@@gemeu1129 Nirvana wasn't nearly as big as the Beatles, though. Their only album that sold more than 20 Million copies was Nevermind and it wasn't even the most sold rock album of the 90s, which was Appetite for Destruction by Guns n' Roses.
In the span of 6 weeks in 1991, there were the releases of: Metallica's Black Album, Pearl Jam's _Ten_ , Guns n' Roses _Use_ _Your_ _Illusion_ I & II, Nirvana's _Nevermind_ , Soundgarden's _Badmotorfinger_ , and Red Hot Chili Pepper's _Blood_ _Sugar_ _Sex_ _Magik_ . Unbelievable year for rock music.
@@njandrews4105the greatest hip hop album ever came out the same day. ATCQ’s Low End Theory. I wish I had appreciated this time more rather than assuming music would always be this incredible.
@@njandrews4105 I think the following year The Chronic came out and that's when I got into rap music. Black Sunday by Cypress Hill was on repeat for me too by 1993/94. I wish I could have seen that show they were on the same bill as Nirvana. There's video of Kurt backstage watching Cypress Hill perform. Wonder what he thought!
My mom told me she remembers this exact moment. She had gotten up to make a snack, saw the video quality and thought "this is going to be shit" but she stuck it through. What changed her mind was the build up to the chorus and the chorus itself. Then she liked how they went back to quiet. Ever since then she's been a Nirvan fan and I am too
Quiet/loud was a tool of grunge/metal. The guy people wrongly claim did not seek fame exploited that tool very well, indeed. Nirvana dis not invent that aspect of the genre.
Within 6 months of this, every band advertisement in the local music paper was using the term "alternative" rock or "alternative" metal, and most of the hair metal or wannabe guns and Roses bands suddenly were wearing flannel and singing about homeless people. It was a huge cultural shift.
I had taped this and brought the tape to school in the morning and played it on the AV TV/VCR and got in trouble for it haha. But for real we all were engrossed instantly.
Same way it was in the late 90's as well. Total Request Live was known for that pivotal stuff. But I know what you mean because I sharply remembered the world premiere of Black or white by Michael Jackson being televised all over cable and syndication. Lest not forget the moment at the end of the video when Michael had a break down and every one was talking about it the next few days.
On September 29, 1991, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video premiered on MTV's "120 Minutes," an event that, in the years that followed, would come to signify the beginning of rock's great renaissance and usher in a cultural shift that would define a generation.
@@Robixino well it doesn’t have to be his whole life it doesn’t really focus on his death either it can focus on nirvana and how the band started and blew up. Ya know
I was 6 at the time, I have little memories of 1991, but I can imagine how amazing was it for those who witnessed this historic musical moment that changed and shaped a decade and an entire generation
I can share my perspective as someone who was 13 at the time of this songs release and who was exposed to a wide range of underground punk, hardcore, industrial and also classic rock. I can say honestly that at that time this song was really not the type of game changing or revolutionary anthem that many now claim it to be. Don't get me wrong, it was a catchy song and I liked it when I first heard it but I'd also heard many similar tracks from other groups around the same time, namely Pixies, Melvins, Mudhoney. I actually preferred their less outright angsty and frankly cliched anarchist delivery. The main difference between Nirvana and many other groups whom were their peers and whom they admired is that Kurt was a far better pop hook song writer and welcomed other influences more readily into the music...hence the croxxover success. Honestly before the fall of 1991 pretty much nobody else in my middle school and high school listened to anything but what was considered cool or validated mainstream music. Flash forward to September/October 1991 and these same classmates are now extolling the virtues of Nirvana. It was clearly NOT entirely the bands fault at all but in reality the majority of their fan base were indeed the very bandwagoners, mainstreamers and those who looked down on punk and other undergound forms of rock that Kurt feared they were. You can see his confliction about this is most of their perfromances from 1992 to 1994 as it was obvious their crossover success had a negative impact on him overall. I steered clear of this band for decades, only recently revisiting them to get a more balanced take. I can say now their music is great and Im happy to have come back to realize how great they are but at the time it was next to impossible to actually enjoy their music.
I was 6 also at the time but I didn't have cable yet my memory of that time is still pretty sharp because I remember in September of 1991 I was anticipating to watch Darkwing Duck so bad. Then the show step by step premiered in that same month and I (even back then) I wanted to bang Suzanne Somers (so bad). 😂 It was goodbye kindergarten and hello 1st grade.
