And then I Heard Nirvana - Come as you are (First Reaction)

[@poloreacts27]

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[@Janaesp12]

Ya know the weird and mystical thing about 90s music? It gave me nostalgia when I first heard it back then when it first came out. Almost like a forward deja vu that evhoes throughout time and space lol....but seriously. I mean that.

[@ChrisSlaughter-pz6zr]

I've been a Nirvana fan from way back. I get that everyone immediately thinks about "Smells Like Teen Spirit" but my favorite jam is "Breed" kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnjGaZ2Cacmtl9Esi=BQWUSp3QqidYuqbR (Best Nirvana album though is the MTV Unplugged album) and there are some killer covers off of it to react to too.

[@jmfong76]

Grunge music from the 90’s is AMAZING!! Definitely worth listening too. If you listen to 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, people will think you are a Gen X! It was a very sad day when Curt Cobain died. He is part of the “27 Club”. A lot of musicians and important people died when they were 27…..Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, Amy Winehouse, and of course Curt Cobain. He dealt with depression and end up committing suicide by shooting himself. He’s one of the most loved/lost Gen X artist.

[@HeartlessNinny1]

Whatever happened to that drummer? I bet he had a bright future

[@marktherreault7942]

Polo the drummer back then was David groh one of the best

[@MindsNmotors]

Man, I wish I could hear Nirvana again for the first time.

[@paulrblodgett1887]

Me too. This is why I love watching "first time reaction ". Don't know about this gentleman...but some of these people weren't even born yet when this came out. It's amazing seeing them recognize the genius. It's the closest I've found to what you're talking about

[@marcio1745]

SAME

[@MegalonJonesSlattery]

Nirvana seems to be the group that subsequent generations keep discovering. I keep seeing teens with Nirvana tee shirts.

[@nolaspeaker5656]

I'd go so far as to call it a rite of passage.

[@bentucker2301]

And people wore Che Guevara t-shirts. It means nothing if it's a fashion statement.

[@dcg4mn]

@@bentucker2301 Just don’t assume everyone in one of those t-shirts is only for the fashion: it can also signal support and agreement like BLM or countless others

[@bentucker2301]

@@dcg4mn if.

[@peeg100]

Dave, once said that Kurt’s greatest gift was his ear for melody, he himself didn’t understand it until he was older. His vocal melodies are very sophisticated, they don’t follow what the guitar is doing most of the time, the guitar is merely a bridge to move the song along. That it is why Paul McCartney said Cobain was a lot like John Lennon, truly musical geniuses.

[@allauricia1985]

No talent bums How they got a record contract is a mystery Some exec must have seen the world had become a bunch of whining cry babies Like him

[@dcg4mn]

Glad to hear Paul said that - true on both counts.

[@slipknotsberryfarm]

@@dcg4mnwatch the butch vig interview on the neverind documentary. it’s on youtube. he talks about how cobain’s vocals were so specifically insane that he would have cobain do a backing track to his main vocals, which would be like ⅛ of a note higher, which gives it that uncanny otherworldly quality.

[@dcg4mn]

@@slipknotsberryfarm WHAT?! I LOVE shite like that, like sympathetic strings; and how Mingus drew a circle around a note and said “Now hit any place on that circle” 🫨♥️ - thanks!!

[@GeorgeMurphy-i1p]

The best description I've heard of Kurt's vocals is this..."it was almost like he was screaming in tune..." ❤❤❤

[@Kim-hc5si]

‘I can’t explain it’ Yep, that’s what we thought back then, too. ❤

[@poloreacts27]

I love the drums in this so much

[@lastborn11]

I feel David Grohl sells out Stadiums …on the back of his Drumming on this song …

[@McKavian]

Check out Godsmack's song Voodoo for heavenly drumming.

[@BlastastiC]

DG beating the drumkit like it owes him money.

