I think everyone was more focused on songs like 'In Bloom' or 'Lithium' or 'Breed' nobody really paid too much attention to 'Teen Spirit' while we were recording it. We just f***in' rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. Of course, no-one had any psychic foresight to imagine that ('Teen Spirit') would go on to do what it did. He went on to say, “(We were writing) new song after new song every day. We were listening to a lot of Pixies at the time. Those muted, stabbing strums in between the chords really leant to the pattern of the drum riff. The track marks the first of the group's songs to pass the milestone number.ĭrummer Dave Grohl looked back at “Smells Like Teen Spirit, telling NME, “I remember writing 'Teen Spirit' in our rehearsal space, and I liked the riff that Kurt came up with because it’s percussive. This past June, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” surpassed two billion plays on Spotify, as posted by Chart Data. Nirvana and Nevermind were crucial in bringing mainstream attention to both the Seattle music scene and alternative music in general. It has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. for sales of more than 10 million copies. Nevermind was eventually certified Diamond in the U.S. The record debuted at Number 144 and hit Number One on January 11th, 1992. Just 46,000 copies of Nevermind were shipped to record stores when it came out. It propelled alternative music into the mainstream, created a cultural anthem in the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” ushered in a new wave of rock bands, and helped to anoint the band's reluctant frontman, Kurt Cobain, as the spokesperson for an entire generation until his suicide in 1994.Īlmost four months after its release, Nevermind hit Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, turning the “grunge” genre into a phenomenon. The band's second full-length album was its first for a major label, Geffen Records, and within months of its release it became perhaps the most important rock album of its era.
The tour is documented in the film 1991: The Year Punk Broke.
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