I was siting in a hotel room in Federal Way Washington, with some friends and we saw this come on MTV and we were like, hell yea our Washington boys made it.
I'm proud to say I was up late watching MTV when this premiered ( think I was freshman in HS) and after it was over I thought, "damn that was really good". Thirty years later and I still crank Scentless Apprentice every Friday leaving work- so loud it hurts. I was watching a Nirvana concert the other night from '91 and right before they blew up. I just really wanted to give that young Kurt a hug. I wish we had another 30 years of his music to listen to.
Saw this when it aired...I was a sophomore in college...my roommate and I I were totally blown away....speechless.....then after the vid ended my roommate just looked at me and said "whoa" .
Back then I was mostly in to oldies. When I’d watch MTV, nothing drew much attention except for this video & Guns & Roses (November Rain, Don’t Cry & Live & Let Die). Rock was boring and cliched until Nirvana hit the scene. Gun’s & Roses were catchy & popular but seemed dated at the time. When Nirvana came out nothing ever sounded the same (not dissing Guns & Roses, I’m just talking about my personal experience). Then came RHCP, Soundgarden, STP, Alice-N-Chains, Pearl Jam & Smashing Pumpkins....it was a rush of passionate music. Nine Inch Nails, the acts and new bands kept coming. It felt like a storm. It wasn’t until Kurts suicide that people realized how lucky they were to have such great music. By then the music Industry started looking for replacement bands to saturate the market like Silverchair, Bush and then there was bands like Green Day. Who had been around but largely ignored, even Souls Asylum blew up. The 90’s were a unique time. It was a reminder that people could do whatever they wanted regardless of its popularity and still be cool. Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing), Dave Matthew’s Band (jam bands like Phish), Sublime (ska)....the 90’s gave birth to many genres. Like trip-hop (Massive Attack, Portishead, The Prodigy, Chemical Bros.) Raves were huge in the 90’s. Sadly “guitar hero” video games & the Clear Channel conglomeration of radio killed the notion that kids could start a band & take over the world. There’s still great bands out there but Spotify and other streams are too personalized and filter out new music and new ideas. Right now local College radio stations that play new music are the only way to find new music. Find yourself local College radio station and have an open mind. Because that’s what we did in the 90’s. It was all about fun and passion. Have an open mind, that’s what the 90’s were really about.
Great comment Miguel! I think once Nirvana got big and over in the mainstream, tons of different sounding musical acts started to get noticed. Bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Fugazi, and another big one along with Green Day like you mentioned, was the Offspring. One more to round it out a little later were The Cranberries. Definitely one of the best decades of music and music discovery in my opinion.
Hip hop and electro dance and pop ruined rock and roll. I've spoken to millennials and worse and they say, "we don't listen to music with guitars." Direct quote.
I remember two takeaways from seeing this video when it premiered. 1) Guy on the bleachers is wearing a Bad Brains T-shirt and 2) they sound like the Pixies with louder drums.
Damn that "world premiere video" intro came flooding back into my memory lol. I didn't see this, but it didn't take long for SLTS to show up on Most Wanted, MTV's daily request countdown. I think you could call in and vote for videos, if I remember correctly. That's where I saw it for the first time.
I think the only times a mass cultural shift like this occurred -- this fast and this comprehensive -- was with the Beatles and with Nirvana. Wiped the table clean and started fresh overnight. How I wish something like this would come along again. It was roughly 30 years from the Beatles first playing on Ed Sullivan to Nirvana first being heard by the world. it has been almost 30 years again. Fingers crossed.
This was my senior year of high school. Even though this dropped in September, it didn't gain traction on my local radio right away. Metallica's Black Album and Blood Sugar Sex Magik were the undeniable soundtrack to that school year, but by spring, everyone was listening to Nevermind and Ten.
I was a 4 month old that day in'91 clueless that my life's direction just completely shifted forever. It's mind bending to think, what people would be doing, what lives wouldn't be here now if not for Nirvana hitting the map. I only wish that Kurt could be here to see it all.
I was 11. I remember. The 90s was the best decade to grow up. We started life without internet, and we were greatly impacted by epic new music that distinguished us from the pussy 80s hair metal bullshit. This music directly affected my clothing, my attitude, my friends. My hair. Everything. Then as teenagers we did get to experience new tech with instant porn…albeit with dial up speed. My god what an incredible decade!
