A very good but overplayed song by Nirvana that
Kurt Cobain claimed was his attempt at making "the ultimate pop song." Inspired heavily by The Pixies, according to Cobain, in fact he called the song a "Pixies rip-off", though the now extremely famous riff is often compared to
Boston's "More Than a Feeling". Title was inspired by a friend of his telling him he "smelled
like teen spirit." Kurt had no clue that there was a deoderant of that name and took it as though he was teenage-
like. Basically the song that killed hair metal
music such as Van Halen, Gusn N Roses, Poison, Whitesnake etc. I personally
like the song a lot though I must admit the radio stations have killed it by now. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was chosen by Rolling Stone as the 9th greatest rock song of all time. I suppose influencially, it was up there, virtually inspiring every hard rock band after them, though there are better Nirvana songs. In my opinion, what the song is isa very good part punk, part 70s style hard rock, part Pixies soft-hard effort piece of
music that is a lot better than the other trash that was out at the time.
"Smells
Like Teen Spirit" destroyed the trash
music known as hair metal though unfortunetely ended up influencing tons of bands that sound nothing
like Nirvana, such as nu metal and pop punk shitbands.
