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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 (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 (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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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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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 (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 (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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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?
Scholars: @TheALEXterminator @sjcru @Alex_Koenig @GavinMatthews @igordebraga
cc: @genius-editorial-board @rock-genius-editors
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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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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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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 - 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 (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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Imagine Dragons – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is one of the most complex cover-songs of all time. During the band’s first performance of the track at Leeds, lead singer Dan Reynolds famously
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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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"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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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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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 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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Neco Arc – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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[Verse 1: Neco Arc] / 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: Neco Arc
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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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Nirvana – Come as You Are
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Initially thought to have great crossover potential by their management, “Come As You Are” was intended be the main single on Nirvana’s second album, Nevermind. (“Smells Like
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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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Noctura – 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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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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Anthony Vincent – Smells Like Teen Spirit in 20 Styles
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[Nirvana Style #1] / Load up on guns, bring your friends / It's fun to lose and to pretend / [Post Malone Style] / She's over bored and self assured / Oh no, I know a dirty word
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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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Scala & Kolacny Brothers – Smells Like Teen Spirit (live)
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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? / 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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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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Jon Murdock – Nirvana Freestyle
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Jon freestyles over “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” one of Nirvana’s biggest hits.
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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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blaccmass – Smells Like Teen Drill
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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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Shanade – 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
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Joan Jett (Ft. Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear) – 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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