Interesting that I saw the video for the first time in the same month on MTV's Headbangers Ball, the heavy metal show that used to air on Saturday nights. It just shows that they were marketing the song to both audiences since "grunge" wasn't a thing yet and Nirvana wasn't easily categorized into either genre ("alternative" or "metal"). I used to tape Saturday Night Live while I watched it and would pause the tape to edit out the commercials. During SNL's commercial breaks, I would switch around to different channels and caught this video being played on Headbangers Ball one night. I couldn't turn away and was late getting back to SNL to restart the recording. It was my senior year in high school and the next Monday I told my friend about my recollection of the song. He went out and bought the cassette of "Nevermind" and we used to sit between classes sharing one earbud each and listen to the album.
Thats a really cool story about buds sharing ear buds. I think alternative was a fairly established genre by this point. Not as big as became with this song though. I didn't think nevermind was metal at all. Bleach maybe. Anyways thanks for the interesting comment.
I was 13 and would get my first 🎸 that year. You could find me in my Garage and or bedroom for the next 6 years or so until had lost my equipment threw some circumstances. But it's so great to get right back on the train.
I remember seeing this video for the first time on MTV. I was perplexed. I was like where’s the big hair? Spandex? Make up? Hey! They aren’t singing about chicks and getting laid lmao!!! I was like “ these guys look like they just got off work wearing sneakers and jeans and a t shirt.
Before there was classical music and Queen. Then there came the epiphany from Seattle. This year a lot of the very best albums ever will turn 30... Boy, am I old.
I can share my perspective as someone who was 13 at the time of this songs release and who was exposed to a wide range of underground punk, hardcore, industrial and also classic rock. I can say honestly that at that time this song was really not the type of game changing or revolutionary anthem that many now claim it to be. Don't get me wrong, it was a catchy song and I liked it when I first heard it but I'd also heard many similar tracks from other groups around the same time, namely Pixies, Melvins, Mudhoney. I actually preferred their less outright angsty and frankly cliched anarchist delivery. The main difference between Nirvana and many other groups whom were their peers and whom they admired is that Kurt was a far better pop hook song writer and welcomed other influences more readily into the music...hence the croxxover success. Honestly before the fall of 1991 pretty much nobody else in my middle school and high school listened to anything but what was considered cool or validated mainstream music. Flash forward to September/October 1991 and these same classmates are now extolling the virtues of Nirvana. It was clearly NOT entirely the bands fault at all but in reality the majority of their fan base were indeed the very bandwagoners, mainstreamers and those who looked down on punk and other undergound forms of rock that Kurt feared they were. You can see his confliction about this is most of their perfromances from 1992 to 1994 as it was obvious their crossover success had a negative impact on him overall. I steered clear of this band for decades, only recently revisiting them to get a more balanced take. I can say now their music is great and Im happy to have come back to realize how great they are but at the time it was next to impossible to actually enjoy their music.
Excellent reflection..I get it completely. Nirvana brought all of that side of alternative style rock such as the pixies etc into the mainstream..he regretted this, sadly and possibly contributing to his death..but what a singer!! he was in the words of Ziggy Stardust “terrificccc”
"What are you up tonight?" - "Oh, not much. Going to just chill and watch The Simpsons. Then watch the new Mike Tyson fight, then I'm gonna stay up to watch the premiere of the new Nirvana video"
I wasn't even a big fan but this song took over the culture in one week in a way I've never seen -- or heard. I knew the 80's were officially over and the 90's had begun with this song.
What I find interesting is that you had to have cable to have MTV, which back then, was still a remote thing for many households in the U.S. A friend of mine had it in 1990 or so, but our family didn't get into until the late '90s/2000s. So to me, who was too young for Nirvana in 1991, it leaves me curious how a relativity small niche (cable subscribers) helped to blow up the scene. Or maybe it was in conjunction with radio stations, too, and it all happened at once.
@@paulmueller1520 nah its true. you weren't sh*t without cable. you had NBC,PBS, and CBS /abc maybe with static if you had the antenna right- no MTV . my family got cable when i was in sixth grade. just in time for this era and it was awesome
@@paulmueller1520 one kid at our school - his family didn't even have a TV by choice lol. so i appreciated my PBS dr Who marathon upbringing in hindsight.
