Man this song’s impact when it dropped was something serious. I was a hip hop head and a casual rock fan back then. This was literally a game changer in the music industry
This track is a rare moment where the video was just as important as the song was. Up until '91, it was all hair metal songs about partying with supermodel girls who would dance around all the guys that were wearing makeup and leather straps. When this video hit, it was a sudden shock to the system where the new generation of kids all looked like this - slacker clothes, hair that wasn't done in front of a mirror, and a fed up attitude towards "fake partying". It didn't last long - this whole generation was depressed. But just before rap finally broke out in to the mainstream in the mid-ish/early 90's, this track defined a whole generation in one video.
1991 - Two weeks into my freshman year of college I'm sitting in the student union building and MTV premiers Smells Like Teen Spirit in front of dozens of students. Minds blown. This song/video obliterated a decade of really terrible hair band videos and songs. Nirvana and the legendary bands of the rock grunge era changed the music scene almost in an instant.
Dude ...what fake partying are you talking about? I love Nirvana but to suggest that the era before was "fake partying"...the era before was balls to the walls partying, I know cause I was there. I was teens in the 80s...and 20s and still very young when Nirvana came out. It was all good. But I have to say the 80s party was bigger, better, more inclusive only because the mass incarceration process over partying didn't occur until the 90s. Today we are still very careful when and where we party bc of the 'BS policies of the 90s. Don't listen to me, do your own research on alcohol/drug incarceration over the decades.
The glamrock/hair metal era of the late 80s was just a small slice of 80s music, which was probably the most musically diverse decade ever. And nobody partied harder than people in the 70s and 80s. Nothing fake about it. Nirvana was the real deal when they came out, but their genre of music got copied and corporatized just like every other genre. Today that is pretty much all that exists.
That drummer is the superstar Dave Grohl of the band Foo Fighters. One of the most gracious and down to earth rockers I’ve ever seen. And I’m 60. You should watch him bring fans on the stage to play and sing with the band.
Dave is definitely the nicest guy in Rock it seems. FF is my favorite band. I love when he brings fans up to sing. Who else hands some one the microphone, drum sticks, and I've even seen him hand his own guitar. Very bad ass.
That makes sense. The impact this song had to culture as a whole was insane. Even people who never got into the grunge scene were still impacted by it for the rest of the decade. Wow. That fact really has me thinking deep into this now. Lol
@@rachelsullivan2926 It definitely got me into grunge. Everything about this song is perfect. I wish there were still mainstream songs like this with this level of talent and passion.
Hey yo Dave Grohl is the drummer and brings the energy every time his life performances are incredible you guys would also probably like the pretender video by the Foo Fighters which he is the lead singer of.
Foo fighters is great. The drummer from Nirvana is the front man and rhythm guitarist for them. Dave Grohl is one of my all time favorite musicians ever.
The fact he had the foresight to make Taylor Hawkins, formerly of Alanis Morissette's band, his drummer proved his ear to me (along with years of previous work.)
You can talk about the drummer Dave making Foo Fighters or Kurt, but the importance this song had on music is legendary. It's a watershed song, it changed things.
Facts 💯 this song literally marked the end of the very popular 80's glam & hair bands. It gave rise to a whole new sound, attitude, and generation of music. Grunge was here - welcome to the 90's - just like that.
that was the real last wake-up call of a band for a whole generation. I can say that because I have seen Led Zeppelin and others live. When the song came out I was 30, nothing like that happened again, the music today is great, partly really great, and after listening to it you forget it again immediately. what kind of lucky child I am that I was allowed to grow up in the 80s and 90s, music still had a soul
This comment sums up 💯 how I feel- I was in college when this came out- mind blown when I first heard it- and just like that.. we had the grunge era.. oh how blessed I am to have been able to live thru the 70’s, 80’, & 90’s- hit and hit after hit.. we didn’t know how good we had it!
This is one of my favorite bands of all time. Please react to “In Bloom” or “Come As You Are” next. The lead singer is Kurt Cobain which I’m sure you’ve heard of before. He’s a legend and defined a whole generation.
The drummer is Dave Grohl, founder and frontman of the Foo Fighters. After Kurt passed away and Nirvana was finished, he really put in the work and made a successful career for himself.
And if you watch live performances, they were so tight as a band, must’ve rehearsed a lot. Almost perfectly reproduced their studio albums. They sound amazing doing their live versions.
*Weird Al - "Smells Like Nirvana". Weird Al does parodies of songs and he's the best at it. It would be fun to see you guys check out some of his songs after seeing/hearing the original.*
The drummer, Dave Grohl, also played drums on Queens Of The Stone Age's song "No One Knows" (you'll be great to react to this music video), and he is currently the vocalist for the band Foo Fighters.
This whole album Nevermind is great. As someone mentioned about the drummer check out his band Foo Fighters and check out the song/video The Pretender.
From a guy who was a teen living in Seattle when this song hit, if you want the gods of Seattle listen to Alice in Chains We die young. The music scene in Seattle Chains was top. Layne Staley's voice was simply on another level than almost every singer of that time God rest his soul.
When he was first learning drums, he held his sticks backwards. He eventually turned them around. Nirvana picked him as their 5th drummer because he hit so hard. His beat is pure Gap Band.
This is why nirvana restarted rock in the 90s. They changed the whole face of music. Very few bands had the same impact, your shirts have 2 of the other bands who had such an amazing impact, sabbath and zep.
