You just reacted to the band that pretty much launched "alternative rock" This song is the anthem for a generation of kids, like me, from the 90s. I lived in Seattle during this time. I got to experience this first hand. (P.S. thats Dave Grohl, from the FOO Fighters on drums)
Alternative rock has existed since almost the very beginning. Link Wray was pretty out there for his time. Then came all of the New Wave and Punk. What is Frank Zappa's whole career? I know that they define Alternative rock for you, but there has almost always been alternative rock.
How did it feel to you to live in the area? Sounds like the ride of a lifetime but I've heard some Seattle-ites say the hype could be overwhelming or ingenuine at times.
@@SergeantPancake I enjoyed it. I lived downtown at the time, so I literally could walk (and feel safe back then) to dozens of bars. I saw so many bands. I was at a Black Happy show once and ten feet to my left was Kim Thayil from Soundgarden. It was def a vibe, but i imagine how people felt about those times was influenced by the friends you kept. Great friends, great times.
This song set the tone for a decade. They are reacting to the status quo of the times, wherein everything felt fake. We were tired of being lied to, and this song and other grunge music by Nirvana and Seattle friends (Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden) felt like truth. When this track hit, music changed overnight. They paved the way for bands like Hole to become popular (Courtney Love was Kurt Cobain’s girlfriend), and TOOL would never have seen the light of day without this very song. It was groundbreaking and created a tone of criticism of the way things were, scrutiny, questioning everything, and seeking authenticity which felt so elusive. Most GenXers can tell you where they were the first time they heard it. It was that big.
Freshman college dorm room, alone, watching Mtv at like 1am. It blew me away. I was wandering down the hall, knocking on all of my friend's doors to see if they heard it. There were maybe 5 of us in the whole dorm who heard it. We talked about it non-stop for about an hour.
@@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer Weezer's has a track on their Red Album, Heart Songs, which tells about their moment hearing Nevermind for the first time. Chills. Totally worth a listen if you love music and nostalgia.
Nirvana was a landmark band in the 90s, ushering in "Grunge" music to the wider market. Alongside Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and others, we got to taste a new kind of Rock music that was a little grittier, a little edgier, maybe a little angrier, but always had some angst.
Nirvana & the whole grunge movement was a movement that blew our punk/metal minds. RIP Kurt Cobain. This was one of their more famous songs, but go down a rabbit hole on their catalog, their music defined a generation of gen X’ers.
@@chernobyl68Tail end of X. Cobain was dead before most of Y was picking their own music. Obviously Xers born in 1965 and 1975 had different musical awakenings though.
Teen Spirit was a female deodorant in the 90's, the name came from a joke about Kurt smelling like teen spirit, because of the girl he was hooking up with.
I listened to all that hairband metal in the eighties. This was the most refreshing cool breeze on a hot day. I love how Nirvana came in and took away all that over produced hair metal away the moment you first heard this song. ❤ also, my favs are Alice in Chains, definitely!, Pearl Jam. 😊
This was primary grunge. Saved my poor ass because then I could wear jeans and flannel and be in fashion. I was in tacoma (30 miles south of seattle). regardless this was a HUGE disruption to the current music industry when it happened. Nirvana was the opener, but alice and chains, soundgarden, and pearl jam were the bands that followed and really developed the "grunge seattle sound". The story behind the video is that they held a concert, and then invited the people who attended the concert to go to the video shoot. So basically the "audience" in the video are people who got luck and caught a bar show.
This song changed the music world. A new genre that I couldn't explain at first, until the word "grunge" was attached. I explained it as rock and rap combined.
We lost a lot of good 90s artists to the heroin epidemic. I would have loved to see Kurt Cobain continue to make music 😢. I was fortunate to see Nirvana live way back then and they were glorious 😊. (Also, nothing's ever really gonna compare to Tool...)
