Nirvana Song Called Best of Past 25 Years

While I like the grunge sound of it sometimes, when I'm in the mood for it, I never really got what he was saying over the screaming. So, here's the lyrics, just in case others wondered too:

Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

Hello, hello, hello, how low

I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been (tribe)
And always will until the end

Hello, hello, hello, how low

And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind

hello, hello, hello, how low

With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yay, a denial

Oh yeah! Poetry...sheer poetry! [img]graemlins/images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Oh Nancy, life isn't a pretty poem either.

If I had to reject a band because their sad and pessimistic lyrics the only artist that I would like was Barny or maybe the Teletubbies.

Originally Posted By Magill:

I'm worse at what I do best

With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious

Oh yeah! Poetry...sheer poetry! [img]graemlins/images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">The specific lyrics I pointed out ARE poetry. The first one came 5 years before Paul wrote "I go back so far, I'm in front of me." And 10 years before "Any Road" was released ("It's so far out the way out is in"). I think that says a lot.

The second verse was basically how Kurt was feeling at the time. I read somewhere that Kurt is a coward for committing suicide, leaving a wife and child behind. First off, he probably didn't commit suicide, check out www.cobaincase.com and there's a lot of evidence that proves it. And that's not cowardly. It takes guts to leave it all behind. If he did commit suicide (I won't rule that out entirely), I'm sure it took a lot of thinking to come to a decision.

He was the biggest genius in the 90s music scene (and no, I'm not forgetting Paul, Bob, Liam and Noel, etc.). He spoke to a generation, for a comparison, he was not unlike John Lennon in the late 1960s.

Originally Posted By leonardobeat:
Oh Nancy, life isn't a pretty poem either.

If I had to reject a band because their sad and pessimistic lyrics the only artist that I would like was Barny or maybe the Teletubbies.

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Leo, you know what these lyrics say to me? Someone who was so wasted on drugs that can only manage to write about violence, self-loathing and pity. These lyrics remind me of when I read "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath when I was 13. And that traumatized me for quite a while. Don't misunderstand. I'm hardly narrow-minded about this; I understand teenage angst. I've been there and hope to get my own daughter through it unscathed. For me, those were the worst years of my life that I'd rather not go into. I seriously doubt my own daughter would find comfort in song such as this. I mean, it's already an old song anyway. But, whatever outlet she chooses, we'll just have to cross that bridge when we get there.
And RingoRama, I recently saw a biography on Kurt's life (a few months ago). His bandmates and friends clearly stated, without a doubt, that he was a very troubled, depressed individual..throughout his whole life. Running away from his troubled homelife, living under bridges in Portland(?). I seem to recall that Kurt had left a suicide note and had attempted the act once before he finally succeeded. Thinking about it now, maybe the note was from a previous failed attempt. Not sure.
On a lighter note, I was impressed by the fact that Kurt was a big Beatle fan. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Originally Posted By Magill:
While I like the grunge sound of it sometimes, when I'm in the mood for it, I never really got what he was saying over the screaming. So, here's the lyrics, just in case others wondered too:

Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

Hello, hello, hello, how low

I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been (tribe)
And always will until the end

Hello, hello, hello, how low

And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind

hello, hello, hello, how low

With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yay, a denial

Oh yeah! Poetry...sheer poetry! [img]graemlins/images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Come on now.I know it isn't poetry,but it's just a great rock song."I Am The Walrus" doesn't make any sense either."Yellow Matter Custard dripping from a dead dog's eye",Coo,coo, ca joob?It sometimes doesn't have to make sense.Its just that their both great songs.

smells like teen spirt is an awsome song one of my fave songs (considering Nirvana is one of my fave bands) but i mean if any Nirvana song that should been #1 on that list it should have been "Lithium" that song is awsome or even "come as you are"or an even awsomer somg "rape me"Nivrana really symbloys the way most of us have felt at one time or antoher through theyre lyrics and thats why they were as sucessful as the were-and still are awsome band-and glad that they are # 1 but i think that vh1 should have thought this one out a little more and should have made a better song sellection but i mean thats how i feel im not really up to date on the past 25 years but you know what i mean ?!
ttyl!

Originally Posted By SF4-EVER:
Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" the greatest song of the past quarter-century.

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Oh, Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

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Smells Like Nirvana
Al Yankovic

What is this song all about?
Can't figure any lyrics out
How do the words to it go?
I wish you'd tell me I don't know, oh no
don't know, don't know, don't know...

Now I'm mumbling and I'm screaming
And I don't know what I'm singing
Crank the volume, ears are bleeding
I still don't know what I'm singing
Were so loud and inchoerent
Boy this oughta bug your parents
Yeah

It's unintel - ligible
I just can't get it through my skull
It hard to bargle nawdle zouss
With all these marbles in my mouth
Don't know....

