‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was by far the biggest rock song to come out of America – hell, out of the entire world – in 1991. The single came with a video clip that became a cultural meme in its own right, with its dark tones and angst-ridden close-ups often copied by bands well into the alt-rock and nu-metal era. The death of Cobain aged only 27 has lent the song a certain heavyweight gravitas that the singer probably never envisioned.
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