I think to understand the hype around this song you have to understand the context of the time it took place. And the music it replaced. So like the 80’s sucked. It was super conservative & was a backlash to the 60’s & the 70’s. The hippies had sold out and became corporate drones & yuppies. The ideals of the 60’s had morphed into Reaganism. Gen X was a tiny generation compared to the baby boomers & as the older members of that generation came of age & entered their adult life, everything was controlled by the boomers who were still in their prime. Like effecting change felt impossible bc there weren’t enough of Gen X to force change. Everything felt like it sucked. The 90’s is when I belive the cracks in capitalism really started to show. Apathy was prevalent. Add to that, much of the popular music felt ridiculous and bloated. Shiny clowns in spandex pranced around acting macho while wearing more makeup than most women. Like think drag queens with toxic masculinity. Everything from the music to culture felt ridiculous and materialistic. There was good music but it didn’t pop off. Then this song drops and becomes this mega fcking hit, killing off most of the hair metal bands. Like pop culture at least felt like it was finally reflecting life. You see this across musical genres (a lot of 90’s rap was super deep & at times felt revolutionary) but no other genre had this, like overnight change. Speaking personally I’d just turned 16 & was raised by g@y parents in the south. We were dirt poor & I felt like an alien. I’d already started listening to indie music but def felt like popular culture was completely separate from my lived experience. I gravitated to darker & moodier music. Also the whole riot grrl movt really spoke to me. Female anger & angst started to show up in music. Even though nirvana was 3 dudes they were woke as fck. Like they were so refreshing after the dominance of the chauvinist, macho, hair metal rock stars of the 80’s. Like those dudes felt ridiculous with the bleached permed hair, colorful skin tight spandex and full beat. Like btch I knew drag queens who looked less femme, but they had the gall to be homophobic and s£xist. I think with all music you have to look at the context of when it was made. There’s a reason why the music of the 60’s felt so revolutionary at the time, and why the music got so dark in the 70’s. Or why a lot of music felt manufactured & had a forced optimistic feel from the 80’s. (Tho great music was made.) Great music is always being made, it just doesn’t always blow up. Like there’s great music from the 00’s, but a lot of what was popular was trash. I actually think we’re on the precipice of another huge change in music & ppl in the future will talk about the sht that got made in the later half of the 2020’s.
I fully agree. In terms of revolutionary music of today, you might find some interesting things going on in the Hyperpop movement, which started a few years ago. It has a similar “feel” that punk/grunge/alternative had for me in the 90s, in terms of variety, experimentation, political commentary, commentary on the state of music, and humor, though it sounds nothing like it. The core artist of that movement, SOPHIE, died young like Cobain did, but I hear her influence in stuff coming out since.
@ I like hyper pop a lot. (DUI stays stuck in my head). Me & my kid can appreciate it together too since usually are musical tastes are quite disparate. I’ve always gravitated towards more moody, angsty, angry music & she says it gives her anxiety, lol. I’ve been feeling like the music that feels most punk & “revolutionary” is coming from trans & q.ueer artists. These days it feels like the most transgressive thing you can be is someone who doesn’t fit the gender binary. I’ve also gotten into zoomer gaze which has that real grassroots feel we often don’t a lot of these days. Like it has this more underground feel. Plus I’m a major fan of shoe gaze so it def fits my preset musical tastes. I feel like we’re ripe for a lot of good music considering the zeitgeist, and bc ppl have gotten tired of how manufactured popular music has become. Tho I don’t know if we’ll ever have anything hit like grunge did as we don’t experience things a whole like we used to. The upside of ppl getting segmented into communities is that sense of community, and being able to surround yourself with ppl who share your same passions, downside is we don’t have the same collective experience to art like we used to.
@ wow I could have written most of your reply. I’ve been super into shoegaze for a few years now and curate a massive playlist with both old and new artists, and another playlist with the harder shoegaze. Wall of sound to get lost in.
@ I’m a sucker for that wall of sound & vibiness of shoe gaze. I feel like shoe gaze is made for zoomers with how vibe centered they are lol. I’m actually recently diving back into music. When you have a kid you kinda end up getting to busy, as well as having your kid’s music dominate the house, lol. (Thank god she left the Minecraft parody music & cartoon/anime music, behind.) Now she’s older I’m finding the space to explore music again. I also feel like the upside to political unrest & social chaos is the art that comes out of it. So I can’t wait for what’s going to come out. Like maybe a new rage against the machine but instead of metal, funk, it’ll be a blistering critique of imperialism & capitalism set to a frenzy of hyper pop, lol
In my and many others' lifetimes, this song and video were game changers. The raw sound, lyrical content, and imagery was a 180 from the music and culture of the time. Compare a video image to a Saved by the Bell cast photo, or to a photo of the band Poison.
Teen Spirit was a deodorant, the name for the song actually came from Kathleen Hanna from the band Bikini Kill who was friends with Kurt Cobain’s girlfriend at the time wrote Kurt smells like Teen Spirit on the wall at a party, and the lyrics can be viewed as meaningless or as decayed poetry to vent the angst and anger of the generation that grew up being 50% from broken divorced homes and speaking about abuse at home and from society at school and in life
This is far from their best song, and IMHO their best version of it was when they intentionally mocked and butchered it live on the show Top Of The Pops for eager, unsuspecting fans in Britain. It was hilarious! 😂
Check out “Where did you sleep last night” live mtv unplugged 🔥🔥🔥 Kurt Cobain revolutionized music I. His short time on earth RIP. Drummer is Dave Grohl the lead singer of the Foo Fighters.