Jon bonjovi, def leppard, motley crew, gun n roses were already well established in pop rock. I wouldn't call a restart. However they really kicked off 1993 with the grunge genre. It was really underground until that point.
Nirvana changed the face of the music industry *OVERNIGHT* with this song! It went stratospheric and defined a new genre - 'grunge'. I adored them and like everyone else, I was devastated when singer/songwriter/lead guitarist, Kurt Cobain took his own life in 1994 at the peak of their fame. Kurt you are missed - R.I.P.💔
Welcome to the wonderful world of Nirvana! A few more notable songs from Nirvana worth reacting to are - Come as You Are You Know You're Right About a Girl Heart Shaped Box Sliver Where Did You Sleep Last Night (MTV Unplugged)
nirvana took over the 90s. the lead singer passed away in 1994 by suicide , at the age of 27 years old. he was so young. please react to more nirvana. i recommend “aneurysm” live at the paramount 1991
The Industry labelled this music "Grunge" but for us at the time it was finally a new and unique rock sound and vision. While we all listened and rocked with the bands whose shirts you are both wearing, this was our generations music.
Little tid bit of info. Dave the drummer you have seen in a commercial recently where he's yelling up to Kevin Hart "I'm making lasagna. Do you want some lasagna!".
Dave Grohl wrote a song "Marigold" a B-side on single "Heart-Shaped Box" that I still hold in respect as the first Foo Fighters song. Years before Foo Fighters existed.
I'll never forget buying the single to this on tape lol. I had this blasting for the whole day. The energy was something new for me and it sounded so different from the hair metal before it. It lead me down a rabbit hole that introduced me to groups like Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Sound garden and other grunge groups; as well as alternative bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Blur, Collective Soul and Presidents of the United States. Nirvana was a whole vibe.
When Nirvana first debuted in 1989, no one thought that this punk rock-inspired trio from Seattle would revolutionize music in the 1990's for a brief moment and changed the game forever... This music video was shot in 1991 on a low budget - Nirvana had played a show that night, and just invited their audience to the video shoot. Even tho the band was just playing to a track on the P.A. in a school gym, the audience went nuts and trashed the set. They were still broke when this video hit MTV in the fall of '91, and by November, the album 'Nevermind' knocked Michael Jackson's 'Dangerous' album to hit #1 on the US charts. Despite his limited skills playing guitar, vocalist/guitarist Kurt Cobain knew what he wanted his band to sound like when Nirvana came together in 1987 w/ Krist Novoselic on bass... Chad Channing soon joined on drums. Kurt wrote all the songs and most of the music for Nirvana, and completed the first album 'Bleach' in 1989 on a small budget for indie Seattle label Sub Pop. Nirvana was raw and primal, and had a lot of melody as well... the first record sold well, but Nirvana was not a typical rock band that sold millions of records in 1990. They looked weird, dressed cheap, and sounded under-produced. In early 1991, drummer Dave Grohl joined Nirvana and brought his hard-hitting beat into the band. An offer from Geffen Records that year got Nirvana back in the studio that year, and they cut their second album 'Nevermind' w/ producer Butch Vig. When 'Nevermind' was released in 1991 and "Smells like teen spirit" was the first single, Nirvana thought they would never become as big as Guns N' Roses or Metallica... but MTV made the single a huge success and 'Nevermind' sold millions that year. By 1992, Nirvana's unexpected success brought focus on the Seattle scene, which the press dubbed 'grunge' rock... Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains... all had huge hit records in '92. Kurt Cobain had been evicted from his apartment in '91, and then he was making million$. The band ended the year w/ a record of unreleased Nirvana tracks titled 'Incesticide'... However, pressure from success and health problems had driven Kurt Cobain into h addiction to curb his pain. The sudden fame was a burden on Cobain and not what he expected. Nirvana wanted a return to their primal, raw sound on the next record 'In Utero' in 1993, and performed an acoustic set of original songs and covers on MTV 'Unplugged' that year. However, on tour, Kurt was slowly coming apart. In Europe around early 1994, he reportedly attempted suicide, but survived... He was flown back to the States and checked into rehab, but jumped the wall eventually and took a flight back to Seattle... Kurt Cobain's body was found in his home by an electrician in April 1994. He had written a suicide note to his fans, shot himself up w/ h one last time, then took his own life w/ a shotgun to his head. Kurt Cobain was only 27 when he died. Nirvana was over. The band released the 'MTV Unplugged' acoustic record in late 1994... Cobain's final song recorded w/ Nirvana was "You know you're right" and it was released in 2002, showing how much turmoil he was in by his lyrics. Nirvana's drummer Dave Grohl was devastated after the death of Kurt Cobain; he had recorded an album of his songs while in Nirvana, on which he sang lead, played guitar, bass and drums. After some time off, he launched a new project Foo Fighters in 1995 and refused to perform any Nirvana songs live... Foo Fighters began touring that year and Grohl built his own success separate from Nirvana, and he embraced his role as vocalist/guitarist of Foo Fighters til today.
Perfect explanation! Sometimes I try to listen to this song like I have never heard it before, to try to get that feeling back. Sometimes it works and I can feel the nostalgia, "wow, what is this? who is this?" experience again. First time I saw this video, I literally called up all my buddies, and was like, "Hey, you have to check out this band!" Like you said, something about it was different and refreshing. Like we all said, "finally, something new" No more Slaughter, White Lion, Cinderella, Ratt, Whitesnake . . . not there was anything wrong with those bands, but the music was just turning into the same ol' mashed up crap we kept hearing over and over. It was time to put it to rest.
