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Post by oftrollorigins on Dec 3, 2019 0:59:59 GMT
I can’t think of another song that more impacted the decade than Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. I don’t think it’s even Nirvana’s best song but it changed popular music almost overnight.
Any others?
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Post by millar70 on Dec 3, 2019 4:25:33 GMT
Immediately thought of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
I agree, it's nowhere near their best song, but what other song impacted the 90s as much? Black Hole Sun, maybe?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 3, 2019 4:51:03 GMT
Third vote for Teen Spirit. First time I heard it was on a college station. I had to call the station and ask "What the hell was that?". It was like three days after Nevermind was released.
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Post by movielover on Dec 3, 2019 4:58:25 GMT
Smells Like Teen Spirit, without a doubt.
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Post by dianachristensen on Dec 3, 2019 5:11:25 GMT
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 3, 2019 13:26:12 GMT
Smells Like Teen Spirit and it's not even close. It's actually rather depressing to me that THAT'S the song that broke grunge/alt. rock into the mainstream since, one, it's not very good and, two, Nirvana themselves weren't nearly as good as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pixies, Replacements, and many others around that time. Why, oh why, couldn't it have been AIC's Man in the Box that broke through? Much better song, much better band, and it was out a good 9 months before SLTS.
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Post by sostie on Dec 3, 2019 19:40:47 GMT
I admit instantly thinking Teen Spirit, though it was not a surprise when I first heard it...was a big Mudhoney fan the proceeding years so was used to the "sound" and already heard Teen Spirit live a couple of times.
Other contenders (though maybe just in the UK)
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Post by millar70 on Dec 3, 2019 20:22:29 GMT
Smells Like Teen Spirit and it's not even close. It's actually rather depressing to me that THAT'S the song that broke grunge/alt. rock into the mainstream since, one, it's not very good and, two, Nirvana themselves weren't nearly as good as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pixies, Replacements, and many others around that time. Why, oh why, couldn't it have been AIC's Man in the Box that broke through? Much better song, much better band, and it was out a good 9 months before SLTS. Man in the Box is not a bad choice. And it was before Teen Spirit, but the Nirvana song (and the video) just came over everything like a tidal wave. |
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Post by mrellaguru on Dec 3, 2019 20:23:29 GMT
Nuthin but a 'G' Thang did for hip hop what Smells Like Teen Spirit did for rock. It ushered in gangsta rap in the mainstream and helped kill the MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice pop rap stuff.
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Post by millar70 on Dec 3, 2019 20:25:31 GMT
For those of us in California in the 90's, What I Got from Sublime has to be right up there.
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Post by mrellaguru on Dec 3, 2019 20:25:59 GMT
Smells Like Teen Spirit and it's not even close. It's actually rather depressing to me that THAT'S the song that broke grunge/alt. rock into the mainstream since, one, it's not very good and, two, Nirvana themselves weren't nearly as good as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pixies, Replacements, and many others around that time. Why, oh why, couldn't it have been AIC's Man in the Box that broke through? Much better song, much better band, and it was out a good 9 months before SLTS.
SLTS got my attention at the time because it didn't sound like anything else. But then it got old fast. I like Nirvana but I never need to hear SLTS again.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 3, 2019 20:54:14 GMT
Smells Like Teen Spirit and it's not even close. It's actually rather depressing to me that THAT'S the song that broke grunge/alt. rock into the mainstream since, one, it's not very good and, two, Nirvana themselves weren't nearly as good as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pixies, Replacements, and many others around that time. Why, oh why, couldn't it have been AIC's Man in the Box that broke through? Much better song, much better band, and it was out a good 9 months before SLTS.
SLTS got my attention at the time because it didn't sound like anything else. But then it got old fast. I like Nirvana but I never need to hear SLTS again.
Well, it did, just nothing most people had heard. SLTS is basically Pixies with heavier guitar/drums, as Cobain himself admitted.
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Post by gw on Dec 4, 2019 0:58:55 GMT
For the 90's themselves probably Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit but in terms of overall impact to the present date probably Britney Spears' Baby One More Time.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 4, 2019 1:06:36 GMT
It's hard to look past 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. It seemed to set the tone for much that was to follow.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Dec 4, 2019 1:09:10 GMT
The Macarena
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 4, 2019 14:06:22 GMT
For the 90's themselves probably Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit but in terms of overall impact to the present date probably Britney Spears' Baby One More Time. That's actually not a bad pick either considering just how huge an impact Max Martin had on the next two decades of pop music.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Dec 4, 2019 17:49:12 GMT
Enter Sandman by Metallica was pretty huge too. Not SLTS huge maybe but big. It took them in a bigger, more “popular” direction, though the album had some detractors amongst their long time fans.
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Post by onethreetwo on Dec 4, 2019 17:52:06 GMT
Wonderwall?
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 4, 2019 18:00:42 GMT
Enter Sandman by Metallica was pretty huge too. Not SLTS huge maybe but big. It took them in a bigger, more “popular” direction, though the album had some detractors amongst their long time fans. It was huge for Metallica, for sure, and by the far the biggest commercial success that any extreme metal band ever had; but I'd say the majority of popular bands after that time took way more from Nirvana and alt. rock than Metallica (hell, Metallica themselves tried to make the switch on Load/Reload).
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