It's been a long time since we've used the Hall of Fame label.
I decided that Nirvana deserved it.
I decided that Nirvana deserved it.
I don't usually open a Hall of Fame week with a band's biggest hit, but this one was so intensely genre-breaking I wanted it to go first. I want to put it in 1991 context, though.
In 1991, when Nirvana made this video, which completely mocks music videos in general, they were big in Seattle, but not really anywhere else. They had major label money, but they didn't spend a lot of money on this video, in relative terms. And we know the day the video was made - August 17, 1991 - because they advertised for it.
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| Actual casting call for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
Turns out this little video, which Kurt called his attempt to "rip off the Pixies", struck a chord with the youth of America, including me. Here's the song that started it all.
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