If you like drumming you should check out the band Skillet, they have a dope female drummer. Their song and video for Awake and Alive is hella hype, y'all would definitely dig it.
Dave Grohl, the drummer - started his own band called the Foo Fighters. He played ALL the instruments but eventually invited others in to make the band. Fun fact - Dave Grohl Is a big BeeGees fan and did a cover album. (I know you’re liking the BeeGees too ha)
Dave G went back and fourth with this 11 year old girl , playing drums. the little girl finaly played with Foo Fighters at a live show , and she killed it
Saw them in concert at the legendary First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis, 1991. A band I knew was opening for them and got me and brother in to the show. I was 22 and had just graduated college a few months before. This song changed the music scene overnight. There was just something special and different about it - when you heard it, you just knew it was special.
One of the most important songs in rock history - it changed everything. Nirvana was part of the Grunge movement, which originated in Seattle in the early 90s. You had Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and many others. Check out some other Nirvana songs like Lithium, Heart Shaped Box, School, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Negative Creep, Aneurysm, etc. Also check out Alice in Chains - Them Bones, Soundgarden - Outshined, Pearl Jam - Evenflow, Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike.
He said Dave was the best drummer for the band bc he hit so hard you could hear the drums through the music. Dave ended up starting foo fighters after Nirvana
The drummer is Dave Grohl also the lead singer of the Foo Fighters (if you haven’t heard of them either take a listen)the lead singer you likes voice so much was Kurt Cobain who started a new genre of music and changed a whole generation. Plus he was ahead of his time. This was his message back when CDs would have a pamphlet type thing that would sometimes have lyrics, song list w/e the band or rap artist wanted to put Kurt included a message for their second album ‘In Utero’ was “If you’re a sexist, racist, homophobe or basically an asshole, don’t buy this CD. I don’t care if you like me, I hate you.” Good to see Gen X liking older music. If y’all are Gen X looks like it atleast. And if you haven’t heard this song I assume you are.
This "Grunge" Band is from Seattle. The genre of "Grunge Rock" was started in that city in the early 1990s. Kurt Cobain was so talented, and as we have all seen hundreds of times before, He was found dead in his Seattle Mansion of an apparent Heroin overdose. The rumors of murder continue to this day. Fame and money don't make you happy.
That drummer is now a legendary super rock star! The Foo Fighters is his band and they are what you want to hear if you want to listen to the best rock n roll there's ever been! I suggest Times Like These, All my Life, the Pretender, and Learn to Fly, their best songs in my opinion. They're an amazing band, so amazing in fact they sold out at Wembly Stadium in just minutes when they're tickets went on sale. Have you ever seen Wembly Stadium? It's huge!!!! Amazing guy, a m amazing band, you really need to react to them. If you don't, your definitely missing out!
My favorite band!!! 💪🥁🎵🎸🎤🎶 I love all those songs. "Everlong" Live at Wembley was incredible. Dave sang it acoustic then brought it home total banger at the end of the song. Bad ass! Watch it if you haven't!
The drummer got the opening beat from the GAP band. Just heard that story this year 😂 Also you know the drummer is a badass when all you can see is sticks and hair lol.
I was a teenager in the early 90s. That smile on her at 6:19 is glowing. She would have been into it back then 😚 ..and him, we would have welcomed him with open arms. Kurt would have wanted that, too 🤗
The drummer (Dave Grohl) drummed to this entire song, while it played on loud speakers, during a show of his, a few months ago. The entire time his hair's in his face, and he's banging his head. After Kurt Cobain died, For a long time, Dave couldn't even talk about Nirvana, much less play Nirvana songs, because it made him sad. So seeing him drum to Nirvana again, is awesome. The video is on UA-cam if you want to check it out.
this was one of them songs, that you had no intention of learning the lyrics too, but it was played so much, you unintentionally can sing it word for word.
It’s hard to understand now how revolutionary this song was in 1991. Hard rock was all hairspray, spandex and partying. This was dark, brooding and heavy with amazing hooks. But it didn’t just replace hair bands. Kurt Cobain took on pop icons. This song actually knocked Michael Jackson out of the number one spot on the charts. Kurt wrote great pop songs. They just happened to be hard as fuck.
As mentioned but just to reiterate .... Dave Grohl, the drummer, is now lead singer and a guitarist in Foo Fighters. One of the few bands who came to South Africa, so that was awesome. Also check out the Rocking 1000 story and his battle with Nandi Bushell, an 11 year old drummer. One of the nicest guys in rock history. Oh and check out his broken leg story.
RIP Kurt. Man was a genius. He wrote all the music all the way down to the guitar chords etc. When he died the band was literally at their peak. His daughter can sing and play guitar too but she's not in a band. She looks like a Kurt mini me lol
best drummer(joey jordison, rob bourdon, matthew, dave grohl, jay weinberg) best bassist(ryan martinie) best guitarist(james root, mick tompson) best vocalist(chester bennington, corey taylor, chad gray, kurt cobain)
I remember the first time I heard this on MTV and just being dumbstruck staring at my tv. Just absorbing it. The second time I saw it I knew I had a new favorite song and that things were now different. I was 16, a late GenXer. Such a great time period to come of age. We were the last era to grow up in the “old world.”
