
@cliffstone71
@cliffstone71 5 месяцев назад
I will never forget when I first heard SLTS. It rocked my world and my musical senses have never been the same.
@ericwilliams1031
@ericwilliams1031 Год назад
This song single handedly ended 80s hair metal.
@grassygnoll3345
@grassygnoll3345 Год назад
It was like a bomb going off in your face. I'd been waiting for it without knowing what it was I wanted.
@redgoals5701
@redgoals5701 Год назад
Thank god.
@n.d.m.515
@n.d.m.515 Год назад
I only partly agree with this. The hair band music was already in decline, much as grunge and alternative died in the late 90s when corporate pop and rap took over.
@martinbreeson9637
@martinbreeson9637 3 месяца назад
I absolutely LOVE this channel! I am addicted. Love your analysis of the songs. Reminds me of my musicology professors if they were open to other music. They would never listen to these songs. But you do, and I appreciate you for it. You can understand the musicality and respect it. Kudos.
@upness
@upness Год назад
I listen a lot to their contemporaries, Radiohead, who are still together, although they haven’t released an album for some time. They have a number of classic albums such as ‘OK Computer’, ‘Kid A’, and ‘The Bends’. There’s also an excellent live rendition of ‘In Rainbows’ on RU-vid entitled ‘Radiohead - In Rainbows From the Basement (April 2008)’. A ‘Pay What You Want’ became their most financially successful album.
@BloggerMusicMan
@BloggerMusicMan Год назад
She HAS to listen to Radiohead at some point. I'd start with OK Computer.
@skaarphy5797
@skaarphy5797 3 месяца назад
The influence of Smells like Teen Spirit on pop and youth culture cannot be underestimated. It was a game changer. Subculture became mainstream culture. There was no going back after that.
@dennismason3740
@dennismason3740 Год назад
Kurt was a huge Beatles fan.
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