Impact! Songs That Changed the World - Smells Like Teen Spirit / Nirvana, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Tori Amos, Riki Rachtman (2007)

Certain songs have come to define the times in which they appeared as they proved to be the catalyst for the transformation of the cultural and political landscape. Most set trends in music, fashion and dance while flouting convention and testing the boundaries of society's accepted moral values.

Each program in the Impact! series puts the spotlight on the songs that have left an indelible mark on the world. Besides setting the scene for the release of the song, the programs feature the songs creator(s) and explore its cultural impact and the ways that it changed the course of history. Guests include recording artists, music industry executives, cultural and political pundits and the music fans themselves for whom these songs became their life's soundtrack.

Kurt Cobain of the Seattle-based group Nirvana, who committed suicide in April of 1994, was a complex character who took his music very seriously. Combining a punk sensibility with hard rock to create a unique sound that would come to be known as "grunge," the three-man group would soon find themselves the voice and obsession of the disenfranchised youth of the early '90s that the media would soon dub "Generation X." Like the Sex Pistols, the emergence of Nirvana from a suddenly vibrant Seattle music scene, was facilitated by the dreadful state of music at the time as it pertained to the younger generation. Smells Like Teen Spirit, inspired by the name of a commercially available teenage girls' deodorant, became the unofficial anthem for "Gen Xers," and was more than partly responsible for the subsequent rise of a number of groups created in their image.

With song clips, archive interviews with Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic ; Tori Amos, Don Kaye of Billboard Magazine, Grant Alden of Seattle s Rocket Magazine, Charles R. Cross (Kurt Cobain Biographer Heavier Than Heaven ), Riki Rachtman of MTV S Headbanger s Ball , Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop Records. Product Description