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With their 1991 hit, \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit,\u201d Nirvana took the raw, authenticity of their Seattle grunge peers, and merged it with phenomenal melodic writing and performance. In doing so, the band changed the course of rock and roll history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nirvana founding members Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic had met while attending Aberdeen High School in Washington state together. Their first band was a Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute band called the Sellouts, but by early 1987 they had launched a new band playing original music with dummer Aaron Burkhard. This was the first lineup of Nirvana.\u00a0 In January of 1988, Nirvana recorded a 10-song demo with Seattle producer Jack Endino who then sent the demo to the indie record label, Sub Pop. Impressed, Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Ponemen signed the group. Later that year Nirvana recorded their first album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bleach <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which was released in June of 1989. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bleach <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">became a favorite in the college radio circuit, steadily selling over a long period of time, despite very little promotion on the part of the label.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The band also went through several drummers in these early years, before finding Dave Grohl in 1990. In a 1991 interview with Studio Brussel, Cobain explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKrist and I have been playing together for about four-and-a-half years now&#8230;.with a few different drummers. And Dave has been in the band for a year. This is the first time we\u2019ve felt like a very definite unit&#8230;the band is finally complete.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The band began work on their second album before Gohl joined the band, even recording some early tracks in producer Butch Vig\u2019s Smart Studios in Madison Wisconsin. Vig (who had just finished working on the Killdozer\u2019s album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twelve Point Buck<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) had been suggested to the band by Poneman. Vig recalled:\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJonathan called up because he said he loved the sound of this Killdozer record, and he said, \u2018I want you to get that sound for Nirvana.\u2019 &#8230;I wanted to work with Sub Pop because I knew they were a cool label.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In these short sessions. The band recorded \u201cPay to Play,\u201d \u201cDive,\u201d \u201cSappy\u201d, \u201cHere She Comes Now\u201d and three tracks which would later appear on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind: <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn Bloom\u201d, \u201cLithium\u201d and \u201cPolly.\u00a0 The Smart Studio recordings became like a demo for DGC records to hear the band\u2019s developing sound. In early 1991, Nirvana signed with DGC Records, who would release their second album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">later that year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the time between Smart Studio sessions and the actual recording of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in May and June of 1991, the band further refined their performances.\u00a0 By the time they got into the studio, they were ready to create one of rock history\u2019s revolutionary albums. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; as an album &#8211; turned the whole rock world on its head, but one song in particular stands out for the way it brings together the band\u2019s punk attitude, and distorted sonic world, alongside hauntingly beautiful melodies\u2026. \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d is an interesting song in many ways. Cobain credits the song\u2019s dynamic changes and sound to an attempt to imitate the Pixies. He was attempting\u00a0 to write the \u201cultimate pop song.\u201d With the newly recruited Grohl on drums, the band quickly found their groove writing and rehearsing the song together. They made a rough recording which they sent to Vig, who was continuing as their producer even through the label change.\u00a0 Vig recalls hearing that first recording of the song, which also was the first time he heard Grohl play with the band on drums<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKurt introduced it by saying, \u2018Hey Butch, we got some new songs for you, and we also got\u00a0 Dave Grohl \u2013 he\u2019s the best drummer in the world!\u2019 <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThen they clicked into `Teen Spirit,\u2019 with the scratchy guitar at the start. It was so fucking distorted, I could barely hear anything. &#8230;But underneath the fuzz, I could hear \u2018Hello, Hello\u2019, melodies and chord structures. And even though the recording was terrible, I was super excited.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The guitar sound is definitely striking in its distortion and edginess. From the minute the guitar introduces the song, audiences realized this was a band that sounded completely different from the world around them. The way Cobain slides from chord to chord sounds raw and unrehearsed and yet it&#8217;s so perfectly executed.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Novoselic\u2019s bass provides the song\u2019s underlying pulse &#8211; but there\u2019s actually more to it than you might think when you hear it underneath the rest of the mix.\u00a0 Isolated, you can hear his slides across the bass which definitely create that longing and pull that gives that song that contradictory sense of being pulled back simultaneously as it pushes forward.