Why don’t we just kind of slow this down a bit?’ So I started playing the verse part. When Cobain presented it to them it was comprised of just the main riff and the chorus vocal melody, in particular, bassist Krist Novoselic called it “ridiculous.” In response, Cobain made the band play the riff for “an hour and a half” and in a 2001 interview with Guitar World, Novoselic recalled that after playing the riff numerous times, he thought, “‘Wait a minute. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard”.Ĭobain did not begin to write “Smells Like Teen Spirit” until a few weeks before recording started on Nevermind in 1991, and bandmates didn’t like the track at first. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band-or at least a Pixies cover band. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. “I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. In a January 1994 Rolling Stone interview, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain revealed that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was an attempt to write a song in the style of the Pixies, a band he greatly admired. However, despite the greatness of “Lithium”, which will be discussed in more detail later, there is one track that was practically solely responsible for the rock and roll revolution of the 90’s, and that is the first single and the opener to Nevermind, “Smells like Teen Spirit”. There was just something about “Lithium” that was addictive to me, and for months I didn’t get tired of it, and now as a 36 year old man I still need a dose of “Lithium” from time to time. Thanks mom and dad for being so confused. death, blood, guts and human sacrifice.” But instead it was the puzzled lyrics of Kurt Cobain, and after listening for a few seconds, they eventually said “why don’t you listen to another song” and handed the CD player back over to me and forgot about it. What they were thinking was “this is going to be something satanic in nature, I.E. They wondered why I would keep listening to a song so many times in a row, eventually telling me to hand over the CD player so they could hear what I was listening too.
Having that track on repeat was much to the dismay of my parents. “Lithium” was my medicine for all that country music that was eating away at my rebellious early teen adolescence on that weekend trip. One of my fondest memories of Nevermind was when I was a 13 year old kid listening to the track “Lithium” over and over again in the family car while we were on a vacation in Branson, MO. By all definitions of a classic, it fits the mold. It inspired musicians from all over the world to pick up an instrument and the rebellion and the attitude were unlike anything that had ever burst on the music scene. What can be said about the greatest rock album of a generation? It changed music as we know it.
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