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

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Because it was a sharp contrast to all the hair metal, over produced, very label driven music at the time.

Its the video that kicked off Nirvana to the masses and at the same time killed a genre of music that will not ever return.

 

[aRoMaN21]

and sadly thats another reason kurt cobain was so depressed.
he hated that video and thought there was nothing great about it. He felt he sold out. that video wasnt who he was and the label made him do it.

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

 

[jadillac]

Because it was different at the time, and it marked a new era.

You look at it now and it's nothing special, like most vids from that era, but it was huge at the time. MTV was still runnin shyt back then

 

[Taadow]

some MULATTOS
some MOSQUITOS
some BURRITOS...

 

[AMcV'88]

think thats the first time i've actually watched the whole video.
Come As You Are (especially the first 20 seconds) and the cover of the Bowie record is the only Nirvana joints i ever really listened to.

 

[malbaker86]

It brought Grunge to the forefront.

That song was great, average video, but Nevermind is a classic album.

 

[neph27]

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.

52 million.

 

[RhymesWell]

Tyler The Creator - Yonkers - YouTube

52 million.

I fukks with OF but I don't think they're game changers in the sense that I doubt people will want to replicate their shock value music. The image that they portray isn't hard enough either to turn the mainstream on it's head. Kendrick might work but he might be too lyrical for the average idiot to give a fukk about. Maybe Schoolboy's major label release.

 

[CM_Burns]

According to Jay-Z, it stopped hip hop from blowing up nationally.

 

[Mac Casper]

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.

The way you speak it's clear to see that you only see a small portion of the picture, that's not to say your logic is wrong - I don't even disagree with you. It's just . . clear, you're not the type of person that sees the full picture.

And I'm impartial to this band, although they are one of my favorites I only pick through a small portion of their catalog and honestly one of my favorite performance from them was on a cover song. They certainly aren't The Beatles and if you add it all up their catalog is arguably < that of The Strokes. However Julian Casablancas of The Strokes never had the potential to represent what Kurt did, and thus Nirvana did what all musicians can only hope to do - they created a legend.

Now user; 'premeditated' - he presented full figure logic

 

[Illuminatos]

Been listening to this song all day for some reason. I might even go listen to their album.

 

[SunZoo]

some MULATTOS
some MOSQUITOS
some BURRITOS...

Avacadooosssss

and tomatoooossss

 

[observe]

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

Pretty much..alot of metal and suicidal tendencies and sonic youth and nine inch nails before grunge came

"Jeremy" really set it off for grunge..prob more than teen spirit IMO..

But we didn't call it grunge back then, we called it "Alternative Rock" what we were listening to..because there were a lot of groups back then that weren't grunge that were popping in that era that got played on Alternative rock stations...the dress code was grunge more than the music itself

 

[DaveyDave]

"So I'mma pull a fukkin' Jeffrey Dahmer/
Now we suicidal, just like Nirvana"

"A man of honour wouldn't wanna try to match my persona/
Sometimes rhymin' I blow my own mind like Nirvana"

Did Cube & Pun think Nirvana was one guy?

when people think of Nirvana they think of Kurt Cobain. it's just a way to make the rhyme work, they weren't making a Nirvana doco