@@DunsterDrive there always was the kid who didn't have TV back in the '80s. We didn't have one for a few months in '83 and '84, just radio. My cousins didn't have it until they were older and they were literally hypnotized by it. You could tell the kids who had MTV though. They were eight years old and into Motley Crue
I didn't know at the time, but this was the moment when the music scene (indie/alternative), I devoted myself to on Sunday nights watching 120 minutes and 7pm to midnight on my local college radio station was about to be slowly co-opted, chewed up and spat out just in time for the boy band explosion. It took the likes of The Strokes, Jack White, and a still relevant Radiohead to bring it back down to earth, like it was in the 80s.
I was 14 and only wealthy people had sky tv and people on benefits could dream of having mtv in the early 90s but I remember listening to nevermind on repeat that summer
We've discovered the EXACT moment the 90s started
shush
Lol ikr
This its from 1991
yes, 01/01/1990
Nope, the release of Goo by Sonic Youth is where it exactly started started
We all had no idea what a major cultural shift we were in for.
And that is something I really learned of much later. They were the Beatles of the 1990s.
@@1996yankees1996 i think they were more like the ramones fo the 90s
@@-.369.- now that is funny.
The Ramones weren’t even half as big as Nirvana coming out. Leans more towards the Beatles phenomenon than anything else in history.
@@gemeu1129 Nirvana wasn't nearly as big as the Beatles, though. Their only album that sold more than 20 Million copies was Nevermind and it wasn't even the most sold rock album of the 90s, which was Appetite for Destruction by Guns n' Roses.
In the span of 6 weeks in 1991, there were the releases of: Metallica's Black Album, Pearl Jam's _Ten_ , Guns n' Roses _Use_ _Your_ _Illusion_ I & II, Nirvana's _Nevermind_ , Soundgarden's _Badmotorfinger_ , and Red Hot Chili Pepper's _Blood_ _Sugar_ _Sex_ _Magik_ . Unbelievable year for rock music.
Also, lots of good hip-hop albums came out that year and don’t forget tragically, hip road apples lol 😆..☝🏼🧡🇨🇦
@@njandrews4105the greatest hip hop album ever came out the same day. ATCQ’s Low End Theory. I wish I had appreciated this time more rather than assuming music would always be this incredible.
and thus the 90s was born
Don't forget _Screamadelica_ by Primal Scream. That one came out the day before _Nevemind._
@@njandrews4105 I think the following year The Chronic came out and that's when I got into rap music. Black Sunday by Cypress Hill was on repeat for me too by 1993/94.
I wish I could have seen that show they were on the same bill as Nirvana. There's video of Kurt backstage watching Cypress Hill perform. Wonder what he thought!
My mom told me she remembers this exact moment. She had gotten up to make a snack, saw the video quality and thought "this is going to be shit" but she stuck it through. What changed her mind was the build up to the chorus and the chorus itself. Then she liked how they went back to quiet. Ever since then she's been a Nirvan fan and I am too
Check out some of the early live performance of SmLTS , the crowd goes crazy the parts your mom loves. It’s amazing
@@mikezayas324 I know I've seen the first performance at the OK Hotel in Seattle online. Been a Nirvana fan for the better part of 4 years now😁
Quiet/loud was a tool of grunge/metal.
The guy people wrongly claim did not seek fame exploited that tool very well, indeed. Nirvana dis not invent that aspect of the genre.
@@NickNicometi the pixies did but Kurt did credit them saying that while writing smells like teen spirit he was trying to write a pixies song
Sooo 😎
This honestly was like Beatles on Ed Sullivan for our generation. The aliens have landed. And they look like us.
NO.
Within 6 months of this, every band advertisement in the local music paper was using the term "alternative" rock or "alternative" metal, and most of the hair metal or wannabe guns and Roses bands suddenly were wearing flannel and singing about homeless people. It was a huge cultural shift.
@@TheDmonet as they should. They were finally playing real music and ditching the cornball shit. If only music had that shift again
@@davidcross701 yes. Nirvana-mania
Wait until you see the In Bloom video.
😂
It's so weird to look at this now. No one knew at the time. About a week after this, the band and song were viral.
1996yankees1996 viral is an understatement. This was the fucking Beatles all over again.
@@nickfanzo thats an overstatement to an understatement.
Iam Sancho not really, I was there and the whole music world changed over night
I had taped this and brought the tape to school in the morning and played it on the AV TV/VCR and got in trouble for it haha. But for real we all were engrossed instantly.
@@David_Downs Tbh the whole 90s rock scene became alive again when this aired.
Back in the 80s and early 90s a music video premiere was a must see event.
