I know it's overhyped and talked about like it's nobodies business, but I love it regardless. It's so angry and catchy and loud all at once. The whole loud-quiet-loud dynamic was really used well in the song and, for its time, was very original. It started an entire movement and put a genre of music that nobody ever though would be big at the forefront. To me, this song will always be one of my favorites due to its raw yet polished sound, and because of the fact that it was the first hard rock song I ever got into (this was back when I wasn't even in school yet - my dad played this all the time back in like '94  :D).

Yeah, I have always liked Teen Spirit. Before I finally decided to buy Nevermind around 8 or 9 years ago, this along with "Come As Your Are" were basically the only songs I had heard by Nirvana since those were the only two songs by them that got any serious airplay around here.

Eventually, I got In Utero and Bleach which I think has there best work, but SLTS is still a good song overplayed or not.

Great song, great memories.

Good song for it's time, but over the years I never heard the lyrics properly.

Sorry, but I don't like the song...at all!  In fact, it makes me wanna scream when I hear it!  :P

After it was played for the squillionth time, it began to grate a tad... :P

What is Teen Spirit and what does it smell of?

If it smells anything like me when I was a teen, I wouldn't go anywhere near it!  :D

What is Teen Spirit and what does it smell of?


I believe there is a brand of deodorant/anti-perspirant called Teen Spirit...probably comes in many different scents!  ;D

I believe there is a brand of deodorant/anti-perspirant called Teen Spirit...probably comes in many different scents!  ;D
Like a brand name?

This ?

http://musicsnobbery.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/17/smells_like_teen_spirit.jpg

This ?

http://musicsnobbery.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/17/smells_like_teen_spirit.jpg


That would be the one!

I've seen it on the shelves in the drugstores...

I admittedly like the song and the entire Nevermind album.  It was one of the first CDs I ever purchased in late 1991, for $6.96 at Best Butt.

Smells Like Teen Spirit is the one Nirvana song I'm neutral about. I don't like or hate it. I do listen to it when I'm in the mood, which is very rare. I tend to like the weirder stuff alot more.

Sorry, but I don't like the song...at all!  In fact, it makes me wanna scream when I hear it!  :P


The same for me.  'Smells Like Teen Spirit' is nothing but noize

I really like it, they probably had better songs but it's still good.

Having not listened to radio in a long time, I don't hear it too often. So it's not "overplayed" for me. A decent song, but not Nirvana's best.

I really like it, they probably had better songs but it's still good.


Yeah, had it not been the first song I ever really got into I'd definitely like other Nirvana songs more. 'Drain You', 'Come As You Are', 'In Bloom', 'Heart-Shaped Box', 'Very Ape', 'Scentless Aprentice', hell, the list goes on regarding how many songs are technically better than Teen Spirit both lyrically and structurally. I can definitely see why people would get sick of it after all the hype it gets, but I just don't - I STILL find it somewhat refreshing after all these years  :D. My dad got me hooked on this song at a very impressionable time, so to me this song will NEVER get old, no matter how many times it tops the lists that VH1 spews out.


The same for me.  'Smells Like Teen Spirit' is nothing but noize


Eh, some love it some hate it. If you like Boy George, you'll probably hate it  :D

I'm so over that song.

I still love that song.

I've always thought the song was great as were all of Nirvana's other songs and the video was cool to watch - I also loved Weird Al's parody "Smells Like Nirvana" where he sang about how nobody could understand their lyrics and the video for that song is hysterical (you can see Dick Van Patten sitting in the bleachers with all those grunge kids)  :)

The whole Nevermind album is fantastic.

IT might be noise, but if you listen to the lyrics behind the music, it makes not only that song, but the whole album amazing.

Sorry but I have to do it. If you don't like the song maybe it's just Nirvana, check out this
cover of the song maybe you'll like it better.  :P

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k

Sorry but I have to do it. If you don't like the song maybe it's just Nirvana, check out this
cover of the song maybe you'll like it better.  :P

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k


Paul Anka could turn nails on a chalkboard into a beautiful melody LOL

Makes you wonder if Cobain was still alive, what he'd think of Paul's performance ;D

Sorry but I have to do it. If you don't like the song maybe it's just Nirvana, check out this
cover of the song maybe you'll like it better.  :P

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k


OMG I am so sorry, but that was awful...just awful. Nirvana turned into lounge lizard music.
They did have much beeter songs than Teen Spirit, but it doesn't deserve that fate. (Being lizardized). 8-P
I think Kurt would be good and pissed off. >:( But thats JMHO.

We used to bump to that song back in 92.

I was in 6th and 7th grade when it was at its peak.

We used to bump to that song back in 92.

I was in 6th and 7th grade when it was at its peak.

So was I! I take it you're probably about 28 now?

You know what? Even though I was never a big fan of Nirvana or grunge, I love this song, it's a real classic. :) The verses are catchy and softer, while the choruses are loud and in your face, I like songs where it alternates like that.

I think alot of people liked Nirvana for their angsty lyrics, and probably also because it was more serious and gritty, which was a change from most '80s music. I was a little too young to relate to that respect (I was 10-11 in 1992 when it really caught on), I just liked it for its sound.

I like it, but I don't love it. I like Nirvana's other songs better like Come As You Are and Lithium.

So was I! I take it you're probably about 28 now?


Yep. 28 years old.
I turn 29 this upcoming January  :(

I was never a big fan of grunge either, but I always loved this song. Mainly because back then, if you liked rap, odds are you didn't like grunge. And I loved the rap back then. (Now it sucks though.)

Just like today. If you like the rap, you probably don't like hard rock or "emo" music.

I like it but it was hardly "original." Kurt cobain himself said the song was his attempt at ripping off the Pixies, who had used the loud-soft dynamic years before Nirvana wrote "Teen Spirit."

I like it but it was hardly "original." Kurt cobain himself said the song was his attempt at ripping off the Pixies, who had used the loud-soft dynamic years before Nirvana wrote "Teen Spirit."


Even Kurt admitted that he was ripping off riffs and material of other artist.  I believe "Teen Spirit" riff was actually a riff from "More than a Feeling" by Boston.

Sometimes I am in the mood for it when I hear it come on the radio, other times not.

Weird Al also parodied it as “Smells Like Nirvana.” :D