Nirvana's Teen Spirit Vocal Track An Online Hit

03/06/2012
. (Banana 101.5) A YouTube clip featuring late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's isolated vocal track on 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' has become an Internet sensation over the past week, two years after it was posted on the popular video-sharing website.

The 1991 release of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was a watershed moment in the history of rock music. The meteoric rise of that one song ushered in an entire new wave of bands that saved the then flat-lining genre.

The massive single has been played millions of times and is still a staple at rock radio stations today, but fans are hearing the song in an entirely different way after an old YouTube clip got noticed by the interwebs last week. Read more and take a listen here.

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