Smells Like Teen Spirit
Song by Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Kurt CobainWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
Bob MouldGUEST
I'm gonna try to, let me try to figure out a way to frame this properly.
Bob MouldGUEST
Um, when I saw the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit- And I, I knew, you know, I, I, I was just like, "Okay, this is gonna win," because the representation in the video was very much, it was for the guys and it was for the gals.
Bob MouldGUEST
It was...
Bob MouldGUEST
And, and to me it almost felt like, I think they're gonna win because, A, they're fucking amazing, and B, this is gonna be an instance where, you know, the gals are gonna grab their guys and say, "We gotta go to this show," and everybody's gonna love it, right? It's...
AzGUEST
It was just so good musically.
RussHOST
There's that thing where people put on Dreams by Cranberries or certainly Sounds Like Teen Spirit, and they go, oh, man, I love the 90s.
RussHOST
You just put on Off the Deep End and Bad Hair Day, and you got the whole 90s in two albums.
AzGUEST
i sat in my back garden last week listening to bad hair day and i had that moment where it was like man i just miss this so much i miss this so much
ZeusHOST
How interesting.
ZeusHOST
So you've decided to remove the rock category, but you've decided that after 35 fucking years of when Nevermind blew up and Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are and Lithium and breed and in bloom and something in the way i love all those songs by the way that oh yes let's just give it to them now okay so first of all okay congratulations to dave grohl and chris novoselic so is francis bean cobain gonna show up i mean what's gonna happen here Is someone going to seance Kurt Cobain in? I mean, he's been dead longer than he was alive.
ZeusHOST
Kurt Cobain has been dead for 32 years.
ZeusHOST
He lived 27 years physically.
ZeusHOST
Chris Novoselic was in politics.
ZeusHOST
And then they're inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
ZeusHOST
And they had all these female singers singing Smells Like Teen Spirit and Aneurysm and All Apologies and Lithium and yeah.
ZeusHOST
Interesting, huh? Yeah.
Aaron GreenGUEST
It was totally out of tune, but we figured out how to tune it and learned how to play.
Aaron GreenGUEST
Let's see, what was it? Come As You Are, and then Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Aaron GreenGUEST
And from that point on, I was just all about the rock albums and playing rock music, some punk.
Aaron GreenGUEST
And I was actually a pretty big fan of Goldfinger, which is kind of a roundabout way of how I met Dan.
LukeHOST
the same is it it's not the same it doesn't that
NeilHOST
Nirvana performance it's got it's got the full performance on there it's really good was it cut short then yeah I don't know because it looked like it yeah but it looked like that was kind of the end of the show anyway but I don't know maybe but what was weird is they played Smells Like Teen Spirit before it was big so no one really knew what it was so there was no you know when they started playing it there wasn't like huge cheers and stuff no one really knew the song it was just another song yeah
LukeHOST
Imagine not knowing.
LukeHOST
It smells like teen spirit.
NeilHOST
Yeah, I know.
NeilHOST
It's good, though.
Brad BrockHOST
You guys are killing it out there, though.
Brad BrockHOST
The tune is Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Oh, he got points.
Jordan TaylorPANELIST
Oh, with the controversial cover.
speaker_4HOST
And I think that's part of why they're being honored now, because they changed the landscape of music videos and live performances.
speaker_3HOST
And speaking of music videos, their Smells Like Teen Spirit clip was only thirty-three thousand dollars to make.
speaker_3HOST
That's surprisingly low for such an iconic piece.
speaker_4HOST
Right? It's fascinating how Cobain drew inspiration from films like Rock 'n' Roll High School.
JibsHOST
It's going to smell like Warcraft.
JibsHOST
Teen Spirit.
CashHOST
And
JibsHOST
Teen
CashHOST
Spirit.
CashHOST
It's going to smell like Teen Spirit.
CashHOST
So here's mission number two.
CashHOST
We have a bucket list of things that we need to complete at BlizzCon.
DukeHOST
can't drive 55 sorry go ahead oh my god
StuHOST
okay i'll start with the not quite as valuable stuff okay okay so he had a promotional version of smells like teen spirit by the devana That was a picture disc.
StuHOST
Oh, for God's sake.
StuHOST
And you know the water on the front of the album cover? Yeah,
DukeHOST
Cool.
StuHOST
And it was a promo copy.
StuHOST
So it was a limited edition promo copy of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
StuHOST
So very popular song, popular band.
Stereo RussHOST
I remember
JJ JohnsonGUEST
because I mean A lot of people have this sort of moment, but I remember just on a commercial in the living room growing up, and this was after he'd already passed away, but I heard there was this sound, and I went up to the TV and I was like, what is this? And it was Smells Like Teen Spirit, right? So he was already passed away before I'd heard it, and that's unfortunate, right? You find something you really love and it's already gone.
JJ JohnsonGUEST
It's like the end of Six Feet Under.
JJ JohnsonGUEST
And one of my favorite lines from that is she's trying to take a picture of the family in the moment.
JJ JohnsonGUEST
You know, that second that you hear something and you get that feeling, you're like, what is this? I absolutely love this.
JJ JohnsonGUEST
I must hear more of this.
JJ JohnsonGUEST
And I can't remember another time that that's happened to me, but it happened to me with Smells Like Teen Spirit, which admittedly, I haven't listened to that song in ages.
JJ JohnsonGUEST
And it's not my go-to anymore because I've heard it so many times.
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