Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
Right from the opening stuttered refrain, Smells Like Teen Spirit sounds like pure adrenalin, a revolution waiting to happen. Kurt’s brief guitar solo is a masterpiece of restraint, remaining note-faithful to the melody, driving it deeper into your brain.
“I was trying to write the ultimate pop song,” he admitted to Rolling Stone journalist David Fricke in 1994. “I was trying to rip off the Pixies. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard. Teen Spirit is such a clichéd riff. When I first came up with it, Krist [Novoselic, bassist] looked at me and said: ‘That is so ridiculous.’”
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