he looked like a jock at first glance but he really knew his stuff, he liked the Bleach album unlike most of the world who just listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Heart Shaped Box, even though a very commercial hit in my opinion is a much better song than Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Utero at that time was for me personally a much more enjoyable album than Nevermind. I really used to rock out to Bleach and In Utero, Nevermind got so boring due to its massive exposure.
How surreal is it that the interviewer gave a cd to the people and waited in the same spot the next day for them to return. The internet has truly robbed us of some beautiful interactions.
I was a teenager in the 90s and people in college always looked like full grown adults to me. This video confirms that everyone in the 90s went to college in their early 40s.
@@saltyzu8412 now,this guy with this lines is internationally known. No,no, nver use again words like viral or superspreader. It was part of their freakin superfascist Coronoid Agenda.
@@toriless Back in the 70s perhaps the 80s there was a great BBC live music show called "The Old Grey Whistle Test". If you like music from that era there are plenty videos from it on YT. Anyway the name origin is interesting: "the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before, when they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the "old greys" - doormen in grey suits. Any song they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test." Seems a good idea. Not sure how many doormen had "rape me" played to them mind you :) But the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" riff for example, that is a total earworm, hear it once and it sticks in your head, was always going to be a hit!
Well, you can tell which songs they put the most effort into, and had the most production. Some songs are meant as album filler, if a band writes a song that's merely OK. Still he got like 4 out of 4 so good going! Was nowhere near as good as Nevermind though.
@@EMH-Ascending People can decide to do ANYTHING they want! Whenever they want! That's a fact. Deciding something and doing something ... two different things entirely.
TheVanillatech You missed my point, the wording is irrelevant but the message is the same, people don’t just get perpetually stoned forever and always once they pass a certain age. Weed is like anything else, in the sense that it may be temporary.
It was already their first single by the time this aired. I can almost guarantee that. I heard Heart Shaped Box long before I owned the CD and I'm sure I bought that CD within a week of it coming out.
Biggest, not my favourite by a long shot. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, an anti song off an anti album was mine. Shit they telegraphed this with In Bloom. But they couldn’t help but make it brilliant could they? Despite the horrible imagery it shines, the whole album. God I wish there was more. And I’m happy there isn’t. How a proper band should be.
Dude back then new CDs were super exciting. If someone at the time gave me a CD and said hey listen to this and meet here and tell me what you think I'd have been stoked as hell.
@@therealslimshitty5186Oh Yeah? Just Because they share the same enthusiasm? Like calling someone an NPC for being brainwashed and just supporting the current political agenda is one thing but to dare keep telling yourself that anybody besides your unoriginal self is an npc for romanticizingly so enoying the simple pleasures in life that are being stripped away fron us but not forgotten.
@@johnholmeswebb8162 The song was set to release in April '94 but Kurt's death stopped it from happening; the record company thought it'd be in bad taste to still release it.
Bleach was the first CD I ever owned. I was about 10 years old when I heard About A Girl and I thought the lyrics were "I need a lizard friend." I had a pet lizard at the time and assumed Cobain also had a pet lizard he was singing about.
It's good ass follow up from nevermind which says alot for mist bands and artist when it comes to there sophomore album either does well/better than thier first or ends up being totally diffrent from what they're usually known for or just downright mid
Sadly Nirvana diehards can't accept something as simple as that and instead try to analyze the song like some advanced form of poetry. Funny because Cobain hated when people did that to the songs.
@peroh Oh please lol I take it you were a personal friend of Cobain's to make such claims? As for the chords, he may have not known them at one point and learned them later. Simple as that really. I know what you're talking about because he said that he knew nothing about musicianship but then starting in 1993 Nirvana started being more intricate in music. "Grohl stated that Cobain believed that music comes first and lyrics second. Cobain focused primarily on the melodies of his songs. He complained when fans and rock journalists attempted to decipher his singing and extract meaning from his lyrics, writing: "Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second-rate Freudian evaluation of my lyrics, when 90 percent of the time they've transcribed them incorrectly?" While Cobain insisted on the subjectivity and unimportance of his lyrics, he labored and procrastinated in writing them, often changing the content and order of lyrics during performances. Cobain would describe his own lyrics as "a big pile of contradictions. They're split down the middle between very sincere opinions that I have and sarcastic opinions and feelings that I have and sarcastic and hopeful, humorous rebuttals toward cliché bohemian ideals that have been exhausted for years."
knowing of his "suicide" letter, that was most likely "repurposed" as such by a 3rd party, all the while in actuality being a statement to the fans about dissolving Nirvana we can view his comment as sarcastic - he knew that most likely Nirvana will not going to release another album.
Dave Or - give him credit that he could step outta his probable genre and be so open. Imagine trying to get a rural kid in 93 to listen to Bone Thugs & Harmony
@@maddymud you got to stop assuming just because someone's black that they wouldn't listen to alternative rock. This guy simply likes music. Sometimes it's not any more deeper than that.
@@maddymud I grew up in a small northern Illinois farm town and believe me, in the early 90's mtv had plenty of rural farm town white boys runnin around with their pants saggin and acting like gang banger thugs .
yep totally fake "interviews" Nevermind had 4 massive hits, smells like teen spirit,come as you are,lithium,and in bloom. all over the radio and all over mtv vh1 etc. Its not like everyone was a fan boy like Kev but "whats that" ? dude so fake
Ya know, I think it is really unfortunate how misunderstood their song "Rape Me" really is. For myself as well as many people, I think it is more of an inner monolog of how you feel about it when its happening and how to describe it. Its sorta a "go ahead, you were gonna anyway" way to look at things. It resonates with people who have suffered from sa quite a lot and I wish people talked about it more because its one of my favorites
My heart broke when Kurt was talking about how well writing with Dave and Krist was and how he looked forward to writing more songs with them in the future. Man, what could have been.
Josh Weaver The level of irony in your comment is unfathomable. He made a blunt anti-rape song because people like you would read too much into his lyrics, yet here you are decades later still doing that same thing. There are multiple interviews where he talks about speaking out against sexism and that this song is bluntly about it. He also specifically says that it is not about the media and all that junk you wrote... so please just stop with the BS and trying to act smart
its insane that they were so soft spoken and polite in interviews but in their music its so emotional and loud. people always stereotype singers cause of their music and how they dress when they don't even bother to look at stuff like this ;(
Kurt, Layne Staley and Chris Cornell were very soft spoken. I remember even Chris said this about the three of them in an interview (that they were 'quiet and introvert people who didn't know how to deal with fame' is the full quote if anyone is wondering).
@@tristonman5671 Yeah true. There's some interview where Kurt talks about trying a more new wave sound, but may have been half or mostly joking, hard to say. What is clear is that he wasn't going to pump out the same stuff every album. And for all we know he may have dissolved Nirvana sooner rather than later. Fans might've turned on him, but I wish we could've seen what other sounds he came up with... (Even though there is some variety in Nirvana... its all mostly in one genre... mostly.)
I wasn't into Nirvana in the early 90's. They got so big overnight that I didn't really get the chance to discover them for myself. I wasn't interested in listening to the same thing as everyone else at school. I was more into STP, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Megadeth.. all popular bands, but Nirvana seemed to be all anybody talked about for a while. But eventually I sat down and listd to In Utero, and I liked it more each time I listened to it. I find that if you like an album straight away, you get bored with it quickly. But the ones that take time to grow on you, stay with you.
@ghost mall 'Rhiniceros' was the song that turned me on to the Pumpkins. I think Billy is under-rated as a guitarist and songwriter.. terrific riffs and solos. And I love their acoustic stuff too. (The one they did in Canada?)
That was Led Zeppelin I for me. I was more into AC/DC in 2002 as an 11 year old. My dad got me Zep’s first album. I initially thought it was mediocre. Now it is pretty much my all time favorite album, and band.
@@benben162 listening to shitty music and critiquing on it doesn’t make someone a snob, but u def seem offended by ppls opinions for disliking a shitty band u obviously are in love with
1:56 Diane : I wasn't too happy with the song "Rape Me"...it's offensive. 2:12 Sean : I prefer the beginning of the album, especially "Rape Me", it's great!
Unnamed gaming 2002 ya f'ing brutal. That being said, first foo fighters album had songs that Dave was gonna do as nirvana. You can tell. Go listen to it now.
@@thebatman4279 I think kurt helped a bit on that first album just before he killed himself. He came to Kurt and said he was forming this other band and Kurt was cool with it.
