“Smells Like Teen Spirit”—Nirvana with Courtney Love

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Rob is back and ready to share his inner-most thoughts on Batman movies, hearing Nirvana for the first time, and more as he looks back at quite possibly the most inescapable song of the '90s, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” (4:00) Later he is joined by rockstar, lead singer of Hole, and wife of Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love to discuss her relationship with Kurt, Kurt’s beef with Pearl Jam, the original lyrics of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and much more (1:12:00). Preorder Rob’s new book, ‘Songs That Explain the ‘90s' here. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Courtney Love Producers: Jonathan Kermah and Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.2	You know what that is.
1:04.8	An ice cold beer.
1:06.7	What's different?
1:09.5	It's Budweiser.
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1:28.3	How you doing? A few announcements before this week's episode. The first announcement is, as you may have
1:38.3	surmised, that Courtney Love got a hold of me a while back. A mutual friend had passed along the doll parts, the whole episode, and Courtney reached out.
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