The Nirvana Iceberg Explained

I UNDERSTAND I MISPRONOUNCED SILVER AND IN UTERO, GET OVER IT, WATCH THE VIDEO. THANKS FOR WATCHING :)

Credit:
Live At Paramount (Short Version)
In Bloom Version 2 Revised
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Sadfreak (prod. bydowncast)
Heart-Shaped Box
Smells Like Nirvana
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Lithium
Smells Like Teen Spirit Live
You Know Your Right LP Version

None of the video clips are mine or anything like that, let me know if you want credit or something.

Sorry this is different than my other videos, but idk wanted to make a video for myself. Hope you enjoy, thanks for watching. Peace.

[Musical_gamer]

Nirvana is the only band that could get kicked out of their own album release party for starting a food fight.

[Chris_]

"I was simply blown away when I found that Kurt Cobain liked my work, and have always wanted to talk to him about his reasons for covering ‘The Man Who Sold the World'. It was a good straight forward rendition and sounded somehow very honest. It would have been nice to have worked with him, but just talking with him would have been real cool.”

- David Bowie

[aquariusfriar]

No worries about the pronounciation. I love newer fans learning about Nirvana. There's no sense splitting hairs over this point. Thanks for making the video!

[mothbutch]

Just to make a correction, Kurt was not a born again Christian but rather took a lot of inspiration from the religion itself. As far as we know he was non religious just a dude who liked to explore and experiment with religious tones in his music and art.

[shipwreckedonapopulatedisland]

Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on his wall.
The reference was to the fact Kurt was dating Toby Vail (Bikini Kill drummer) at the time and that was a deodorant she used.
Kurt thought it was some phrophetic play on words when in fact Kathleen was poking fun at the fact that he smelt like her bandmate.
He wasn't directly inspired by the deodorant brand.

[kurtcobainfan]

I wish Kurt Cobain was here now. I miss him. I like him. He's raw, real, rare, He was more than Nirvana's frontman. He was a down to earth human being. RIP — KDC

[Fayesnotthatcool]

I grew up in a very homophobic and religious family yet my father still put Nirvana on not knowing about this, as a young child who was closeted, I used to research this and found that out. It was comforting to hear that.

[bobseymour]

That's not how you pronounce In Utero but this is a great video

[ellie_olivia.]

I've been waiting for nirvana iceberg for a long time, thankyou for finnaly making one. While the band career was pretty short, they actually have some really interesting lore and things to explore

[KINGMONKEY]

I was 11 years old when Nirvana released Nevermind. It absolutely blew me away. I was brought up on The Damned, Pistols, The Saints and Alot of Pixies. Come as you are is the song that grabbed my attention even though Smells LikeTeen Spirit was on TV alot. Just raw rock n roll at its absolute best. There performance at Reading showed the world and me just how much the people loved this band and still do.

[andrewtheaverage]

How can this have no mention at all of Pat Smear?
In the rehearsals for the MTV Kurt introduces him as the newest member of Nirvana and he was with the bank for the last 6 months before Kurt's demise. He wasn't a big part, but he deserves a mention. He also joined playing guitar when they were inducted into the R&R hall of fame

[myoura]

i like that you have a hard time reading yet still post videos where you talk. like genuinely, most people would be too scared, your awesome man. i use to be terrified to read in-front of people during high school, because id always mess up. i should have never cared man.

[randomguyontheinternet]

There's something about Nirvana and other Grunge/Punk groups around the time thats just so infectious. You don't even have to listen to a lot of their work, hell you could even just start with one of their boxsets of rarities and cut demos and immediately the music and the band just engulfs you into it.

[raymondhartmeijer]

According to Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg in his book, David Geffen was perfectly fine with the way "In Utero" sounded, and at no point the record company hesitated to release it. This rumour was picked up by the media through poor sources around the band, but not from the band or recordlabel itself.
What in fact happened was that Kurt himself was initially unhappy with the way Albini had mixed in his vocals, therefor asked Scott Litt to remix some of the record

[podwallie]

i’m pretty sure the ‘chest graffiti’ is referring to the photo shoot where Kurt had ‘riot grrrl’ and Courtney had ‘family values’ written on their stomachs in sharpie (i could be wrong tho idk)

[benmannion]

Another thing is dave grohl sang lead vocals on marigold and i think it was the only one he did

[exiledwolf]

I was 17 when Kurt took his own life. I wasn't a fan of the music. I actually dismissed him altogether. However, during the most difficult part of my life at year ago (45), I discovered Nirvana and now have so much respect for his music--I think his lyrics are brilliant. The way he plays with words--brilliant. I am excited to read his published journals. I knew he had constant stomach pain from his back--I also experienced serious GI issues. Yeah, I would have taken anything to make the pain stop. Bi-polar. So many brilliant people, famous and not famous, struggle with this disorder. I am usually a better writer than this, but I, too, have mental health issues that affect me daily. Kurt has helped me through a very personal, indescribable hell. Lithium is my favorite song. Cobain was a genius and a voice of our generation.

[Lunkik]

you skipped "kurt was murdered"

[godwarrior]

The teen spirit bit is wrong. Kurt didn't know it was deodorant until after the song was written.

[klubbavonbubbla]

I remember watching a nirvana concert here on youtube a while ago and before they played the song 'sliver', they said something along the lines of 'we're gonna play silver or sliver or whatever you want to call it'' because of not many people knowing if it was called sliver or silver. In this video he said silver but it is very common to get it wrong