In Utero is a masterpiece. By far my favorite Nirvana album. Big part of what got me into metal, nay, MUSIC as a whole. Was never interested in any music whatsoever until I heard Nirvana for the first time
Same thing with me, that happened to me in January 1994, right after I turned 4 years old. That's when I saw the weird music video for "Heart Shaped Box" and Nirvana really drew me in. I also remember some TV interview not long after at that time I can't find anywhere, but Kurt talked about how he thinks the internet would "become a place where everyone just complains about the same thing in the same place", and he said it very much like at the 6:13 mark. He sounded excited about going to Europe because "they have the most passionate fans" and "always fun to play over there". He also praised Nine Inch Nails heading into their Downward Spiral era, saying how "like us they got the underground grungy vibe going for them too". By the way he talked, I think he got a hold of Downward Spiral before it came out in March 1994, because I know Courtney had contact with Trent. So for me not only was this perhaps my 1st case of me getting interested in music, but also the first time I thought to myself, "Wow, this dude is cool" regarding a musician. I was in silent shock when he suddenly died while I was watching the WCW Saturday Night episode on April 9, 1994. Hearing the news that Kurt died out of nowhere, I just kinda had a blank face with big eyes and nothing on the wrestling episode was registering at all with me, and my "kid logic" was partially hoping WCW did a tribute for Kurt (but he wasn't a wrestler lol). I was weirded-out but I couldn't put my finger on why, considering I was very young. Weirdest feeling I ever had as a kid...
Some people are dunking on the girl who said she felt offended, but she really just stated her perception of the song after one listen and that was it. She didn't try to get the song banned or anything and didn't judge Nirvana as people without waiting for more context. She even said she generally enjoyed the album. She was probably aware that she might not have fully grasped the meaning and probably would've been receptive when she was told "Rape Me" was an anti-rape song.
@Mark Flegal Exactly, people act like no one has a right to be offended about things anymore. As far as I see it as long as youre not getting offended on behalf of other people and youre not trying to "cancel" something just because you personally dont like it, you have every right to feel offended about whatever you want. Its a genuine human emotion
@@bb8989-g4p You must be some edgy 14 year old kid if you dont know how the topic of rape can be extremely sensitive content for some women. Grow up and talk to a girl for once
@@callanc3925 LMFAO 😂🤣. Your completely wrong and it's hilarious. Please go crawl back into your bubble hole with everyone that hears the word rape, begins to cry and screams "this big bad person is insensitive to my personal feeling". 🥺🥺 Oh the state of this world.
Nah, they had cassettes with headphones back in the 80's, even. I think they just wanted to give them some time to listen to and absorb the album. That might be stranger than the phone situation, frankly.
Audio on headphones from a small battery-powered cassette device seemed like impossible, wonderful magic in its day. It was like the beginning of reality manipulation via technology before internet, you could be in a song nobody else was hearing or have someone jack in to what you were listening to as if sharing a separate world.
I was around in that era. Although I liked Nirvana, as did most people, my circle found grunge as a whole dull, and we were resentful that as well as killing Hair Metal (in the mainstream) it also wiped out much more interesting Indie and Alt Rock coming out of the UK and US. Smashing Pumpkins and The Breeders did well after, as did, to a lesser extent, Pavement - and Dinosaur Jr released their best album in 93 - but MBV, Ride, Lush, Pixes, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and many others suddenly found that rock tastes had changed - and not for the better. Oasis were interesting for 12 months during 1994-5, but then Britpop, which seemed the very lowest form of 'Indie' killed all enthusiasm. Only the so-called 'landfill Indie' of the 2000s was worse. Many of us pivoted away from Indie and Alt Rock as the 90s progressed, as the much more interesting - better - music coming from the underground was being made in the various dance genres: House, Drum n Bass, Techno, Chillout, UK Garage, and so on. But that then morphed into bland EDM as the 2000s progressed. TL;DR Yes, it was a fantastic time for music, and a great time to be young. Much freer and more optimistic than today. But the dominant narratives today don't tell the whole story. There is a money-making industry around Nirvana, even to this day, but for most people they were only around late 1991to early 1994. The two years from late 1989 to late 1991, and then again from about 1996 onwards, are also really important, both musically and culturally. Not intending to be cynical, and I'm glad you're into it today. I felt like a trip down memory lane and thought you might like a take from someone who was there. Obviously others will have other memories and opinions, and that's all good too.
@@xcx8646 Yeah, it is all good as everyone has their take as to why and how the music of Nirvana has impacted their lives both musically and culturally. For instance, Nirvana's music has impacted me more musically than culturally because 1. I discovered Nirvana when I was 13 back in 2014 (around that era), so culturally I cannot say much because I am from a different era. 2. I go by listening to music that makes me feel good, responsive, and reflective based on the tone and context of the lyrics. I remember how I felt when I listened to their music such as being astonished by what I heard from their most mainstream song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" because the song echoed what I was feeling at the time, and it still does, but as I have gradually dug deeper into their discography (over time and gradually) throughout my youth, I have peeled back layers of what Nirvana was, is and could have been. Going back and listening to Nirvana is like peeling off another layer so that is my take on it. When I first found out about Nirvana which led to my research of the frontman Kurt, I found out how he died and that made me sad due to his personal and artistic journey that regarded from the biased intake of the grunge era, and the cultural references and societal issues that parlayed into that observation. So culturally the personal expressions of most of those musicians that live through that did not impress me because I had no way to relate to that besides angst and discovery of personal expression than the lifestyle of drugs/and/or the life experiences that you guys went through into the 90s (not until I grew older, I could relate a bit due to personal experiences, but not as a whole/collective coming from that era). For me, it was and still is more so the musicianship and community-based ideology that I fell for when I discovered their music and eventually a few others you have mentioned. I respect your points and references to other genres and badass musicians because you highlighted the musical background of its origin of how these bands came to be both musically and culturally influential (whether bad or good), for how it shaped and influenced the appetite of today's generation- hopefully, the hyper fixation and romanticization of the musical and cultural journey of these musicians works, and the work to come of future generation of musicians can be toned WAY down. In other words, hopefully, ppl today can avoid becoming hyper-fixated on the bias and romanticization of the lifestyle of these musicians' personal experiences. Hopefully, the craft will still be appreciated to the test of time as it ages, if one is willing to see it with fresh eyes in agreement with what you've mentioned that, each person has their own set of intake and experiences of how, when and what they have felt when they discovered the music. And that should not encourage those to influence the capitalistic and cultural bandwagons that culturally and aesthetically leech off the product aka the artistic expression of these musicians. So my take is not necessarily on any specific eras, but more so on how I felt nostalgic when I first heard the music. Growing up whether within that era or not is relative and obvious, but unfortunately, it is not when some are not open-minded. To each their own though. I am glad to see bands like the Breeders, Rem, The Smashing Pumpkins, Butthole Surfers, and even Babes in Toyland, and other bands during that time and onwards, still rocking out for the loving sake of it. 🎸
As an older guy (I'm 46) who was a teenager when Nirvana hit it big, it's pretty cool to see kids these days get turned on to their music, even though Kurt has been gone for longer now than he was alive. I felt the same way about The Doors back in 1993, and Jim Morrison had been dead for 22 years by then. Music is truly timeless.
@@koschmx Music is a very subjective thing. I personally can't listen to Bruce Springsteen or Pink Floyd. Just don't like the music. Both considered to be among the best acts of The Doors era. Love the Doors, though.
THAT BLACK GUY WAS ME...I NEVER HEARD OF NIRVANA...JUST LISTNED 2 MOSTLY RAP AND R&B....BUT NIRVANA CHANGED ME OVERNIGHT...THEY INTRODUCED ME TO WHAT I NOW LOVE MORE THAN ALL MUSIC....ROCK!!
U were the absolute rock star of that entire video!!! Kudos to u for being an open minded honest guy who obviously became one kick ass adult!!! Man, I miss the 90s we had our problems like every generation but music united us like no other!!!
I relate to this as well. But ever since discovering Nirvana, the whole genre started to grow on me. I wanted to discover more bands and their music. I never went back to listening to rap, and caring for any of it except for some stuff I listened to long before.
kurt seems in a good mood in this video. he's laughing, smiling and joking around with dave and krist. i know with depression, that appearing happy can sometimes be a front but it's still nice to think that in this moment he could genuinely be in a good place. RIP kurt
+GeorgeUK84 Are you deaf? He said it would become a hit on MTV which it did. Thanks for showing us how great your misunderstanding of the English language is.
Most commercial? You gotta be deaf to call such a song as commercial. Its one of the greatest songs ever written, its more than just hit song from Nirvana album.
It's kinda weird because the early 90's I got so excited taking a new CD home and unwrapping the plastic and studying the art and lyrics while listening to the music --- but by the late 90's I only had that feeling when unwrapping a new piece of software like Adobe Photoshop or a new video game like Diablo LOL
I just turned 28. I was a kid in the 90s. This is off topic, but watching this video and I'm realizing how distinct the 90s looks on camera. It's easy to pick out the 80s and 70s, etc. Now the 90s too? Damn, I'm getting old. Lol
MrDarcyIsHere Yup, lots of nylon track suits, lots of baggy denim with a white T-shirt, and girls with frizzy hair. But by 1995 things had changed a lot.
