Songs That Changed Music: Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit

Learn more about Nirvana s Teen Spirit here: Watch our other Songs, Artists Albums That Changed Music videos here: At the start of the nineties, amid the polished perfection of pop and the glamour of hair metal, one band broke through and revolutionized the entire music landscape. With their 1991 hit, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana took the raw, authenticity of their Seattle grunge peers, and merged it with phenomenal melodic writing and performance. In doing so, the band changed the course of rock and roll history. Smells Like Teen Spirit was released on September 10, 1991, as the lead single from the bands second album, Nevermind. The album followed two weeks later. One week before the album was even released, Nirvana was scheduled to play a performance at the Beehive Record Store in Seattle. They arrived to an overflowing, sold out crowd that swarmed t