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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Considered by many to be the ultimate grunge anthem, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was the lead single for Nirvana’s second studio album and major label debut, September 1991’s
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit Samples
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See all of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit [Live at Reading]
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit - Boombox Rehearsals
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[Verse 1] / Come out and play / Make up the rule / I know, I hope / To die from you / To some I'm dead / I'll walk from you / I know, the lie / The way to go / [Pre Chorus] / Hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit - Live At The Paramount/1991
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Devonshire Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Patti Smith – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Number 10 from Patti Smith’s 2007 album Twelve.
She takes a big departure from Nirvana’s original. She chooses to go back before Nirvana to an Appalachian sound of acoustic
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Halocene – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Butch Vig Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Rehearsal Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Come out and play / Make up the rule / I know, I hope / To die from you / To some I'm dead / I'll walk from you / I know, the lie / The way to go / [Pre Chorus] / Hello
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Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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This is Amos' cover of the 1991 Nirvana song of the same name.
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MIYAVI – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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[MIYAVI「Smells Like Teen Spirit」歌詞] @genius.com / Load up on guns, bring your friends / It's fun to lose and to pretend / She's over-bored and self-assured / Oh no, I know a dirty
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live In Del Mar, California, 1991)
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Load up on guns, 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 / Hello, hello
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Malia J – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Appearing on the soundtrack for 2021’s Black Widow, Malia J would emerge from a brief hiatus with her cover of Nirvana’s classic track “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” More lulling and
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (ATLiens Remix) [Mixed]
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[Drop] / Hello, hello, hello, how low / Hello, hello, hello, how low / Hello, hello, hello, how low / Hello, hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live at Del Mar Fairgrounds, CA., December 28, 1991)
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Pansy Division – Smells Like Queer Spirit
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Against all odds, we appear / Grew up brainwashed / But turned out queer / Bunsplitters, rugmunchers too / We screw just how we want to screw / Hello, hello, hello, homo / Hello
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Robert Glasper Experiment (Ft. Lalah Hathaway) – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Load up on guns, 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 / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live - Top of the Pops)
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[Verse 1] / Load up on drugs, kill your friends / It's fun to lose and to defend / She's overjoyed and self-assured / Oh no, I know a dirty word / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live In Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1991)
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Bruthal 6 – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Load up on guns / Bring your friends / It's fun to lose and to pretend / She's over bored, self-assured / Oh no / I know a dirty word / Hello, hello, hello, how low? / Hello, hello
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The Used – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover)
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Load up on guns, 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 / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live In Seattle, Seattle Center Arena - January 7, 1994)
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[Intro] / This song made Seattle the most livable city in America / [Verse 1] / Load up on guns, bring your friends / It's fun to lose and to pretend / She's over-bored and self-
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Think Up Anger (Ft. Malia J) – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live In Tokyo, Japan, 1992)
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Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live In Tokyo, Japan, 1992) ... Lyrics for this song have yet to be released. Please check back once the song has been released.
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"Weird Al" Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana
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Yankovic takes on Nirvana’s 1991 hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in this parody, which talks about how you can’t understand a word what the hell Kurt Cobain was saying in the song.
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Melvins (Ft. Leif Garrett) – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Cover of Nirvana’s seminal hit.
Kurt Cobain was a childhood friend of King Buzzo’s who sometimes travelled with and played with the Melvins members, including in his pre-Nirvana
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R3HAB & Amba Shepherd – Smells Like Teen Spirit - R3HAB VIP Remix
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live - Top of the Pops) Samples
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See all of “Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live - Top of the Pops)” by Nirvana’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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The_miracle_aligner – Smells Like Teen Spirit in Classical Latin
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[Verse 1] / Pará pílís, trahe amícós / Perdere, fingere fruor / Perlassus est et superbus / Ó nón, cupídinem sció / [Pre-Chorus] / Salvé, salvé, salvé, parve? / (Salvé, salvé
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live on The Word)
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I want all these people in this room to know, that Courtney Love, the lead singer of the sensational pop group Hole, is the best fuck in the world / Load up on guns, bring your
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Richard Cheese – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Load up your 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
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Team Spirit (Dota) – SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT
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[Текст песни «SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT»] / [Куплет 1: Mira] / Load up on game, bring your friends / It's fun to play and to contest / We over-trained and self-secure / Oh no, I know
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Kevin Devine – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover)
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / Hello, hello
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit Samples
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See all of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana’s samples
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Kaleida – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Verse 2] / I'm worse
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The Muppets Barbershop Quartet – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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This cover of the 1991 song Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana was sung in “The Muppets” as one of the performances during the Telethon.
It is sung by The Muppets barbershop
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Sam Tinnesz – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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[Verse 1] / Load up on guns, 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 / [Hook] / Hello, hello, hello
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Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (Ft. Alisan Porter) – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Load up on guns / Bring your friends / It's fun to lose / And to pretend / She's overboard / Myself assured / I know, I know a dirty word / Hello, hello, hello, hello / Hello
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Robyn Adele Anderson – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Load up on guns / Bring your friends / It's fun to lose / And to pretend / She's overboard / Myself assured / I know, I know a dirty word / Hello, hello, hello, hello / Hello
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What's The "Dirty Word" In "Smells Like Teen Spirit?"
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Hey guys! While writing this I’m working on a quick cleanup of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and got a bit confused while trying to decipher this couplet:
She’s overboard and self-assured
Oh no I know, a dirty word
The current annotation includes a quote that explains the first half, but nothing about the second half. I’m not sure what the “dirty word” is — a Google search brings up quite a few possibilities, but there’s no consensus. Anyone have any ideas?
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