Yeah it is really noticeable now and the 90s looks dated. Back in the early 2000s it was hard to discern the difference between then and the 90s. It is very noticeable now. Heck even looking at 2008 looks old now.
@@toad8840 You could hold on to your unique self and be a success without selling out or at least bandwagon popular trends with moderation. MTV fucked up on both ends starting in the late 2000s. That's why they are the way they are now, a generic dying brand. Their movies are still okay though. Lol!
I don’t think people realise the song “rape me” is actually against rape but whatever. Kurt was actually one of the few artists of that era who defended women and LGBT community instead of sexualising / insulting them in songs.
Of course most people don't realize that. They don't actually listen to the song and understand the sentiment; they just clutch their pearls. Pearl clutchers and the boomer mindset will exist forever
When I was in a band as a teenager, we did a gig around Christmas that was a mash up of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Rape Me. So it was "Santa Claus is Coming to Rape Me". We were very childish but it was hilarious at the time But yeah anyone who thinks the song is somehow pro rape is a moron, hasn't even read the lyrics, and their opinion thus doesn't matter whatsoever Also with other people actually reading the lyrics and having different interpretations, that's fine, that's great in fact. Because of Death of the Author, everyone's interpretation is equally valid even if they're all very different. But yeah the ones who just see the title and judge it based on that don't count, their opinion on it doesn't matter because they don't even know the thing they are judging I think a very grainy video of my old band playing santa Claus is coming to rape me is still on TH-cam. It was in the very early days and so it's terrible quality. It's still somewhere on TH-cam but I am struggling to find it.
Andrew T silly dude. the only f.f. song that even holds a candle to kurts songwriting is Everlong. aside from that Dave could never even hold kurts dick. learn it learn it live it
Did we watch the same clip?? Chick freaked out over "Rape Me" and the black guy didn't like the songs because he couldn't understand what the lyrics meant. A chill person would've just enjoyed the music!
Yes chill, confident sorta, relaxed. That's what you can sense here. They werent socially uncomfortable, tense, shy, closed. Like these days people tend to be :/ :)
I was thinking the same thing. When that album came out when I was in high school, we asked a teacher who it was, and even still he could only give us a vague answer
Why do you think you could trust them more? Theft and violent crime is significantly lower now than it was in the 90s where these interviews took place, and across most of North America. Don't blindly accept everything you see or hear in the news.
@@botoxballs lol i agree people sre just subjects of the internet these days. The wolrd is much better than it was then, we just know more and arent ignorant. Back then we still had serial killers and missing kids on milk cartons. The era of all our cold cases.
@@botoxballs - theft and violet crime are way up in San Francisco these days. It helps your point when the SF DA won't prosecute any theft under $1K, any car thefts or break-ins, assault, etc....
Em, but then he went and married that skank-hole money grubbing psycho bitch Courtney Love who ultimately had him murdered. TH-cam: Kurt & Courtney - El Duce Interview, then watch the movie *Soaked in Bleach* for starters.
Can you imagine college kids now being asked “can you meet us here the same time tomorrow after listening to this whole album and give us your thoughts?” A different time for sure.
mtv introduced me to pearl jam, nirvana, queens of the stone age, aic, chris cornell, audioslave, soundgarden, pantera, stp, incubus, temple of the dog, ozzy, metallica,pink floyd, eric clapton, megadeth, nin, ween, bush, white zombie, ac/dc and so many bands that i love.as well as jackass, beavis & butthead, liquid tv, etc..it`s a damn shame what they became
If rock music comes back into the mainstream, MTV will have good content again. But the charts are topped by electro-pop retarded singers and shitty rappers, we must wait for the next Nirvana to appear and save the music industry and wipe out those talentless idiots.
Wait another 20 years and people will be saying the exact same thing about nowadays MTV content. I was not even born yet during Nirvana's golden age, but I am pretty sure that the majority of international music listeners hated their music and grunge music in general, just like you could be doing now with pop music. It's always a matter of time, and this means that, in actuality, you can find a lot of good music nowadays. People like you are just narrow-minded and lazy if you ask me.
The thing about geniuses/lyric masters like him, Roger Waters and many others is exactly this. With "Rape me" and many other songs Kurt showed he was ahead of his time; but the song that shows it, at least to me, is "Sappy". The sonority of a perfect radio single, the acidity (I am use the right word? Not a native speaker) that was maybe a lil too much for the mainstream society of that time.
GODofMONSTERLAND It's about many things, if you truly pay attention to it. The media/his life has a lot to do with it, but if you analise other songs by him, like "Sappy" or "Polly", things lead to his strong opinions against "cavemans" and sexists in general. So, it's like many other songs by him, open to different interpretations.
I think the only reason people found "rape me" so offensive was because of how direct it was as compared to other artists who beat around the bush to the point where you wouldn't know what they're talking about until they come out and say it.
people in the 90's really listened to the fucking music the guy knew heart shaped box was a hit this guy at 2:22 was spot on even though he was lying about not getting stoned anymore
People nowdays all listen to techno bullshit so there isn't really anything really that good nowdays. It is hard to come across decent new music. it exists but it there isn't as much and it is much harder to find. lately it seems like its all techno and dubstep trash.
Max Kanaszka I can only remember what I saw in 1993. I think Guns and Roses was still a thing. Sonic Youth was the only alternative band I could name. TLC just came out. The only thing I can remember is a racist teenage white girl who would sit in the front of the bus away from the back of the teenage black kids. She wore a jean jacket of a heavy metal band called Death album cover spiritual healing. I think they really got popular after Kurt Suicide in 1994. Then they played their videos a lot.
Shit dude. The first time my mind was blown by Soundgarden was in my buddies car during high school going to Subway during lunch break. It was 1996 and the song was Pretty Noose. i do remember watching the video for Nirvanas Smells like Teen Spirit during a break from football 2 a day practices. some years earlier. To be honest i wasn't really impressed. There were a few in my school that were Nirvana nuts. I knew a dude that was a Pearl Jam nut. But Soundgarden man... A lot of the "Grunge" love came in retrospect in mid to late 90s. At least geographically where I was at in Kansas.
Massive other shit was popping. All styles of American music was flying off the global shelfs. Underground genres was on the rise. Techno, Trance and House was gaining mainstream exposure and Progressive was being formed.
johnathan clark jesus christ spiritual healing is a great fucking album and if she was actually racist like you said she disrespected chuck so much by repping his album and being something he hated.
You know, back in the day people used to buy albums so they sorta had to listen to the entire album and not just "listen to the bands most popular song just cause it's catchy"
Yeah, there was no TH-cam or Spotify, if you were lucky your CD player or stereo would have a remote control but most of the time you would stick an album on and listen to it start to finish while you scrubbed your floor or disposed of a body.
"Nirvana? what's that?"
Nirvana was, you hate yourself and you want to die.
Ow just some band playing David Bowie covers. Idk....
clothes brand
Radiofriendly90s it's a Sam Smith song
I like how he went from "Nirvana, what's that?" to "Nirvana - buy it. Get it. Can I get another one?"
"Heart-Shaped Box will probably be on MTV or something" Holy shit that guy called it.
Yeah, same thought.
he looked like a jock at first glance but he really knew his stuff, he liked the Bleach album unlike most of the world who just listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit.
fuck yeah
Heart Shaped Box, even though a very commercial hit in my opinion is a much better song than Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Utero at that time was for me personally a much more enjoyable album than Nevermind. I really used to rock out to Bleach and In Utero, Nevermind got so boring due to its massive exposure.
makemarker yup
How surreal is it that the interviewer gave a cd to the people and waited in the same spot the next day for them to return. The internet has truly robbed us of some beautiful interactions.
Patryk Ochmanski i know right...
Hahaaha it’s mtv, it’s most likely staged. They probably filmed their reactions to the album on the same day that they gave them the album.
They were wearing the same clothes.
Or more of these types of interactions happen because of the internet?
Today if someone does that, they won't come back again with the cd
I love it that the dude who was like "Who tf that?" was the biggest fan of the album in the end.
Good, it introduced him to great music
He even got the "flow" of the album. What a legend.
@thedonutcreed Shut the fuck up it doesn't matter how he refers to him.
Yeah I hadn't noticed it, but I'm glad he kept an open mind.
He even asked for another Disc!! 🙃🤘
i love how the "nirvana? what's that?" guy praised the album so much. I feel like his life was changed that day.
I doubt it
Legend has, he still wears the T-shirt in bed.
Yeah for the worse. He doesn't need this degenerate shit in his life
I love how seriously these people all took music. Life before social media vapidity.
oh yeah. definitely
"Nirvana, great band but you gotta see them live"
*Cries unstoppably*
Sky Blackburn I did. Twice.
Leon Trimble lucky
Leon Trimble How was it
totally awesome
Right after I read this, the guy said the quote.
I love that the dude who hadn't heard of Nirvana, loved the album.