[@dankline7091]

Check out the brief video where Dave Grohl explains to Pharrell that he grabbed a lot of his drum sound in Nirvana from the The Gap Band, Cameo and Tony Thompson! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZipe5Ztf76Gm7c

[@munkeeBraynStoo]

​@@McKavian Forgive Me is even better

[@Mayelito7]

I miss the 90’s… I was a child and teen in that era, when it comes to music, whether Rock, Pop, or Hip Hop… we were spoiled and didn’t know it…

[@markbarlow4296]

Same. And you’re 100% right, sadly.

[@mattgilbert5850]

Nirvana originated this type of music in the early 90s. They pioneered a whole movement of music. They were as iconic as they were influential.

[@fernandoparadacastillo5901]

I know (and understand) why Smells Like Teen Spirit is their biggest song. But this one is just so hypnotizing, i never get tired of it. Only a true talent could create something like this. R.I.P. Kurt Cobain, he deserved better.

[@vladimirfilin8387]

не зря героин от слова герой

[@GeorgeMurphy-i1p]

Just another example of Kurt's brilliance! He made sure Smells Like Teen Spirit was the first track on the album because he knew it was Nirvana's biggest draw when kids first listened to their music in the records stores!!! He was so much more than just "some famous rock singer who committed suicide"... He spoke to a generation of kids that made them feel heard!!! He made kids branded as "weird" in school feel normal!!! But adults aswell!!! I'm 25 years old and I have the same pessimistic view of the world as Kurt...I can count on one hand the amount of people I can stand talking to!!! The best description of Kurt's voice I've heard is this..."he was screaming in tune..." He could scream like a heavy metal singer! And he could be as soft as Bob Dylan! I only wish we all got to see what he'd be today! I once messaged Dave Grohl on Instagram, believe it or not 😏, and I asked him what he'd think about my favourite band of all time Oasis and whether he would like them or not...the reply I got was this..."👍"... That's a "yes" to me! 😅😂😂😂 at the moment we have Richard Ashcroft and Cast supporting Oasis next year! BUT! I'd pay an extra £50 to watch DAVE GROHL PLAY!!!!

[@GeorgeMurphy-i1p]

When I say "what HE'D think about Oasis" I was referring to "what would Kurt Cobain think...and all I got back was..."👍"...

[@Soundhypno]

All Apologies and Lithium are a must for Nirvana as well as In Bloom, Kurts response to everyone asking what do the lyrics mean.

[@timmyrushton9203]

lithium would be a good next reaction. 🙂

[@jonathanbarb5516]

Yeah, polo, you gotta do those, especially lithium!

[@simple384]

In bloom is a banger

[@TrianglesAndCircles]

I've had so much fun with Nirvana - probably turned 17 when they hit it big.

[@donfette5301]

@@TrianglesAndCirclesI was freshman on college. They changed everything.

[@mztweety1374]

Bless his poor heart I just wanna go back in time and give him a hug..

[@barbarastrayhorn4667]

Me too. My son was about his age and was devastated when he died. I think the world was sad.

[@woebringer7884]

@@barbarastrayhorn4667 Part of the entire world died that day, a special part

[@HelloClarice80]

I was 14 when Kurt died. I will never forget it. Nirvana defined my personal youth. I'm 43 now and still can't believe how genius he was. And the whole band. Grohl is a fucking beast with Foo Fighters. Krist and Pat are brilliant too.

[@GhostlyEcheveria]

I was also 14, and I was just getting into Nirvana when Kurt died. My favorite band is Smashing Pumpkins, and I feel like I was so wrapped up in their music, that I got into Nirvana late. Both bands shaped my adolescence. Nirvana, The Pumpkins, NIN, and Manson. I miss the 90's.

[@erykvonritzmann4741]

I was almost 14. Saw him in Dec 93. By April 94 he was gone. I was pretty fucked up about it. He was my favorite and still is one of them now.

[@Trendkiller196]

I was 15. Lived my whole life in the Seattle area. People were devastated. Is it not crazy that we are almost 45?

