Your video, Nirvana--Smells Like Teen Spirit, has made it into your personal Highest Rated Videos listing. Congratulations on a job well done. For you contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^eric3579:
The band that single handily killed the big hair bands. Thank god.

Thank God? Unfortunately, it also killed my way of making a living. You may be thanking God, but it left me homeless, and without a job. Not to mention the thousands of other folks who worked in the rock cubs that lost their jobs when a ton of the clubs that hired 70's, 80's, & early 90's style cover bands closed.

Not Nirvana's fault you didn't have a vocation beyond being a hair-flicking Ayatollah of RockNRolla. \m/ \m/ Rawk!

>> ^eric3579:
The band that single handily killed the big hair bands. Thank god.


Thank God? Unfortunately, it also killed my way of making a living. You may be thanking God, but it left me homeless, and without a job. Not to mention the thousands of other folks who worked in the rock cubs that lost their jobs when a ton of the clubs that hired 70's, 80's, & early 90's style cover bands closed.

But then again, look how long "grunge" stuck around, and look where rock music is heading today. Right back to the hair band rock and roll style it was before Kurt the rest of them showed up. Don't get me wrong, I like this song and other Nirvana stuff. Hell, we played this song two times a night. And I loved singing it. (Used to do the Weird Al version for fun sometimes.) But, I guess it goes to show you that you really can't kill rock and roll.

Hey I was just the 87th vote.... weird!

Seriously though that's awesome. I still love listening to Smells Like Teen Spirit after any concert just to laugh.

sorry, dupe
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ukulele-Orchestra-of-Great-Britain-Performs-Nirvanas-Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit

Experiment: Turn off the viddy sound. Cue up 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' or some other similarly rockin' tune. Now start the song and the vid at roughly the same time.

I think Patti Smiths cover is better.. so I posted it
http://www.videosift.com/video/Patti-Smith-Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit

I always take issue with top lists, and as a musician, this one provokes me doubly so. First thing I'd say is, is this top, or top well known? Sure there are some goodies on there, but there is better out there to be found apart from popular radio and the-usual-classics-even-your-granny-recognizes. But that is of course opinion. One thing is fact: any list that would include Teen Spirit, and in position #2(!) no less, instantly loses all credibility!

*storms out angrily, still obviously no better at handling Top lists*

I think the thing is, this isnt the coolest 20 riffs, this is the 20 most recognizable. Most of these riffs (in the video) are simplistic and fairly boring, with some notable exceptions, but really, Smells like Teen Spirit does not belong on a list of the "coolest" and neither does Beautiful People, let alone Brain Stew. These were popular, not necessarily good.

Yes, Iron Butterfly and I have though of a few more since I posted and I will probably think of many more. I think a best of list is very subjective to the list makers personal taste. I mean if you hate Nirvana, for example, you will not put Teen Spirit on a best of list. It doesn't make it any less of a good riff you just personally don't like Nirvana. Like choosing a favorite song. I would be hard pressed to pick one favorite song or one favorite band even because my moods change from week to week. This week it's death metal(Morbid Angel, Deicide, Suffocation ect.). Last week it was black metal(Venom, Mayhem, Darkthrone ect.). And next week it may be something else. Depending on which week you ask you may get an entirely different answer. I wrote about this condition one time and I coined the term "multiple music personality disorder" or m.m.p.d. for short. This is an affliction that render the person broke from trying to keep up with and collect so many different genres of music. I blame the internet for making all these obscure band readily available. Thanks for the background on the Black Sabbath riff. Oh that reminds me that riff in the middle of Chapel Of Ghouls(Morbid Angel) and Crazy Train(Ozzy) and Whiplash-Metallica,now thats a huge riff and Holy Diver(Dio) and The Trooper(Iron Maiden) and..........................................................

It is a dupe of a video I posted! My original works!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Ukulele-Orchestra-of-Great-Britain-Performs-Nirvanas-Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit

*discard

farhad: check the audio-levels on the bottom of the Google-player...

Awesome! This sure stinks of something, but I don't think it's teen spirit... ;-) The lead singer is kind of cute, though... =P