A YouTube clip featuring late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain‘s
isolated vocal track on ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ has become an
Internet sensation over the past week — two years after it was posted on
the popular video-sharing website.
The 1991 release of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was a
watershed moment in the history of rock music. The meteoric rise of that
one song ushered in an entire new wave of bands that saved the then
flat-lining genre. The massive single has been played millions of times
and is still a staple at rock radio stations today, but fans are hearing
the song in an entirely different way after an old YouTube clip got
noticed by the interwebs last week.
Last week, a two-year-old YouTube clip featuring Kurt Cobain’s
unaccompanied vocal track on ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ made it to the
front page of several major music websites after the clip was posted on
blogger Bobby Ownski’s The Big Picture.
The haunting clip offers a new way to appreciate both Cobain’s vocals
and the subtle brilliance added to the equation by ‘Nevermind’ producer
Butch Vig.
In a society where Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ can become an overnight
sensation via YouTube, it is somewhat criminal that this piece of rock
history has gone largely unnoticed for two years. The ‘Smells Like Teen
Spirit’ isolated vocal track is not the only one of Cobain’s on the Web.
There are several others, including ‘Drain You,’ ‘Lounge Act’ and ‘You
Know You’re Right.’
Check them out below:
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