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The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)

Summary by Open Culture
It’s almost 35 years ago now that Nirvana’s video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” debuted on MTV’s 120 Minutes and, for better or worse, inaugurated the grunge era. The video (below) arrived as a shock and a thrill to a generation too young to remember punk and sick of the steady stream of cheesy corporate dance music and hair metal that characterized the late-80s. For everyone outside the small Seattle scene that nurtured them and the tape-tradin…
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Open Culture broke the news on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.
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