Then he asked if he could get another one 😂
Matthew Montes man being practical. No mp3s back then 🤣
iamsheep all respect lol and simpler times then
It was staged.
@@Offensive_Username how do you know?
I was a teenager in the 90s and people in college always looked like full grown adults to me. This video confirms that everyone in the 90s went to college in their early 40s.
Comment of the year
I'm sure when the 60's roll around they'll say things about people in the 20's looking like old people
I was born in 1974 and took a shed load of drugs in the 1990s, but this is the UK, not middle America
man, I'm 27 and I still remember the guys from my elder brother's college and yes, I still feel looking younger than them when they were 16.
@@saltyzu8412 now,this guy with this lines is internationally known. No,no, nver use again words like viral or superspreader. It was part of their freakin superfascist Coronoid Agenda.
Guy at 1:20 needs some applause, he picked out 2 of the 3 songs that became singles, and they were the 2 highest charters.
Right? He nailed it.
Yeah, I am pretty good at that too. Back when they stores had demo copies I could spot the hits
@@toriless
Back in the 70s perhaps the 80s there was a great BBC live music show called "The Old Grey Whistle Test". If you like music from that era there are plenty videos from it on YT. Anyway the name origin is interesting:
"the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before, when they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the "old greys" - doormen in grey suits. Any song they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test."
Seems a good idea. Not sure how many doormen had "rape me" played to them mind you :)
But the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" riff for example, that is a total earworm, hear it once and it sticks in your head, was always going to be a hit!
He's a studio executive now. His name is Carl Marx
Honestly wasn't that difficult with the music back then.
dude the guy who accurately guessed which songs would be hits though. genius
Well, you can tell which songs they put the most effort into, and had the most production. Some songs are meant as album filler, if a band writes a song that's merely OK.
Still he got like 4 out of 4 so good going!
Was nowhere near as good as Nevermind though.
@@greenaum you suck
@@greenaum Shut up, nerd.
@@greenaum Bad take
Christ no wonder Kurt killed himself. And thought his fans didn't relate to him.
Courtney helped, of course.
"If I was stoned I would've liked it better . . . but I don't do that anymore"
Nice save
He clearly doesn't. Anyone who continues to get stoned past the age of 17 - stays stoned forever.
TheVanillatech You know people can decide to start that late in life right?
@@EMH-Ascending People can decide to do ANYTHING they want! Whenever they want! That's a fact.
Deciding something and doing something ... two different things entirely.
TheVanillatech You missed my point, the wording is irrelevant but the message is the same, people don’t just get perpetually stoned forever and always once they pass a certain age. Weed is like anything else, in the sense that it may be temporary.
@@EMH-Ascending I beg to differ sir, based on my own personal experience and observation plus alone I can tell you : you're wrong.
The guy who said heart shaped box would be a hit fair play to him it’s now arguably the biggest song off in utero 😂
It was already their first single by the time this aired. I can almost guarantee that. I heard Heart Shaped Box long before I owned the CD and I'm sure I bought that CD within a week of it coming out.
Biggest, not my favourite by a long shot. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, an anti song off an anti album was mine. Shit they telegraphed this with In Bloom. But they couldn’t help but make it brilliant could they? Despite the horrible imagery it shines, the whole album. God I wish there was more. And I’m happy there isn’t. How a proper band should be.
it's his opinion, not yours
@@bere7572 bro what?
@M S C 🤣
Made me crack the f up
That they even had the decency to actually show up 24 hrs later is astounding.
Dude back then new CDs were super exciting. If someone at the time gave me a CD and said hey listen to this and meet here and tell me what you think I'd have been stoked as hell.
@TSKILATCHI bru shut up you're literally on your phone making this comment 💀💀
@IONIZE npc
@TSKILATCHI phone bad, give me likes
@@therealslimshitty5186Oh Yeah? Just Because they share the same enthusiasm?
Like calling someone an NPC for being brainwashed and just supporting the current political agenda is one thing but to dare keep telling yourself that anybody besides your unoriginal self is an npc for romanticizingly so enoying the simple pleasures in life that are being stripped away fron us but not forgotten.
Can we just give kudos to my man who guessed correctly what every single was going to be?
A damn shame Pennyroyal Tea was cancelled as a single.
@@ECW5320
Did they suddenly find out what it meant?
@@johnholmeswebb8162 The song was set to release in April '94 but Kurt's death stopped it from happening; the record company thought it'd be in bad taste to still release it.
@@ECW5320
Makes sense.
@@ECW5320
Especially the "distill the life that's inside of me", part.
"Nirvana. Buy it. Get it. Can I get another one?"
That's me.
😁😁
Hello, Fan Boy...
Bleach was the first CD I ever owned. I was about 10 years old when I heard About A Girl and I thought the lyrics were "I need a lizard friend."
I had a pet lizard at the time and assumed Cobain also had a pet lizard he was singing about.
Underrated comment.
lmao thats great
That is so beutiful
I dont have a lizard, but i love them.
That’s so cute omg
Heart shaped box could never not be a hit. It's ethereal. Perfection. There's not an ear that dislikes that noise.
Except for people that don't like grunge...
@@Harmony_Sanderson im sure you could find a lot of people that arent into grunge that would still like heart shaped box
And also a lot of people who wouldn't like heart shaped box
@@clairecrichtonmusicYep, that’s me in a nutshell
It's good ass follow up from nevermind which says alot for mist bands and artist when it comes to there sophomore album either does well/better than thier first or ends up being totally diffrent from what they're usually known for or just downright mid
So nirvana were literally doing reaction videos in the 90s
*the fine bros would like to know your location*
*I came here to say this, but knew in my heart it had already been said*
The Japanese people have been doing it even before that
The fine bros: ...
But today people just pretend to be listening to something for the first time
Interviewer: "Is this a trend that will continue?"
Kurt: "Hell yes. Takes the pressure off of me."
Me: *sobbing forever*
Didnt take the pressure off the trigger 😃
@@Dylan-vk5uv you're a dickhead😂
We have Everlong, song from 4th Nirvana album
@@Dylan-vk5uv I giggled lol.
dickhead imagine making jokes about suicide
Rape me was Kurt being frustrated that nobody understood Polly ect, so he decided to make it obvious
Sadly Nirvana diehards can't accept something as simple as that and instead try to analyze the song like some advanced form of poetry. Funny because Cobain hated when people did that to the songs.
Omar music is an advanced form of poetry dipshit
I thought that it was about how the publicity would like attack them 🤔
@@Farvaman423 Not when the artist himself describes a lot of his lyrics as mumbo jumbo with no real meaning
@peroh Oh please lol I take it you were a personal friend of Cobain's to make such claims?
As for the chords, he may have not known them at one point and learned them later. Simple as that really. I know what you're talking about because he said that he knew nothing about musicianship but then starting in 1993 Nirvana started being more intricate in music.
"Grohl stated that Cobain believed that music comes first and lyrics second. Cobain focused primarily on the melodies of his songs. He complained when fans and rock journalists attempted to decipher his singing and extract meaning from his lyrics, writing: "Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second-rate Freudian evaluation of my lyrics, when 90 percent of the time they've transcribed them incorrectly?" While Cobain insisted on the subjectivity and unimportance of his lyrics, he labored and procrastinated in writing them, often changing the content and order of lyrics during performances. Cobain would describe his own lyrics as "a big pile of contradictions. They're split down the middle between very sincere opinions that I have and sarcastic opinions and feelings that I have and sarcastic and hopeful, humorous rebuttals toward cliché bohemian ideals that have been exhausted for years."
"Is this a trend that'll continue?"
"Hell yeah" I wish that happened too Kurt, Rest In Paradise
knowing of his "suicide" letter, that was most likely "repurposed" as such by a 3rd party, all the while in actuality being a statement to the fans about dissolving Nirvana we can view his comment as sarcastic - he knew that most likely Nirvana will not going to release another album.
genuinely made me sad
@@vaakdemandante8772it was 100 percent a suicide bro.
I love how the dude who never heard of Nirvana loved the album.
Joe Edwards that was great and also how they could tell the songs were gonna be hits even though it wasn’t there music type.
U mean the black guy
Dave Or - give him credit that he could step outta his probable genre and be so open. Imagine trying to get a rural kid in 93 to listen to Bone Thugs & Harmony
@@maddymud you got to stop assuming just because someone's black that they wouldn't listen to alternative rock. This guy simply likes music. Sometimes it's not any more deeper than that.
@@maddymud I grew up in a small northern Illinois farm town and believe me, in the early 90's mtv had plenty of rural farm town white boys runnin around with their pants saggin and acting like gang banger thugs .
I love how the guy who never heard of Nirvana gave the most insightful and articulate review. Wow! I bet he's still listening to them 25 years later.
