80's hair bands had a 10 year reign on the charts, it was time for something new. At this point rock was on it's way out anyway, with rap starting to take over the charts. I do not even think grunge lasted as long as disco. People can only take so much of self loathing and being depressed and miserable all the time.
@@Hexon66 It was never called hair rock or hair bands at the time. That was a name given around a decade later. I know, because I’m from that time. That’s why I purposely avoided calling it that. If you want to know how it was to live in that time, I give you more details. I was there at the Sunset Strip and in the San Fernando Valley. I lived it!
I still get chills when I hear " With the lights out". Such a powerful song. I was a teenager in the 70's and had given up on Rock music by the mid 80's (hair-metal was not my thing). This woke me right up. I love how the solo is just the melody of the song. Went out and got the album as soon as I found out who it was. I was in my early/mid 30's. My wife couldn't stand them! The marriage didn't last, but my love for Nirvana has...
@@Hexon66 lol trust me, the stereotype that Americans don’t get dry humour and dry sarcasm doesn’t come from nowhere. Obviously you guys think you are really dry and sarcastic, for some reason
This song isn't really about the industry. "Often asked to explain the meaning of the song that made him a household name, Cobain generally acknowledged that it was meant to be a call to arms. "It has revolutionary themes, but I don't really mean it in a militant [light]," he said in a fall 1991 interview. "The generation's apathy is getting out of hand. [I'm] pleading to the kids, 'Wake up!'"
@@davebcf1231 Yeah I read that. I seen an article say something like Waynes World " Mocking slackers while taking their money. " I took it as mocking the industry be he always did like when he wore the dress over his clothes to the award show and bc I read this To his eternal credit, Cobain saw the influence his music was having on mainstream culture and tried to stem the spread. He began refusing to play "Smells Like Teen Spirit" live, or "purposefully performing it sloppily, just to mess with the audiences he cynically saw as flocking to Nirvana shows just to hear that song while it was flavour of the month," Al Horner wrote for NME
@@kristinewhitfield4110 well, he created a masterpiece with that one, as a hip hop head it caught my ears and I can understand his desire to take it back after he saw the affect that it had on his audience but hey, too late, the genie is out of the bottle.
The phrase "smells like teen spirit" had been scrawled on the wall of his apartment by Katherine Hanna, the lead singer of the band Bikini Kill. Hanna wrote this as a joke because her bandmate Tobi Vail, who happened to be Cobain's girlfriend at the time, was a fan of the Teen Spirit deodorant.
I always perceived the line "With the lights out, its less dangerous" - as being about anonymity, the self-permission to act without fear of repercussion
I actually seen the first time they played this on MTV on accident late one night after coming home from the club next day I was telling everyone you got to hear this band Nirvana
Exactly! I would also add, in regards to symbolism, on the cheerleaders shirts you'll see the symbol for anarchy; which, sums up teen spirits, the 90s and the Grunge Movement...
@@heidithatswho.2481 R.I.P Kurt Cobain 🙏🏽. My favourite lyrics are: "A Mulatto, an Albino, a mosquito, my libido; yay!" When you are Biracial and you ask your mum what a Mulatto is (an old fashioned term to describe Biracial people) means I can relate to this song on a more personal level. This song will live forever, no doubt! 🔥
Was in HS when this came out! Man ...feel old. lol Rap, grunge, punk, alt rock was blowing up in the early '90s. Kinda killed off the corny '80s hair bands. Most of us (GenX) were coming of age.
I've always liked this song since the first time i heard it. The former drummer for nirvana went on to form and be the front man for the foo fighters check them outif you haven't and jay z quoted some of the lyrics from smells like teen spirit in one of his songs. he said that when he heard it he knew it was big and would change the course of music for awhile and that it stopped the rise of hip hop for awhile. R.I.P kurt cobain🙏
Hypnotic is the perfect word to describe Kurt Cobain & Nirvana. I was in HS when this came out & we were all OBSESSED. Lotta flannel, clogs, those yellowy workboots (Timbs), cut-offs or ripped grungy/just slept in them looking jeans. And Kurt’s hypnotic voice over all of it. RIP
Lots of songs on the Nevermind album you need to check out, Drain you, In Bloom, Lithium, Polly, On a Plain, Something in the Way, there really isn't a bad song on the album!
