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When I came up with the guitar part, Krist looked at me and said, ‘That is so ridiculous’. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.”Ĭobain freely admitted that he thought the opening riff to Smells Like Teen Spirit was “cliched” and that Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl weren’t keen: “It was so close to a Boston riff or ‘Louie, Louie’. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. Kurt told Rolling Stone’s David Fricke in 1994: “I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill performs onstage at O2 Academy Brixton on June 10, 2019. Cobain had no idea that it was a deodorant. Kurt’s then-girlfriend Tobi Vail (who played drums in Hanna’s band Bikini Kill) used Teen Spirit and this piece of drunken graffiti sparked off the musician’s imagination as he worked on new songs for the band. I was like, How the fuck can he use ‘Kurt smells like teen spirit’ as a lyric?” “I was like, as long as I can I can get out of this conversation, I’m totally cool. I want to use it as a lyric in one of my songs’. “So I wasn’t that happy when six months later, Kurt called me up and said ‘Hey, do you remember that night? There was this thing that you wrote on my wall and it was actually kind of cool. Lindsay Brice/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Singer Kathleen Hanna of the punk group Bikini Kill onstage in 1993. I woke up and I had one of those hangovers where you think that if you walked in the next room, there could be a dead body in there." “Then I passed out with the marker in my hand. I took out a Sharpie marker and I wrote a bunch of shit all over his bedroom wall. Hanna went on: “I ended up at Kurt’s apartment and I smashed up a bunch of shit.