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“Smells Like Teen Spirit”—Nirvana with Courtney Love

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Kurt Kobein's Memoirs

Kurt kobein singing i woke up in my mother's arms on sliver is as terrifyingly present tense as the past gets. 1991 was indeed the year punk broke and also maybe the year that broke punk and smells like teen spirit if i'm honest possibly doesn't make my top 20 nirvana songs. Yet i know in my heart that it's the song and deserves to be the song it is in fact the only nirvana song that could have possibly been the song but what i don't quite know is why dave girl is one reason why I suppose dave girl's drums are the least human of the myriad subliminally inhuman aspects of smelling like teen spirit.

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