Oh my God All of a sudden I'm 17 years old, jammin this shit in my system! Great job guys. I come from the era of classic grunge. Good shit for real! Love it
Now this is more like it. My favorite Nirvana song of all time. Classic. I like guitars better than drums, but in this song I like how they both balance each other out. Yeah that energy is through the roof.
I'm setting the over/under for the percentage of comments saying " The drummer is the lead singer of Foo fighters" at 70.5% and I'm taking the over easily. If I was able to get accurate ages I'd do the over/under percentage of people commenting about how " Nirvana changed music overnight" that wasn't even alive in 91/92 at somewhere in the 80.5 - 85.5% range
Dave Grohl is the drummer ......then he became the singer for and created the Foo Fighters ........one of the greatest bands ever ........you two already have heard their songs, whether you realize or not and would make for great reactions.
@@jennhurl that is awesome .....I look forward to it.......on a side note ......check out Foo Fighters at Wembley Stadium when John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page come out with them to do some Led Zeppelin songs .......was magical
I lived in Seattle in 1980s and 90s. The city was electric with all the musicians moving in. Walking downtown you got to see many of the band members just walking around. You could see these groups for less than $10 and be blown away. Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam we were lucky enough to see them all. Such a fun time. ❤✌
dave grohl is the drummer hes great his band after nirvana was the foo fighters check out the song called learn to fly he has a great singing voice too!
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Man this song’s impact when it dropped was something serious. I was a hip hop head and a casual rock fan back then. This was literally a game changer in the music industry
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I remember it was so different to anything we'd ever heard before. And then we gave it name: "grunge".
they tore through music and said hear we are, fuck you if you like it, fuck you if you dont
Facts hip hop dudes were head banging to this u had no choice it hit that hard.
I was one of the billion teenage boys who ran out and bought a guitar after this song dropped. This album was a game changer
This track is a rare moment where the video was just as important as the song was. Up until '91, it was all hair metal songs about partying with supermodel girls who would dance around all the guys that were wearing makeup and leather straps. When this video hit, it was a sudden shock to the system where the new generation of kids all looked like this - slacker clothes, hair that wasn't done in front of a mirror, and a fed up attitude towards "fake partying". It didn't last long - this whole generation was depressed. But just before rap finally broke out in to the mainstream in the mid-ish/early 90's, this track defined a whole generation in one video.
1991 - Two weeks into my freshman year of college I'm sitting in the student union building and MTV premiers Smells Like Teen Spirit in front of dozens of students. Minds blown. This song/video obliterated a decade of really terrible hair band videos and songs. Nirvana and the legendary bands of the rock grunge era changed the music scene almost in an instant.
dude. have some dignity....
Dude ...what fake partying are you talking about? I love Nirvana but to suggest that the era before was
"fake partying"...the era before was balls to the walls partying, I know cause I was there. I was teens
in the 80s...and 20s and still very young when Nirvana came out. It was all good. But I have to say the
80s party was bigger, better, more inclusive only because the mass incarceration process over partying didn't occur until the 90s. Today we are still very careful when and where we party bc of the 'BS policies of the 90s.
Don't listen to me, do your own research on alcohol/drug incarceration over the decades.
The glamrock/hair metal era of the late 80s was just a small slice of 80s music, which was probably the most musically diverse decade ever. And nobody partied harder than people in the 70s and 80s. Nothing fake about it. Nirvana was the real deal when they came out, but their genre of music got copied and corporatized just like every other genre. Today that is pretty much all that exists.
I was 15 at a school dance when I first heard this!
That drummer is the superstar Dave Grohl of the band Foo Fighters. One of the most gracious and down to earth rockers I’ve ever seen. And I’m 60. You should watch him bring fans on the stage to play and sing with the band.
So talented. I've never been a big fool fighters fan
Dave is definitely the nicest guy in Rock it seems. FF is my favorite band. I love when he brings fans up to sing. Who else hands some one the microphone, drum sticks, and I've even seen him hand his own guitar. Very bad ass.
Inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame twice
is this his Dad.?
@@markvanderstelt8999 well David Grohl is 52 so I was only 8. I think he was the illegitimate child of Bob Seger and John Lennon.
The chorus going into the solo is one of the best musical stanzas ever made. Goosebumps EVERY time.
The drummer of Nirvana is now the lead singer of the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl. Next try reacting to one of their songs such as The Pretender.
They definitely need to check out the Foo Fighters sooner than later
Exactly what I was thinking, The Pretender is an awesome song
Rico is bringing "The Pretender"
tomorrow! Check it out! 🎵🔥🎤🎸
@@jennhurl Awesome, I will be watching.
@@dannyworten5876 Sooner than later sounds like the title of their next album 😂🎸
R.I.P Kurt Cobain. This was #1 on MTV's top 100 songs of the 90s. A lot of people still consider it that. Nirvana and Alice in Chains are my favorites
That makes sense. The impact this song had to culture as a whole was insane. Even people who never got into the grunge scene were still impacted by it for the rest of the decade. Wow. That fact really has me thinking deep into this now. Lol
@@rachelsullivan2926 It definitely got me into grunge. Everything about this song is perfect. I wish there were still mainstream songs like this with this level of talent and passion.
@@younggullah Yeah. Auto tune has really devolved main stream music. It's such a shame.
@@rachelsullivan2926 Im hoping one day things will turn around
@@younggullah Me too.
