As “Smells Like Teen Spirit” became a massive global hit, Cobain grew to resent the song, with Nirvana regularly removing it from their set lists. “Everyone has focused on that song so much.

With “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on rotation and Nevermind becoming the top album on Billboard,Nirvana had proven that the grunge scene could become a dominant force in music, and it did.

Nirvana's 1991 hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" defined grunge music for a generation of music fans. On the 15th anniversary of singer Kurt Cobain's death, NPR looks back on the impact of the song ...

Nirvana performed “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for the first time on April 17, 1991 at a dark Seattle club in the shadow of a highway overpass. The show was hastily organized, ...

Within months, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" would make Nirvana famous around the world. The song forged an instant connection with Generation X — the generation sandwiched between baby boomers and ...

A composer reimagines Nirvana's classic hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as a reggae song, thereby proving that this song is great in any genre. The post Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit ...

In fact, some people know “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and no other Nirvana songs. The song often shows up on lists of the best songs of the 1990s and the best songs of all time. Cobain, however ...

Kurt Cobain came up with a line from Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for parties. During a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone, Cobain was asked to explain the origin of “Here we are now ...

Smells Like Teen Spirit was one of the last songs written before Nirvana travelled to California to record Nevermind, Kurt sending producer Butch Vig a cassette of its demo a week ahead of the ...

The week that “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Nirvana’s generational anthem and biggest-ever hit, reached its Hot 100 peak, the glam-metal band Mr. Big entered the top 10, on their way to hitting #1.

Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"—one of the most iconic songs of all time—was released as a single on September 10, 1991.