This morning on the radio they kicked off 4 days of 90's music for a Way Back Holiday Weekend. So I got to thinking about 90's music and one of the most influential songs of the 90's came from a band that rocketed to stardom. Everyone knows Nirvana, yet relative few know the band that fueled Nirvana's song that led to them being wildly successful - Pixies.
Kurt Cobain, on influencing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which he admitted was a conscious attempt to co-opt the Pixies' style. In a January 1994 interview with Rolling Stone, he said, "I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it [smiles]. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band—or at least in a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard."
Where is My Mind - Pixies
I didn't truly appreciate "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as much as I do now. Looking back I understand more clearly the influence it had on changing the music landscape. Without Nirvana would we have Cage The Elephant or the Foo Fighters? I'm glad we will never have to know the answer to that.
I'm worse at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed...MH
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