Always, back then, I plan to watch. Especially this premiere! I remember this.
in 2020s world premiere events are youtube recommendations of bulldogs who snore in their sleep
Same way it was in the late 90's as well. Total Request Live was known for that pivotal stuff. But I know what you mean because I sharply remembered the world premiere of Black or white by Michael Jackson being televised all over cable and syndication. Lest not forget the moment at the end of the video when Michael had a break down and every one was talking about it the next few days.
@@xviphoenix69 I believe you are thinking about the end of "The Way You Make Me Feel."
I was there to see this, it changed us all.
Dionysus not sure what farm animals have to do with it, but ok.
Really you were there onfg
@@harrymorgan9701 yes
@@nickfanzo omgomgomgomg
@@harrymorgan9701 hahahahahahahaha what
On September 29, 1991, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video premiered on MTV's "120 Minutes," an event that, in the years that followed, would come to signify the beginning of rock's great renaissance and usher in a cultural shift that would define a generation.
If they ever make a Nirvana Biopic like Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman, they have to including this in the movie
i hope they never do
@cbt34 because biopics are never accurate, how can you squeeze the whole life of Kurt into a 2 hour movie? Impossible
@@Robixino And people would be “obsessed” with it and it would be a trendy thing
@@matthewkennedy7283 yes, it would be misleading as f*ck
@@Robixino well it doesn’t have to be his whole life it doesn’t really focus on his death either it can focus on nirvana and how the band started and blew up. Ya know
I was 6 at the time, I have little memories of 1991, but I can imagine how amazing was it for those who witnessed this historic musical moment that changed and shaped a decade and an entire generation
@Dionysus lol
Cobain is in hell
I can share my perspective as someone who was 13 at the time of this songs release and who was exposed to a wide range of underground punk, hardcore, industrial and also classic rock. I can say honestly that at that time this song was really not the type of game changing or revolutionary anthem that many now claim it to be. Don't get me wrong, it was a catchy song and I liked it when I first heard it but I'd also heard many similar tracks from other groups around the same time, namely Pixies, Melvins, Mudhoney. I actually preferred their less outright angsty and frankly cliched anarchist delivery. The main difference between Nirvana and many other groups whom were their peers and whom they admired is that Kurt was a far better pop hook song writer and welcomed other influences more readily into the music...hence the croxxover success. Honestly before the fall of 1991 pretty much nobody else in my middle school and high school listened to anything but what was considered cool or validated mainstream music. Flash forward to September/October 1991 and these same classmates are now extolling the virtues of Nirvana. It was clearly NOT entirely the bands fault at all but in reality the majority of their fan base were indeed the very bandwagoners, mainstreamers and those who looked down on punk and other undergound forms of rock that Kurt feared they were. You can see his confliction about this is most of their perfromances from 1992 to 1994 as it was obvious their crossover success had a negative impact on him overall. I steered clear of this band for decades, only recently revisiting them to get a more balanced take. I can say now their music is great and Im happy to have come back to realize how great they are but at the time it was next to impossible to actually enjoy their music.
I was 6 also at the time but I didn't have cable yet my memory of that time is still pretty sharp because I remember in September of 1991 I was anticipating to watch Darkwing Duck so bad. Then the show step by step premiered in that same month and I (even back then) I wanted to bang Suzanne Somers (so bad). 😂 It was goodbye kindergarten and hello 1st grade.
@@JS-wi9mw that’s your own experience. The comment you replied to was correct. Overall it did shape the decade and the generation.
I was siting in a hotel room in Federal Way Washington, with some friends and we saw this come on MTV and we were like, hell yea our Washington boys made it.
I'm proud to say I was up late watching MTV when this premiered ( think I was freshman in HS) and after it was over I thought, "damn that was really good". Thirty years later and I still crank Scentless Apprentice every Friday leaving work- so loud it hurts. I was watching a Nirvana concert the other night from '91 and right before they blew up. I just really wanted to give that young Kurt a hug. I wish we had another 30 years of his music to listen to.
Saw this when it aired...I was a sophomore in college...my roommate and I I were totally blown away....speechless.....then after the vid ended my roommate just looked at me and said "whoa" .