[@codyaucoin3412]

I was 13, and his reported date of death is my birthday.

[@joekenorer]

I was 14 also. That's really all I had to add. I miss the 90's, it was a golden age and we didn't even know it.

[@Rosie-ij3on]

7:14 it's amazing you say that. First time I ever heard this song I felt the exact same sensation of nostalgia. Being born in 93, I had wondered if maybe I had heard it while in the womb and had some kind of deep rooted recollection of it somehow. An *_in-utero memoria_* perhaps 😉

[@DeeWeber]

Kurt acknowledged the bass was from Killing Joke’s 1984 Eighties. This is so good.

[@JenniferKirchhoff-d4l]

It’s like drowning is awesomeness and melancholy. I am SO FORTUNATE to have this as my generation. I saw many of these bands before they were huge… it was AMAZING. I feel so sorry for the later generations… the musical pickings are very slim indeed.

[@vulgarprophet2689]

This is a special one, ya. Its probably been said a bunch of times on your channel but it's hard to stress enough how much this album blew our minds back in the day. Similar to today people were dying for authenticity.

[@rebeccaburnell9319]

This.

[@dustinwittwer1]

Its almost impossible to convey to younger people how fucking amazing this was when it hit.

[@paulinestavaris3114]

100%

[@jokerswildio]

Key word there....authenticity! When we heard this for the first time it was as if Kurt was articulating our subconscious mind and making us feel a real sense of....Nirvana.

[@jessallen7756]

I've always said, Nirvana had the same effect as when the Beatles hit the scene.....Music changed immediately.....The Beatles and Nirvana are the only 2 bands that have done that

[@bjwnashe5589]

So much great music in the 90s. And it was popular! This Nirvana album was number one worldwide.

[@brigitte9999]

Excellent point, it was mainstream and quality.

[@vulgarprophet2689]

90s were the Pinnacle. Pantera, Ministry, Grunge....

[@monkeynumbernine]

It was a foretelling of the future. I remembered where I was when he died. Elvis, Freddie Mercury...I remember exactly what I was doing when they died.

[@brianbarnett1004]

It amazing how Kurt can get you so mesmerized by his voice and lyrics, that you completely forget how good the instruments are. 3 man band making that track!!

[@godsson7787]

beautiful madness.

[@magdalenahernandez6840]

Nirvana was great. Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and Soundgarden. All great bands. Deep feeling that were no where near the bubble gum. Heart shaped box by Nirvana is great. All apologies on MTV unplugged 1993 unedited is very good as well.

[@kenwilmarth68]

Unfortunately they are all dead except Eddie Vedder

[@magdalenahernandez6840]

So true, at least the lead singers are all dead. The rest of the band members have moved on or as in AIC got another lead singer.

[@waynetables6414]