He even looked diffren
Ron is a coool cat lol
yep totally fake "interviews" Nevermind had 4 massive hits, smells like teen spirit,come as you are,lithium,and in bloom. all over the radio and all over mtv vh1 etc. Its not like everyone was a fan boy like Kev but "whats that" ? dude so fake
The fake news shit is classic... i grew up watchin that shit on TV. Not alll of that was genuine but what media is.
@fuark this sheet ,
3:56 "If I was stoned I might have liked it better ..." Dave Grohl: "It's target marketing"
lol
So true
The best bit, “but I don’t do that anymore”
I would like this, but it has 666 likes, therefore it is already perfect.
@@drbatz woops
Ya know, I think it is really unfortunate how misunderstood their song "Rape Me" really is. For myself as well as many people, I think it is more of an inner monolog of how you feel about it when its happening and how to describe it. Its sorta a "go ahead, you were gonna anyway" way to look at things. It resonates with people who have suffered from sa quite a lot and I wish people talked about it more because its one of my favorites
The song was actually about how he felt exploited by the media and music industry. Was metaphorical.
@@kjjhjghgyes especially if you listen to the demo version on with the lights out, the lyrics are screaming that it’s a anti rape song
@@derper3987no it’s not. If you listen to Kurt’s interview he discredits that theory and says it’s a song for rape survivors
Its about a drug taking over you and taking your soul. Its about heroin use and submitting to the needle.
Disco music listeners discovers metaphorical lyrics
Ahhh the 90's, where you could hand someone a CD and expect them to return it the next day
Or trade it for another CD too😏😂
I dunno about that. If you didn't steal CDs from Columbia House in the '90s, what were you doing with your life?
people wouldn't steal them today, especially younger people
instead of 30 second listens followed by stupid hot takes on twitter, internet ruined music
@@f67739 music isnt ruined, you're just not looking in the right places for good music nowadays.
I'm surprised no one brought up All Apologies. Great song.
Max Kuzela so am i
Best nirvana song
YES thank you, it's so fucking underappreciated
One of my favourites
yade hell yeah it is I fucking love that song
When the interviewer said "will this continue" and Kurt replied "Hell yeah", I teared up a bit.
Same
You literally read a previous comment and then posted it verbatim like you thought of it.
@@Rob-dp3vr no I did not
@@Rob-dp3vr well it must have been a coincidence
can i have a timestamp
My heart broke when Kurt was talking about how well writing with Dave and Krist was and how he looked forward to writing more songs with them in the future. Man, what could have been.
"it's an anti...Let me repeat that...an anti-rape song"
GOD, I LOVE KURT SO MUCH!!!!
Jazmeen Hamid makes me sick
Vincent Gonzales He said « god, I love kurt so much !!! » so I answer Makes me sick. This is in Aneurysm « Love you so much, makes me sick ! »
Josh Weaver liar
Yeah, he was anti-rape... What a pioneer, hahaha. Even convicts hate rapists, dude.
Josh Weaver The level of irony in your comment is unfathomable. He made a blunt anti-rape song because people like you would read too much into his lyrics, yet here you are decades later still doing that same thing. There are multiple interviews where he talks about speaking out against sexism and that this song is bluntly about it. He also specifically says that it is not about the media and all that junk you wrote... so please just stop with the BS and trying to act smart
“I think if I were stoned when I listened to it I might have liked it better”
“But I don’t do that anymore”
300th like
XxpurplekatxX ;3 congratulations
Or any less
Such a sad story. I was a perpetually stoned young cab driver and Nirvana fan when In Utero came out, and can confirm it sounded best that way.
@@danieldaniels7571 dont get high and drive!!!!
Guy: "Nirvana, who's that?"
at the end of the video
Guy: Nirvana, BUY IT. GET IT. Can I get another one?
That guy ruled. I also like how he described the album perfectly.
Bobby Vagene Well, he does look like a member of Run DMC, in all fairness.
That’s clearly a man that respects music in general. What he said about how the album is sequenced was spot on.
Bobby Vagene pussy
Little Caligula "I hate to be racist" lmao but you still were
I was at that show in October of 93 at the Arizona State Fair. I was about two months pregnant, so my son was literally "In Utero" for that show.
Poetic
"All three members collaborated. Is this a trend that will continue?"
"Hell yes"
Excuse me while I go cry
Oof but like same
Same
shut up
Lol at that part i was like hell no
Sierra Jay yep. Think of what could’ve been. This was their last album 😭😭😭😭
"But I dont do that anymore"
my reaction to that was same as the bands
I rolled my eyes
suuuure!
he's back to doing it again nowadays
'might there be a chance my parents get to see this?'
its insane that they were so soft spoken and polite in interviews but in their music its so emotional and loud. people always stereotype singers cause of their music and how they dress when they don't even bother to look at stuff like this ;(
@Andrew Harper you're comparing apples with oranges
Kurt, Layne Staley and Chris Cornell were very soft spoken. I remember even Chris said this about the three of them in an interview (that they were 'quiet and introvert people who didn't know how to deal with fame' is the full quote if anyone is wondering).
FORRRRREEEEAAAALLLLLLL
@Andrew Harper But Axl is actually known for having the most nasal voice.
@Andrew Harper Never really liked Guns N Roses too much. Appetite for Destruction was good but everything else that they ever did was just subpar.
After 30 years, I still listen to Nirvana at least once a week
''Nirvana... buy it!... get it... can I get another one?'' - LOL 😂
Yea I’d also like another album from this band I wonder where they went
Hearing Kurt saying that they'll continue making songs together is really chilling. Rest in peace, Kurt.
More sad than chilling, but I hear ya.
@@mrhobs It's both sad, and eerie. Makes you wonder what future album(s) would've sounded like. Would love more raw stuff like In Utero.
@@tristonman5671 Yeah true. There's some interview where Kurt talks about trying a more new wave sound, but may have been half or mostly joking, hard to say. What is clear is that he wasn't going to pump out the same stuff every album. And for all we know he may have dissolved Nirvana sooner rather than later. Fans might've turned on him, but I wish we could've seen what other sounds he came up with... (Even though there is some variety in Nirvana... its all mostly in one genre... mostly.)
There's an alternate universe out there where Nirvana's fourth album featured songs like "This is a call" and "Monkey Wrench".
@@jerkychew899 That's a lovely thought. I sure hope so.
Ahh yes, the 90s. When someone can say, "I found that a little offensive" and then, "yeah, it's pretty good, I'd listen to it again."
A lot of people dont understand the duality of human nature now
@@artvandelay9131 that there are two sides to it-- good & bad. You can never have anything perfect because of human nature. Does that make sense?
@@barbarismbeginsathome Internet killed nuance.
I miss that :(
back when people would get offended and nobody gave af
I wasn't into Nirvana in the early 90's. They got so big overnight that I didn't really get the chance to discover them for myself. I wasn't interested in listening to the same thing as everyone else at school.
I was more into STP, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Megadeth.. all popular bands, but Nirvana seemed to be all anybody talked about for a while. But eventually I sat down and listd to In Utero, and I liked it more each time I listened to it. I find that if you like an album straight away, you get bored with it quickly. But the ones that take time to grow on you, stay with you.
@ghost mall 'Rhiniceros' was the song that turned me on to the Pumpkins. I think Billy is under-rated as a guitarist and songwriter.. terrific riffs and solos. And I love their acoustic stuff too. (The one they did in Canada?)
That was Led Zeppelin I for me. I was more into AC/DC in 2002 as an 11 year old. My dad got me Zep’s first album. I initially thought it was mediocre. Now it is pretty much my all time favorite album, and band.
yeah i used to be a snob too
@@benben162 listening to shitty music and critiquing on it doesn’t make someone a snob, but u def seem offended by ppls opinions for disliking a shitty band u obviously are in love with
@@DownTheHill3 bruh
1:56 Diane : I wasn't too happy with the song "Rape Me"...it's offensive.
2:12 Sean : I prefer the beginning of the album, especially "Rape Me", it's great!
The virgin Diane vs the chad Sean
right, so what's ur point?
Sean probably got that it wasn't literal. Diane didn't.
Thanx for pointing out the obvious ,for some reason people overlook this
@@rebecca5088 the fact that some idiot guys think rape is cool is pretty disturbing. if you just shrug at that you're one of those dumbfuks.
“Is this something that will continue”
“Hell yes”
I cried
Unnamed gaming 2002 ya f'ing brutal. That being said, first foo fighters album had songs that Dave was gonna do as nirvana. You can tell. Go listen to it now.
@@aplus1080 Oh god the 1st Foo Fighters album is insanely good.
Did you really though?
@@thebatman4279 I think kurt helped a bit on that first album just before he killed himself. He came to Kurt and said he was forming this other band and Kurt was cool with it.
Stfu
Billy was so right about Heart Shaped Box
Gisselle S until you realize he’s talking about Courtney Love’s vagina then it kinda ruins the song not to mention the album is called, in utero
Kristians Kažmers it’s crap ? Did he say it was crap ?
Composing songs together being a continuing thing… “Hell yes!”