Back then I was mostly in to oldies. When I’d watch MTV, nothing drew much attention except for this video & Guns & Roses (November Rain, Don’t Cry & Live & Let Die). Rock was boring and cliched until Nirvana hit the scene. Gun’s & Roses were catchy & popular but seemed dated at the time. When Nirvana came out nothing ever sounded the same (not dissing Guns & Roses, I’m just talking about my personal experience). Then came RHCP, Soundgarden, STP, Alice-N-Chains, Pearl Jam & Smashing Pumpkins....it was a rush of passionate music. Nine Inch Nails, the acts and new bands kept coming. It felt like a storm. It wasn’t until Kurts suicide that people realized how lucky they were to have such great music. By then the music Industry started looking for replacement bands to saturate the market like Silverchair, Bush and then there was bands like Green Day. Who had been around but largely ignored, even Souls Asylum blew up. The 90’s were a unique time. It was a reminder that people could do whatever they wanted regardless of its popularity and still be cool. Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing), Dave Matthew’s Band (jam bands like Phish), Sublime (ska)....the 90’s gave birth to many genres. Like trip-hop (Massive Attack, Portishead, The Prodigy, Chemical Bros.)
Raves were huge in the 90’s.
Sadly “guitar hero” video games & the Clear Channel conglomeration of radio killed the notion that kids could start a band & take over the world. There’s still great bands out there but Spotify and other streams are too personalized and filter out new music and new ideas. Right now local College radio stations that play new music are the only way to find new music. Find yourself local College radio station and have an open mind. Because that’s what we did in the 90’s. It was all about fun and passion.
Have an open mind, that’s what the 90’s were really about.
Your last sentence hits the mark and states exactly what' s missin' 2day
Great comment Miguel! I think once Nirvana got big and over in the mainstream, tons of different sounding musical acts started to get noticed. Bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Fugazi, and another big one along with Green Day like you mentioned, was the Offspring. One more to round it out a little later were The Cranberries. Definitely one of the best decades of music and music discovery in my opinion.
Hip hop and electro dance and pop ruined rock and roll. I've spoken to millennials and worse and they say, "we don't listen to music with guitars." Direct quote.
Maybe the most important musical-video of the history!
And just like that the world would never be the same
Especially, Rock.
What a neat look back in time! Miss you Kurt!
And the rest is ROCK N ROLL HISTORY!
I had just turned 17 when this released, good times.
My god, i remember this moment. Hit me right in the chest. Bless whoever put this up.
No kidding. It all came rushing back like a blur.
An iconic moment for the music
The beginning of an era.
I had just graduated high school and turned 18 and knew at this moment I wasn’t in the 80s anymore.
I loved 120 Minutes and remember watching this 😊 those were the days 🤩 love hearing Dave Kendall on SiriusXM now
I remember two takeaways from seeing this video when it premiered. 1) Guy on the bleachers is wearing a Bad Brains T-shirt and 2) they sound like the Pixies with louder drums.
Damn that "world premiere video" intro came flooding back into my memory lol.
I didn't see this, but it didn't take long for SLTS to show up on Most Wanted, MTV's daily request countdown. I think you could call in and vote for videos, if I remember correctly. That's where I saw it for the first time.
I was 9 when this started playing...changed my life and music taste forever. Cheers Nirvana!
I think the only times a mass cultural shift like this occurred -- this fast and this comprehensive -- was with the Beatles and with Nirvana. Wiped the table clean and started fresh overnight. How I wish something like this would come along again. It was roughly 30 years from the Beatles first playing on Ed Sullivan to Nirvana first being heard by the world. it has been almost 30 years again. Fingers crossed.
Yeah it’s been just over 30 years. I’m wondering if there will be another Beatles/Nirvana moment in the 2020’s.
@@ecoRfan Morgan Wallen is that shift--the greatest of this generation.
Things is too splittered now, wot wiv da internets and that. Will never happen again.
This was my senior year of high school. Even though this dropped in September, it didn't gain traction on my local radio right away. Metallica's Black Album and Blood Sugar Sex Magik were the undeniable soundtrack to that school year, but by spring, everyone was listening to Nevermind and Ten.
I was a 4 month old that day in'91 clueless that my life's direction just completely shifted forever. It's mind bending to think, what people would be doing, what lives wouldn't be here now if not for Nirvana hitting the map. I only wish that Kurt could be here to see it all.
I remember watching this for the first time.Totally blown away and still am everytime I hear it
I was witness of the debut of my favorite rock band Ever...!!! I was 7 years old... I’ve watched the show since I was 4 y/o..!!!
90s tv was best tv no one can argue
1:15 The beggining of a Legend
Used to love watching this in high school.
