Nirvana

NIRVANA Shot That Famous ‘SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT’ Video 30 Years Ago Today

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Clips that impress your ears and eyes

17 August 2021

Grunge icons NIRVANA shot the video clip for their global breakthrough blockbuster SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT at GMT Studios in Culver City, California on 17 August 1991,
30 years ago today. It costed less than $50,000 to make. All the youngsters going wild in the clip were Nirvana fans. The video won Nirvana the Best New Artist and Best Alternative Group awards at the 1992 MTV Video Music Award.

Number of views at the moment of writing this: 1.326.343.410.

Smells like a mega-massive video hit…

NIRVANA: Website

Smells Like A Billion Spirit – NIRVANA Hits One Billion Streams On Spotify

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29 June 2021

NIRVANA‘s massive breakthrough hit SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
has joined the One Billion Spotify Streams Club.

The cracker joins more than other 150 tracks that surpassed
the one billion mark, such as Queen‘s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.

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On YouTube the Spirit video scored over a billion views in 2019…

Their NEVERMIND album turns 30 on September 24

NIRVANA Released Rowdy Debut Album ‘BLEACH’ This Day In 1989

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15 June 2021

Today 32 years ago, on 15 June 1989 grunge icons NIRVANA released
their debut longplayer BLEACH (its working title was ‘Too Many Humans‘).

Despite raving reviews the LP failed to chart. The record was re-released by
Geffen Records, 3 years later, in 1992 after the band became globally famous
with follow-up blockbuster album ‘Nevermind‘ that came out in 1991.

ALL MUSIC formulated the album’s true worth precisely well: “Bleach is more
than a historical curiosity since it does have its share of great songs, but it isn’t a
lost classic, it’s a debut from a band that shows potential but haven’t yet achieved
it.” Score: 4/5.

Singles: Love Buzz / Blew

– LOVE BUZZ –

– BLEW –
(Smoking live version)

Album in full…
(Original tracklist: #1 – #11)

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NIRVANA: Website – Facebook – All Albums

Creepy Experience – New KURT COBAIN Song Not Written By The Late Icon

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18 April 2021

A new song by the late great Nirvana frontman KURT COBAIN?
Not written by him? Yep, and it feels otherworldly and creepy.

The song titled DROWNED IN THE SUN was written with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
software. But also new songs by the late Amy Winehouse and other deceased artists
(all at the age of 27) were made that way.

Toronto organisation Over The Bridge is the initiator of the project – focusing on the importance of mental health support – and created a compilation of new songs in the
style of musicians who died at the age of 27 like Cobain who passed away 27 years ago, early April. What about the legality? Royalties? His widow Courtney Love and daughter Frances? And the fans? Many of them reacted furiously on social media.

The big question: where will it all end?

And the weirdest thing is that it’s a top song.

Listen here…

OOPS! Too Late…

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17 January 2021

Back in 1989 grunge legends NIRVANA released debut LP BLEACH.
It was the start of a blitzkrieg career that, unfortunately, ended
with Kurt Cobain‘s suicide on 8 April 1994.

A couple of days ago Tapehead City send this message to the world:

“In homage of Kurt and this historic album we bring you Nirvana ‘Bleach’
Love Buzz red edition for Valentine’s Day (Feb 14, 2021). Limited to 500
copies, exclusively available at Tapehead City!”

Oh no, damn…

Well, we still can stream
the album on Spotify…

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(cassette images via Tape Head City)

BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 5 Killer Singles Turning 30 In 2021

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1. You Love Us by MANIC STREET PREACHERS

Released: 7 May 1991
Score: #16 in the UK
Album: Generation Terrorists

We realised and won’t be mourned
We gonna burn your deathmask uniforms…

2. Smells Like Teen Spirit by NIRVANA

Released: May 1991
Score: #6 in the US, #7 in the UK
Album: Nevermind

Here we are now, entertain us…

3. Losing My Religion by R.E.M.

Released: 19 February 1991
Score: #4 in the US, #16 in the UK
Album: Out Of Time

That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spot-light
Losing my religion…

4. Get The Message by ELECTRONIC (Johnny Marr & Bernard Sumner)

Released: 15 April 1991
Score: #8 in the US and the UK
Album: Electronic

I’ve counted the nights, living in sin
How can we talk? Look where we’ve been…

5. Planet Of Sound by PIXIES

Released: 28 May 1991
Album: Trompe Le Monde

And when I first touched some ground
They simply told me to leave
This ain’t the planet sound…

 

From A To B – From ‘SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT’ To ‘EVEN IN HIS YOUTH’ By NIRVANA – Released 1991

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The other side of the A…

11 October 2020

Band: Nirvana
B-side: Even In His Youth
A-side: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Released: September 1991

Even in his youth he was nothing
Kept his body clean going nowhere
Daddy was ashamed he was nothing
Smears the family name he was something

That immortal A-side…
(more than 1 billion views on YT)

NIRVANA: Discography

RIP Kurt Cobain…

ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD – Five Ballbreaking Live Killers Against Paranoia..

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To fight paranoia in these lockdown times you don’t need to inject yourself with disinfectant. I have some far better medication. Turn up the volume, and pretend
that corona is a tasty beer, not a nasty virus. Go bananas to these 5 steamy live killers. Scream, jump, pump your fists, play air guitar, and keep on rockin’ in the free world…

– Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by NIRVANA –

– ‘Hysteria’ by MUSE –

– ‘Mr. Brightside’ by THE KILLERS featuring JOHNNY MARR –

– ‘Fight For Your Right’ by BEASTIE BOYS –

– Keep On Rockin’ in The Free World by NEIL YOUNG –

Hell Yeah…


(VANT – photo by Turn Up The Volume!)