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And of course when Grohl\u2019s drums come in, it&#8217;s clear that Nirvana had found that harder sound they were looking for all along.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the most striking part of the song, however, is Cobain\u2019s haunting vocals which carry such amazing melodic content amid such a hard, aggressive sound. This is a huge element of what makes this song &#8211; and Nirvana &#8211; so amazing. The band takes the hard-rocking grunge sound, coming out of the Washington scene, and use it in conjunction with phenomenally captivating melodies. Cobain\u2019s vocal melodies throughout the song are so different and creative against the straightforward chord progression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The double tracking of the vocals creates both power and mystery in the track. Despite it being a common practice in recording by this time, Cobain was actually hesitant to double track his vocals.\u00a0 Vig recalled: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said, \u2018Kurt, I want you to double-track the guitars and vocals, to really make this jump out of the speakers.\u2019 He thought it was cheating, especially with his vocals. So I had him do multiple vocal takes, and he sang them so consistently I could run them at the same time as a double track, and it really made the song sound powerful.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It took Vig reminding Kurt that John Lennon had done it in his recordings to truly convince him to try the practice.\u00a0 But when we hear Cobain\u2019s thick vocal sound on the chorus, it&#8217;s clear that Vig was making the right choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Cobain, double tracking and professional polish challenged the band\u2019s grunge aesthetic.\u00a0 When we hear the song today we have no problem reconciling the amazing craftsmanship of Cobain\u2019s writing alongside the band\u2019s grunge sound and DIY aesthetic.\u00a0 But in 1991, Cobain struggled with these contradictory elements. Vig explained&#8230; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI know that he felt conscious coming from a punk background and having these kind of gorgeously crafted rock songs. Even though his songs might have been kind of noisy, they still had really beautiful melodies and melodic structures.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit&#8221; draws its title from a piece of graffiti written on the wall of Cobain\u2019s motel room by Bikini Kill lead singer, Kathleen Hannah. Hannah recalled that she and her bandmate Tobi Vail (who was dating Cobain at the time) were drunk, messing around in a grocery store in Olympia Washington when they came across a rack of Teen Spirit deodorant:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c&#8230;me and Tobi were like \u2018Ewww, look at this, it&#8217;s so crazy! It&#8217;s called Teen Spirit!&#8217;. \u201cWe were laughing, saying \u2018Your arm smells like Teen Spirit&#8217; or whatever. We were both joking around because the name looked so funny. I mean, who names a deodorant Teen Spirit? What does teen spirit smell like? Like a locker room? Like pot mixed with sweat? Like the smell when you throw up in your hair at a party?\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the phrase still stuck in her head, Hannah spent that evening hanging out with Cobain and Grohl. Later that night, she drunkenly wrote with Sharpie on the wall of Cobain\u2019s motel room: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kurt smells like Teen Spirit.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d Cobain thought the phrase sounded cool and called Hannah up to ask if he could use it for a song:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was like \u2018Sure. I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;d want to call a song that. But fine.&#8217; I just thought it was weird&#8230;He didn&#8217;t know it was a deodorant. I felt like a bit of an asshole that I didn&#8217;t tell him, but I kinda thought it was funny. He just liked the ring of it. Smells Like Teen Spirit. But he also just had a good knack for picking out interesting phrases.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song\u2019s cynical lyrics are epitomized in the chorus which begins\u2026\u201cHere we are now, entertain us.\u201d According to Cobain: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat came from something I used to say every time I used to walk into a party to break the ice. A lot of times, when you\u2019re standing around with people in a room, it\u2019s really boring and uncomfortable. So it was \u201cWell, here we are, entertain us. You invited us here.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song\u2019s music video also captures the angst and teen-inspired focus of the song. The video &#8211; directed by Samuel Bayer &#8211; features the band performing in a high school gym to anarchy-touting cheerleaders and apathetic teenage listeners.\u00a0 As the performance continues, the teens erupt into a scene of chaos. The music video was the perfect complement to Nirvana\u2019s take-over of the popular music landscape. It visually declared grunge\u2019s dominance and highlighted the changing aesthetic of the new generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d and the rest of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album was recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, CA.\u00a0 Vig, who had produced their first intended tracks for the second album in their Sub Pop days, continued with them after their contract was bought out by DGC Records.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the raw, unpolished sound that was championed by Grunge bands like Nirvana in the early 90s, the group was actually very well rehearsed and prepared before they even entered the studio. