First Time Hearing Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Reaction!!)

[@RogerFlynt966]

"Going from sadness to absolute rage" perfectly describes most of GenX

[@ernestolopezdevictoria8512]

Yeah, that tracks.

[@laurasedor4641]

Came here to confirm

[@mjepend]

Good call by Polo picking up Kurt's sadness. Loved Nirvana and Kurt. Incredible band that captured spirit of the times

[@zoodie13]

And always will until the end. Whatever

[@angelaarsenault]

This

[@emptybraincase4181]

i love how dave grohl beats the drums like they owed him money. a lot of money. on every track.

[@mztweety1374]

I knew he was a bad ass the first time I saw him because all I saw was sticks and hair😂

[@davidgoodman4208]

Grohl has said frequently that his main influence as a drummer was Tony Thompson of Chic.

[@emptybraincase4181]

@@davidgoodman4208 and that makes me love it even more. guy was a boss.

[@hannieloooo]

Totally agree. He’s so passionate and I love it

[@phyllisgaetz7683]

Dave Grohl only spent three and a half years drumming for Nirvana - but he says it felt like a lifetime. The band's iconic album “Nevermind” came out 30 years ago last month. And Grohl started the Foo Fighters after Kurt Cobain's heartbreaking suicide in 1994.

[@trumphatesyou]

Weird Al asked Kurt if he could parody this song. Kurt asked is it gonna be about food and Al said "No it's gonna be how nobody can understand the lyrics!" Kurt loved it.

[@tonyfro23]

I forgot this. Thank you for that nugget

[@Jay.Z]

A beautiful moment in time. 😢

[@trumphatesyou]

@@tonyfro23 Blind Mellon on Letterman singing "Change" is how I found out and I cried my eyes out for hours. Never thought I would be that emotional to someone I never met passing away. And then Shannon does it a few years later.

[@CatherineBriseboisCatWoods]

He got so sick of playing it... I'm sure he just loved having someone poking fun at it. Hands down, the anthem of Grunge and the 90s.

[@fruckles]

@@trumphatesyou Blind Melon is one of my favorites, about to go find that, thanks for sharing. [Solo]

[@lrads1]

This video was played on MTV after school. I was about 14... and this BLEW all the 80s hairbands (Motley Crue, Guns n Roses, Poison, etc.) out of the running. It changed the whole music scene to grunge. I was so different from what we were hearing for a decade. I sat on my knees with my mouth hanging open staring at this video... and then started moshing around. A great time in music history!

[@Dakotaandpacha]

Yes we were all tired of the skin tight leggings and big hair of the metal bands. We wanted something a bit earthier and more raw. Something not worried with how it was dressed and presented to the world. Totally original and has stood the test of time. Nirvana changed everything in the early 90s.

[@keeleycarrigan]

I remember waking up from a nap when I was 8 on Halloween and this song was playing on MTV. It stuck with me. (Not sure why I was napping in the middle of the day when I was 8 😂)

[@sporaxis1771]

I was a freshman in college, this song came on, the whole room stopped, we stared at each other like omg!!! This song changed everything. How many moments like that do you get in life? I loved watching someone else have that moment. You are awesome Polo!❤

[@Spooky_515]

Slightly a bit a revisionist history. GN’R was still going strong as evident by their tour money and dropping two records the same day that both sold more than 10million apiece in the US alone

[@apollobarkley]

This is arguably one of the 10 most influential songs in rock & roll history.

[@m.ericwatson968]

Hard to debate that one

[@diltberg9627]

I would say it was the most important song in rock history

[@PongGod]

@@diltberg9627 "The most important song in rock history?" Seriously? That's an awfully bold claim. On what basis?

[@loadedorygun]

At first for better then for waaay worse lol

[@MyBrothersKeeper101]

Maybe you should actually research Rock history. This song is pop music😂😂😂😂

[@sandramccusker5520]

In 1994, Dave Grohl filled in on drums for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on SNL. After the show, Tom Petty said he'd never been in front of a drummer who hit as hard as Dave did! He was thrilled by the way he played.

