His lo-fi, sepia-saturated take on a school concert that descends into madness – complete with slo-mo cheerleaders, smashed up guitars and smoke and fire in a sports hall full of sweaty headbanging teens – was as disturbing and anarchic as the song itself. There’s one more thing that makes "Smells Like Teen Spirit" the song of the decade, and that’s Samuel Bayer’s now iconic video. In July 2017, popular BitTorrent site Kickass Torrents (KAT cr) was taken down by the United. Anger, despondency, pain and chaos ripped through a million bedrooms as we listened to Cobain wail, scream and howl lyrics that were as confusing as they were powerful: "A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido… hey." What the fuck? When English is not your first language, learning it in adulthood AND in a foreign country can be quite a hilarious experience Watch a group of students, hailing from different nationaliti.
A generation of disaffected youth had found an anthem like no other. This was like nothing we’d ever heard before: the sound of Seattle’s grunge scene coming out of the garage like a ravenous monster.
Many words have been written about "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and we’re about to add a few more, but it’s almost impossible to overstate the sonic earthquake that this song caused around the world in 1991. When the sheer magnitude of this apocalypse became apparent, I moaned and sobbed in a cold sweat as I alternated between blindingly pounding my keyboard in futility, and shaking my fists at the heavens, cursing the. Like everyone else, they got into Nirvana the moment they heard the first ten seconds of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the radio: Kurt Cobain’s dirty Boston-aping guitar riff exploding as Dave Grohl’s kit and Krist Novoselic’s bass smashed their way into the song and our collective consciousness. The entirety of the crisis was pitch black, as the voices of thousands of disappointed souls nagged my panicked subconscious mind. All the cool kids will tell you that they were into Nirvana back in ’89 when they released Bleach on Sub Pop.