OH HELL YES....He kicked the door open for grunge and brought Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and SoundGarden with him......this is the ones who CHANGED IT ALL into the grunge scene...I remember it like yesterday....this song and NIRVANA took over ...overnight!!!! He spoke for generation X better than anyone did.
Billy Corgan from the smashing pumpkins said it best. Kurt Cobain was an assassin with his music. He wrote songs that are timeless. They spoke to a generation and beyond.
The Smell of Teen Spirit spoke to every teenager in the 90’s! Thank you Kurt for creating an awesome free spirited song. R.I.P Kurt Cobain. Freakin genius!!
The drummer is Dave Grohl and he's the lead singer of Foo Fighters who were just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...check out their songs Everlong and The Pretender
Kurt Cobain was an amazing songwriter. That bass line is killer too. I think BJ loves the power in this song and I think he loves the guitar solos. Maybe he should pick up a guitar??
Please do Drain You. "Cobain cited "Drain You" as one of his favorite compositions, telling David Fricke in a 1993 Rolling Stone interview that he thought it was as good, if not better, than the band's biggest hit, "Smells Like Teen Spirit. I love the lyrics, and I never get tired of playing it," he said. "Maybe if it was as big as 'Teen Spirit', I wouldn’t like it as much." I suggest the Nevermind version first. Then watch it live at the mtv studio (kurt has red hair), and then in Paradiso, Amsterdam (the drummer breaks his stick during the song and swaps it mid song)
You guys are great because you actually read & listen to the advice in the comments! Just hit the sub button mainly because of that & hope you continue to do lyric versions as they really do help you catch what most miss the first few times they hear a great song like this!
I'm not saying teenagers are stupid, absolutely not, but these lyrics could easily just be random thoughts from one of those 🤣 And I think that is exactly what Kurt went for.
At 15 we used to live in an apartment. When my parents went to bed, I used to jump out the balcony, go to the club until it closed at 3 am, then climb back up and into my room, back to bed and be up for breakfast with the family like nothing happened.
Hi you two, Kurt loved the Musical way of Soft - Loud - Soft style and the song, most likely, came from a wall where a girl wrote "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit", you should do the video in a school gym, and RIP Kurt
I'll say it, there's a reason there's a saying young and stupid. We all were young and stupid once. Just meaning that teens haven't had alot of life experience yet, not that they're not intelligent. And that is some of the most tumultuous, emotional, fun, expressive times of our lives, especially w music. Another great song!
This is the genre called "Grunge". It started in the Seattle music scene in the early 90s. Kurt Cobain committed suicide in his Seattle mansion. Some say he was murdered. The story and facts are very murky indeed.
Everytime I see Kurt I just want to go back in time and give him a hug and feed him some mac and cheese but that would have messed with the stomach🤷🏾♀💊
Pleeez do Lithium...lyric version of teen spirit was a great call.....guys when this song broke.....was nothing good but GnR and Metallica...the rest was 80s hair bands....this song alone put em all out of work except for the two I just mentioned ...FACTS, and you can see how it and their style just came from left field out of nowhere compared to what was hot at the time
Minus Bon Jovi......they somehow managed to stick it out and were still releasing fairly mainstream music throughout the 90s and 00s. The rest though....even Motley Crue completely fell off the radar for the most part.
@@SIXX2772 Yeah only the huge rock bands like Queen, GNR, Metallica and U2 survived the whole Grunge/Alternative breakthrough really, along with legacy bands like the Stones and the Who etc. All the other big artists of the 80s faded away and just relied on their previous popularity to sustain them through gigs etc.
I read it as mulatto (neither this nor that), albino (the absence of, apart from the rest), mosquito my libido (as in, my libido is tiny). All just expressions of alienation. That may just be me tho.
Grung Rock for me was all about a rebel state of mind FTW Thrashing moshpitts uprising of defiance and fighting the demons within from a life of being broken and broke. Glad yall did this again with the lyrics to get that understanding. Great react!!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
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The fact the song is over 30 years old and still current today
It's like it was released yesterday.