[@felipecampos3045]

The reason this song is so great is because it was kinda of a call to arms for all the teens in the 90 that felt dislocated and had no voice in mainstream media. It is more like an anthem than anything else really

[@animalcracker1140]

Sorry but no absolutely not, not even close

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

The call to arms was actually after the Milli Vanilli scandal.

[@PapiChulo-lt6ju]

I hope you don’t think that’s what “smells like teen spirit” means

[@jksinorbit]

You can't understand how monolithic this song/album was for us 90's kids... before this it was all hairmetal 80's vibe and all of a sudden we had our own voice ! It was literally an explosion 💥

[@jaygordon8683]

I was through it. Definitely understand. Those days are long gone. Never be anything like what we live through.

[@SkarTisu]

This song is one of a handful where I audibly said “WOW” the first time I heard it.

[@michaelcatanach2403]

"literally" wasnt the correct word there. there wasn't an actual explosion. but yeah it was big

[@jksinorbit]

@@michaelcatanach2403 thank god for grammar Nazis...yes it was figuratively an explosion.

[@heartlesskitten88]

I remember being 12 and hearing this on MTV while playing at a friend's house and i knew it was different and nothing was going to be the same. Looking back it marked a shift from childhood to teenage years, the music was a sound track to my youth.

[@Januaryschild]

30 years later and my heart still beats faster to this song.

[@ishryal]

The first half of the 90s was such a great time in music growing up - Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Soundgarden, Bush, Hole, Metallica, Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, R.E.M., Smashing Pumpkins, Faith No More, Live, Massive Attack, Portishead.

[@AysKuz]

Right??

[@hunterfitch5951]

Tool

[@holgualoxford3871]

Alice in Chains, Ween, Blonde Redhead, Butthole Surfers, Superchunk

[@mercychoke4475]

PORTISHEAD is one of my favorite bands ever. The album Dummy is on regular rotation in my house & car. Just 🤯💨.... SO FUCKING GOOD. Never gets old, fr... 🌬🕊😏🤘

[@menwithven8114]

SUBLIME

[@woolybear]

Dave Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana and after Kurt's death, he founded Foo Fighters. Give it a shot dude, it's one of the great rock bands!

[@Spooky_515]

Extremely successful band however I only liked the debut record. Dave will always be Kurt’s drummer to me

[@christianwilliamson9752]

It's a little bit difficult to state how iconic this album was when it came out it basically ended the glam rock and hair metal scene basically almost Altogether overnight this album is great. Bleach. In utero is amazing.

[@MyBrothersKeeper101]

Hair metal had been dead for sometime grunge is just the next attempt at a product from the recording industry.... The next phase of pop music essentially. This genre is All but dead now.

[@russnoneya6843]

It wasn’t dead, but it was definitely dying. They just didn’t kill hair metal, they killed bands like Loverboy.

[@Xeroforte]

@@MyBrothersKeeper101 Shows how little you know about grunge. Mudhoney, Tad, Skin Yard, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, etc. All pop music created by the music industry despite all these bands forming long before the genre was a blip in the eye of the industry? How ignorant do you have to be to come up with something that ridiculous?

[@jdog6620]

HUGE FACTS 🔥🔥. Started a genre.

[@lastborn11]

Butch Vig … producer of the soundtrack of my adolescent life … he gets my money every time he brings a band to town!

[@viciann]

The amazing thing about Nirvana is we were being fed hair bands for so long and then suddenly this song came out and changed everything. It was like discovering dynamite. My favorite songs are Lithium and Heart Shaped Box.

[@horizonblack]

Gen-X'er here. Another reason that Nirvana took over the airwaves was because of the sound of other songs at the time. The #1 song just before Smells Like Teen Spirit was by Bryan Adams and was a love song. Smells Like Teen Spirit heralded the exact moment that the Boomers lost the culture war to the new (much angrier) generation. Oh... and Come As You Are is a wonderful Nirvana song as well.

