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What age did "Smells Like Teen Spirit" influence the most?
Posted on 10/30/14 at 10:22 am
Posted on 10/30/14 at 10:22 am
It was released Sept 1991. It influenced a lot of young people into the grunge culture that still exists in some form today. What year is the "sweet spot" of someone's birth that Smells Like Teen Spirit influenced the most?
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Posted on 10/30/14 at 10:39 am to RidiculousHype
Dunno, but I was driving down Dalrymple on my way home and heard it for the first time on KLSU. One of maybe a handful of songs that hit me hard enough to remember my first listening. I was trying to get everyone I knew to listen to it, but it did not hit other stations for a long time. Born in '67
Posted on 10/30/14 at 10:40 am to RidiculousHype
I'd probably say an incoming freshman to high school, because that's typically when people's musical tastes start to expand. So, that would make you 14 in 1991, so... 1977. Too much older and you were already aware of the bands Nirvana was essentially aping. You knew about the Pixies and the Replacements already.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 11:21 am to RidiculousHype
I was a sophomore in HS when that album came out. It definitely influenced my tastes heavily. It's still really nostalgic for me when I hear some old Nirvana. Went to the Rock & Roll museum in Seattle a year ago. They had a huge Nirvana exhibit...I was in awe.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 11:34 am to RidiculousHype
I was 11 and it completely changed my taste in music.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 12:00 pm to RidiculousHype
I was 12 at the time but I was already listening to Metallica and GnR so it didn't affect me much.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 2:29 pm to RidiculousHype
I'd say 1976-1977.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 3:31 pm to RidiculousHype
I was born in 1990. It is one of my favorite songs of all time. First heard it when I was 12.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 4:34 pm to RidiculousHype
I was a freshman at LSU in 1991 and I just watched the song on youtube. I've heard it obviously at bars and what not, but I didn't know 1 word of that song. Just sounds like a bunch of screechy yelling to me. I only listened to country in those days.
I still prefer this one
I still prefer this one
This post was edited on 10/31/14 at 10:32 am
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:23 am to RidiculousHype
I was born in 1974 so I was 16/17 when it got big. It was HUGE for my generation. Most everyone was into hair bands and metal, and even country. That was also around the time Garth Brooks hit it big. Hair bands were starting to get old and cliche, so we were starving for something fresh and new. So I'd say anyone from about 6th grade through 12th grade in 91.
My older brother had actually given me a Nirvana tape(Bleach) about a year earlier. They were already sort of popular on college radio. It never really grabbed me though. Smells Like Teen Spirit didn't really grab me, but I bought the album and several other songs on it did. Drain You was the song that I fell in love with and is still my favorite Nirvana song today.
My older brother had actually given me a Nirvana tape(Bleach) about a year earlier. They were already sort of popular on college radio. It never really grabbed me though. Smells Like Teen Spirit didn't really grab me, but I bought the album and several other songs on it did. Drain You was the song that I fell in love with and is still my favorite Nirvana song today.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 9:11 am to RidiculousHype
I was 14 going on 15 in 1991. I was a freshman in high school, and throughout most of middle school, popular music among my friends was dominated by hair bands. Suddenly there was a new type of music, and it wasn't the country that my parents enjoyed, and it wasn't the poppy hair band rock that seemed to be so popular, and it sure as hell wsn't the boy band crap that was exploding on the scene in the late 80's with New Kids On The Block.
It sounded, for lack of a better word, grungy, and different, and frankly right up my alley. Twenty three years later I still enjoy Nirvana's Nevermind, and Pearl Jam's Ten, and many of the others that came out that year.
It sounded, for lack of a better word, grungy, and different, and frankly right up my alley. Twenty three years later I still enjoy Nirvana's Nevermind, and Pearl Jam's Ten, and many of the others that came out that year.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 9:21 am to RidiculousHype
I was 15 when this song came out(born in '76). Have to say the next 4 years of rock music were pretty awesome. The end of hair bands and the rise of grunge before rap/rock took over.
Posted on 11/1/14 at 10:22 pm to RidiculousHype
Age 7. Because the only people who should ever listen to Nirvana's shitty music are little children before they know any better.
Posted on 11/1/14 at 11:05 pm to RidiculousHype
Naw, it wasn't you teenie-boppers that were most influenced, it was us 20-somethings.You had not suffered enough to appreciate it like we had.
It's very simple guys-we had SUFFERED through the absolute shittiness of the hair band era for longer and in a way you could not imagine. To us, Nirvana and Pearl Jam and others were a HUGE FREAKING SIGH OF RELIEF. Legit made a come back. I was more grateful and relieved than enthralled.Our generational prayers had been answered.
It's very simple guys-we had SUFFERED through the absolute shittiness of the hair band era for longer and in a way you could not imagine. To us, Nirvana and Pearl Jam and others were a HUGE FREAKING SIGH OF RELIEF. Legit made a come back. I was more grateful and relieved than enthralled.Our generational prayers had been answered.
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