What Is So Great About The Smells Like Teen Spirit Video?

[Majestic Pape]

I'm not a big fan of rock music but I do fukk with this song, and it's a decent video I suppose...

But for years I've been trying to figure out how this video is consistently at the top of the Greatest Videos of All-Time lists (by all the CAC media outlets - MTV, VH1, Rolling Stone, etc.) ahead of "Thriller" and whatnot.

Somebody school me on what I'm missing here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg&ob=av2e

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

 

[Saka]

dogg i dont even fukk with this tune an dont get me wrong i listen to a few nirvana tracks this one dont stand out as nun special to me

 

[Premeditated]

you should know the flow by now, once a pitchfork or Rolling Stone dub anything as the greatest, it's easy to hypnotize the 'music know it alls' into agreeing. Kind of like film snobs. You also have some black folks who do that too, to prove that they don't only listen to "gangsta" rap.

but "teen spirits' is great though.

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

I'm not a big fan of rock music but I do fukk with this song, and it's a decent video I suppose...

But for years I've been trying to figure out how this video is consistently at the top of the Greatest Videos of All-Time lists (by all the CAC media outlets - MTV, VH1, Rolling Stone, etc.) ahead of "Thriller" and whatnot.

Somebody school me on what I'm missing here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg&ob=av2e

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

It marked a new era I guess you could say..

Death.of the hair bands..birth.of grunge/teenage angst

Not better than thriller though

 

[aRoMaN21]

cuz that song and video is the equivalent to jay z's hard knock life.
it blew cobain up. no pun intended.
mainstream cross over.

 

[RhymesWell]

At the time 80s glam rock still reigned supreme, so this was a refreshing change of pace to the rock audience. History will probably repeat itself, and some group or artist will end up doing the same thing to the rap world cuz shyt is mad soft right now mainstream wise.

 

[Majestic Pape]

you should know the flow by now, once a pitchfork or Rolling Stone dub anything as the greatest, it's easy to hypnotize the 'music know it alls' into agreeing. Kind of like film snobs. You also have some black folks who do that too, to prove that they don't only listen to "gangsta" rap.

but "teen spirits' is great though.

Pretty much what I figured... but them lists had me second guessing my own eyes.

 

[aRoMaN21]

At the time 80s glam rock still reigned supreme, so this was a refreshing change of pace to the rock audience. History will probably repeat itself, and some group or artist will end up doing the same thing to the rap world cuz shyt is mad soft right now mainstream wise.

nope. heavy metal was reigning.
megadeth
danzig
pantera
shyt like that. glam died in 1990.

 

[Spaceboy M]

It marked a new era I guess you could say..

Death.of the hair bands..birth.of grunge/teenage angst

Not better than thriller though

cuz that song and video is the equivalent to jay z's hard knock life.
it blew cobain up. no pun intended.
mainstream cross over.

Pretty much.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

At the time 80s glam rock still reigned supreme, so this was a refreshing change of pace to the rock audience. History will probably repeat itself, and some group or artist will end up doing the same thing to the rap world cuz shyt is mad soft right now mainstream wise.

No.


Smells Like Teen Spirit embodies what grunge was...it's the equivalent to Straight Outta Compton for West Coast Rap.


When you think grunge, you think Nirvana, and this video.

 

[JulesWinfield]

The video never did anything for me. Nevermind was a dope album though. In Utero was better though imo.

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

The video never did anything for me. Nevermind was a dope album though. In Utero was better though imo.

Agreed

 

[Heelish]

Yeah, that song never made any sense. They have tons of better material. But on the low, Kurt Cobain killed himself because he wasn't Billy Corgan, and never could be.

Smashing Pumpkins >>>

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

Yeah, that song never made any sense. They have tons of better material. But on the low, Kurt Cobain killed himself because he wasn't Billy Corgan, and never could be.

Smashing Pumpkins >>>

According to the autopsy he had so much heroin in his system there's no way he could have pulled a trigger..someone gave the boy a hot shot

 

[FloorGeneral]

Count me in on the "Nirvana was overrated" and "Cobain didn't kill himself" camps.

1. I think Nirvana is alright, but man they are not the be all to end all that alot of ppl make 'em out to be. This song is directly responsible for their success, so I blame this song. I just don't think it's that good, and I think Nevermind is an average record as well. There were so many other, much better alternatives from that era.

2. I read a book on Cobain, and there's just too much mystery surrounding his death. I do not think he killed himself, and I think that that hoebag Courtney had something to do with his death. But that's a conversation for another day.