[@iambecomepaul]

Excellent! Excellent! Brother GenXer here. I don’t know, man. It’s kinda hard-looking back-thinking we were that much angrier. I mean, I’m not doubting you. My parents had Kent State, fall of Saigon, etc. We were what? A bunch of latchkey kids. Mom and dad threw off the tie dye hippy sh*t and went to work at Chase-Manhattan Bank. We wandered around with our friends… didn’t wear helmets when we rode bikes… kinda a law unto ourselves. But I’m not sure “angry” is the word. I’d go “disappointed” and “restless” before “angry.” We had no direction-and we were self-destructive. At least me and my friends:) Good post, though. Thoughtful. Reflects the times.

[@horizonblack]

@@iambecomepaul From my perspective, every generation has had their battles. The Boomers had the draft, the glass ceiling, and civil rights. Gen-X brought about Earth Day and fought for LGBTQ. Millennials and Gen-Z are still writing their truth, but already they have fought for Transgender normalization. I base the "angrier" assessment mainly on our collective cultural representation. John Denver and the Rolling Stones were legendary... but we had Public Enemy and Rage Against The Machine. They had the Hippies, true, but we had the Goths. They grew up thinking that the world was getting better though their effort, we grew up thinking that in the year 2000 every thing dies. Good conversation, friend. Rare online.

[@iambecomepaul]

@@horizonblack saluting you in our time. They may never understand us, but we’re still here 😊 “It just doesn’t matter.”

[@christopherking4932]

I'm pretty sure Michael was number one before nirvana knocked him off

[@andidreyes5323]

Don't knock Bryan Adams either. I love both, LOL. Literally was my years of music discovery (roughly everyone discovers it at 14-ish) but I had older siblings so I have their love of hard rap and r&b plus headbanger rock and oddly some country music. Plus the pop music my parents favored. I actually loved opera and classical music as a little girl and I just loved music. I knew I couldn't play instruments for sht but I loved music. Still do. My siblings btch about music today sounds horrible but I find some good stuff. I think they just hear only radio play.

[@DeadAgainLives]

I love watchin your reactions. Especially this one. You’re hearing it the perfect most real way that I would hope for. You feelin all the magic. Like, I felt like I was hearing it for the first time again through watching you. Beautiful. Thank you

[@ericgeorge2837]

Nirvana’s drummer was Dave Grohl. One of the best drummers of that era. He went on to front the Foo Fighters. Played all the instruments on their first album, essentially. He also played drums for Queens of the Stone Age for a while; check out Nobody Knows.

[@42Mrgreenman]

Slight correction, that's No One Knows...lol...

[@timfarrow1545]

1 album songs for the deaf and probably the tour its a shame coz that album is the best album qotsa have put out. Amazingly enough its daves drumming which makes it the best album. In my humble opinion

[@angelinakump4732]

At this point, who hasn't Dave drummed for? If you like his drumming thought, Song for the Dead by QOTS is gold and their live performances of it really show what a BEAST he is on the drums.

[@timfarrow1545]

@@angelinakump4732 love song for deaf its class n yeah that intro is prime grohl drumming

[@bimgorling2036]

Actually the Foo fighters was just Dave Grohl in the beginning 😅 He just named his one-man-orchestra something that would make the audience believe it wasn't just one lonely dude doing it all by himself! 🤣 Then he eventually took in other band members as well. But it wasn't just him playing everything - he was literally the whole band!

[@korteyeo1696]

The way you describe the shift from sadness, suffering, agony into abject rage... 40 seconds into hearing this your first time, without even knowing the lyrics... you get it. You really received this song. This song tells the story of his lived experience and you got it. Thank you. Can't wait to watch more these with you.

[@danakerjbam]

You really are a 90’s kid at heart. Love it. This wasn’t just a single, it was literally the end of Pop Radio. One day was Wilson Phillips and Roxette - the next day was this song, and everything else fell. It was the first time it felt like “our” music was on top. And it was pretty much exactly like your reaction. WTF…? Play it again. And again. And again. I love almost every Nirvana song. But if I have to pick one, and knowing what you dig: “All Apologies” from IN UTERO, their second, and last, album. It has everything - the rawness, the melody, the heaviness, the pain

[@trumphatesyou]

Bleach and Insecticide don't count as albums?