Soundgarden rules but none of those bands are punk centric, they have different styles . If you like Nirvana's music check out bands that the mainstream media and record companies didn't spend a million dollars to promote and who didn't have handsome frontmen easy to market around.. Check out bands Nirvana actually liked and sounded like.. like L7 (album Bricks are Heavy), The Melvins, Mudhoney, Hole, the Pixies, Sonic Youth etc.. Even the more commercially successful bands like Green Day I'd say their first album was building off of Nirvana's success and taking it in their direction, making punchy punk music that was unpretentious and catchy.. Early Green Day drew on a lot of the same influences Nirvana did, whereas some of the bands you mentioned in your comment come from a completely different world.. Mother Love Bone and AIC were not punk kids like the members of Nirvana and Green Day, they were playing in glam bands and doing Poison covers... not a knock just drawing distinction. I like a lot of music that gets labelled glam, its not a criticism. Take Come as You Are.. it's inspired by an 80s British New-Wave("post punk") band called Killing Joke and the song is called "Eighties".. I certainly can't picture Jerry Cantrell sitting around listening to Killing Joke albums or even 80s alternative music in general lol.. he comes across as more of a Van Halen/Black Sabbath guy. Cobain definitely has a bit of a Sabbath influence too, but it's much more Black Flag than Black Sabbath. Nirvana was very feminine and AIC was very masculine.. Cobain and Cantrell are just two very different people with very different sensibilities.. it's just the age-old metal vs punk divide and the competing politics and ethos of those movements.. it's never made sense to me to say if you like Nirvana, you'll like AIC because I don't think that's necessarily the case. We just shouldn't let corporate journalists define music genres, those people don't care about music.. they care about making money and marketing a product and selling it.. and in the 90's the thing that made money was "grunge" so virtually everyone in bands at that time trying to cut their teeth and make it big slapped a flannel shirt on and stopped washing their hair hoping they'd get famous, among those who did that were Alice in Chains.. Who i think is a good band as well. It's just superficial for everyone to constantly always lump Nirvana in with the bands you mentioned based on trivial stuff like how they dressed or where they were from. Maybe some of the guitar tones and all the drop tuning sounded similar, maybe the lyrics were similarly depressing.. but those sounds and moods were used very differently in terms of song composition. Nirvana didn't come up playing shows with bands like Pearl Jam and STP they came up playing with the bands i mentioned.. Mudhoney, Melvins, Tad, L7 etc.. there were different "scenes" within the Pacific Northwest and for example a band like AIC and a band like Nirvana didn't even know each other, didn't play shows together, never crossed paths, sounded almost nothing alike, and didn't even meet until they got booked on the same show years after they were all already famous in like 1993 or something. Yet, fan fiction online would have you believe they were all part of this united movement together and they were all buddies... that is true for PJ, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains but Nirvana was not part of that clique.. they were way out in Olympia playing shows with the Buzz Osbourne's of the world. I think Pearl Jam is interesting in the sense they got a lot more raw and punk sounding in their second third and fourth albums and I could see the Nirvana comparison with some of the songs on Vs, Vitology, and Yield... I know Eddie Vedder liked Fugazi... I think 'Ten' is complete trash but they got a lot better after that, at least in my subjective opinion. You could not pay me to listen to Jeremy spoke in class today song lol

[@magdalenahernandez6840]

I like that you are passionate about music. I am old, like MTV old (when MTV actually played music) so I have heard of all the bands you are talking about. However I love Metal/Heavy Metal and hard Rock. I first saw Nirvana when they put the band on Head Bangers Ball. I know Nirvana is not Metal, Heavy Metal, or even Rock. But I wouldn't call them Grunge. If you listen to all of the bands that came out of the same area, they will all say they weren't grunge and hated the moniker. AIC, Soundgarden, or Pearl Jam were never grunge either. I love music in general but I have to admit that I didn't like Nirvana at first. I grew to like them the more I heard Nirvana. I listened to Queensryche, Metallica, and other such bands. I really liked Alice in Chains as they had heavy riffs, harmonizing, and haunting sounds. Jerry Cantrell admits that his influences were Rush, Deep Purple, Sabbath, etc. I can see what you mean about Nirvana's influence of Black Flag. But even Corbain said he was influenced by the Sex Pistols, The Melvins, and various rock bands. But Kurt Corbain said he liked the simplicity of John Lennon, in terms of lyrics and guitar playing of the Beetles. But just because Nirvana wasn't a straight punk band, doesn't mean he didn't have leanings towards it. I admit to listening to hard stuff like TOOL (probably my favorite), but I can enjoy other music for various reasons. I grew up listening to everything from Santana to Beethoven. I also admit to liking Eddie Van Halen's guitar. I like strong singers. I don't mind screamers in music but not only screaming. I was never a Green Day fan. I respect Green Day's music and the musicians but it's music is not for me. I wouldn't say I listen to machine or corporate music either. There can be special voices or bands out there that either have it or not. I do remember that Nirvana was going to play a concert with AIC in Santa Rosa, CA. That was the closet to me at the time. That was far to go without a car when we lived in SF. Kurt Corbain I think died before the concert came about or just shortly after that. I am sorry that many of the lead singers passed away from that era (even if at different times and years). I think we have to dig hard sometimes to find something that isn't just plain machine made today. In some ways digitally streamed music although convenient, takes way from the specialness of connecting to the band or album you want or love. It's just different.