Yo JayTDeion, love your reaction videos mate! I recently created an entire music video by myself using only artificial intelligence. If you have the time to check it out and maybe do a review, I’d be endlessly grateful. It might even be cool to make a video reviewing music videos created entirely with AI-I’d be the first to watch it! Sorry for reaching out like this, I’m a complete beginner at this, and I’m not sure how to reach a wider audience. I thought I’d try the old-fashioned way-with kind words. :P God bless, brother!
This band swooped in and became the voice for a whole generation. Grunge became a lifestyle and my friends and I were all the way in
We quickly evolved from rugby shirts and cuffed jeans, to flannel shirts and bellbottoms.
And we stopped getting haircuts altogether.
@@jettslappy7028Lived it. Loved it. Left part of myself there. Cheap high quality goods aplenty for all. Don't drink the Kool-Aid kids 😊😂❤
You just reacted to the band that pretty much launched "alternative rock" This song is the anthem for a generation of kids, like me, from the 90s. I lived in Seattle during this time. I got to experience this first hand. (P.S. thats Dave Grohl, from the FOO Fighters on drums)
Popular Monster.... Falling in Reverse ◀️
Alternative rock has existed since almost the very beginning. Link Wray was pretty out there for his time. Then came all of the New Wave and Punk. What is Frank Zappa's whole career? I know that they define Alternative rock for you, but there has almost always been alternative rock.
Pixies entered the conversation.
How did it feel to you to live in the area? Sounds like the ride of a lifetime but I've heard some Seattle-ites say the hype could be overwhelming or ingenuine at times.
@@SergeantPancake I enjoyed it. I lived downtown at the time, so I literally could walk (and feel safe back then) to dozens of bars. I saw so many bands. I was at a Black Happy show once and ten feet to my left was Kim Thayil from Soundgarden. It was def a vibe, but i imagine how people felt about those times was influenced by the friends you kept. Great friends, great times.
Nirvana "Where did you Sleep Last Night" 🔥
Unplugged. Unforgettable.
This song set the tone for a decade. They are reacting to the status quo of the times, wherein everything felt fake. We were tired of being lied to, and this song and other grunge music by Nirvana and Seattle friends (Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden) felt like truth. When this track hit, music changed overnight. They paved the way for bands like Hole to become popular (Courtney Love was Kurt Cobain’s girlfriend), and TOOL would never have seen the light of day without this very song. It was groundbreaking and created a tone of criticism of the way things were, scrutiny, questioning everything, and seeking authenticity which felt so elusive. Most GenXers can tell you where they were the first time they heard it. It was that big.
Freshman college dorm room, alone, watching Mtv at like 1am. It blew me away. I was wandering down the hall, knocking on all of my friend's doors to see if they heard it. There were maybe 5 of us in the whole dorm who heard it. We talked about it non-stop for about an hour.
Perfect!!💯💯They started a movement!🔥🔥
@@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer Weezer's has a track on their Red Album, Heart Songs, which tells about their moment hearing Nevermind for the first time. Chills. Totally worth a listen if you love music and nostalgia.
Most important band of the last 35 yrs
Most overrated*
After Alice in chains
@ important not even close better definitely
Nirvana was a landmark band in the 90s, ushering in "Grunge" music to the wider market. Alongside Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and others, we got to taste a new kind of Rock music that was a little grittier, a little edgier, maybe a little angrier, but always had some angst.
It’s ICONIC! It was the dawn of a new era in rock music. Moment of silence for Kurt Cobain…😢
Kurt Cobain was the 2Pac of rock and 2Pac was the Kurt Cobain of rap. Our little group has always been and always will until the end...
Nirvana & the whole grunge movement was a movement that blew our punk/metal minds. RIP Kurt Cobain. This was one of their more famous songs, but go down a rabbit hole on their catalog, their music defined a generation of gen X’ers.
more Gen Y I think, but otherwise spot on.
@@chernobyl68Tail end of X. Cobain was dead before most of Y was picking their own music. Obviously Xers born in 1965 and 1975 had different musical awakenings though.
Thats so funny , you mentioning deodorant, teen spirit was a deodorant. 😂there's a story there....☮️💜🤘🔥
Here we are now. Entertain us!
This was basically THE alternative rock anthem of the 90's, that belongs to the "legendary" category.
Teen Spirit was a female deodorant in the 90's, the name came from a joke about Kurt smelling like teen spirit, because of the girl he was hooking up with.