[@Voltor07]

In Utero was their third and final album. Everyone forgets about Bleach.

[@danakerjbam]

@@Voltor07 second mistake of the day talking about the albums of my day. Drugs, kids. At least I had fun. 🤷

[@punkroxgirl]

@@Voltor07 In Utero was fourth, everyone forgets Incesticide 😊

[@tricko8000]

@@punkroxgirl That's not an official studio album, it's a compilation of b-sides and covers and stuff

[@_EvilKam]

I was 13 when this song came out, and I felt completely blown away. It was like the music I'd always wanted to listen to suddenly "existed". I felt like until that moment, I'd been waiting to hear Nirvana my whole life, but the band hadn't been created yet - and suddenly MTV put them in front of me. I don't think any of my friends were captivated the way I was, but being a fan became part of my identity - at a time when I didn't know how to identify myself. To say the least, they were my favorite band for years to come. When Kurt took his life, I wore a black armband to school to signify the loss. I was picked on for it because I "wasn't even related to him". I guess they didn't understand what affect Nirvana had on music. They certainly didn't care about the effect the music had on me. I still hold a grudge over being picked on.

[@nateaurand1601]

Be advised, Nirvana live is a radically different experience, especially with Smells Like Teen Spirit because Kurt hated playing that song due to its overwhelming popularity. He hated that song being the only Nirvana song to many people. The same type of people who used to bully him would show up to Nirvana shows exclusively to hear that one song

[@AprilLaRae]

Dave Grohl in his interview with Pharrell Williams tells him that the drums in this song are taken from the Gap Band which is why you may have instantly recognized it within the first few beats 🤘🏼but also this is one of the most iconic songs of all time, Breed is one of my favorite songs by Nirvana, pure poetry 🌳🏠

[@starla9]

Me at the top of my lungs: WE CAN PLANT A HOUSE, WE CAN BUILD A TREE

[@zatoichi1]

And the opening riff is an off key variation of Boston's More Than A Feeling which they joke around with at Reading '92

[@gregw74]

Please consider doing Like a Stone by Audioslave and/or Jeremy by Pearl Jam

[@LG_7984]

This is seriously one of the top 5 songs of the 90s. It changed the musical landscape, it's catchy as hell, and it spans genres (now, back then it was firmly "grunge").

[@thepunadude]

IM A 'CHILD' OF THE 60'S ... MUSIC IS/WAS MY LIFE .. IM 73 AND I LOVE NIRVANA ... THE ENERGY AND INTELLIGENCE!

[@Norman-Bates]

Watch this my good man kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJLCqnauorSloNk It was a real eye opener for me in understanding Kurts voice.

[@wayneguess7946]

Agree, this music is timeless! 65 Myself!

[@munkeeBraynStoo]

Keep rocking, old man!!!! (No diss intended)

[@dullahan7677]

Kurt has often been called my generation's John Lennon.

[@PeteOliva]

Kurt was a brilliant, humorous man but not in the typical humor. It's the kind of humor very high IQ people put out. He was such a great lyricist for this reason.

[@roselove001]

I love that, ‘this is definitely going in the four runner,’ high praise!

[@SpunkyJ77]

Grunge bands are a great rabbit hole

[@scottcorboy2410]

You have to listen to Where Did You Sleep Last Night from the unplugged album. Kurt really shows his vocal talents in full bloom

[@Naomi-pq6tv]

"Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is a cover, it was originally done by Lead Belly.

[@garrettmarshall1288]

Try “Drain You!” Drain You is still my favorite song from this album. Possibly my fav Nirvana song. Or Come as You Are or Bloom!

[@michaeltveten8458]

Mind-bending that it’s been 30 years….Truly.

[@YourMomsHouse303]

In 1992 this shit was GROUNDBREAKING. A counter to hair metal and pop.

