Today Is...Smells Like Teen Spirit Released

For me the whole Grunge thing of the early 90's began and ended with Nirvana and this song, and the Nevermind Album it came from, kick-started the whole movement and a damned fine song to do it even if the song name comes from a brand of deodorant.
Back then MTV still played music videos and Smells like Teen Spirit was played on a continuous loop and that fast and slow tempo, loud chorus and quiet verse of Teen Spirit really hit a nerve as did Lithium and the slower paced Come As You Are with it's line 'i don't have a gun' which he obviously did as we found out four years later.
The lyrics were not earth-shattering, it takes a certain genius or a copious amount of whatever Cobain was smoking at the time to appreciate: 'A mulatto, An albino, A mosquito, My libido, Yeah' but it was always about the music although i am not sure what they were aiming at with their follow up Albums, especially the Unplugged Album, but whatever it was they missed.
The argument is always would Cobain have written such a classic as Smells like Teen Spirit without bucketloads of hard drugs and the answer is probably not but then he wouldn't have decorated that upstairs room a dark shade of brain grey without it either.
The Guinness World Records named 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' as the most Played Video" on MTV Europe, it was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of The Songs That Shaped Rock and the NME ranked the song the number 2 on its list of Greatest Singles of All Time, while Kerrang! ranked it at number 1 and Rolling Stone ranked it at number 5 on theirs.
Cobain was very open about how the song's melody was basically a rip off of something the Pixies would write with their soft and quiet verses and and then loud and hard choruses and that became their signature sound although by the time Cobain took his own life Nirvana were past their prime, the band had even added another guitarist as Cobain's drug ravaged brain was apparently forgetting the chords of his own songs.
As with so many celebrities, dying early turned out to be a boon for his career and 30 years on i see teenagers who were not even born in the 90's wearing Nirvana t-shirts and all from message a friend leaving him a note to buy deodorant because he stank.
The greatest stroke of luck was that his friend never wrote Kurt needs Lynx as that's a tough one to make rhyme.