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Smells Like Teen Spirit

Kurt Cobain - 1992 - Musician - Nirvana

Did Nirvana’s biggest hit crush Kurt Cobain?

What happens when you get everything you want?

Will Howard
Apr 30, 2025
Kurt Cobain - Nirvana

Awkward entertainment: The Nirvana song Kurt Cobain called “an embarrassment to play”

“I don’t even remember the guitar solo.”

Elle Palmer
Jun 5, 2024
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Video - 1991

What is a “mulatto” in Nirvana’s song ‘Smells like Teen Spirit’?

A word they shouldn’t have used?

Guy Howie
Apr 14, 2024
Pivotal Moments - How Nirvana formed - Far Out Magazine

Nirvana producer Butch Vig remembers his first time hearing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

Music of the revolution.

Tim Coffman
Jul 10, 2023
Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Seattle-based grunge rock group Nirvana,

When Nirvana refused to play ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

Nirvana didn’t want to play the hit.

Tyler Golsen
Oct 15, 2022

The story behind Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ music video

Essential.

Arun Starkey
Sep 28, 2022
Nirvana

Sam Fogarino of Interpol on the success of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

Classic hit.

Thomas Coll
Aug 17, 2022
Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Seattle-based grunge rock group Nirvana,

How Kurt Cobain reacted to “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Nirvana parody

Surprising?

Arun Starkey
Aug 17, 2022
Kurt Cobain's Fender Mustang sold for $4.5 million

Kurt Cobain’s Fender Mustang sold for $4.5 million at auction

An iconic instrument.

Sam Kemp
May 23, 2022

Dave Grohl on the surprise hit of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

An era-defining surprise.

Tom Taylor
Sep 23, 2021
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