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Smells Like Teen Spirit - 20th Anniversary
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Its been 20 years since Nirvana's amazing song ''Smells like teen spirit'' was released on Sepember 10, it would be nice if it gets back on the UK singles charts or Itunes charts 
Can't believe this song is 20 years old now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg&ob=av3e
There was a Facebook fanpage that the song should be this years's xmas no1 which would be really cool, so much better than the X Factor crap
The album ''Nevermind'' will have a ''20th Anniversary edition'' release this month
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a331892/nirvana-nevermind-20th-anniversary-edition-to-receive-limited-release.html
The surviving members of the band will be reunited for a Q&A session with Jon Stewart on September 24
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a337165/nirvana-to-celebrate-20th-anniversary-of-nevermind-with-jon-stewart.html
Can't believe this song is 20 years old now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg&ob=av3e
There was a Facebook fanpage that the song should be this years's xmas no1 which would be really cool, so much better than the X Factor crap
The album ''Nevermind'' will have a ''20th Anniversary edition'' release this month
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a331892/nirvana-nevermind-20th-anniversary-edition-to-receive-limited-release.html
The surviving members of the band will be reunited for a Q&A session with Jon Stewart on September 24
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a337165/nirvana-to-celebrate-20th-anniversary-of-nevermind-with-jon-stewart.html
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I've always liked this song.
I love Nirvana. Would be great if their music saw a surge due to the anniversary.
I love Nevermind and SLTS but I'm getting very fed up of the constant reissuing of albums on the flimsy pretext of an anniversary.
It can be good. The hype of it could lead to new fans.
*shoots johnboy in the head*:D
It was recently voted the worst cover ever by Rolling Stone readers.
I agree.:)
Oh dear.
*runs to youtube*
I guess you just haven't got what it takes to appreciate a quality, seminal album when you hear one, you have my sympathy.
Now run along and listen to your new Dolly Parton album.
I have and it's great.
We all know about your music taste, Chris. I don't think your opinion counts for much, sorry.
It's a great song by a very good band, albeit a massively overrated band. There's always the debate about whether Nirvana did more damage than good to the rock scene - the truth, as always, is somewhere in between, but in recent years I have warmed to their legacy. Yes, they spawned a whole host of identikit post-grunge dirges, but at the same time, they were a lot better than the glam rock which dominated the 80s. If rock didn't evolve, it risked losing it's relevance.
Lol me too
I remember when Nevermind and Teen Spirit were out reading or watching an interview with Kurt where he mentioned that Teen Spirit is basically the exact same riff as More Than A Feeling but also Louie Louie as well.
20 years though. I feel old. I shall now spend the day with pipe and slippers telling war stories.
Desert Storm obviously.
It had a massive impact on me and changed my tastes in music - before then I was listening to Guns 'n' Roses, Bon Jovi et al!
I saw them again the following year at the 1992 Reading Festival. Another great show!
Don't think it's really fair to group GNR in with the rest of the hair metal acts. They had far more in common with the likes of The Rolling Stones and (early) Aerosmith than Poison or Motley Crue.
Although having said that, Cobain hated them, mainly because of Axl.
The £100 6 disc version with 5.1 remix, live versions, demo versions, studio out-takes, single b-sides, a book of photos, replica tour pass, scarf, T-shirt, marbles, tuning forks, etc?
You love it really.
Oh wow, This is almost my story, the only difference is didn't see them at Birmingham but did go to Reading I was 14 and I too was listening to G'n'R, Bon Jovi etc. and Nevermind changed everything for me. Funny I was at Reading again this year and they screened the 92 set, there was a producer there who interviewed me about what Nevermind meant to me as
a teenager when it came out, which apparently will be packaged in a DVD with the 20th anniversary release.
Great post Mark, that's what music is about for me, and when you are younger it has even more impact.
Bruce Springsteen 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon did it for me.
At least it cured you of Bon Jovi.
I was also at that Reading.
I do remember Smells Like Teen Spirit starting to get played in Edwards No 8 in Birmingham and at the time it wasn't that different to a lot of the other stuff that had been around previously. The big difference though is that for whatever reason, Nirvana broke through in to the mainstream whereas previous bands hadn't - I think the main factor in this was MTV picking it up.
Yes I think the constant rotation on MTV really made Teen Spirit. At the time it was getting a lot of airplay along with other records by Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam etc. but Teen Spirit really stood out, something about the simplicity of them playing the song in a smoky hall in front of a crowd of college kids (and a janitor!) like they were amateurs performing at an after-school club or something, Kurt looking like he was loving and hating it in equal measure and Dave thrashing at the drums like Animal from the Muppets. It was quite mesmerising (underpinned by the almost metronomic swaying of the janitor with his mop and bucket).