Losing Kurt still hurts!
i agree.....i blame that bee-otch.....LOL....not him....
I love that The Pot has become the benchmark for all of his reactions now 😂
crazy, to me this was one of the greatest first listen songs ever when i was a kid.
I listened to all that hairband metal in the eighties. This was the most refreshing cool breeze on a hot day. I love how Nirvana came in and took away all that over produced hair metal away the moment you first heard this song. ❤ also, my favs are Alice in Chains, definitely!, Pearl Jam. 😊
He was a gentle and beautiful soul
This was primary grunge. Saved my poor ass because then I could wear jeans and flannel and be in fashion. I was in tacoma (30 miles south of seattle). regardless this was a HUGE disruption to the current music industry when it happened. Nirvana was the opener, but alice and chains, soundgarden, and pearl jam were the bands that followed and really developed the "grunge seattle sound".
The story behind the video is that they held a concert, and then invited the people who attended the concert to go to the video shoot. So basically the "audience" in the video are people who got luck and caught a bar show.
Now ya GOTTA watch, "Weird" Al Yankovic's, Smells Like Nirvana.
So funny you said “what if they didn’t put on any deodorant” because Teen Spirit is a deodorant and the song is called Smells like teen spirit 🤣
I promise, in the 90s, this was necessary. Rock music was stagnant and toothless. Then the kids got angry.
Got a bop to it? The drums are literally the Gap Band 😂 🤘
Alice In Chains “Man In The Box”, Soundgarden “Outshined” & Pearl Jam “Black” (especially the MTV Unplugged version)
This song changed the music world. A new genre that I couldn't explain at first, until the word "grunge" was attached. I explained it as rock and rap combined.
Um rap and rock...WTF? This isn't that.
@@AtomicStewMusicof course it wasn't. Shame you didn't understand my comment...that was my point. Lol
Can't bet musicians playing their own instruments.
Yeah, they were different, but awesome too!
We lost a lot of good 90s artists to the heroin epidemic. I would have loved to see Kurt Cobain continue to make music 😢.
I was fortunate to see Nirvana live way back then and they were glorious 😊.
(Also, nothing's ever really gonna compare to Tool...)
I think to understand the hype around this song you have to understand the context of the time it took place. And the music it replaced. So like the 80’s sucked. It was super conservative & was a backlash to the 60’s & the 70’s. The hippies had sold out and became corporate drones & yuppies. The ideals of the 60’s had morphed into Reaganism. Gen X was a tiny generation compared to the baby boomers & as the older members of that generation came of age & entered their adult life, everything was controlled by the boomers who were still in their prime. Like effecting change felt impossible bc there weren’t enough of Gen X to force change. Everything felt like it sucked. The 90’s is when I belive the cracks in capitalism really started to show. Apathy was prevalent. Add to that, much of the popular music felt ridiculous and bloated. Shiny clowns in spandex pranced around acting macho while wearing more makeup than most women. Like think drag queens with toxic masculinity. Everything from the music to culture felt ridiculous and materialistic. There was good music but it didn’t pop off. Then this song drops and becomes this mega fcking hit, killing off most of the hair metal bands. Like pop culture at least felt like it was finally reflecting life. You see this across musical genres (a lot of 90’s rap was super deep & at times felt revolutionary) but no other genre had this, like overnight change.
Speaking personally I’d just turned 16 & was raised by g@y parents in the south. We were dirt poor & I felt like an alien. I’d already started listening to indie music but def felt like popular culture was completely separate from my lived experience. I gravitated to darker & moodier music. Also the whole riot grrl movt really spoke to me. Female anger & angst started to show up in music. Even though nirvana was 3 dudes they were woke as fck. Like they were so refreshing after the dominance of the chauvinist, macho, hair metal rock stars of the 80’s. Like those dudes felt ridiculous with the bleached permed hair, colorful skin tight spandex and full beat. Like btch I knew drag queens who looked less femme, but they had the gall to be homophobic and s£xist.
I think with all music you have to look at the context of when it was made. There’s a reason why the music of the 60’s felt so revolutionary at the time, and why the music got so dark in the 70’s. Or why a lot of music felt manufactured & had a forced optimistic feel from the 80’s. (Tho great music was made.) Great music is always being made, it just doesn’t always blow up. Like there’s great music from the 00’s, but a lot of what was popular was trash. I actually think we’re on the precipice of another huge change in music & ppl in the future will talk about the sht that got made in the later half of the 2020’s.