Hey yo Dave Grohl is the drummer and brings the energy every time his life performances are incredible you guys would also probably like the pretender video by the Foo Fighters which he is the lead singer of.
Foo fighters is great. The drummer from Nirvana is the front man and rhythm guitarist for them. Dave Grohl is one of my all time favorite musicians ever.
Rico is bringing "The Pretender"
tomorrow! Check it out! 🎵🔥🎤🎸
I like the fact he played The Devil on Tenacious D the Pick of Destiny.
The fact he had the foresight to make Taylor Hawkins, formerly of Alanis Morissette's band, his drummer proved his ear to me (along with years of previous work.)
Unstoppable energy.
You can talk about the drummer Dave making Foo Fighters or Kurt, but the importance this song had on music is legendary. It's a watershed song, it changed things.
Facts 💯 this song literally marked the end of the very popular 80's glam & hair bands. It gave rise to a whole new sound, attitude, and generation of music. Grunge was here - welcome to the 90's - just like that.
that was the real last wake-up call of a band for a whole generation. I can say that because I have seen Led Zeppelin and others live. When the song came out I was 30, nothing like that happened again, the music today is great, partly really great, and after listening to it you forget it again immediately. what kind of lucky child I am that I was allowed to grow up in the 80s and 90s, music still had a soul
This comment sums up 💯 how I feel- I was in college when this came out- mind blown when I first heard it- and just like that.. we had the grunge era.. oh how blessed I am to have been able to live thru the 70’s, 80’, & 90’s- hit and hit after hit.. we didn’t know how good we had it!
This is one of my favorite bands of all time. Please react to “In Bloom” or “Come As You Are” next.
The lead singer is Kurt Cobain which I’m sure you’ve heard of before. He’s a legend and defined a whole generation.
The drummer is Dave Grohl, founder and frontman of the Foo Fighters. After Kurt passed away and Nirvana was finished, he really put in the work and made a successful career for himself.
This song has been been listened to over 1 billion times since the 90's. How can this be the first time hearing it?
muchas personas lo hacen por vistas, es casi imposible que no la hayan escuchado al menos 1 vez en su vida
Released 1991. Since 2009 on UA-cam
Are you seriously first time hearing this song????????
Thank the UA-cam algorithms. If they were listening to modern pop, it gave them more of the same.
@@fredynikita1747 its not so surprising since I've not listened to most of the current late 2015-2022 songs myself.
Hard to believe that they're a three piece band. The sounds they came up with were superb.
And if you watch live performances, they were so tight as a band, must’ve rehearsed a lot. Almost perfectly reproduced their studio albums. They sound amazing doing their live versions.
If you guys like this you should watch (Nirvana ,song Lithium at the live and loud)✌🏾
Yes! I agree. It truly show cases Kurt's beautiful voice.
@@debrafrogner Definitely. Still think he had the best scream!
*Weird Al - "Smells Like Nirvana". Weird Al does parodies of songs and he's the best at it. It would be fun to see you guys check out some of his songs after seeing/hearing the original.*
The drummer, Dave Grohl, also played drums on Queens Of The Stone Age's song "No One Knows" (you'll be great to react to this music video), and he is currently the vocalist for the band Foo Fighters.
Nirvana: "Lithium", "Heart Shaped Box", "About a Girl", "Come As You Are", "In Bloom", "Drain You", "All Apologies"
Great list
I made a paid request for their MTV unplugged "where did you sleep last night" cover a while back so hope thats soon
The drummer of this band is the singer and guitarist of a band called Foo Fighters
I think you would like them
This whole album Nevermind is great. As someone mentioned about the drummer check out his band Foo Fighters and check out the song/video The Pretender.
From a guy who was a teen living in Seattle when this song hit, if you want the gods of Seattle listen to Alice in Chains We die young.
The music scene in Seattle Chains was top. Layne Staley's voice was simply on another level than almost every singer of that time God rest his soul.
Alice In Chains is top 3 band of all time in my opinion.
R.I.P Layne Thomas Staley 🕊️
& Mike Christopher Starr 🙏🏻
Alice in Chains Album "Dirt" is the tits
And to add to the gods of Seattle, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Foo Fighters.
I concur!!! Tell them brother! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
When he was first learning drums, he held his sticks backwards. He eventually turned them around. Nirvana picked him as their 5th drummer because he hit so hard. His beat is pure Gap Band.
The drummer is David grohl who is now the lead singer/guitarist for the foo fighters
Nirvana is the shit my brother thank you for letting The younger generation to know where that music came from God bless you
This is why nirvana restarted rock in the 90s. They changed the whole face of music. Very few bands had the same impact, your shirts have 2 of the other bands who had such an amazing impact, sabbath and zep.
Jon bonjovi, def leppard, motley crew, gun n roses were already well established in pop rock. I wouldn't call a restart. However they really kicked off 1993 with the grunge genre. It was really underground until that point.
@@h.c4898 it was a restart because grunge killed off the cheesy pop rock and created good rock again.
@@curtiswilson3569 no. It never did. Grunge kicked off from underground metal. It never killed anything.
Nirvana changed the face of the music industry *OVERNIGHT* with this song! It went stratospheric and defined a new genre - 'grunge'. I adored them and like everyone else, I was devastated when singer/songwriter/lead guitarist, Kurt Cobain took his own life in 1994 at the peak of their fame. Kurt you are missed - R.I.P.💔
I love how much he is into all music. I can appreciate his appreciation. His head bopping is always there!
