smells like teen spirit

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.

by Ethan Findal September 13, 2005

Smells Like Teen Spirit

A phrase used to remark on the stupidity of teen, especially high school drama. It is used as a means to put things in perspective, often uttered by an observer of a pointless, fruitless argument that has to do with some aspect of dating.

Etymology: The term was sued in a completely different context by the early 90's grunge band, Nirvana.

Girl 1: "I saw you with my boy at the movies, you whore!"
Girl 2: "He don't like busted girls, bitch. That's why he's on my team now."
Observer: "Damn. Smells like teen spirit..."

by MotherEarthFracker December 11, 2006

Smells Like Teen Spirit

"Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Hit Niravana song from their album "Nevermind".
Nirvana is the greatest band ever.

"Hey this smells like teen spirit... smells good!

by Pan March 28, 2003

Smells Like Teen Spirit

The most overrated song that has been #1 for almost a decade, always beating out the superior Michael Jackson's Thriller video. Sung by Kurt Cobain, commonly referred to by degenerate youth as "God".

"Smells Like Teen Spirit sucks. Thriller is a better song, and a better music video. You know it, and I know it. So get over it."
-me

by Dave December 25, 2004

smells like teen spirit

The song that 70% of Nirvan's so called "fans" say is the the best nirvana song ever. They are all n00bs to Nirvana and fake, they are in no way real fans and give them a bad name. They should listen to their real great songs like rape me, heart shaped box and you know your'e right! I'm not saying it's a bad song it is just overated and takes too much attention away from Nirvana's best songs.

prepy fan: het you like nirvana?

real fan: ye they kick ass! What's your favourite song?

prepy fan: smells like teen spirit!

real fan: STFU u n00b listen to their best songs rather than the most overated one!

by not another prepey fan July 24, 2008

smells like teen spirit

Smelling like teen spirit is smelling like marijuana. Marijuana is a hallucinogenic plant that, when smoked gives you a high sensation.

Kid 1: Did you guys smoke in here?
Kid 2: Yeah, we did
Kid 1: That's why it smells like teen spirit in here.

by Giggles43 January 15, 2011

Smells Like Teen Spirit

The most shittiest, overrated song of all time. Stop hopping Kurt's dick, you stupid MTV kids. The truth is that Nirvana were an underground pop punk band (not "grunge" - there's no such thing as grunge.) that accidentally made it into the mainstream because MTV overrated Smells Like Teen Spirit, their most poppiest song.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit sucks."

by not found [Error 404] July 6, 2007