I fully agree. In terms of revolutionary music of today, you might find some interesting things going on in the Hyperpop movement, which started a few years ago. It has a similar “feel” that punk/grunge/alternative had for me in the 90s, in terms of variety, experimentation, political commentary, commentary on the state of music, and humor, though it sounds nothing like it. The core artist of that movement, SOPHIE, died young like Cobain did, but I hear her influence in stuff coming out since.
@ I like hyper pop a lot. (DUI stays stuck in my head). Me & my kid can appreciate it together too since usually are musical tastes are quite disparate. I’ve always gravitated towards more moody, angsty, angry music & she says it gives her anxiety, lol. I’ve been feeling like the music that feels most punk & “revolutionary” is coming from trans & q.ueer artists. These days it feels like the most transgressive thing you can be is someone who doesn’t fit the gender binary. I’ve also gotten into zoomer gaze which has that real grassroots feel we often don’t a lot of these days. Like it has this more underground feel. Plus I’m a major fan of shoe gaze so it def fits my preset musical tastes. I feel like we’re ripe for a lot of good music considering the zeitgeist, and bc ppl have gotten tired of how manufactured popular music has become. Tho I don’t know if we’ll ever have anything hit like grunge did as we don’t experience things a whole like we used to. The upside of ppl getting segmented into communities is that sense of community, and being able to surround yourself with ppl who share your same passions, downside is we don’t have the same collective experience to art like we used to.
@ wow I could have written most of your reply. I’ve been super into shoegaze for a few years now and curate a massive playlist with both old and new artists, and another playlist with the harder shoegaze. Wall of sound to get lost in.
@ I’m a sucker for that wall of sound & vibiness of shoe gaze. I feel like shoe gaze is made for zoomers with how vibe centered they are lol. I’m actually recently diving back into music. When you have a kid you kinda end up getting to busy, as well as having your kid’s music dominate the house, lol. (Thank god she left the Minecraft parody music & cartoon/anime music, behind.) Now she’s older I’m finding the space to explore music again. I also feel like the upside to political unrest & social chaos is the art that comes out of it. So I can’t wait for what’s going to come out. Like maybe a new rage against the machine but instead of metal, funk, it’ll be a blistering critique of imperialism & capitalism set to a frenzy of hyper pop, lol
In my and many others' lifetimes, this song and video were game changers. The raw sound, lyrical content, and imagery was a 180 from the music and culture of the time. Compare a video image to a Saved by the Bell cast photo, or to a photo of the band Poison.
I rmbr when this was a buzz clip on mtv ❤
Nirvana p[layed Toronto on this tour and started throwing beer bottles at the promoter cuz he was trying to rip them off. Hardcore.
"some drinks" hahaha more than that
Teen Spirit was a deodorant, the name for the song actually came from Kathleen Hanna from the band Bikini Kill who was friends with Kurt Cobain’s girlfriend at the time wrote Kurt smells like Teen Spirit on the wall at a party, and the lyrics can be viewed as meaningless or as decayed poetry to vent the angst and anger of the generation that grew up being 50% from broken divorced homes and speaking about abuse at home and from society at school and in life
Its Ok, but ain’t going on the play list 🤣
You are a true diplomat
Great reactions!
Uh oh…why he hanging from the basketball goal 😂😂😂
I've never been disappointed by Nirvana whatever nevermind 😂
Teen Spirit IS a deodorant.
I hear you man. If you want something weird like Tool, listen to the remastered version of Paper Cuts from Nirvana’s first album Bleach. 👍
This is far from their best song, and IMHO their best version of it was when they intentionally mocked and butchered it live on the show Top Of The Pops for eager, unsuspecting fans in Britain. It was hilarious! 😂
You should check out some System of A Down.
Have you reacted to the Beatles? The group that started it all!
Check out “Where did you sleep last night” live mtv unplugged 🔥🔥🔥 Kurt Cobain revolutionized music I. His short time on earth RIP. Drummer is Dave Grohl the lead singer of the Foo Fighters.
Hello, Hello, How Low, How Low
What it sounds like to die slowly
Now listen to Weird Al’s parody of this called Smells like Nirvana…….
I’m dying lol
Yo JayTDeion, love your reaction videos mate! I recently created an entire music video by myself using only artificial intelligence. If you have the time to check it out and maybe do a review, I’d be endlessly grateful.
It might even be cool to make a video reviewing music videos created entirely with AI-I’d be the first to watch it!
Sorry for reaching out like this, I’m a complete beginner at this, and I’m not sure how to reach a wider audience. I thought I’d try the old-fashioned way-with kind words. :P
God bless, brother!
Overrated bands : Nirvana, the Beatles .
That is all .