Well now I feel ancient
@@mztweety1374 released in 1991
I mean most songs from the 90s are more relevant than today’s songs and will last much longer cuz they’re actually good
@@Jiff321 80s music is much stronger today than during the 80s Probably nostalgia
The beginning of "Grunge." When Nirvana performed this song on Saturday Night Live, that was the death of the 80's hair bands. They were buried.
If I remember correctly Nevermind dethroned Michael Jackson from the number one spot
80's hair bands had a 10 year reign on the charts, it was time for something new. At this point rock was on it's way out anyway, with rap starting to take over the charts. I do not even think grunge lasted as long as disco. People can only take so much of self loathing and being depressed and miserable all the time.
@@rknighton2005 That's correct!!
One of the most iconic and impactful songs in history. Changed music overnight forever.🤘🏼
@-Steve - Roll your eyes all you want, still true.
Well, it started grunge into the mainstream, and put the final nail on glam rock.
@-Steve - he’s right, after all this song did rejuvenate Weird Al’s career lol.
@@nitro_001newman2 I think you've got your genres confused, glam with hair. But in any case, how long did grunge last anyway?
@@Hexon66 It was never called hair rock or hair bands at the time. That was a name given around a decade later. I know, because I’m from that time. That’s why I purposely avoided calling it that. If you want to know how it was to live in that time, I give you more details. I was there at the Sunset Strip and in the San Fernando Valley. I lived it!
I still get chills when I hear " With the lights out". Such a powerful song. I was a teenager in the 70's and had given up on Rock music by the mid 80's (hair-metal was not my thing). This woke me right up. I love how the solo is just the melody of the song. Went out and got the album as soon as I found out who it was. I was in my early/mid 30's. My wife couldn't stand them! The marriage didn't last, but my love for Nirvana has...
One thing I loved about Kurt was his use of sarcasm. 90s was definitely the decade of sarcasm lol.
America has barely had a minute of sarcasm lol
@@kJ922-h3j Or maybe the penny hasn't dropped for you yet.
@@Hexon66 lol trust me, the stereotype that Americans don’t get dry humour and dry sarcasm doesn’t come from nowhere. Obviously you guys think you are really dry and sarcastic, for some reason
@@kJ922-h3j We like British dry humor too. Kind of a snobby fuck huh?
I am GenX sarcastic nihilism.
Kurt often mocked the industry. He proved his point with this song.
This song isn't really about the industry. "Often asked to explain the meaning of the song that made him a household name, Cobain generally acknowledged that it was meant to be a call to arms. "It has revolutionary themes, but I don't really mean it in a militant [light]," he said in a fall 1991 interview. "The generation's apathy is getting out of hand. [I'm] pleading to the kids, 'Wake up!'"
@@davebcf1231 Yeah I read that. I seen an article say something like Waynes World " Mocking slackers while taking their money. "
I took it as mocking the industry be he always did like when he wore the dress over his clothes to the award show and bc I read this
To his eternal credit, Cobain saw the influence his music was having on mainstream culture and tried to stem the spread. He began refusing to play "Smells Like Teen Spirit" live, or "purposefully performing it sloppily, just to mess with the audiences he cynically saw as flocking to Nirvana shows just to hear that song while it was flavour of the month," Al Horner wrote for NME
@@kristinewhitfield4110 well, he created a masterpiece with that one, as a hip hop head it caught my ears and I can understand his desire to take it back after he saw the affect that it had on his audience but hey, too late, the genie is out of the bottle.
I was 13 when this song came out and the Grunge era hit, I love that I got to experience that era in my teens. I still love the music.
I was 18 & it changed my life. Hair rock died & this spoke. It was more real then parties & girls.
This song changed the music industry and popular culture.
The phrase "smells like teen spirit" had been scrawled on the wall of his apartment by Katherine Hanna, the lead singer of the band Bikini Kill. Hanna wrote this as a joke because her bandmate Tobi Vail, who happened to be Cobain's girlfriend at the time, was a fan of the Teen Spirit deodorant.
