Of the song, Cobain famously said he “was basically trying to rip off the Pixies… we used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.” It’s an apt homage, considering that Nirvana’s explosive success - and Nevermind’s ushering in of mainstream alternative - was in many ways a culmination of the long road tread by the bands that comprised the ’80s college rock and indie underground universe.įootage of that debut performance of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on Apwhich you could say was the opening salvo in “the year punk broke” - was included on Nirvana’s posthumous 2004 box set With the Lights Out.Check it out above. Twenty years ago tonight, Nirvana took the stage at the OK Hotel in Seattle, Wash., and played “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in concert for the first time - debuting a song that not only would change the lives of Kurt Cobain and Co., but would, in just a few months time, alter the course of ’90s popular music. Stream songs including Heartbreaker (Live), Anorexorcist (Live) and more. Similar Music movies includes Transformers: Age of Extinction, Sing Street, Jackass: The Movie, The Death and Return of Superman, Be Cool. Listen to With the Lights Out by Nirvana on Apple Music. The film was produced on a budget of $0 and grossed $0 at the box office.

Also premiering is an unlikely performance of Jacques Brel and Rod McKuen's 'Seasons In The Sun' shot at a Rio de Janeiro studio.

Noteworthy among them are debut renditions of 'Pennyroyal Tea', 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' both from early 1991. Highlighted on the With The Lights Out DVD is a previously unreleased video of nine songs performed in 1988 at bassist Krist Novoselic's mother's house in Aberdeen, Washington the rare 'In Bloom' Sub Pop music video, and 10 never-before-seen live performances. It has a rating of 7/10 and has received 9 votes. The movie was released in multiple languages, including English.

It has a runtime of 101 minutes and is not family-friendly. Nirvana: With the Lights Out is a Music movie released in 2004.

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