[@animalcracker1140]

Definitely not 92

[@Natural_Order]

Also fun fact the drummer of this band is now the Lead Singer and guitarist of the Foo Fighters

[@CherryFlavoredAntacid]

Kurt’s gritty, raw and emotional voice…it has so, soo much texture. When he sings you believe what he’s saying 100%.

[@donallmon1338]

55 years old here. If there's one song that defines my youth, its this one.

[@The_Kiosk]

The drummer on this album and the unplugged concert is Dave Grohl. He's a phenom, also has a band called Foo Fighters that is pretty essential if you love Nirvana.

[@markpipkinsjr1273]

Ngl. I hated the food fighters. I'm 38. They, to me, were WAAAY to pop/alternative and not grunge. Grohl should've stayed on the drums. Not saying anything about him as a person, I just couldn't stand the transition from rock/grunge. I also respect your opinion as art is subjective and all art isn't for everyone. ✌️

[@thomperkins]

Grohl was their drummer from this album until Kurt killed himself in 94.

[@blumoon3100]

​@@markpipkinsjr1273 I appreciate your consideration of critiquing the foo fighters. I personally love them and Dave Grohl.

[@loadedorygun]

I’m pretty sure I saw him play drums in my community center pool in VA, some punk band whose name I forget. Also Ian McKaye in an earlier band. I still can’t believe the same carpet where I had Monday Boy Scout meetings, these legends were tearing up on fridays.

[@raeje]

@@markpipkinsjr1273 I felt that way until The Color and the Shape. That was when I realized what a great song writer Grohl was.

[@JeRzy01]

I'd love to see your reaction to some other grunge hits like "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman" by Soundgarden, "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam, "Would" and "I Stay Away" by Alice in Chains. It's fascinating, how the entire groundbreaking subgenre of rock/metal music was condensed in just couple of bands and albums.

[@Naomi-pq6tv]

I absolutely love "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam!

[@kimzwolinski9919]

The Queen’s of the Stoneage “No One Knows “ that you reacted to because it was a song you really liked. Same drummer 😊 Dave Grohl now lead singer and guitarist of his band The Foo Fighters ❤

[@mzluna313]

I saw them live in October 1991 at St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit. We hadn't heard the term "Grunge" yet! The first thing I noticed when entering the venue was the really understated stage. You have to remember we were still experiencing the 80's music, most of which I despised! When they took the stage, they looked like nothing we'd ever seen before. No bright spandex. No big, over-processed hairdos. No makeup. For us Gen X'ers grunge became a way of life and a look and we were all the way in!

[@hunterfitch5951]

I remember the first time I saw this video on MTV. It hit me different than anything I’d ever seen. The next day at school I asked one of my friends if they had heard of Nirvana and he said no. No joke the following words came out of my mouth, “they are going to be huge”. I was in junior high.

[@tobytabor490]

Welcome to the Grunge Era! My favorite Nirvana track is Aneurysm! Its not one of the more main stream tracks by Nirvana, but for whatever reason, it encompasses their early, heavier riffs with their later style of tunes.

[@markwillis675]

This song single handedly ended the hair metal scene and killed all those bands career.

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

Not exactly. There was a thriving underground scene already. But music marketing execs saw a goldmine after the Milli Vanilli scandal.

[@consuelaluna1414]

This song kicked down the door with authority when it came out. It changed EVERYTHING

[@control_issues]

It's hard to pick a "favorite" Nirvana song, but one of them for me is Breed. Kurt was one of the few celebrity deaths that really affected me. I will always wonder what could have been.

[@melissakennedy1506]

I’m Gen X, this came out during my freshman year in college. It’s was like this huge shift from hair bands. Finally, there was someone as messed up and filled with so much anger like we were. We had the worst parents across the board and were mostly neglected. My favorite non-single is “All Apologies” live on MTV Unplugged. It was one of their last performances and always hits me in the feels

[@Chickennugget2450-m9y]

Hey great story and I’m sure you meant no harm, but claiming to have the ‘worst parents across the board’ is bold considering how your parents likely had worse parents than you guys. Not to mention the huge amount of abused & neglected children that still suffer today.