Yeah she wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit"
True
It's Kathleen Hanna not Katherine
I always perceived the line "With the lights out, its less dangerous" - as being about anonymity, the self-permission to act without fear of repercussion
I actually seen the first time they played this on MTV on accident late one night after coming home from the club next day I was telling everyone you got to hear this band Nirvana
Exactly! I would also add, in regards to symbolism, on the cheerleaders shirts you'll see the symbol for anarchy; which, sums up teen spirits, the 90s and the Grunge Movement...
They changed rock. Their sound was so groundbreaking.
Look how young Dave Groll looks in these photos. They were just kids, amazing!
The song that killed "Hair Rock" of the 80s & I couldn't have been ducking happier about it.
This song came out in 1992 and it changed my generation. Generation X got their voice heard and it gave us hope.
I miss the 90's,Good Times and Great Music!!
"Oh well,whatever, never mind*
NEVERMIND is the name of the album.
Howdy Heidi ! My other favorite human on the planet , right there with Nova. Have a great day .
🇺🇸🤘😎👍🇺🇸
I always felt like that quote perfectly summed up Gen X.
@@redsologlass8768 🥰🤘🔥
@@heidithatswho.2481 R.I.P Kurt Cobain 🙏🏽. My favourite lyrics are: "A Mulatto, an Albino, a mosquito, my libido; yay!" When you are Biracial and you ask your mum what a Mulatto is (an old fashioned term to describe Biracial people) means I can relate to this song on a more personal level. This song will live forever, no doubt! 🔥
Was in HS when this came out! Man ...feel old. lol Rap, grunge, punk, alt rock was blowing up in the early '90s. Kinda killed off the corny '80s hair bands.
Most of us (GenX) were coming of age.
I've always liked this song since the first time i heard it. The former drummer for nirvana went on to form and be the front man for the foo fighters check them outif you haven't and jay z quoted some of the lyrics from smells like teen spirit in one of his songs. he said that when he heard it he knew it was big and would change the course of music for awhile and that it stopped the rise of hip hop for awhile. R.I.P kurt cobain🙏
It was the ultimate feel reckless, feel sexy/feel ugly, feel invincible, feel invisible, opposite - opposite - opposite confusion of teenager-hood.
David Grohl. Drummer in Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, and lead in Foo Fighters. Amazing talent.
I was 30 when this album came out. Very powerful. I think it shot me right back into puberty.
The Nevermind album is a classic. Drain You is a great cut too
More Nirvana!! My fav band when I was in high school
My husband was in a metal band at the time, just got done laying tracks, soon as they heard nirvana, metal was dead , grunge just took over .
Gotta love the energy and lyrics of this song. RIP KC
It feels like this song is about young angst and pain. Teens feeling awkward and misunderstood- like untouchables. It’s how I felt in my family.
Nirvana come as you are and heart shaped box
Please react to Nirvana live...its a whole new experience. One of the greatest live proformers of all time
This song is absolutely forever! I'm 22 and a mother! Raised my boys on this! Poetry and angst!!
Hypnotic is the perfect word to describe Kurt Cobain & Nirvana. I was in HS when this came out & we were all OBSESSED. Lotta flannel, clogs, those yellowy workboots (Timbs), cut-offs or ripped grungy/just slept in them looking jeans. And Kurt’s hypnotic voice over all of it. RIP
Lots of songs on the Nevermind album you need to check out, Drain you, In Bloom, Lithium, Polly, On a Plain, Something in the Way, there really isn't a bad song on the album!
They were incredible live, especially when playing this live!! Kurt’s whole body went rigid with tension/power........he put his all into the music
Rest in peace Kurt, never forgotten
Now you've got to do Weird Al's parody of this .... c'mon, make it happen!
Yes Al's vid has ALL the people from Nirvana's OG vid in it.
Yes❗ That is hilarious by Al. When he starts gurgling on water I was screaming laughing. Funny stuff.
OH HELL YES....He kicked the door open for grunge and brought Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and SoundGarden with him......this is the ones who CHANGED IT ALL into the grunge scene...I remember it like yesterday....this song and NIRVANA took over ...overnight!!!! He spoke for generation X better than anyone did.
