Podcast #44 - Songwriting - Songs through Time - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

from Songwriting for Everyone · host Joseph R. Lilore

In this podcast Joe analyzes Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Discussed is the impact of this song on modern songwriting and the techniques, many below the surface, that set it apart and influence to this day: modulation, continual flow of tension and calm, added note chords, anticipation, chordal, melodic and lyric ostinatos layered against each other, along with suspensions and resolutions.

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