Welcome to the wonderful world of Nirvana! A few more notable songs from Nirvana worth reacting to are -
Come as You Are
You Know You're Right
About a Girl
Heart Shaped Box
Sliver
Where Did You Sleep Last Night (MTV Unplugged)
R.i.p. Kurt cobain
I remember watching MTV news and was shocked to hear the news about kurt
nirvana took over the 90s. the lead singer passed away in 1994 by suicide , at the age of 27 years old. he was so young. please react to more nirvana. i recommend “aneurysm” live at the paramount 1991
The Industry labelled this music "Grunge" but for us at the time it was finally a new and unique rock sound and vision. While we all listened and rocked with the bands whose shirts you are both wearing, this was our generations music.
In the early 90s, Nirvana was one of the main bands that started the 'grunge rock' movement (away from the late 80s hair band era)
2:15 Foo Fighters - "Everlong".."The Pretender".."Times Like These".."Best Of You".."Learn to Fly"
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@@jennhurl Thanks for the heads up Jen! How did you know so early sheesh
You guys should listen to 'where did you sleep last night ' from the live unplugged in New York, it's Epic ✌🏽
This and the man who sold the world are my favorite
Little tid bit of info. Dave the drummer you have seen in a commercial recently where he's yelling up to Kevin Hart "I'm making lasagna. Do you want some lasagna!".
That’s Dave Groul from the Foo fighters he was Nirvana”s drummer
You want to understand Nirvana, watch Nirvana Live at the Paramount. Off the charts good and truly captures them.
Dave Grohl wrote a song "Marigold" a B-side on single "Heart-Shaped Box" that I still hold in respect as the first Foo Fighters song. Years before Foo Fighters existed.
Oh we had that song on the jukebox at a games room in a small town when I was a teen , such good memories , I have a soft spot for that song ❤️
One of the best bands ever
I'll never forget buying the single to this on tape lol. I had this blasting for the whole day. The energy was something new for me and it sounded so different from the hair metal before it. It lead me down a rabbit hole that introduced me to groups like Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Sound garden and other grunge groups; as well as alternative bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Blur, Collective Soul and Presidents of the United States. Nirvana was a whole vibe.
When Nirvana first debuted in 1989, no one thought that this punk rock-inspired trio from Seattle would revolutionize music in the 1990's for a brief moment and changed the game forever... This music video was shot in 1991 on a low budget - Nirvana had played a show that night, and just invited their audience to the video shoot. Even tho the band was just playing to a track on the P.A. in a school gym, the audience went nuts and trashed the set. They were still broke when this video hit MTV in the fall of '91, and by November, the album 'Nevermind' knocked Michael Jackson's 'Dangerous' album to hit #1 on the US charts.
Despite his limited skills playing guitar, vocalist/guitarist Kurt Cobain knew what he wanted his band to sound like when Nirvana came together in 1987 w/ Krist Novoselic on bass... Chad Channing soon joined on drums. Kurt wrote all the songs and most of the music for Nirvana, and completed the first album 'Bleach' in 1989 on a small budget for indie Seattle label Sub Pop. Nirvana was raw and primal, and had a lot of melody as well... the first record sold well, but Nirvana was not a typical rock band that sold millions of records in 1990. They looked weird, dressed cheap, and sounded under-produced. In early 1991, drummer Dave Grohl joined Nirvana and brought his hard-hitting beat into the band. An offer from Geffen Records that year got Nirvana back in the studio that year, and they cut their second album 'Nevermind' w/ producer Butch Vig.
When 'Nevermind' was released in 1991 and "Smells like teen spirit" was the first single, Nirvana thought they would never become as big as Guns N' Roses or Metallica... but MTV made the single a huge success and 'Nevermind' sold millions that year. By 1992, Nirvana's unexpected success brought focus on the Seattle scene, which the press dubbed 'grunge' rock... Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains... all had huge hit records in '92. Kurt Cobain had been evicted from his apartment in '91, and then he was making million$. The band ended the year w/ a record of unreleased Nirvana tracks titled 'Incesticide'... However, pressure from success and health problems had driven Kurt Cobain into h addiction to curb his pain. The sudden fame was a burden on Cobain and not what he expected.
Nirvana wanted a return to their primal, raw sound on the next record 'In Utero' in 1993, and performed an acoustic set of original songs and covers on MTV 'Unplugged' that year. However, on tour, Kurt was slowly coming apart. In Europe around early 1994, he reportedly attempted suicide, but survived... He was flown back to the States and checked into rehab, but jumped the wall eventually and took a flight back to Seattle... Kurt Cobain's body was found in his home by an electrician in April 1994. He had written a suicide note to his fans, shot himself up w/ h one last time, then took his own life w/ a shotgun to his head. Kurt Cobain was only 27 when he died. Nirvana was over.
The band released the 'MTV Unplugged' acoustic record in late 1994... Cobain's final song recorded w/ Nirvana was "You know you're right" and it was released in 2002, showing how much turmoil he was in by his lyrics.
Nirvana's drummer Dave Grohl was devastated after the death of Kurt Cobain; he had recorded an album of his songs while in Nirvana, on which he sang lead, played guitar, bass and drums. After some time off, he launched a new project Foo Fighters in 1995 and refused to perform any Nirvana songs live... Foo Fighters began touring that year and Grohl built his own success separate from Nirvana, and he embraced his role as vocalist/guitarist of Foo Fighters til today.