What and epic mindfuck this was. At first like "what the fuck is this" turns to "this shit is EPIC" to "god I want to see this again"
We can still hear remnants of the 1980s rock n roll and blow going away in the hosts sinuses as he speaks!
And the world would never be the same...
Two weeks later Dave is wearing flannel and interviewing soundgarden like his life depended on it. Such genuine people at mtv.
The farm changed rock music forever.
Get on that groovy train!
I was 11. I remember. The 90s was the best decade to grow up. We started life without internet, and we were greatly impacted by epic new music that distinguished us from the pussy 80s hair metal bullshit. This music directly affected my clothing, my attitude, my friends. My hair. Everything.
Then as teenagers we did get to experience new tech with instant porn…albeit with dial up speed. My god what an incredible decade!
As soon as this started every hair metal band in the world wailed.
Chills...
Amazing!! Thank you Kurt!! R.I.P!!💙
And the rest is history.
This started the greatest generation of all time
Early 90's was a glorious time for music!
Interesting that I saw the video for the first time in the same month on MTV's Headbangers Ball, the heavy metal show that used to air on Saturday nights. It just shows that they were marketing the song to both audiences since "grunge" wasn't a thing yet and Nirvana wasn't easily categorized into either genre ("alternative" or "metal").
I used to tape Saturday Night Live while I watched it and would pause the tape to edit out the commercials. During SNL's commercial breaks, I would switch around to different channels and caught this video being played on Headbangers Ball one night. I couldn't turn away and was late getting back to SNL to restart the recording.
It was my senior year in high school and the next Monday I told my friend about my recollection of the song. He went out and bought the cassette of "Nevermind" and we used to sit between classes sharing one earbud each and listen to the album.
Thats a really cool story about buds sharing ear buds. I think alternative was a fairly established genre by this point. Not as big as became with this song though. I didn't think nevermind was metal at all. Bleach maybe. Anyways thanks for the interesting comment.
No one saw this song coming teen spirit and nirvana changed everything in the 90's
I was 13 and would get my first 🎸 that year. You could find me in my Garage and or bedroom for the next 6 years or so until had lost my equipment threw some circumstances. But it's so great to get right back on the train.
Whoa, I just witnessed history ❤
I skipped school to see this. History was made then.
you had school at midnight on a sunday, that seems curious?
@@michaelmalone7231 ha i was gonna say what school did you go to?
I remember seeing this video for the first time on MTV. I was perplexed. I was like where’s the big hair? Spandex? Make up? Hey! They aren’t singing about chicks and getting laid lmao!!! I was like “ these guys look like they just got off work wearing sneakers and jeans and a t shirt.
History in the making
yoooo the revolution
Before there was classical music and Queen. Then there came the epiphany from Seattle. This year a lot of the very best albums ever will turn 30... Boy, am I old.
World Changing moment right there
I cant wait to see what this band does
Why not
SPOILER ALERT: It will end in tears...
Music was never the same after this song.
the first viral video, even before the internet existed.
maybe even before the term "viral" existed 😁
I was 26. I was a punk in high school. Nu waver in college.
I heard this song on the radio, and immediately said DAMN,
People always say they'd never go back. I'd go right back here if I could. No question.
I can share my perspective as someone who was 13 at the time of this songs release and who was exposed to a wide range of underground punk, hardcore, industrial and also classic rock. I can say honestly that at that time this song was really not the type of game changing or revolutionary anthem that many now claim it to be. Don't get me wrong, it was a catchy song and I liked it when I first heard it but I'd also heard many similar tracks from other groups around the same time, namely Pixies, Melvins, Mudhoney. I actually preferred their less outright angsty and frankly cliched anarchist delivery. The main difference between Nirvana and many other groups whom were their peers and whom they admired is that Kurt was a far better pop hook song writer and welcomed other influences more readily into the music...hence the croxxover success. Honestly before the fall of 1991 pretty much nobody else in my middle school and high school listened to anything but what was considered cool or validated mainstream music. Flash forward to September/October 1991 and these same classmates are now extolling the virtues of Nirvana. It was clearly NOT entirely the bands fault at all but in reality the majority of their fan base were indeed the very bandwagoners, mainstreamers and those who looked down on punk and other undergound forms of rock that Kurt feared they were. You can see his confliction about this is most of their perfromances from 1992 to 1994 as it was obvious their crossover success had a negative impact on him overall. I steered clear of this band for decades, only recently revisiting them to get a more balanced take. I can say now their music is great and Im happy to have come back to realize how great they are but at the time it was next to impossible to actually enjoy their music.