Nirvana hated the term “grunge” they considered themselves a garage punk band.
@@bayareathrasher666 Yeah I know
Soundgarden was around before nirvana buddy but yeah i get your point
@@GangGreen80 Yeah my point is accurate ......Nirvana broke the lime light the rest followed, it took nirvana to open the door, nobody else could.
@@SIXX2772 even though at the time ten sold way more than Nevermind lol
Billy Corgan from the smashing pumpkins said it best. Kurt Cobain was an assassin with his music. He wrote songs that are timeless. They spoke to a generation and beyond.
Nirvana changed my life!🤘
I like the fact that you guys don’t stick to one genre of music. You are equal opportunity listeners. I appreciate and love that about you ❤️
understanding the lyrics is more entertaining and yall are awesome
The Smell of Teen Spirit spoke to every teenager in the 90’s! Thank you Kurt for creating an awesome free spirited song. R.I.P Kurt Cobain. Freakin genius!!
It's an ironic title. Dark band.
Cobain died at age 27.
Beginning of Grunge rock. Seattle
I was in foster care as a teenager, so there are tooooo many "Bad Kid" stories. lol
Dave G on the drums is awesome.
You guys are great, watching and listening to all types and forms of music, FOR music. God bless you both.
The drummer is Dave Grohl and he's the lead singer of Foo Fighters who were just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...check out their songs Everlong and The Pretender
This came out my freshman year... the 90's were so much fun!
Something in the way is a great song its about Heroin, very haunting song!
Listening to this song always brings a smile on my face ……. Tks Nirvana
Now do "Smells like Nirvana", Weird Al! HILARIOUS!
Underrated bar.. "I'm worst at what I do best..And for this gift, I feel blessed" 🔥🔥
I do so many other things but thank you!! 💯
This came out when I was in high school & we definitely turned the lights out and let loose 🤟🤣
Kurt Cobain was an amazing songwriter. That bass line is killer too. I think BJ loves the power in this song and I think he loves the guitar solos. Maybe he should pick up a guitar??
Kurt's nickname was mosquito, and the albino, etc. are friends in a group from childhood.
INCREDIBLY POWERFUL SONGS & MESSAGES,, P.O.D. "YOUTH OF THE NATION" & EVERLAST "WHAT IT'S LIKE" (BOTH OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEOS)
You need to see the video. We never had cheer leaders like that at my high school.
Please do Drain You.
"Cobain cited "Drain You" as one of his favorite compositions, telling David Fricke in a 1993 Rolling Stone interview that he thought it was as good, if not better, than the band's biggest hit, "Smells Like Teen Spirit. I love the lyrics, and I never get tired of playing it," he said. "Maybe if it was as big as 'Teen Spirit', I wouldn’t like it as much."
I suggest the Nevermind version first. Then watch it live at the mtv studio (kurt has red hair), and then in Paradiso, Amsterdam (the drummer breaks his stick during the song and swaps it mid song)
The drummer for nirvana is dave grohl and he is and has been the lead singer for the band foo fighters, who are also a great band!
You need to react to Nirana Unplugged " Where did u sleep last night"
You guys are great because you actually read & listen to the advice in the comments! Just hit the sub button mainly because of that & hope you continue to do lyric versions as they really do help you catch what most miss the first few times they hear a great song like this!
Love it, you folks got a Subscriber.
I'm not saying teenagers are stupid, absolutely not, but these lyrics could easily just be random thoughts from one of those 🤣 And I think that is exactly what Kurt went for.
The best tribute to the Pixies ever written. ;)
At 15 we used to live in an apartment. When my parents went to bed, I used to jump out the balcony, go to the club until it closed at 3 am, then climb back up and into my room, back to bed and be up for breakfast with the family like nothing happened.
