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“Smells Like Teen Spirit”—Nirvana with Courtney Love

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Teen Spirit: The Original Lyrics

"i had a fairly good guitar player not a good band but a good guitar player i covered it one time in seattle and i have a full i watched youtube," says singer. "I see kurt on the space needle while i'm singing jeremy is fucking the full catharsis like sorry you can't see it on youtube but i am", he adds. The original lyrics to teen spirit were written for women by William Makepeace Thackeray, who died last year at age 87. They are about being feminized and playing male roles with Shakespeare's hamlet.

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