^Nailed it.
Excellent reflection..I get it completely. Nirvana brought all of that side of alternative style rock such as the pixies etc into the mainstream..he regretted this, sadly and possibly contributing to his death..but what a singer!! he was in the words of Ziggy Stardust “terrificccc”
I dont think the internet generation have the attention span to read all that hence only 9 thumbs up :(
Saw them a couple weeks after this premiered at First Avenue in Minneapolis for $6.00! Was a great show!
@Richard Schiffman What the hell does that have to do with a post about Nirvana weirdo?
@Richard Schiffman Someone is off their meds.
Did they omit "Teen Spirit" or did they play it?
@@tenderageinbloom During the 120 minutes broadcast or when they played at First Avenue in Minneapolis? They played it at First Ave for sure.
I was talking about First Ave. And I would love to see that Live Performance on CZcams.
The Nostalgia...
1:15 the moment when the world changed
Historical clip.
Fun fact: MTV used to have music on it.
QUE TOP DEMAIS
Woah
I so remember this and miss 120 mins. Still have cassette tape with Cracker Low
Less than 3 years later he'd be gone. hard to believe the lasting impact they'd achieve in three years.
God damn I got chills
"What are you up tonight?" - "Oh, not much. Going to just chill and watch The Simpsons. Then watch the new Mike Tyson fight, then I'm gonna stay up to watch the premiere of the new Nirvana video"
The beginning of the Heroin Gen
I wasn't even a big fan but this song took over the culture in one week in a way I've never seen -- or heard. I knew the 80's were officially over and the 90's had begun with this song.
This video gave chills.... NIRVANA 4 EVER
Hey there Cletus and Cole!! That ain't no Motley Crue song!
And then the world changed
What I find interesting is that you had to have cable to have MTV, which back then, was still a remote thing for many households in the U.S. A friend of mine had it in 1990 or so, but our family didn't get into until the late '90s/2000s. So to me, who was too young for Nirvana in 1991, it leaves me curious how a relativity small niche (cable subscribers) helped to blow up the scene. Or maybe it was in conjunction with radio stations, too, and it all happened at once.
Dude lol cable was not a small niche in 1991. Basically all of white America had cable at that point
Paul Mueller 😂
@@paulmueller1520 nah its true. you weren't sh*t without cable. you had NBC,PBS, and CBS /abc maybe with static if you had the antenna right- no MTV . my family got cable when i was in sixth grade. just in time for this era and it was awesome
@@paulmueller1520 one kid at our school - his family didn't even have a TV by choice lol. so i appreciated my PBS dr Who marathon upbringing in hindsight.
@@DunsterDrive there always was the kid who didn't have TV back in the '80s. We didn't have one for a few months in '83 and '84, just radio. My cousins didn't have it until they were older and they were literally hypnotized by it. You could tell the kids who had MTV though. They were eight years old and into Motley Crue
…and the world would never be the same.
Surprised by the relatively low view count given how big of a cultural shift this was.
Crazy how this particular song changed everything. Nothing like it since.
nirvana was one of the only bands to be on 120 minutes AND Headbangers Ball #facts
Exactly what Kurt and the rest saw when they watched themselves on MTV for the first time too…
And rock was never the same.
The beginning of the end.
It’s clear as day 30 years on, but literally the first thing you see here is Dave Grohl
It still sounds new, in light of all of this modern spew
I didn't know at the time, but this was the moment when the music scene (indie/alternative), I devoted myself to on Sunday nights watching 120 minutes and 7pm to midnight on my local college radio station was about to be slowly co-opted, chewed up and spat out just in time for the boy band explosion. It took the likes of The Strokes, Jack White, and a still relevant Radiohead to bring it back down to earth, like it was in the 80s.
History was made that day!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
0:01 is that guy the leader of the hip class of 1990s?
I was 14 and only wealthy people had sky tv and people on benefits could dream of having mtv in the early 90s but I remember listening to nevermind on repeat that summer
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I watched this.
the end of hair metal right here
Why not show the hole video ?
It’s Nirvana, not Hole. His wife was in Hole
@@cbus I'll change that to , Why not show the entire video ?
00:58
The second it played Kurt was dead sad but this is the beginning of the end!!