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;They were psyched&#8230;As I started talking to them, they told me they were ready. They had been rehearsing every day for three months. There was definitely not a slacker ethic in that band. I mean, they wanted to make a great record. And Kurt [Cobain] was very ambitious, you know. When they walk<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ed<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into the studio, they were ready to go.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recording \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d Vig began with the bass and the drums, using ten of the 24 tracks.\u00a0 Tracks 11 and 12 were used to record the band playing together live. The guitar was recorded in only two takes with the first take being the primary performance we hear on the release.\u00a0 He used an Electro-Harmonix Small Clone effect on the pre-chorus of the guitar which gives it that awesome chime-y sound. The three vocal takes of \u201cTeen Spirit\u201d were combined and placed on track 15. Vig also asked Cobain to isolate his vocals just on the \u201chello, hello, hello, how low\u201d pre-chorus to create tracks 21 and 22. This step also allowed Cobain to move in closer to the mic and get that amazing performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vig and Cobain began mixing the song and the rest of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album immediately after recording, but no one was satisfied. Andy Wallace (who had recently completed Slayer\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reign in Blood <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album) was then brought in as fresh ears to mix <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Novoselic recalls the experience positively, encouraged by the raw, aggressive sound they heard on the Slayer album. Wallace likewise says that the band responded well to his addition. Their main request was a big, thick sound: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBy the time we got started, they knew I was not going to bathe them in reverb and polish everything&#8230;They were mainly concerned with making sure there was plenty of bass. I was told to make the sound more thick and beefy, yet discernible.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vig and Wallace then moved over to Scream Studios in Studio City to finish the mixes. The result is the now iconic balance of raw power, alongside a clear, commercial appeal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d was released on September 10, 1991, as the lead single from the band\u2019s second album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album followed two weeks later. One week before the album was even released, Nirvana was scheduled to play a performance at the Beehive Record Store in Seattle. They arrived to an overflowing, sold out crowd that swarmed them, forcing them to escape to the tavern across the street while teenage fans (who weren\u2019t allowed into the over-21 tavern) snapped pictures of them through the window.\u00a0 When they finally made it to the store to begin their performance, it was clear that everyone already knew the song and were fully aware that they were witnessing rock history in the making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d was an instant success on the college radio circuit, but it also became the unexpected crossover hit that took Grunge mainstream. A couple months after its release, on November 22, the song hit number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart &#8211; the same week that the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevermind <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album hit number 1. It also hit number 7 in the UK, staying in the charts for 184 weeks!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the year of Nirvana &#8211; topping both the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Village Voice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melody Maker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s year end polls and hitting number 2 on the best singles of year list by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rolling Stone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It was nominated for two grammy awards &#8211; Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal and Best Rock Song. The song catapulted Nirvana into mainstream success, forcing the reluctant Cobain into the undesired role as the spokesperson for Generation X. Cobain\u2019s tragic suicide in 1994 caused fans to dig even deeper into the song which reveals some of rock\u2019s most poignant emotions of youth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d has remained an iconic track in the history of rock, even inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2019s list of \u201cSongs that Shaped Rock and Roll\u201d in 1997 &#8211; only 6 years after its release! MTV and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rolling Stone <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">listed it number 3 on their list of the 100 Greatest Pop Songs, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NME <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">named in number 2 on their 100 Greatest Singles of All Time.\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rolling Stone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Rock Songs of All Time named \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d number 9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been credited with transforming the 90s rock landscape, which had previously been dominated by hair bands and polished pop. It ushered in a new sound for rock and roll. 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