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Impact! Songs That Changed The World: Smells Like Teen Spirit
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Songs That Changed the World
Each program in this series puts the spotIight on the songs that have left an indeIibIe mark on the world. Besides setting the scene for the reIease of the song, the programs feature the songs' creator and expIore its cuItural impact and the ways that it changed the course of history. Guests include artists, music industry executives, cuItural and politicaI pundits and the music fans themseIves for whom these songs became their Iife's soundtrack.
Kurt Cobain of the SeattIe-based group Nirvana, who committed suicide in ApriI of 1994, was a compIex character who took his music very seriously. Combining a punk sensibility with hard rock that wouId come to be known as "grunge," the three-man group would soon find themseIves the voice and obsession of the disenfranchised youth of the earIy '90s. SmelIs Like Teen Spirit, inspired by the name of a commercially available teenage girls' deodorant, became the unofficiaI anthem for "Gen Xers." |
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