Consequence of Sound put out this great podcast with Butch Vig who made rock history by producing some of the biggest alternative rock albums of all time and he also made big time rock music with Garbage as their drummer as well.
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Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is much more than a song. It was — and remains — one of music’s defining moments of the modern era and continues to find itself on virtually every all-time “best of” lists. (Same goes for the album it comes from, Nevermind, which ranked Top 10 on Consequence’s Greatest Albums of All Time list.) When released in 1991, “Spirit” transformed more than our airwaves — it transformed culture and society itself as it blasted onto the scene and thrust grunge into the mainstream. Those relentless drums that open the track, so loudly played by David Grohl that no mics were needed in the studio; that defining guitar thrash and indelible raging voice of Kurt Cobain, who barely took more than three takes; and of course, that mesmerizing music video that played in an endless loop on MTV.
