Weird Al Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana
An evening pause: Seems to me, this expresses perfectly the level of thoughtfulness seen in many hard rock music videos, only it does it more honestly.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
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great selection!!
Weird Al & Nirvana (2013)
Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Side-by-Side Comparison
https://youtu.be/tSMRuK11Dxg
3:44
“Smells Like Social Justice”
Finntronaut
https://archive.org/details/smells-like-social-justice
(5:04)
What a brief, but oh so glorious time it was to live in Seattle during the birth of what would become known as “grunge.” Brilliant musicians doing their thing, creating music. Still brings a smile to an old guy’s face.
This is brilliant.
I must disagree with David. “Grunge” was a bunch of spoiled brats complaining about how dreadful their upper-middle-class lives were (while foreshadowing the lumbersexual look). Thank goodness it’s dead.
I love this video. That’s exactly how I feel about Nirvana. I’m surprised I hadn’t seen it before.
Cobain was born from an auto-mechanic and a waitress. The band’s first album “Bleach” didn’t sell and when “Nevermind” started taking off, Cobain was living in his car.
If that’s upper middle class then I’d hate to see what you’d think lower middle class looks like.
David Ross: In the America of my youth, the wages of a car mechanic and a waitress was definitely middle class at the least, not lower, and often was upper. My father had a very comparable job, while my mother worked as a part time secretary, and we lived very much in the center of the middle class.
I suspect Cobain was living in his car because he hadn’t yet succeeded as a musician, and choose that life.
Weird Al has done some great parody gigging various music videos!
As I remember (hazy in sections), David Ross is spot-on. At that time (late 80’s into very early 90’s) plenty of the musicians in Seattle and elsewhere in the Pac. N.W. where from decidedly not upper middle class backgrounds. That showed in their music.
I think I’m nostalgic of late, with the recent passing of Gary Rossington taking me back to all the styles of music I was impacted by at various times in my younger years. Grunge included!
I’m sorry, Zim, but Cobain’s home life was wretched. I forgot to mention that those parents divorced.
David Ross: Okay, except that a wretched home life is irrelevant to upper, middle, or lower class. Different issue entirely.
Nirvana –
“All Apologies”
MTV Unplugged 1993
https://youtu.be/-BsB8A3Todo
6:10
Courtney Love would drive Jesus to step out.
Jeff Wright – What Jesus has is better than anything Courtney Love can dream of.