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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 spotlight on the songs that have Ieft an indelible mark on the worId. Besides setting the scene for the release of the song, the programs feature the songs' creator and explore its cuIturaI impact and the ways that it changed the course of history. Guests incIude artists, music industry executives, culturaI 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 April of 1994, was a complex character who took his music very seriousIy. Combining a punk sensibiIity with hard rock that wouId come to be known as "grunge," the three-man group wouId 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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