Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (The Word 1991 - full version)
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- I've edited together a complete version of this Nirvana performance, the intro is from the original broadcast which was abruptly cut short at the time.
The main part is from a repeated version from a best of The Word show which unfortunately had the beginning missing.
Can’t believe I was was there ...... who knew this band would be soooooooo influential
Pretty.Dam.Cool.
Was wondering how many of the guys in the mosh pit are now accountants or working in IT
So cool mate!
@@gjenkins1976 With 2 or 3 kids in their 20s
@@gjenkins1976 I was at their gig at London Astoria in 89.....no one was there, I am not an accountant
90's American punk, I was ten at the time so I was sold, saw Oasis on The Word years later and they blew my little mind at the time.
I remember watching this live. I didn’t have any Nirvana records. But I had borrowed a copy of Hole’s Teenage Whore that same week so I found Kurt’s comment at the start very intriguing…. Say what you want but they certainly made a beautiful couple.
I remember watching this on The Word. Legendary.
Used to watch that show when I lived in the UK. Good times.
I remember watching this live, was obvious it was going to be huge and make a whole load of hair acts redundant. Nothing this seismic has happened since and rock is dead in the water.
which is nirvana's fault to some degree given that they (or at least paved the way for people who) basically defanged punk and made it as mainstream as anything else
Remember watching this at the time when I was 12. Recorded it on VHS tape and it got a lot of replays 😊
24 years ago today :) This was Nirvana's first ever live TV performance.
I know, Terry Christian said it in his introduction.
Love your covers
@@tobietera Lmao 😂
This performance is careless and hilarious. I love it.
I remember seeing this when I was 14 on TV and knew I had witnessed something special.
Big time wow, was watching literally blue Peter a few years later and thons when I heard he died, Nirvana did actually once rule the world.
Kurt was actually having a good time hear. Looked like fun!
Probably the best live version ever
Only 22,000 views for Nirvana's first ever live performance and first TV showing on European TV - when the vid has been posted for 6 years??? crazy
Dunno if anyone noticed Dave's Symbal fly off at the start of the tune hahaha.
Kyle Taundry He just loved to punish his drums 😂
Didn't notice before, thats so funny. Could've damaged little Dave, symbols are quite weighty aren't they?
Hahahaha
Haha that’s amazing!! 😂
By the second verse both of his crash cymbals are gone
aaaaaaaaaah....the 90s, ....comeback!!!!
I NEVER KNEW THIS VERSION ACTUALLY HAD THE SOLO AND WASN’T CUT
What an amazing exciting free time,, sadly missed
Kicking it up good style
I was there …. Can’t remember much about it . I passed out just wild.
Nice! ..I refer to this one as the “rock a Taylor” version of the song live 😆
I thought it was Rodger taylor
@@barrypotter5751 yeah, they all work..it’s difficult to hear clearly what he said
@@kodas3366 he's clearly saying "Roger Taylor"... which is the drummer for queen, which iirc was a band kurt loved.
yeh but why??
@@awightviewuhs6103
Lots of energy and madness at full steam! #NirvanaForever
at 0:15 0:16 "Courtney Love is the best F*ck in the world!" - Kurt Cobain
Nirvana never disappoints their fans by giving them a nice/rare live performance.
I was there at the front of that audience. Remember it well.
Nice! What was the date of the show?
Something weird with the editing here... Dave loses one crash cymbal around 0:34 and 1:37 it looks like the other one swings away from him and is leaning against Kurt's speaker stack... But during the guitar solo Dave has two crash cymbals again!
Dave had four cymbals in total. Both of his crash are gone by the solo so those two you're seeing are the ride and hi tat ones
@@--thatbih nope the two crash cymbals are definitely back around 3:10
@@jeffers92 because the video is showing the intro part for some reason. Look at Kurt's hands he's not playing the solo notes he's playing the power chords. Look at when the distortion kicks in during the intro and the clip at 3:10
@@--thatbih yeah that was kind of my original point 😀👍 bit weird why they did that
drum tech put them back? Who cares
3 years later..... he was gone
I was their that night, I wish I had known what I was seeing, would have paid more attention, classic song, my daughter now 21, is playing it all the time, it is timeless.
catchy little song this one
Absolutely f##$$kin AMAZING !!
2 months before freddie mercury dies he,s screaming roger taylor s name , he names freddie in his suicide note , i idolised freddie and hd no interest in any other music really but when he died i was instantly drawn to kurt cobain and an obsession then grew with him, its strange but i find those two connected wherever i look for some reason
It's been so long, I don't recall the mention of Freddie Mercury. In his letter. Roger Taylor was my favorite, he was so damn good looking Lol. My first album I ever owned was Queens first record. It's awesome, maybe not quite as flamboyant as later on...(I still miss the 90's with an ache that hurts more every day. It was the best days of my life. The WA music scene was fun, kinda seemed small since everyone knew each other then. My bf and I did promoting, (bringing bands into town & advertising the show) And we felt kinda insulated for a while doing our own thing, being rebellious as kids are until the whole fucking world started wearing flannel & boots, not brushing their hair & trying to be ironic. Lol The stupidest thing ever is we wore thrift store stuff cuz it's cheap & fun & then fashion magazines adopted it, even haute couture."How to make your new clothes Look old". "How to put some greasy crap in your freshly washed hair so you can Look like you haven't washed it". People used to stop me on the street to ask me where I got my clothes. Lol, umm at Value Village. 80's fashion was so good awful I couldn't even find anything new that I liked. And the hair. And the music... I started listening to Oldies stations. And Blues. And Classical (watch Amadeus! Mozart was the punk rock of classical!) and jazz era swing. Do yourself a favor- check out Cab Calloway, he's alot of fun to listen to.