Bad ass share of Nirvana & Kurt's rise to fame and untimely, tragic end. Nailed it.
Nirvana "The Man Who Sold the World" on MTV Unplugged
Nirvana ended 1980's hair metal. This song and album was a shock to the music industry.
Perfect explanation! Sometimes I try to listen to this song like I have never heard it before, to try to get that feeling back. Sometimes it works and I can feel the nostalgia, "wow, what is this? who is this?" experience again. First time I saw this video, I literally called up all my buddies, and was like, "Hey, you have to check out this band!" Like you said, something about it was different and refreshing. Like we all said, "finally, something new" No more Slaughter, White Lion, Cinderella, Ratt, Whitesnake . . . not there was anything wrong with those bands, but the music was just turning into the same ol' mashed up crap we kept hearing over and over. It was time to put it to rest.
If you like drumming you should check out the band Skillet, they have a dope female drummer. Their song and video for Awake and Alive is hella hype, y'all would definitely dig it.
Skillet has great workout music!
@@tracyrrg9328 Most definitely 💪
Hell yeah! Invincible gets you jacked up!
Dave Grohl, the drummer - started his own band called the Foo Fighters. He played ALL the instruments but eventually invited others in to make the band. Fun fact - Dave Grohl Is a big BeeGees fan and did a cover album. (I know you’re liking the BeeGees too ha)
Nirvana was lightening I'm a bottle. RIP Kurt!
We all got different flows in life! Ong!!! 💯 🙏
Dave G went back and fourth with this 11 year old girl , playing drums. the little girl finaly played with Foo Fighters at a live show , and she killed it
First time I saw the vid was aged 13 in late 1991....
I was in awe...
Nirvana just blasted me...
Saw them in concert at the legendary First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis, 1991. A band I knew was opening for them and got me and brother in to the show. I was 22 and had just graduated college a few months before. This song changed the music scene overnight. There was just something special and different about it - when you heard it, you just knew it was special.
This song with the album single handedly swirched the music industry this album came out had ALOT of 80s debouchery rock bands were done...
One of the most important songs in rock history - it changed everything. Nirvana was part of the Grunge movement, which originated in Seattle in the early 90s. You had Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and many others. Check out some other Nirvana songs like Lithium, Heart Shaped Box, School, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Negative Creep, Aneurysm, etc.
Also check out Alice in Chains - Them Bones, Soundgarden - Outshined, Pearl Jam - Evenflow, Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike.
He said Dave was the best drummer for the band bc he hit so hard you could hear the drums through the music. Dave ended up starting foo fighters after Nirvana
The drummer is Dave Grohl also the lead singer of the Foo Fighters (if you haven’t heard of them either take a listen)the lead singer you likes voice so much was Kurt Cobain who started a new genre of music and changed a whole generation. Plus he was ahead of his time.
This was his message back when CDs would have a pamphlet type thing that would sometimes have lyrics, song list w/e the band or rap artist wanted to put Kurt included a message for their second album ‘In Utero’ was “If you’re a sexist, racist, homophobe or basically an asshole, don’t buy this CD. I don’t care if you like me, I hate you.”
Good to see Gen X liking older music. If y’all are Gen X looks like it atleast. And if you haven’t heard this song I assume you are.
Fun fact the drummer is Dave grohl who is the lead singer in the band foo fighters. I'm sure you've caught some of there music around
This "Grunge" Band is from Seattle. The genre of "Grunge Rock" was started in that city in the early 1990s. Kurt Cobain was so talented, and as we have all seen hundreds of times before, He was found dead in his Seattle Mansion of an apparent Heroin overdose. The rumors of murder continue to this day. Fame and money don't make you happy.
That drummer is now a legendary super rock star! The Foo Fighters is his band and they are what you want to hear if you want to listen to the best rock n roll there's ever been! I suggest Times Like These, All my Life, the Pretender, and Learn to Fly, their best songs in my opinion. They're an amazing band, so amazing in fact they sold out at Wembly Stadium in just minutes when they're tickets went on sale. Have you ever seen Wembly Stadium? It's huge!!!! Amazing guy, a m amazing band, you really need to react to them. If you don't, your definitely missing out!
My favorite band!!! 💪🥁🎵🎸🎤🎶
I love all those songs.
"Everlong" Live at Wembley was incredible. Dave sang it acoustic then brought it home total banger at the end of the song. Bad ass! Watch it if you haven't!
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You'd absolutely love watching Dave bang those drums on the video for Queens Of The Stoneage 'No One Knows'.
Great Reaction as always 🙏
The drummer got the opening beat from the GAP band. Just heard that story this year 😂
Also you know the drummer is a badass when all you can see is sticks and hair lol.
That drummer is the lead singer for the Foo Fighters....they have a crazy track list
"Here we are now, entertain us!" Famous words when arriving to a party. :)
music brings people and cultures together. LOVE THIS SH*T!
I was a teenager in the early 90s.
That smile on her at 6:19 is glowing.
She would have been into it back then 😚
..and him, we would have welcomed him with open arms.
Kurt would have wanted that, too 🤗
The drummer is Dave Grohl who is now in Foo Fighters.
Your dad, I mean, Jay-Z used these lyrics, check it out, Holy Grail, it's an awesome song.