Hi you two, Kurt loved the Musical way of Soft - Loud - Soft style and the song, most likely, came from a wall where a girl wrote "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit", you should do the video in a school gym, and RIP Kurt
Nirvana-Nevermind and Vanilla Ice-To The Extreme were the first CDs I bought myself in 1st grade in the early 90’s
Greatest song ever,
This song ended what was hair metal ushered in grunge even though Neil young is the god father of grunge
Pearl jam Jeremy , last kiss , better man, nothing man , yellow ledbetter
I'll say it, there's a reason there's a saying young and stupid. We all were young and stupid once. Just meaning that teens haven't had alot of life experience yet, not that they're not intelligent. And that is some of the most tumultuous, emotional, fun, expressive times of our lives, especially w music. Another great song!
Foo Fighters, Dave Grolls( who was a drummer for Nirvana) continued tradition, check them out.
This song was always number one in MTV top 100 all time
every year thru the 90's
The last verse is a heroin reference. I forget just why I taste, oh yeah I guess it makes me smile. Taste is slang for use.
If you want to hear Fleetwood Mac at their best check out their earlyier work early Fleetwood Mac. Check it out ..
Hypnotic is correct..love these kids!
This song is rated like in the top ten rock songs of all time in many polls.
Another great reaction video to an all time great tune and video. BJ really got it!! Loved Asia's interpretation too. Excellent job with this tune!!
this song will forever give me goosebumps
RIP Kurt, and thank you sir
This is the genre called "Grunge". It started in the Seattle music scene in the early 90s.
Kurt Cobain committed suicide in his Seattle mansion. Some say he was murdered. The story and facts are very murky indeed.
Everytime I see Kurt I just want to go back in time and give him a hug and feed him some mac and cheese but that would have messed with the stomach🤷🏾♀💊
I don't think the song is about anything, Kurt often just picked lyrics that just fit with the melody line
I highly doubt it
Just because some lyrics do not make sense to you does not mean they aren’t meaningful to the song writer @artimus
@@peterreist2882 I never said they weren't meaningful, I just said I don't think the song was deliberately written with a topic in mind.
Exactly, Grunge BS that didn't have any meaning
@@peterreist2882 Grunge blows
The song that instantly killed the hair bands.
This music makes me so pumped in the gym man love it
Pleeez do Lithium...lyric version of teen spirit was a great call.....guys when this song broke.....was nothing good but GnR and Metallica...the rest was 80s hair bands....this song alone put em all out of work except for the two I just mentioned ...FACTS, and you can see how it and their style just came from left field out of nowhere compared to what was hot at the time
Put em all out of work. Tru dat
Minus Bon Jovi......they somehow managed to stick it out and were still releasing fairly mainstream music throughout the 90s and 00s. The rest though....even Motley Crue completely fell off the radar for the most part.
@@danielprudhoe647 Yeah there are a few more bands it did touch and your right Bon Jovi is one of them too
@@SIXX2772 Yeah only the huge rock bands like Queen, GNR, Metallica and U2 survived the whole Grunge/Alternative breakthrough really, along with legacy bands like the Stones and the Who etc. All the other big artists of the 80s faded away and just relied on their previous popularity to sustain them through gigs etc.
Nirvana, "You know you right" "Heart shaped box"
Aw look at young Dave Grohl
It gets Better the louder you play it. 🎵🎵🎵 Great song. Epic.
Nirvana paved the way for grunge music❤ Miss Kurt❤😢
I read it as mulatto (neither this nor that), albino (the absence of, apart from the rest), mosquito my libido (as in, my libido is tiny). All just expressions of alienation. That may just be me tho.
Grung Rock for me was all about a rebel state of mind FTW Thrashing moshpitts uprising of defiance and fighting the demons within from a life of being broken and broke. Glad yall did this again with the lyrics to get that understanding. Great react!!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
this song is gooood in a whole
but the lyrics man
lyrics are masterpiece
The Warning did a cover of this song , the audio wasn't great but it was a really great performance , well worth a watch .
RIP KURT COBAIN 🖤🖤🖤
Love you two! So addicted to your reactions.
Pure banger 🔥🔥🔥
Glad you love that song!👍
Great song, especially now I know the words.
Nirvana probably listened to "American Prayer," words by Morrison.
Just found out Dave Grohl got the opening drumbeat from The Gap Band🤯