[@waynetables6414]

@@magdalenahernandez6840 Hey I agree with everything you said, enjoyed reading it. You're right.. I don't think Grunge is best viewed as genre of music, although it is in some sense.. it's more describing a movement/an attitude/ a way of dressing/a way of singing.... It's a reaction to the 80s consumerism and a sort of rebellion against the "Girls, Girls Girls" stuff. But like I said.. I like a lot of that music too. My only critique of some of those Seattle bands like Alice is that they are like me and love that Glam music too, but they had to sort of pretend to hate it in order to be "cool" in the 90s. I respect people who are unapologetically authentic and for better or worse Nirvana was.. and I felt a lot of people copied that authenticity and tried to commodify it. As far as the music goes i love Alice in Chains harmonies and a lot of their stuff, I think Facelift sucks but similar to Pearl Jam I think those dudes got better with time, with the exception of Layne Staley, he kind of withered away and got worse and worse.. just a brutal and sad situation. In terms of Cobain's influences yeah you are 100% right.. punk bands like the Sex Pistols, Melvins, the Wipers were big influences but he had a wide range of stuff that you wouldn't necessarily expect, he liked Aerosmith a lot, he loved Led Zeppelin.. who didn't? I would say Nirvana is a punk band at their core (Breed, Territorial Pissings, Tourrettes, Teen Spirit, Negative Creep) etc.. But he loved thrash metal, loved the Beatles and Lennon... he always said he was trying to combine all those elements and have hard music with melodic hooks. AIC was a metal band with some bluesy elements, great harmonies.. I think both Nirvana and AIC were influenced by Soundgarden, who had been around a lot longer.. Soundgarden was a very musically interesting metal band and played around with tempo changes and off time signatures.. they kind of sounded like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath combined if you listen to a song like "Hunted Down" which i love. I have a hard time describing Pearl Jam's sound on their first album it sounds almost a bit southern jam-band in some moments.. i've just never been much of a Pearl Jam guy. All of those grunge bands definitely had their own sound.. Stone Temple Pilots did sound like a copy of Pearl Jam to me initially but I guesss i do like STP's songs better., I find both of them bland too often. the PJ songs I do like are Do the Evolution, Spin the Black Circle, and that type of shit.. Even Flow and Alive and that shit makes my ears bleed. I'm a huge Metallica guy as well i'd put them over every other band I mentioned. They are on another level. Love Santana, love Beethoven.. I never got into Tool what songs would you reccomend?

[@pegt8920]

Glad you’re finding that so many great 90’s bands ( PearlJam, AIC, Soundgarden, Bush) just need to be cranked in your car!❤️🎉

[@ballshd68419]

TOOL

[@neilp8964]

And dont forget the band that always gets lost in the grunge era…STP. First 2 albums are pure gold

[@woebringer7884]

AIC

[@billschafer9668]

Nirvana was new and fresh when they came on the scene. All 3 musicians were so talented. To me Dave Grohl was such a good drummer and the heartbeat of the group. Nirvana music is timeless.

[@rebeccaburnell9319]

I swear you could play Grohl's drum track for me, isolated from the rest of the song, and I'd be like "hey, that's Come As You Are!"

[@fgrillo29]

This song always gets me. Hypnotic and mesmerizing. Dave's drums, Krist's bass and Kurt. Kurt is just amazing. So sorely missed. This track was everywhere. Radio, MTV, parties, car stereos. So good.