[@mneugent7658]

This song, this one moment in music, changed more about popular music than possibly any other song you'll ever react to. Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis and I Wanna Hold Your Hand by The Beatles might be the only ones bigger.

[@tonyfro23]

I would agree with your historical thesis. It's probably as close to inarguable as anything in America can be

[@mneugent7658]

@Christopher Moltisanti Pretty much wiped out hair metal too. Sorry about Adriana.

[@bigboycombo6342]

I remember when this song started playing, it was a game changer.

[@Paula_Pretty_lady]

I too remember hearing it the first time and the visceral feeling of the music change to come.

[@lesscarmel5527]

Agree on all three songs being absolute game changers.

[@kHrL1559]

"sadness and misery", "complete rage". You don't imagine how spot on that was lol

[@Natural_Order]

This band got me into playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15 and 15 years later I am still doing it and wouldn't regret it

[@moniqueleroux2198]

"I just wasn't ready to listent o the words, at the time."! What a quote!

[@The_Kiosk]

The commercial hits are really good to be fair, but the deep cuts are where the real songs are. Check out Bleach or Incesticide or Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, album-wise.

[@alchristensen8121]

I was lost, bored, depressed middle-aged guy when this song hit. It hit me hard and completely changed me. I always turn it up loud and want to jump around whenever it plays.

[@dominickferrari8368]

Try "Heart Shaped Box " :)

[@natemekis3959]

Polo knows what’s good. Hope for much more Nirvana to come

[@melw5043]

This song slapped when I first heard it in 1991 and it still slaps. Other non-single favourites are Lounge Act, Stay Away, Milk It, Verse Chorus Verse, Tourette's, Been A Son

[@punkroxgirl]

Love Stay Away

[@sonicx7488]

​@Joe dirty71 "in his hands" i think

[@Hyde_and_Seek]

@Joe dirty71 sappy

[@ThePapabear2012]

This one was an instant hit. As soon as you heard it you wanted to hear it again.

[@JJMcClure397]

love this song but honestly my favorite by Nirvana is "heart shaped box. "

[@jerumd]

Hear this song almost every day on a radio station in the company where I am currently working, and I never get tired of it. I don't know why?? It just is! 🤣

[@deelak2329]

Grohl is great, but Kurt was a bonafide musical genius.

[@carterhays9243]

Well, so is Dave technically.. BUT, you are not wrong. Still wishing for my Kurt Solo album, and not the montage of heck stuff

[@hellcat19832]

@@carterhays9243nah Dave is a sellout

[@jasonremy1627]

Glad you liked the song. It really revolutionized music in its day.

[@mr.nobody9697]

IMHO Teen Spirit is the greatest rock song of the 90s. It dropped like an atom bomb on the 90s music scene. As he referred to as "switch ups" in the song with several of them it just keeps the listener hooked.

[@CoastPropertyBuyers]

In Australia there is a radio station (Triple J) and every ten years or so they countdown the Hottest 100 songs of all time. This song has never failed to be #1 in every countdown. Iconic song

[@tobinhays652]

"We're getting into something today" - My best laugh today. Yep, you are.

[@DavidMiller-dt8mx]

I've always really loved Heart-Shaped Box, but Nirvana had a string of great songs.

[@tommj4365]

also one of my favorites

[@gnovo8650]

Great song! Last song they played live.

[@felis1224]

Me too!

[@TheCamarosBand]

There has only been 2 rock songs that have completely changed music. The Beatles I Wanna Hold Your Hand in ‘64. And this amazing song in ‘91.

[@argosthedork5097]

Ahh I miss what music used to sound like. I'm probably supposed to be too old (61) to like this. Now you have to listen to Weird Al's Nirvana's song

[@jsegovia]

Not really you're not that much older than Kurt would've been

[@ezgezg8618]

Luv em Both 🍻🇨🇦

[@MySnottyattaC]

I miss it too! To old? Never ever; I'm 58 next week....this gives me such energy!