The drummer (Dave Grohl) drummed to this entire song, while it played on loud speakers, during a show of his, a few months ago. The entire time his hair's in his face, and he's banging his head. After Kurt Cobain died, For a long time, Dave couldn't even talk about Nirvana, much less play Nirvana songs, because it made him sad. So seeing him drum to Nirvana again, is awesome. The video is on UA-cam if you want to check it out.
the drummer dave grohl is 1 of the few in the rock and roll hall of fame 2 times once for nirvana and once for the foo fighters
this was one of them songs, that you had no intention of learning the lyrics too, but it was played so much, you unintentionally can sing it word for word.
Nirvana was the biggest rock band of the 90's
A great reaction video to one of the greatest rock tunes of all time! Thank you! Much appreciated!
Ok I got one for you Nirvana, MTV Unplugged, “Lake of Fire” please react to this song.
It’s hard to understand now how revolutionary this song was in 1991. Hard rock was all hairspray, spandex and partying. This was dark, brooding and heavy with amazing hooks. But it didn’t just replace hair bands. Kurt Cobain took on pop icons. This song actually knocked Michael Jackson out of the number one spot on the charts. Kurt wrote great pop songs. They just happened to be hard as fuck.
As mentioned but just to reiterate .... Dave Grohl, the drummer, is now lead singer and a guitarist in Foo Fighters. One of the few bands who came to South Africa, so that was awesome. Also check out the Rocking 1000 story and his battle with Nandi Bushell, an 11 year old drummer. One of the nicest guys in rock history. Oh and check out his broken leg story.
The drummer told Pharrell that he ripped these drums from The Gap Band because he loved what they did. Look it up.
Check out Def Leppard Pour some sugar on me, the drummer lost an arm in a car accident and learned to play with one arm and kills it!
Dave has a video of himself playing the drums to this song now. Just ran across it the other day.
RIP Kurt. Man was a genius. He wrote all the music all the way down to the guitar chords etc. When he died the band was literally at their peak. His daughter can sing and play guitar too but she's not in a band. She looks like a Kurt mini me lol
best drummer(joey jordison, rob bourdon, matthew, dave grohl, jay weinberg)
best bassist(ryan martinie)
best guitarist(james root, mick tompson)
best vocalist(chester bennington, corey taylor, chad gray, kurt cobain)
I remember the first time I heard this on MTV and just being dumbstruck staring at my tv. Just absorbing it. The second time I saw it I knew I had a new favorite song and that things were now different.
I was 16, a late GenXer. Such a great time period to come of age. We were the last era to grow up in the “old world.”
The drummer is Dave Grohl. He is now the lead singer of the Foo Fighters. You should check them out. Best of you / Pretender etc
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If u want to see the drummer go absolutely ham, u need to watch Nirvana's performance of Aneurysm Live at the Paramount! Dave goes CRAZY on that song!
The drummer is now lead guitar and singer of the Foo Fighters Dave G.
The drummer went on to be the singer for the Foo Fighters. You'd love them
Oh my God All of a sudden I'm 17 years old, jammin this shit in my system! Great job guys. I come from the era of classic grunge. Good shit for real! Love it
Thank you Heather!!
@@OfficialLifeWithRecklezz you're welcome as always
It's called grunge!
Kurt Cobain's style is grunge and he's from Washington state where grunge began
Yes a great follow up would be come as you are
Now this is more like it. My favorite Nirvana song of all time. Classic. I like guitars better than drums, but in this song I like how they both balance each other out. Yeah that energy is through the roof.
Kurt colbain was legendary all his mtv unplugged songs dope af
I'm setting the over/under for the percentage of comments saying " The drummer is the lead singer of Foo fighters" at 70.5% and I'm taking the over easily. If I was able to get accurate ages I'd do the over/under percentage of people commenting about how " Nirvana changed music overnight" that wasn't even alive in 91/92 at somewhere in the 80.5 - 85.5% range
Dave Grohl is the drummer ......then he became the singer for and created the Foo Fighters ........one of the greatest bands ever ........you two already have heard their songs, whether you realize or not
and would make for great reactions.
Rico is bringing "The Pretender"
tomorrow! Check it out! 🎵🔥🎤🎸
@@jennhurl that is awesome .....I look forward to it.......on a side note ......check out Foo Fighters at Wembley Stadium when John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page come out with them to do some Led Zeppelin songs .......was magical
I’ve never been a big fan of Nirvana but I can appreciate them. However, they are one of those bands that changed music.
Nirvana is a great group! Another energy group is Grand Funk Railroad - song - Inside Looking Out. Enjoy!
I lived in Seattle in 1980s and 90s. The city was electric with all the musicians moving in. Walking downtown you got to see many of the band members just walking around. You could see these groups for less than $10 and be blown away. Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam we were lucky enough to see them all. Such a fun time. ❤✌
Kurt Cobain was an artist tortured. Same with Lane Stanley from Alice in chains. I will always remember them with a smile
Recommend Heart Shaped Box next!
Nirvana also had a song called Aero-Zeppelin. Basically Aerosmith & Led-Zeppelin together.
dave grohl is the drummer hes great his band after nirvana was the foo fighters check out the song called learn to fly he has a great singing voice too!
Guess what, guys, . . 2CELLOS also does a cello version of this tune. Don't deny yourselves listening pleasure. Peace.
90s grunge rock was so awesome I was in high school then so many great bands
I love that when Nirvana got the question "What does the song "Smells like teen spirit" mean?" they said.. We dont know...yet.
Did you know: The Drummer of " Nirvana" is the primary songwriter and leader for the rock band "FooFighters" Dave Grohl.