Anyway...
Getting old sucks. When most everyone you looked up to and admired is dead. When you don't hardly recognize the old person in the mirror. Thing is-- you are still the same person inside (except you don't tolerate stupidity anymore Lol) And if you choose not to have kids it's like you never really had a good reason to grow up. I fully expected that at my age I'd have turned into a sweet little old lady, but fuck I haven't changed yet so I probably won't...
Your grammar is horrible
Thanks for telling me who roger taylor was
This was November 1991 the *same* month Freddie died in. He's probably screaming Roger Taylor as an ode to Queen since Freddie dying was still fresh or probably because he just wanted to🤷🏽♂️
I REMEMBER!
Ah memories! Yes!
dave’s crash cymbals falling off one by one😂
My biggest flex is my mom saw this and is in the audience
That sounds pretty cool to me
@Stephen Davies it’s so people actually know what I’m saying I am from England
Was this their first ever tv appearance or first on UK TV?
this is still an edited version, the middle part of the last chorus (a mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido) has been cut out.
damn that crowd looks dead. only the front is going crazy
This was a tv show back in the day, most of the audience were there for that, dudes down the front (lucky bastards) were probably there because of nirvana.
At the time no-one 'normal' had any real idea who these guys were. That would change not long after this ;)
To clarify. This wasn't even strictly a music show, more a pop culture show. It featured music but also people drinking puke, guys snogging pensioners, a girl licking a fat man's armpit and eating crackers topped with pubes.
@@darrenwilson99 I'm sure I seen a female having a bath in maggots on this show
Lol at the gurning dude at 00:42
There most famous song but I don’t think it’s my favourite.
the word was the best live tv ever made .... chaotic crazy shit every friday night absolutely nothing censored anything went
Loved it when I lived in the UK. It has never been rivaled.
*coughs* the Tube
EPIC!!!
why did kurt not do the solo ?
Roger Taylor!!!
Never heard of them.
#needtheword
Fucking mint!
I too, hate cymbals 🥰
Roger Taylor 😂😎
Like the Sex Pistols first gig. 200,000 people in the comments claiming to have been there.
I always wonder what the people who stood there like zombies think, looking back.
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Kurt cobain was close to people here 😊❤
ROGER TAYLOR
Sounds of a generation
Mary Lou Lord don’t like this video 💔
I know - that was sad 😞
"Roger Taylor" 😆
Anyone who the exact date of this ??
november 08, 1991
@@gorizianopiratissimo thanks so they already blew up in the US by this time. Was trying to put this performance in conte t of their popularity
@@patrick3926 They blew up in the UK & Europe first , coming over here , armed to teeth with amazing Beatles melodies and blowing the territory away live , this was their first live TV performance i believe
The rot was setting in on tv when they started putting shit like the word on.
Rubbish, the word was the highlight of British TV in the 90's
@@marcp3788Nostalgia. Just because it was on over 30 years ago, doesn't mean it was any good.
ROGER TAYLOR!
What did Kurt say at the beginning????🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
That Courtney Love of the sensational pop band Hole is the best f.ck in the world
@@ladislavmrazik1356 oh thank you so much 🖤
Dave Grohl rockin those drums! Went on to play lead guitar/singer to the best live band in the world Foo Fighters fuck yeah beh beh!
Chris Shifflett is the lead, but yeah Foo Fighters are the best live band nowadays
It looks like Kurt fucking hates this shit
that bloke on the drums wasn't very good.
Stop it dave grohl is one of a kind check out more of there concerts if ur so simple minded
Scottish band Captain America t-shirt on too...became Eugenius after the subsequent legal threats
Didn't realise it was a band tee shirt!
@@fukkingusernames en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenius_(band)
There you go! Eugene Kelly was one half of the Vaselines along with Frances McKee.
Cobain named his daughter after her.
Objectively this is a terrible live performance. But I respect them for going on live national TV and being so full throttle. Obviously didn't hinder their career in anyway and is a bit of a legendary moment on british tv.
I thought they played well and with a ton of energy.
@@cye101 oh yeah, for sure there's a lot of energy in it. Would have loved to see them live at this time.
I dont think it was so bad
This is better than it normally sounds. Usually they rushed through it. This is at least the right tempo.
Shite live…
It was only their first live and it’s as they played more gigs they got better
@@lonruil_aoife6520 lol
Cringefest circa 1991
It always kills me that Kurt cannot get to his chorus pedal by the first chime. Lol.
Kurt cobain was close to people here 😊❤
Roger Taylor!!!!
Awe shit!😆.. is that what he says?.. always heard “rock a Taylor”