[@tonysoto8949]

This song and I this band changed the landscape of music when the video came out in MTV. The music video is the reason this song and this band blew up almost overnight. Not to mention that our homie who was a tagger named “Chaka” had his “Chaka” tag on the drummer Dave Grohls drum set. You will see “Chaka” tagged on the base drum in the video.

[@MalevolentProphecies]

This song is an icon. It encapsulates the confusion and angst of developing into a young adult. This is why it has transcended the decades since it’s release. Heart shaped box next.

[@earthbone8562]

I was a senior in High School when this came out. Among other bands like Tool, Alice n Chains, Soungarden, they were the speartip of a whole new type of music that peirced me in all the right places. It was magic. Thanks Polo.

[@pjj9491]

Ok...dave grohl...front for foo fighters...played guitar...and nine inch nails and nirvana drummer....SUPER TALENT

[@CharlesEmory-y4h]

You nailed it. Sadness, anxiety, rage are the essence of grunge.

[@scottspears9347]

Never realized how awesome the bass groove is to this song until now

[@robnotwicz7002]

Every track on Nevermind has a *killer* groove

[@GarrettGaudini]

I was a junior when this came out … our anthem!

[@dfulton42]

Nirvana put Seattle grunge scene on the map. Pearl Jam, Sound Garden and Nirvana were on top of the world for awhile in the 90's, and then grunge fell off the map as rock continued to evolve.

[@lightningbug276]

My daughter visited Seattle and sent me pictures of the club Nirvana played . I’m so glad I gave them a proper rock education 😊

[@maingeemutt1668]

you forgot the best of the Seattle bands, Alice In Chains

[@despinakollas]

When Grohl comes in, in the first bar, is when everyone falls in love with him. What a friggin die hard, dynamo kick ass drummer he is. Peace! ✌🏼

[@AL-fl4jk]

Grohl is God

[@bradspitt3896]

My favorite Grohl moment was him and Zac Brown at the CMA awards just completely outclassing all those "country" musicians lol.

[@VitaminPete616]

Fck Ghrol! Kurt made him! He wouldnt be in same position RN he is without Kurt

[@brianscollick2522]

One of the most unheard of bands that are so tight! Rare Earth I just Want To Celebrate. will have you out of your chair! Brutha play it learn know it love it! Peace

[@raeje]

It's hard to over state the impact this album had on Grunge music, and the 90's in general. They weren't the first Grunge band. You can argue that they weren't the best. But they were the ones that drug the style kicking and screaming into the light, and cemented the 90's Seattle music scene as part of the cultural zeitgeist. Favorite song? That's hard. It's a toss up between "You know, you're right" (last song recorded before Kurt's death and posthumously released a decade later) or "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" (from the Beavis and Butthead Experience album)

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

Weird Al's prank comedy version is Fantastic !!! 😆

[@jasonremy1627]

If you want to get into Nirvana's biggest musical inspiration, check out The Pixies. A lot of their sound was inspired by the Pixies.

[@Slippinn_Jimmy]

It’s just “pixies.” No the.

[@pecsenye]

I came here to say this. Pixies were the ur-ur.

[@Naomi-pq6tv]

And many of their covers were either songs by the Vaselines, Meat Puppets and Wipers.

[@Spooky_515]

@@Naomi-pq6tvdefinitely influenced by them bands as well as Husker Dü and Fugazi

[@staceym7940]

Angst, rage, sadness, love...anthem for a generation!!!

[@jakefromstatefarm1405]

Can't wait for you get into some Soundgarden 🤘

[@bryantanirau-stanley3969]

I remember the first time my brother showed me this video. I had never heard anything like it before. They changed my life. I was 11 when my brother introduced me to this band, I'm now 42 and still a big fan. Also recently got to see Kurt Cobains Marton D-18E in Sydney recently. Was amazing to see in person.

[@sidneymartin7346]

This is the song where everyone remembers what they were doing and where they were the first time they heard it. It changed music. It ended the hair bands and gave a breath of fresh air to the music scene. There had been nothing like it before.

