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  • Smells Like Teen Spirit
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  • Compact Cassette
  • Compact disc
  • 12-inch single
  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
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  • Number-one singles in New Zealand
  • 1991 singles
  • Billboard Alternative Songs number-one singles
  • Nirvana (band) songs
  • Song recordings produced by Butch Vig
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  • %22Smells Like Teen Spirit%22 is a song by the American rock band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band's second album, Nevermind (1991), released on DGC Records. Written by Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl and produced by Butch Vig, the song uses a verse-chorus form where the main four-chord riff is used during the intro and chorus to create an alternating loud and quiet dynamic. The sound of the song (as Cobain admits) is modeled after the sound of the Pixies.The unexpected success of %22Smells Like Teen Spirit%22 in late 1991 propelled Nevermind to the top of the charts at the start of 1992, an event often marked as the point where alternative rock entered the mainstream. %22Smells Like Teen Spirit%22 was Nirvana's biggest hit, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and placing high on music industry charts all around the world in 1991 and 1992.%22Smells Like Teen Spirit%22 received many critical plaudits, including topping the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll and winning two MTV Video Music Awards for its music video, which was in heavy rotation on music television. The song was dubbed an %22anthem for apathetic kids%22 of Generation X, but the band grew uncomfortable with the success and attention it received as a result. In the years since Cobain's death, listeners and critics have continued to praise %22Smells Like Teen Spirit%22 as one of the greatest songs of all time.
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  • Nirvana (band)
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