We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.РІР‚СњР”В¬obain freely admitted that he thought the opening riff to Smells Like Teen Spirit was РІР‚СљclichedРІР‚Сњ and that Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl werenРІР‚в„ўt keen: РІР‚СљIt was so close to a Boston riff or РІР‚ВLouie, LouieРІР‚в„ў. 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. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies.

Kurt told Rolling StoneРІР‚в„ўs David Fricke in 1994: РІР‚СљI was trying to write the ultimate pop song. Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill performs onstage at O2 Academy Brixton on June 10, 2019. Cobain had no idea that it was a deodorant. KurtРІР‚в„ўs then-girlfriend Tobi Vail (who played drums in HannaРІР‚в„ўs band Bikini Kill) used Teen Spirit and this piece of drunken graffiti sparked off the musicianРІР‚в„ўs imagination as he worked on new songs for the band. I was like, How the fuck can he use РІР‚ВKurt smells like teen spiritРІР‚в„ў as a lyric?РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљI was like, as long as I can I can get out of this conversation, IРІР‚в„ўm totally cool.

I want to use it as a lyric in one of my songsРІР‚в„ў. РІР‚СљSo I wasnРІР‚в„ўt that happy when six months later, Kurt called me up and said РІР‚ВHey, do you remember that night? There was this thing that you wrote on my wall and it was actually kind of cool. Lindsay Brice/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Singer Kathleen Hanna of the punk group Bikini Kill onstage in 1993. I woke up and I had one of those hangovers where you think that if you walked in the next room, there could be a dead body in there.' РІР‚СљThen I passed out with the marker in my hand. I took out a Sharpie marker and I wrote a bunch of shit all over his bedroom wall. Hanna went on: РІР‚СљI ended up at KurtРІР‚в„ўs apartment and I smashed up a bunch of shit.

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