[@QueenofAwkwardness]

The bass line is so mesmerizing in this song. It's always had a hold on me...for over 30 years now. Enjoy!

[@garybecker2610]

I’ve always liked Nirvana, but this song knocks it out of the ballpark!!!

[@TheDivayenta]

Dear Polo- you are a true grunge and prog Metal dude! I see what moves you and it’s so cool to watch. ❤

[@groover7116]

Remember the first time I heard this song I was on the way to work. To this day, can’t get enough of it 😂.

[@ghostfacescrillaNG]

This has always been my favourite Nirvana song. That opening bassline is just so eerie and dark to me.

[@Duke_2373]

Those drums man!! This Album hit like a bomb, I was 18 and it was everwhere, great times.

[@munkeeBraynStoo]

Class of 92 rules!!!

[@Theskibidirixzler-j7l]

The same! And the voice! It sounds like a glue or a kind of. Love it!❤

[@markwillis675]

One of the most Iconic albums of all time. Like master of puppets. You'll never get tired of listening to the entire album.

[@munkeeBraynStoo]

It totally and forever changed the face of Rock n Roll, much like Pink Floyd did, exponentially

[@shannondavis3338]

My brother, put the whole album on repeat in the 4runner! It's that good!

[@cbdawg4242]

Lithium, Polly, On a Plain, Something in the Way from the Nevermind album are also great! Where did you sleep last night from their MTV Unplugged album is my favorite in that album

[@munkeeBraynStoo]

The whole album is 🔥. All of their Unplugged performance is fire 🔥 sadly tho, now Kurt's in the fire. Murdering self as final act prohibits the soul from entering Heaven

[@gracieb.3054]

@@munkeeBraynStoo Stop listening to religious brainwashing. I believe that if there is a god, they are loving and would not punish someone who hurt so badly they killed themselves. If Kurt was good is all that matters.

[@aircap]

I am the same age as the guys in Nirvana and was playing in heavy rock bands when “Nevermind” dropped and changed the whole landscape of rock music on American radio. My friends and I already knew the band from their “Bleach” album and were fans, so seeing them suddenly blow up and have the biggest album on Earth was bizarre but extremely gratifying.

[@iammine7325]

That song still ROCKS!

[@lisainthecold4287]

All apologies and heart shaped box by Nirvana next please. 2 of my favorites from them! I was a young teen when this grunge era emerged and it truly changed the landscape and touched my heart so much! Nirvana, Bush, and Pearl Jam were my everything

[@lesliehagemann5755]

I don't hear a ton of reactions to this particular song from Nirvana and I love it. I hadn't heard it for a WHILE. Thanks for doing it!

[@jeffreyschneider2824]

If I remember correctly, Nirvana is who took rock music in a whole new direction. They were the next new original sound when they came out. At the time there was no one else like them. They launched the music that defined a generation

[@Theskibidirixzler-j7l]

Will buy a T-shirt with Nirvana print!! Love the music!

[@jamesgruber1225]

I want that spinning thing in the back 🤣🤣🔥🎸

[@j.kevvideoproductions.6463]

Early Nineties were a pretty good period for music. Right up there with the early to mid 70's for me!

[@laurenmortimer1039]

You almost make me want you go back and hear this song again for the first time.

[@robmunro8041]

How cryptic that lyrics said "I don't have a gun" probably 15 times...😮... considering the tragic way this man died... God bless him... 🙏💜🙏

[@jenniferewing4504]

He was a genius !

[@sourgir-wh6xd]

🎶🎧💭 It's mind boggling to think of my music as old or classic lol. I guess when you find the genre of music that speaks to you, you stop looking. Whenever I wanted the radio on in my car, or to clean my house, I only blast alternative. It stayed ageless in my eyes. I'll never get tired of it 😍

[@johnmcsweeney4163]

I loved my parents music and I’m also a 54 y/o male but haveing said that it was not something that I told my friends about but my father loved his music and now I support that feeling

[@andreasmith6528]

Enjoyed this reaction. I love Dave Grohl, drummer extraordinaire, who went on from Nirvana to lead Foo Fighters, one of my favorite newer bands. And you mentioned Alanis Morissette. Her drummer became the Foo Fighter's drummer (Taylor Hawkins - RIP and I'm gong to cry). Some other great Nirvana songs are Lithium and All Apologies, and many more.