Well, we don't sound like Madonna
Here we are now, were Nirvana
Sing distinctly? We don't wanna
Buy our album, were Nirvana
A garage band from Seattle
Well, it sure beats raising cattle
Yeah

And I forgot the next verse
Oh Well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The lyric sheet's so hard to find
What are the words, Oh Nevermind
Don't Know...

Well I'm yelling and were playing
But I don't know what I'm saying
What's the message I'm conveying?
Can you tell me what I'm saying?
So have you got some idea?
Didn't think so - well I'll see ya

Sayonara, sayonara
Ayonawa, odinawa
Odinawa, yodinya
Yaddayadda, yaaahyaaah
Ayaaaaaaah!

Thank you, Weird Al.

You gave a silly song what it needed.

Q: Why is it so windy in Seattle?

A: Because Nirvana Sucks and Soundgarden Blows!

Blackguard, thank you for reminding me, I wanted to watch Spaceballs tonight.

"She's gone from suck to blow!"

Anyway, I kinda think they should've taken "Heart-Shaped Box" over SLTS.

Originally Posted By Blackguard:
Q: Why is it so windy in Seattle?

A: Because Nirvana Sucks and Soundgarden Blows!

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">intresting i never knew that they sucked and blowed but really they dont suck and i dont know who sound garden is but Nirvana is awsome if it wasnt for them grunge and punk wouldnt be how it is now so there for they odnt suck but soundgarden can blow alll they want

Oh please! Punk today isn't even punk! It is just pop like everything else that is played on MTV. Sure it is not Britney Spears, but it certainly isn't punk!

Having tattoos doesn't make you punk. Don't even get me started on Good Charlotte... [img]graemlins/images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] Their song "Lifestyles Of the Rich and Famous"? What in the heck do they think they are? Not famous? Not rich? Bah! Bitching about something that they are a part of...Makes sense to me...

Whatever happened to the real punk? The Ramones? The Sex Pistols?

All I know is that there were a million other songs that were relesed in the past 25 years that could blow Nirvana's song away! They are really undeserving of the title "best song of the past 25 years"!

The Sex Pistols were Punk at its most raw. They were all attitude. Today's Punk is watered down and ready for mass acceptence. Green Day and Avril Lavine may be popular but they lack the sheer brutish malevolence of the Pistols. Johnny Rotten spat out lyrics with his anger lurking behind each word. Never seeming to care if the songs were catchy enough, he used the songs to get his point across.

By comparison Avril Lavine uses too many hooks in her writing.

[size="1"][ Jun 15, 2003, 06:42 PM: Message Edited By: Blackguard ][/size]

Originally Posted By IWantToTellYou:
Oh please! Punk today isn't even punk! It is just pop like everything else that is played on MTV. Sure it is not Britney Spears, but it certainly isn't punk!

Having tattoos doesn't make you punk. Don't even get me started on Good Charlotte... [img]graemlins/images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] Their song "Lifestyles Of the Rich and Famous"? What in the heck do they think they are? Not famous? Not rich? Bah! Bitching about something that they are a part of...Makes sense to me...

Whatever happened to the real punk? The Ramones? The Sex Pistols?

All I know is that there were a million other songs that were relesed in the past 25 years that could blow Nirvana's song away! They are really undeserving of the title "best song of the past 25 years"!

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">omg! r u for realz!! the ramones sucked no doubt about it the sex pistols sucked ! and what did u say about gc! GUUURRRR U OLD PPL! and as for that song "life styles of the rich and famous" did it ever dawn on u hey mabey they wernt rich and famous when they wrote that ! DUH! but really real punk ???? not old skool if you really really want real punk! buy new music such as good charlotte**** or even better The White Stripes or Green day and most of all NIRVANA

o ps: old people= 1983 and older

[size="1"][ Jun 15, 2003, 09:11 PM: Message Edited By: D-HaRrIsOnSgUrl28 ][/size]

the clash is better.

I can't understand anything you are saying. Abbreviations are fine in chats, when it's fast-paced, but seriously, on a message board there's no need to use them, unless people can easily understand them.

Originally Posted By i_am_free:
the clash is better.

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">I totally agree. Spoken like a true ex-punker, old geezer. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[size="1"][ Jun 15, 2003, 10:22 PM: Message Edited By: Magill ][/size]

the clash is awsome

Originally Posted By Magill:
I totally agree. Spoken like a true ex-punker, old geezer. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">No matter how old you are, you'll always be younger than me. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] Kinda like what George once said about he and Paul.

[size="1"][ Jun 16, 2003, 09:34 AM: Message Edited By: Blackguard ][/size]

Jeez, according to your logic (being born in 1983 or before is old) wow, then I'm old! (1978) heheh [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] Anyway, I like the Clash better than the Sex Pistols or the Ramones. And yes, please type out full words instead of abbreviations on a message board. Not everyone will understand what you're trying to say and it seems more polite to write out full words and doesn't take that much longer either. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
-Kristi