God, what could’ve been. 💔 Miss you, Kurt!
All of those college kids are in their mid-40's and early-50's now
Dave Grohl too
🤦🏼♂️
Billy is my son. I can confirm that I'm an old man.
Still here too lol...
Yea😕
In my opinion all of their albums were fucking awesome.
Rebel The Girl Exactly
what´s this anime shit here
Rebel The Girl bleach was kinda repetative
I love Nirvana but there have been a lot of consistently good bands with larger bodies of work. Their consistency didn't set them apart at all.
I completely disagree, If you took the best songs off each of their albums and created one album you would have an ok album.
“If I was stoned I could enjoy it”
*notices he’s one camera*
“But I don’t do that anymore”
Lol that part got me
In Utero is a masterpiece. By far my favorite Nirvana album. Big part of what got me into metal, nay, MUSIC as a whole. Was never interested in any music whatsoever until I heard Nirvana for the first time
Same thing with me, that happened to me in January 1994, right after I turned 4 years old. That's when I saw the weird music video for "Heart Shaped Box" and Nirvana really drew me in. I also remember some TV interview not long after at that time I can't find anywhere, but Kurt talked about how he thinks the internet would "become a place where everyone just complains about the same thing in the same place", and he said it very much like at the 6:13 mark. He sounded excited about going to Europe because "they have the most passionate fans" and "always fun to play over there".
He also praised Nine Inch Nails heading into their Downward Spiral era, saying how "like us they got the underground grungy vibe going for them too". By the way he talked, I think he got a hold of Downward Spiral before it came out in March 1994, because I know Courtney had contact with Trent.
So for me not only was this perhaps my 1st case of me getting interested in music, but also the first time I thought to myself, "Wow, this dude is cool" regarding a musician.
I was in silent shock when he suddenly died while I was watching the WCW Saturday Night episode on April 9, 1994. Hearing the news that Kurt died out of nowhere, I just kinda had a blank face with big eyes and nothing on the wrestling episode was registering at all with me, and my "kid logic" was partially hoping WCW did a tribute for Kurt (but he wasn't a wrestler lol). I was weirded-out but I couldn't put my finger on why, considering I was very young. Weirdest feeling I ever had as a kid...
Some people are dunking on the girl who said she felt offended, but she really just stated her perception of the song after one listen and that was it. She didn't try to get the song banned or anything and didn't judge Nirvana as people without waiting for more context. She even said she generally enjoyed the album.
She was probably aware that she might not have fully grasped the meaning and probably would've been receptive when she was told "Rape Me" was an anti-rape song.
@Mark Flegal Exactly, people act like no one has a right to be offended about things anymore. As far as I see it as long as youre not getting offended on behalf of other people and youre not trying to "cancel" something just because you personally dont like it, you have every right to feel offended about whatever you want. Its a genuine human emotion
If it is her right to say that then its everyone else's right to dunk on her. Thats how shit works.
She just heard the word "rape" and it was outside her comfort bubble zone. She's probably runs a sjw "non" profit group.
@@bb8989-g4p You must be some edgy 14 year old kid if you dont know how the topic of rape can be extremely sensitive content for some women. Grow up and talk to a girl for once
@@callanc3925 LMFAO 😂🤣. Your completely wrong and it's hilarious. Please go crawl back into your bubble hole with everyone that hears the word rape, begins to cry and screams "this big bad person is insensitive to my personal feeling". 🥺🥺
Oh the state of this world.
Everyone that genuinely liked it came back wearing black lol
I just noticed that
@@Kereyit yes Mr.Mathematician
HAHAHAHHAHA
Haha even though Kurt rarely wore black, it's still a color that people think of when they hear the band.
Lol!!😂
"take this home and listen to it then come back at the same time tomorrow"... a.k.a before mobile devices
There were mobile devices like Walkmans and Discmans.
Portable music is very popular since the 1980s.
still can use that today when talking about vinyl
pre-Spotify era
Nah, they had cassettes with headphones back in the 80's, even. I think they just wanted to give them some time to listen to and absorb the album. That might be stranger than the phone situation, frankly.
Audio on headphones from a small battery-powered cassette device seemed like impossible, wonderful magic in its day. It was like the beginning of reality manipulation via technology before internet, you could be in a song nobody else was hearing or have someone jack in to what you were listening to as if sharing a separate world.
They were so lucky to be around in that era. This gives me nostalgia without actually being in that era. So dope
I was around in that era. Although I liked Nirvana, as did most people, my circle found grunge as a whole dull, and we were resentful that as well as killing Hair Metal (in the mainstream) it also wiped out much more interesting Indie and Alt Rock coming out of the UK and US. Smashing Pumpkins and The Breeders did well after, as did, to a lesser extent, Pavement - and Dinosaur Jr released their best album in 93 - but MBV, Ride, Lush, Pixes, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and many others suddenly found that rock tastes had changed - and not for the better.
Oasis were interesting for 12 months during 1994-5, but then Britpop, which seemed the very lowest form of 'Indie' killed all enthusiasm. Only the so-called 'landfill Indie' of the 2000s was worse.
Many of us pivoted away from Indie and Alt Rock as the 90s progressed, as the much more interesting - better - music coming from the underground was being made in the various dance genres: House, Drum n Bass, Techno, Chillout, UK Garage, and so on. But that then morphed into bland EDM as the 2000s progressed.
TL;DR Yes, it was a fantastic time for music, and a great time to be young. Much freer and more optimistic than today. But the dominant narratives today don't tell the whole story. There is a money-making industry around Nirvana, even to this day, but for most people they were only around late 1991to early 1994. The two years from late 1989 to late 1991, and then again from about 1996 onwards, are also really important, both musically and culturally.
Not intending to be cynical, and I'm glad you're into it today. I felt like a trip down memory lane and thought you might like a take from someone who was there. Obviously others will have other memories and opinions, and that's all good too.
@@xcx8646 Yeah, it is all good as everyone has their take as to why and how the music of Nirvana has impacted their lives both musically and culturally.
For instance, Nirvana's music has impacted me more musically than culturally because 1. I discovered Nirvana when I was 13 back in 2014 (around that era), so culturally I cannot say much because I am from a different era. 2. I go by listening to music that makes me feel good, responsive, and reflective based on the tone and context of the lyrics.
I remember how I felt when I listened to their music such as being astonished by what I heard from their most mainstream song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" because the song echoed what I was feeling at the time, and it still does, but as I have gradually dug deeper into their discography (over time and gradually) throughout my youth, I have peeled back layers of what Nirvana was, is and could have been.
Going back and listening to Nirvana is like peeling off another layer so that is my take on it. When I first found out about Nirvana which led to my research of the frontman Kurt, I found out how he died and that made me sad due to his personal and artistic journey that regarded from the biased intake of the grunge era, and the cultural references and societal issues that parlayed into that observation.
So culturally the personal expressions of most of those musicians that live through that did not impress me because I had no way to relate to that besides angst and discovery of personal expression than the lifestyle of drugs/and/or the life experiences that you guys went through into the 90s (not until I grew older, I could relate a bit due to personal experiences, but not as a whole/collective coming from that era). For me, it was and still is more so the musicianship and community-based ideology that I fell for when I discovered their music and eventually a few others you have mentioned.
I respect your points and references to other genres and badass musicians because you highlighted the musical background of its origin of how these bands came to be both musically and culturally influential (whether bad or good), for how it shaped and influenced the appetite of today's generation- hopefully, the hyper fixation and romanticization of the musical and cultural journey of these musicians works, and the work to come of future generation of musicians can be toned WAY down.
In other words, hopefully, ppl today can avoid becoming hyper-fixated on the bias and romanticization of the lifestyle of these musicians' personal experiences. Hopefully, the craft will still be appreciated to the test of time as it ages, if one is willing to see it with fresh eyes in agreement with what you've mentioned that, each person has their own set of intake and experiences of how, when and what they have felt when they discovered the music.
And that should not encourage those to influence the capitalistic and cultural bandwagons that culturally and aesthetically leech off the product aka the artistic expression of these musicians.
So my take is not necessarily on any specific eras, but more so on how I felt nostalgic when I first heard the music. Growing up whether within that era or not is relative and obvious, but unfortunately, it is not when some are not open-minded. To each their own though. I am glad to see bands like the Breeders, Rem, The Smashing Pumpkins, Butthole Surfers, and even Babes in Toyland, and other bands during that time and onwards, still rocking out for the loving sake of it. 🎸
@@xcx8646excellent comment, thank you for this.
It was dope
everyone's lucky to be in their own era. people will be saying the same thing about now in 30 years
5.29
''Is this a trend that will continue?''
''Hell yes''
Makes me sad..
Bart Tare im not sure its the differnces, but if they were all alive....
