…Baby One More Time or Smells Like Teen Spirit
 

Make the hardest choice of your life

This is so personal I’ve allowed for secret ballot

Which one sucks more?

It's a trick question.

The correct answer is Richard Thompson covering Britney Spears...

Gonna have to think on this one, seriously.

Yeah no after all is said and fun "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is in fact raw as **** and embodies raw as **** hardcore punk in a controllable way that had never occurred to anybody before and might never have occurred after. After all these years it's hard to summon up the energy to care like honestly I really ****ing should but I definitly should summon up the energy to care more than I could for Baby One More Time.

Smells Like Teen Spirit over Baby One More Time by a mile.

It's funny how the target demographic lines can blur, especially over long periods of time after social barriers have been broken down.

Baby One More Time is SO dirty though

Yeah but had you never heard Smells Like Teen Spirit then no matter when you heard it it would still have hit you in the ****ing face. I simply can't think of any other band coming about that would deaden the impact of Smells Like Teen Spirit. It is in fact a singular song, band, and effect.

You can talk all you want about the Pixies but no amount of the Pixies could prepare either you or the world at large for Smells like Teen Spirit.

I liked Nirvana when I was a kid, I never liked Britney other than eye candy and what you'd expect a 13-year-old male that got into grunge before the age of 10 to get out of early Britney. As I got older I first figured out Britney's a hoe, and Kurt's a junkie. Badabing, badaboom, and done. I mean really, that's like asking me to choose between Jack and ****, to which I will defer to the immortal awesomeness of Bruce Campbell:

I know you’ll get **** for this but it’s absolutely correct.

There’s incredible power in One More Time too though

Nirvana were as pure as the ****ing snow

TBH as much as Nirvana's music was ace as **** I think Kurt Cobain's vocals were actually the true star of Nirvana. I can literally think of no vocalist before or since who could express what he expressed. Who could link hardcore, alternative, and something inexpressibly... perfect in a way I can't describe. Something that was both perfectly 90s and perfectly ageless. I mean you could put ten out of ten of the most well respected hardcore or alternative vocalists of all time in front of Nirvana and they wouldn't have sold a tenth of what they did.

With anyone else you’d have Mudhoney

You listen to ****ing Smashing Pumpkins, you fucktwat. Billy Corgan's voice has its charm but that charm can not be divorced from the nasal cringe. Just like the music can not be divorced from being bland crap.

If Nirvana had never made it this would be a god tier track every 90s alt rock fan would rep as the second coming of Christ. And rightfully so.

Whoa I missed that dig at mindfulness

Dude, his taste in hip hop and old classic rock is what’s up

Regarding his hip hop posts - he tackles new **** / he puts himself out there with his opinions

You almost always let time sort out your music for you

The question is which do you prefer horny teenage girls or burned out stoners?

Easiest choice of my life. Nirvana is ****, Baby One More Time is one of the best songs ever written.

At karaoke, the girls shake to baby one more time. The weirdos do teen spirit.

Yeah, it's so weird and out there. True outsider music.

lmao

Easily Smells Like Deodorant. If the Spears song came out today I'd probably appreciate it more, but I have something of a nostalgic disdain for that track after being overexposed to it as a kid.

Who the **** cares?

It is. TBH the choice isn't as clear for me in the light of sobriety.

As a kid I used to listen to lame **** like Beatles and Pink Floyd. Then eleven-year-old me heard Baby One More Time and it changed my life and that's how I got into real music.
#lerightgeneration

Smells like teen spirit any day. I'll defend Nirvana anytime, there is certainly rawness about them. They might be slicker and way more accessible than really raw punk bands, but Kurt Cobain was raw somewhat in the way John Lennon was.
I appreciate how f*cked up dirty Britney's voice is though. Many people tend to whine about pop music getting more dirty and profane, but I've never heard anything like her voice since then.

That's true

That's amusing, I never listened to it that way but I suppose you could say that. John Lennon was naturally more funky than any grunge I've heard though

That sounds ****ing awful.

The only time that pumpkins were even kind of good was when they were ripping off Nirvana.

"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is meh though.

I like Nirvana all right. Nevermind is great, In utero is all right. But at my age, I need VEVOs of schoolgirls dancing in the gymnasium.

I’m feeling this big time

LOLITA!

Ooh like Nirvana never rip'd any one off.

I never said that.

Can you name 3 smashing pumpkins songs that rip off nirvana?

I kinda understand why The Batlord feels that Smells Like Teen Spirit was a hit in the face ... you know after all those 80s Heavy Metal Power Ballads even a commercial jingle sounds "raw as ****"

Nirvana went hard and played sincere. And they didn’t just swing for the fences; they connected.

Is the reason you stick your nose in the air and start sniping at me when it turns out I like something you like too because you're scared that you'll catch dumb and end up fist pumping to "Home Sweet Home"? Cause you should totally do that tbh.

And yet they still made such boring music. It’s a sad story.