[@jonathanwiggins5366]

Their best song, imo. One of my all-time favorites for sure.

[@brian1nola]

Its really really good. My favorite Nirvana song

[@jody-annesullivan4547]

I hear 3 chords and my head is moving. Wasn’t a huge fan of them to buy their music, but LOVED it when I heard it. This is dancing at the old Brisbane Hotel in Perth, second floor floorboards absolutely heaving with all of us dancing and the floor bouncing back.

[@GayleKazanis]

Your good ❤ keep it up. Grandma is hooked ❤✌️ Polo

[@Sammyzuko]

The entire album was fire

[@garyscott9364]

I’m surprised Polo hasn’t listened to the entire thing after hearing teen spirit

[@tonidickson341]

my personal Nirvana song: .. ..sliver...grandma take me home...quirky but probably right on for a lot of kids

[@timeouthumanity2067]

Kurt from the grave telling us he didn't have the gun... it's honestly eerie when you look into his death

[@kellycate]

It makes me smile when I hear a song is making it to the Forerunner :)

[@BattleMatt]

This song just evokes a moment and a feeling set in stone for me back in the 90's. Every time I hear it, it just takes me straight back there.

[@OG-SherlockHolmes]

"Drain you" off the Nevermind album is another must classic.

[@rhiannonrede]

Dave Grohl is just awesome.Yeah, that riff just reaches out & grabs you. Like you said, chills.

[@brandibug0804]

Something in the Way and About a Girl are two of my favorites. Nirvana is a great band.

[@justawhisperintheuniverse8257]

Understood. This has always been one of my favorites by them.

[@mr.nobody9697]

This song takes me back to freshmen year in high school and seemingly overnight half the kids in school were wearing flannel lol!

[@kev4366]

How a song can hit this hard and be this calmly mesmerising will always be a mystery to me. Always been my favourite.

[@brocken1989]

Totally agree! I grew up in the 90s but I still discover new music from that decade, like Smashing Pumpkins or Faith No More. I know the bands, but had never gotten to really listen to them. Very happy for you discovering Nirvana ❤

[@chrisfrench9257]

I bought their Nevermind album because of Smells Like Teen Spirit, but they became one of my favorites because of this song, track 2.

[@michellewright9478]

I've been loving all things Nirvana for most of my life so I love hearing someone discovering it for the first time and truly appreciating it. I was completely gutted when Cobain died. I skipped school with friends that day to pay homage to him. His music has traveled through all parts of my life

[@augustusgrim1446]

You mean when he was murdered?

[@Gibby44647]

Have to experience Nirvana unplugged where did you sleep last night

[@zzasboa]

The full album is GOLD

[@pamelaross9930]

My favorite Nirvana song ❤, the into 🔥

[@ModernArtery]

The opening riff of this song is the first thing I ever learned on guitar. My uncle taught it to me. Very nostalgic. Great reaction dude.

[@donnaewe3692]

I 100% rocked the crap outta nirvana back in the day. Love this-thank you! ❤

[@dorisleone8006]

LOVE THIS SONG! ITS SO HAUNTINGLY GREAT!!

[@fasteddie617]

Was always my favorite by them as well.

[@HontoNeet]

This is probably my favorite track on Nevermind. That chorus is, like, magic

[@l.c.5629]

Dude, you're bringing up memories from a whole different era period my kids will never understand .

[@dirtydove]

Next pay check, I'm definitely buying you a coffee! I love your reactions and you have good taste. I love how you appreciate music.

