955 - Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit 1991

With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from the band's second album "Nevermind" (1991), Nirvana entered into the mainstream, bringing along with it a subgenre of alternative rock called grunge.
In a January 1994 Rolling Stone interview, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain revealed that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was an attempt to write a song in the style of the Pixies, a band he greatly admired. He explained:
“I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band— or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard. ”