Bart Tare yes :(
they were on their way to a breakup
Flaming GeekKnight m2
noobenstein I doubt it was her
As an older guy (I'm 46) who was a teenager when Nirvana hit it big, it's pretty cool to see kids these days get turned on to their music, even though Kurt has been gone for longer now than he was alive. I felt the same way about The Doors back in 1993, and Jim Morrison had been dead for 22 years by then. Music is truly timeless.
Couldnt agree more, same age as you are
Nervermind is 31 years old. Imagine yourself in 1991 when Nevermind was released. Now go back 31 years. That would be 1960. The Beatles didn't exist.
@@mcscotty325 Yeah, it's crazy to think about. And it definitely doesn't mean that I'm getting old....
@@koschmx Music is a very subjective thing. I personally can't listen to Bruce Springsteen or Pink Floyd. Just don't like the music. Both considered to be among the best acts of The Doors era. Love the Doors, though.
@@mcscotty325 The beatles didnt exist? Damn, take me to that time period.
In Utero is their undisputed masterpiece. It's by far their best album.
Almost all of my favorite songs are on there. Love it.
amen
Loser
Phony
Nirvana doing a reaction to the college kids reaction to the album was so ahead of its time 😂
THAT BLACK GUY WAS ME...I NEVER HEARD OF NIRVANA...JUST LISTNED 2 MOSTLY RAP AND R&B....BUT NIRVANA CHANGED ME OVERNIGHT...THEY INTRODUCED ME TO WHAT I NOW LOVE MORE THAN ALL MUSIC....ROCK!!
U were the absolute rock star of that entire video!!! Kudos to u for being an open minded honest guy who obviously became one kick ass adult!!! Man, I miss the 90s we had our problems like every generation but music united us like no other!!!
I relate to this as well. But ever since discovering Nirvana, the whole genre started to grow on me. I wanted to discover more bands and their music. I never went back to listening to rap, and caring for any of it except for some stuff I listened to long before.
Sure it was ,,,,
Sure it was buddy
Everyone I think he means that was him as in he was in the same situation. Nt literally him, just "like" him ahhahah
kurt seems in a good mood in this video. he's laughing, smiling and joking around with dave and krist. i know with depression, that appearing happy can sometimes be a front but it's still nice to think that in this moment he could genuinely be in a good place. RIP kurt
It’s all for the camera. Definitely a front. If you read his journals, you’d see he was very troubled.
@@whateveer23 yep, it's true
Depressed doesn't mean sad. You can be in a great mood and still be depressed. It's not an emotion
Cringe
@@whateveer23 Right!
1:14 clever guy, kinda visionary "Heart-Shaped Box gonna be a hit song".
"Clever" for liking the most commercial song on the record smdh.
clever for recognizing people would latch on to it.
+GeorgeUK84 Are you deaf? He said it would become a hit on MTV which it did. Thanks for showing us how great your misunderstanding of the English language is.
Most commercial? You gotta be deaf to call such a song as commercial. Its one of the greatest songs ever written, its more than just hit song from Nirvana album.
it was the first single and it was all over the radio, so he probably had all ready heard it
the guy who said 'heart-shaped box' should be on mtv, made the biggest spoiler ever
"But I don't do that anymore" 😂
He was like "oh shit this is being recorded'.
Press F to *doubt*
His minor was law.
Back in the day when you'd buy a record, go home and listen to the entire thing while studying every pixel on the album insert.
not to mention reading all the lyrics.
It's kinda weird because the early 90's I got so excited taking a new CD home and unwrapping the plastic and studying the art and lyrics while listening to the music --- but by the late 90's I only had that feeling when unwrapping a new piece of software like Adobe Photoshop or a new video game like Diablo LOL
Those were the fucking days :D
Yes!!!
Music was an experience back then. You didn't just listen to one song. You listened to the album and took in the entire body of work.
"heart shaped box will probably be on mtv or something" nailed it
4:32, kurt looked so healthy. Miss him.
I just turned 28. I was a kid in the 90s. This is off topic, but watching this video and I'm realizing how distinct the 90s looks on camera. It's easy to pick out the 80s and 70s, etc. Now the 90s too? Damn, I'm getting old. Lol
MrDarcyIsHere Yup, lots of nylon track suits, lots of baggy denim with a white T-shirt, and girls with frizzy hair. But by 1995 things had changed a lot.
Yeah it is really noticeable now and the 90s looks dated. Back in the early 2000s it was hard to discern the difference between then and the 90s. It is very noticeable now. Heck even looking at 2008 looks old now.
Smartphones and vaporizers
The 90s look is kinda coming back
I'm 11 right now 😂😂
When MTV was in its golden age.
@@toad8840 You could hold on to your unique self and be a success without selling out or at least bandwagon popular trends with moderation. MTV fucked up on both ends starting in the late 2000s. That's why they are the way they are now, a generic dying brand.
Their movies are still okay though. Lol!
jonn mace MTV was always a corporate shit hole. The only difference is that they don’t play your favorite tunes anymore.
1985
Almost a decade past MTVs golden age. But at least Kurt Loader was still there.
@@danieldaniels7571 loder
"Will this be the new trend?" "Hell yes."
oh...
:(
Lol
Brings back so many memories and captures that moment in time when a record or era just defined your being
black dude had perfect 90s drip lol
Was wondering where tf I can acquire that Kani vest. Id rock the shit out of that.
Facts that vest is something special
Karl Kani! That's a blast from the past
What the fuck is drip?
What the fuck is drop. I’m too racist to hit up urban dictionary
I don’t think people realise the song “rape me” is actually against rape but whatever. Kurt was actually one of the few artists of that era who defended women and LGBT community instead of sexualising / insulting them in songs.
Cock rock really fucked him off!
I don't think it's really about literal rape at all. Just a metaphor for exploitation & not necessarily sexual. That's how I always took it anyway.
Of course most people don't realize that. They don't actually listen to the song and understand the sentiment; they just clutch their pearls. Pearl clutchers and the boomer mindset will exist forever
When I was in a band as a teenager, we did a gig around Christmas that was a mash up of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Rape Me. So it was "Santa Claus is Coming to Rape Me". We were very childish but it was hilarious at the time
But yeah anyone who thinks the song is somehow pro rape is a moron, hasn't even read the lyrics, and their opinion thus doesn't matter whatsoever
Also with other people actually reading the lyrics and having different interpretations, that's fine, that's great in fact. Because of Death of the Author, everyone's interpretation is equally valid even if they're all very different. But yeah the ones who just see the title and judge it based on that don't count, their opinion on it doesn't matter because they don't even know the thing they are judging
I think a very grainy video of my old band playing santa Claus is coming to rape me is still on TH-cam. It was in the very early days and so it's terrible quality. It's still somewhere on TH-cam but I am struggling to find it.
Well, nobody's perfect
It made me sad when Kurt said "Yeah we'll definitely collab more in the future"
Superior Sasquatch I know bro same here
He knew Dave could write banging tunes. Imagine the first few foo fighter albums but with a Nirvana feel to it. It’s a fucking tragedy Kurt is gone.
Nicholas Andrew Salazar then Kurt was all like “yeeeet I’m outta ere”
Andrew T silly dude. the only f.f. song that even holds a candle to kurts songwriting is Everlong. aside from that Dave could never even hold kurts dick. learn it learn it live it
dude at 1:12 really nailed it, heart-shaped box is one of their biggest hits
Lol that quick glimpse of axl rose in court
Matt Owen what was he in court for
The Kid Zombie every thing
Matt Owen HOLY FRICK YOU REPLIED FAST! Jesus!!!
The Kid Zombie got a notification
Matt Owen oh wow Hehehe
I love the black dude who had never heard of them, but then loved them by the end. Kurt's little accent is so weird and funny and cute
His slight vocal fry /Pacific Northwest thing. Great voice, speaking, singing or screaming
Thing is of their three studio releases, this one is my personal favourite.
Nirvana legitimately just kept getting better.
Everyone seemed so chill back then.
Did we watch the same clip?? Chick freaked out over "Rape Me" and the black guy didn't like the songs because he couldn't understand what the lyrics meant. A chill person would've just enjoyed the music!
GeorgeUK84 Thry were just being honest, I didn't think they were freaking out over anything lol
People actually were a bit more chill back then. Our society now is more hectic than what it was back then...smart phones is a big reason why.
Yes chill, confident sorta, relaxed. That's what you can sense here.
They werent socially uncomfortable, tense, shy, closed. Like these days people tend to be :/ :)
Like friend request, so erratic.
I love how that one guy Sean had like a bunch of groupies behind him 😂
playa
15 minutes of MTV fame.
He was the cool kid, He had a mob of students following him..
blondie was so hot.
This thread is beautiful...
''in utero doesn't sound something that was made by millionaire rockstars''.. thats called not losing the essence
Exactly, and it is the best album.
In other words : looking back the man didn't have the faintest clue what pop and rock must is about.
Exactly why they've always been my favorite band. Every song on every album could be a hit.