[@HelloMisterJAMWAH]

Ya know, I hadn't thought about this but you're right. I was at a friend's 12th birthday bowling trip! Thanks for prompting the memory.

[@JohnLennon99791]

True Statement

[@KristinaMarie719]

A modern-day masterpiece. Thanks for the reaction.

[@TheClayCoKid]

I came home from class in college. This popped up on MTV. I knew this was a hit. Just like Pearl Jams Evenflow. Nirvana had 3 great albums. The drummer is Dave Grohl, lead singer of Foo Fighters. Probably the world's best human.

[@1982chiXu]

It isn't an understatement to say this song (and the whole album) changed the landscape of music in the 90's. No an understatement in the slightest.

[@sassymess7111]

You nailed it with the outrage in his voice. Proud Gen Xer.

[@V01t2]

I wish I could remember what I thought the first time I heard this song when it came out. My sister introduced me to it and nothing on the radio ever sounded like THIS - or the same ever since.❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥 I have so much luggage tied to those chords

[@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer]

This is a moment-in-time song. I was 18, first year in college. All these new bands and sounds were hitting. I heard Gish by Smashing Pumpkins the first week I was there. Then this song debuted on MTV. I was alone in my dorm room and I freaked and went to every room I knew and asked who else heard it. Three of us geeked out watching Mtv to hear it again until the album was available. It changed almost everything I listened to.

[@FARID1870]

Yes me too. Before that I was really into Madchester and The Stone Roses. Grunge changed everything.

[@alisummers7984]

This song hit the radio- and changed the entire music industry from 80’s hair bands to grunge- literally overnite!

[@wbl5649]

I was not a Nirvana fan at all nor the grunge genre. Im not a fan of 90's music really. However, this song...I love it and even though I am a huge music fan who loves so many songs I would put this song in the Top 10 best songs of all time. Its that epic. Its the structure, the vocals, the mood...they captured some kind of magic here

[@aryansigrid]

The lyric's are not meant to be picked apart, they are what they are & they're great.

[@GOOSE-1334]

Man you just had to have been alive and a music person at the time when this song came out. It singlehandedly took all the pop songs and 80s ballads and flushed them down the bowl. It was crazy everything before this song was released was was forgotten and the entire Rock world was turned upside-down. I've never seen anything like like it.

[@laurabuer4714]

It's taken me a lot of years to appreciate Nirvana. I was always a Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead fan girl. I get the appeal now, just took over 20 years.

[@Squirrelarmy6014]

Best power trio of our time. Each member, a force of nature, just killing their respective parts

[@billadkins5150]

The Drummer is Dave Grohl. He’s currently the guitarist and vocalist frontman of Foo Fighters.

[@Duke_2373]

I was 18 when this song came out, not only did it change the musical landscape, it changed what kids started wearing and the vibe in movies. Very few artists have had that kind of impact on the mainstream. Downside to that is you become your own parody, which Cobain saw coming.

[@Tassie85]

This beast changed everything.

[@againnam]

Did you know that the drummer of Nirvana was Dave Grohl, the frontman and singer of the Foo Fighters?? Multi-instrumentalist and a great singer in his own right! Huge talent and a heart of gold - check him out as well as the Foo Fighters ;-) :-) 'The Pretender' smashes everything!!!!

[@tiredofit4761]

Hey they are legend!! I’m glad you like it. This song changed rock/pop music at the time. Of course rap/soul was taking off too!

[@Levi-ou2zm]

This was the song of the 90’s. One of my favorites is lounge act.

[@SCOOTER.FOR_LIFE]

Oh man! I'm addicted to your reactions!! Couse I LOVE bands like AC/DC, Metalica, Nirvana, Let Zeppelin, Faith No More, Type o Negative. It's such a pleasure to share this experiance with you! God bless you! Love from Ukraine! 🇺🇦

[@stepheng1523]

I wish I could hear nirvana for the first time again. The live album is even better (it's rawer)