[@luked78]

Smells like Teen Spirit is the one that really got everyones attention, but its the slower burn of this song that i still come back to all these years later.

[@Silver_Bullet1999]

Great video! This is definitely one Nirvana’s best sounding songs. Nirvana is one of those bands where as time goes on, I’ve grown to love their live performances as much or more than the album versions of songs, especially the shows from the “In Utero” tour in 1993. There’s just an special kind of energy that you can’t get anywhere else in the universe

[@MichaelBrown-x1q]

There is your honesty!!! Love it Polo!! I really like this song too! I don't love Nirvana, but I like them and respect them. But this one is Great!!!

[@andirussell1710]

This came out when I was in high school and it just blew all our minds to smithereens. Watching a new generation discover this and it's JUST AS GOOD as it was 30 freaking years ago is so gratifying.

[@marcio1745]

The album that changed music…. Forever

[@profanitybasedfun]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a reaction for more Nirvana 🙏 💕

[@violetfemme411]

The scenes of the gun are not only ironic but devastatingly tragic 😢 💜

[@hopemarshall7219]

Almost like saying hey i cant shoot myself cause i dont have a gun.....

[@jokerswildio]

😢

[@jacqueline4514]

Nirvana was a true game changer; brought grunge to the forefront and paved the way for the flurry that followed in the 90’s. I agree Polo, the little drum parts are great; that “roll”; my favorite part of the song ❤ I knew this would make it to the 4 Runner! 😂

[@daylegillespie9288]

Alice in chains put grunge on the map with facelift, never mind was obviously stratospherically more bigger and impactful though

[@alexnehrenberg3430]

"All Apologies" has some serious groove too.

[@MrRaErickson]

One of the greatest albums ever recorded

[@midtownbrownstyle321]

You might enjoy the acoustic set they did on VH1. That pain in his voice was so beautiful. He sings a really old country blues song.

[@circulati]

Music, the best time machine ❤

[@ars4455]

Butch Vig was the genius who made this incredible collection of songs work together

[@subwaygoddess1]

This is my favorite by Nirvana. The 1st time I heard it was on a dancefloor. I was recovering from a very unhealthy lifestyle, getting clean and sober, and I felt electrified dancing to this, I felt new life beginning ✌️🎶💙

[@PitBullPlaysGames]

nirvana were really something special. kurt wrote some simple songs but his lyrics were always so unique

[@robinlena1]

Took me back as well, I love the journey that you take me on & I love your reactions to music I've adored all my life! ✌️

[@Squirrelarmy6014]

Off of nevermind lounge act was always my favorite but I realize now thats only after listening to come as you are, lithium, in bloom and smells like teen spirit for days on end. That’s why I love this reaction, to listen to it from your prospective has brought on a ton of nostalgia and good memories. Feel very fortunate to have heard this when it came out

[@zachariahlloyd6043]

*The 90s* was a strong decade for rock, but *The 80s* was also *HARD* to top for *Rock Ballads!!*

[@20th_century_Ghost]

Nirvana was EVERYTHING for me as a teenager in the 90s. Kurt's death really affected me and still does.

[@LLynneM]

I just found this channel. I abs love watching music fans discover + appreciate the soundtrack to the 70s - 00’s generations’ _teen spirit._ Envious tho. I’d love to hear it for the 1st time again.

[@shartmann2008]

FInd the MTV unplugged. Oh my gawd

[@EmmieBruin]

Its so interesting that you say it sounds like the 90s because I feel Nirvana is one of those bands that NEVER sound old.

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Such a hypnotic trippy killer song.

[@caseyrayconway]

Now imagine this coming along and setting your world on fire when you're 15 years old.

[@Higsby100]

Gotta love living in the PNW. So much good music. Hurts how much loss there is. Always know that you are not alone!

[@krisprepolec5616]

I often get the feeling of nostalgia for things I never got to experience. Thanks for describing it so well!