Or being on addicted to heroin and suicidal regardless of the fame and fortune.
I think the logic is that the album is trash compared to the prior success of the previous albums that made them "millionaires"
The Man in the striped shirt who said "They just do their own thing"
- Sir, thanks for being yourself!
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"I don't know who Frances Farmer is" ... that brings me back, reminds me how hard it was to find facts in those days... it blows me away every time
I would wager it's harder to find facts these days.
@@marjercly8296 hmmm....
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Fun fact. He named Francis Bean after Francis farmer.
I was thinking the same thing. When that album came out when I was in high school, we asked a teacher who it was, and even still he could only give us a vague answer
@@thethrowawaythatstayed7055 No he didn't. He named her after Frances McKee from The Vaselines.
Back when you could totally trust 'random' people on the streets. Sadly it's so different now.
Why do you think you could trust them more? Theft and violent crime is significantly lower now than it was in the 90s where these interviews took place, and across most of North America. Don't blindly accept everything you see or hear in the news.
@@botoxballs 'Don't blindly accept everything you see or hear'
Point taken..LOL
@@botoxballs lol i agree people sre just subjects of the internet these days. The wolrd is much better than it was then, we just know more and arent ignorant. Back then we still had serial killers and missing kids on milk cartons. The era of all our cold cases.
@@botoxballs - theft and violet crime are way up in San Francisco these days. It helps your point when the SF DA won't prosecute any theft under $1K, any car thefts or break-ins, assault, etc....
LMAO you can trust anyone as long as you're filming them with an entire crew. Who the fuck are you?
Kurt looked so happy and healthy here, he was really optimistic and very interested in his fans.
He looked about twenty years older than he was.
Emilee M. no he fucking wasnt XD he was a selfish prick he didnt care about anything but his heroin
did you read his note? how can you actually say that..
Em, but then he went and married that skank-hole money grubbing psycho bitch Courtney Love who ultimately had him murdered. TH-cam: Kurt & Courtney - El Duce Interview, then watch the movie *Soaked in Bleach* for starters.
ALLinALL-Good absolutely right!!! I'm glad you wrote that.
6:02 ‘Now we can write together even more’ somehow broke me. RIP Kurt
Can you imagine college kids now being asked “can you meet us here the same time tomorrow after listening to this whole album and give us your thoughts?” A different time for sure.
Yes, yes I can. Shut the fuck up dumbass
@@yea4253 Thank you omg
Listening to music hasn’t disappeared get over yourself
@@samheathers1532 asking people to meet at the same spot the next day has. Get a life.
@@miketorok4536
No it hasn't lol, you get a life if you seriously think that
I forgot MTV used to have actual good content. Real World was the harbinger of doom.
mtv introduced me to pearl jam, nirvana, queens of the stone age, aic, chris cornell, audioslave, soundgarden, pantera, stp, incubus, temple of the dog, ozzy, metallica,pink floyd, eric clapton, megadeth, nin, ween, bush, white zombie, ac/dc and so many bands that i love.as well as jackass, beavis & butthead, liquid tv, etc..it`s a damn shame what they became
Bill & Bill`s Gentlemans Club There will be a nearby future, I hope, where rock bands are being introduced on a daily basis as back in the day
I'd be pretty surprised if anyone under the age of 20 even knew that the M in MTV once stood for Music.
If rock music comes back into the mainstream, MTV will have good content again. But the charts are topped by electro-pop retarded singers and shitty rappers, we must wait for the next Nirvana to appear and save the music industry and wipe out those talentless idiots.
Wait another 20 years and people will be saying the exact same thing about nowadays MTV content. I was not even born yet during Nirvana's golden age, but I am pretty sure that the majority of international music listeners hated their music and grunge music in general, just like you could be doing now with pop music.
It's always a matter of time, and this means that, in actuality, you can find a lot of good music nowadays. People like you are just narrow-minded and lazy if you ask me.
Rape me isn't offensive, it's an anti rape anthem.
The thing about geniuses/lyric masters like him, Roger Waters and many others is exactly this. With "Rape me" and many other songs Kurt showed he was ahead of his time; but the song that shows it, at least to me, is "Sappy". The sonority of a perfect radio single, the acidity (I am use the right word? Not a native speaker) that was maybe a lil too much for the mainstream society of that time.
Gryphon Lalonde people just don't get it. They don't think.
Gryphon Lalonde - It's about the media constantly making up stories about the individual.
GODofMONSTERLAND It's about many things, if you truly pay attention to it. The media/his life has a lot to do with it, but if you analise other songs by him, like "Sappy" or "Polly", things lead to his strong opinions against "cavemans" and sexists in general. So, it's like many other songs by him, open to different interpretations.
Exactly, if they only knew more about the meaning and who Kurt was they would know it is definitely anti-rape
Aw everyone so sincerely listened to it and liked it and gave their impressions of it
I think the only reason people found "rape me" so offensive was because of how direct it was as compared to other artists who beat around the bush to the point where you wouldn't know what they're talking about until they come out and say it.
Sublime has a song called Date Rape
@@lisalegato0109 came out quite a bit later I think. Both great songs.
Yes
I mean you can say the same about Polly
I think Sex Type Thing predates Rspe me, but the title and lyrics maybe wasn't as blunt.
people in the 90's really listened to the fucking music the guy knew heart shaped box was a hit this guy at 2:22 was spot on even though he was lying about not getting stoned anymore
lmao
He also called out Pennyroyal Tea, which if memory serves was a minor hit as well.
eJenks88 And people these days don't listen to music?
People nowdays all listen to techno bullshit so there isn't really anything really that good nowdays. It is hard to come across decent new music. it exists but it there isn't as much and it is much harder to find. lately it seems like its all techno and dubstep trash.
lol i love people who know so little about electronic music they call everything techno and dubstep. its a weird sort of aggressive innocence
That's cool they let the drummer write a song. Wonder what happened to him.
Brian Bitner he'll make it big one day
Brian Bitner I heard that he became addicted to heroine and died in late 1997
Started a terrible post-grunge band called the Foo Fighters.
I don't know. But he really looks like the singer from Foo Fighters... is he like his cousin or something??
nah.. that bands terrible, he'd never be seen with them
Kurt: "i learned alot from the first 2 chapters, that I should just shut-up sometimes" hahah
2:49 dude had no idea who they were, comes back gives one of the better analysis with a compliment on the ‘arrangement’ of said album💯
"Sure." - the 90's
People don't say "sure" anymore?
Stop the crack dude
Drugs
I think his point was that people were more relaxed and open to things
@@douwehuysmans5959 I don't. I don't know how you deduce to that as the reason.
krist looks like he got called to the principal's office and dave and kurt are his parents
ahahaha he really does
LMAOOO
Lol
I always knew Kurt had the coolest parents
Still love Nirvana after all these years!!
In 1993 how could you not know what Nirvana was.
Max Kanaszka I can only remember what I saw in 1993. I think Guns and Roses was still a thing. Sonic Youth was the only alternative band I could name. TLC just came out. The only thing I can remember is a racist teenage white girl who would sit in the front of the bus away from the back of the teenage black kids. She wore a jean jacket of a heavy metal band called Death album cover spiritual healing.
I think they really got popular after Kurt Suicide in 1994. Then they played their videos a lot.
Shit dude. The first time my mind was blown by Soundgarden was in my buddies car during high school going to Subway during lunch break. It was 1996 and the song was Pretty Noose. i do remember watching the video for Nirvanas Smells like Teen Spirit during a break from football 2 a day practices. some years earlier. To be honest i wasn't really impressed. There were a few in my school that were Nirvana nuts. I knew a dude that was a Pearl Jam nut. But Soundgarden man... A lot of the "Grunge" love came in retrospect in mid to late 90s. At least geographically where I was at in Kansas.
Massive other shit was popping. All styles of American music was flying off the global shelfs. Underground genres was on the rise. Techno, Trance and House was gaining mainstream exposure and Progressive was being formed.
johnathan clark jesus christ spiritual healing is a great fucking album and if she was actually racist like you said she disrespected chuck so much by repping his album and being something he hated.
Max Kanaszka - If you're one those who's into Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Immolation, etc... lol
So thankful I got to see them live. It was the In Utero tour at American University w/ The Breeders. So fucking rad!
Its amazing that all of the people knew how to listen to whole albums, analyze artwork, lyrics , song flow etc..!
You know, back in the day people used to buy albums so they sorta had to listen to the entire album and not just "listen to the bands most popular song just cause it's catchy"
Yeah, there was no TH-cam or Spotify, if you were lucky your CD player or stereo would have a remote control but most of the time you would stick an album on and listen to it start to finish while you scrubbed your floor or disposed of a body.
Now kids shove their earbuds up their ass and play mumble rap on loop
@@krashd are you me?
@the16th6toothson yeah, hi. I just wanted to say, CD is digital, you know...
"i learned a lot from that book " - Krist Novoselic, Nirvana