Personally I thought this song was about someone trapped in a relationship, 'kept' by their partner like they would a pet - hence the imagery of being kept in a jar with breathing holes, covered in grass, like a kid would keep an interesting creature he found in the garden. And a lot of pets are kept in rooms that the people don't really live in, like a garage, a shed, or a laundry room. But this song also includes what is probably my favourite Kurt solo.
Always wondered if Sappy would've made it onto Nirvana's never-to-be studio album after In Utero. From what we're told, You Know You're Right was to be on it, made me wonder what his next songs would've been.
Wondering what people think this song means. I see it as some kind of confined trapped relationship and how we fool ourselves and think were happy. I also kinda see it as singing about god. Were bugs in a jar and were in a fake enviroment that we are fooled into believing we are happy there when its not much of a life. I'm still trying to figure ou the laundry part. Washed - dirtied - cleaned. Still brain washed and fooled into believing everything is alright in our fake life.
@RedBluebird94 okay I heard it was about his turtles - if he kept them in a laundry room I guess that makes sense. I keep my turtles in strange places too - I often wonder if they think their life sucks or if it's okay since their not being transported all over the place in the reptile show circuit. Interesting that he wrote a song about his turtles.
we all share something in common with Kurt's feeling on life in these times. He was just expressing it on the right riffs, with the right words... I wouldn't be surprised if all of these comments were posted by teens in the 90s- like myself
DEAR ALL ROCK AND NIRVANA FANS, FEBRUARY 20TH IS KURT COBAIN'S BIRTHDAY. THAT DAY WE WILL ALL VISIT THE "SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT" VIDEO, LIKE IT, AND WISH HIM A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. NOT ONLY WILL IT PAY BACK RESPECT TO HIM, IT WILL ALSO HELP NIRVANA GET TO THE TOP OF YOUTUBE AGAIN. THUMBS UP THIS COMMENT AND REPOST THIS ON ANY NIRVANA OR ANY ROCK VIDEO
the entire song is really catchy but the solo do not connected with the rest, it's a kind clumsy....it's not about how complicated it can be...i don't know, if it were more continuous..I emphasize on that..XD
i was born the year he died, yet since the age of 10 nirvana's had such an influence on me,fist time i heard em they blew my mind, im also a big Dave grohl fan, hes just such an epic muscician, most artists would have just faded away after their main band ended, but he rose out of nirvanas shadow.
@lacokakid what do u mean to young to understand them? i love their music and kurt influenced me greatly, thats all the understanding i need, besides id much rather listen to music from past times than the shit i grew up with.
damn kurt u shouldnt havent had ended ur self like that u will alwayz be a legend thanx for the memories beautiful music damn thats sad R.I.P KURT COBAIN
4 people just don't get it...
metaOlive 1 month ago
Personally I thought this song was about someone trapped in a relationship, 'kept' by their partner like they would a pet - hence the imagery of being kept in a jar with breathing holes, covered in grass, like a kid would keep an interesting creature he found in the garden. And a lot of pets are kept in rooms that the people don't really live in, like a garage, a shed, or a laundry room. But this song also includes what is probably my favourite Kurt solo.
KRSsven 2 months ago
Always wondered if Sappy would've made it onto Nirvana's never-to-be studio album after In Utero. From what we're told, You Know You're Right was to be on it, made me wonder what his next songs would've been.
KRSsven 2 months ago
This video was just added to a music playlist at JustPlay.fm
justplayfm 3 months ago
Turtle turtle....
BrettLank101 3 months ago in playlist Nirvana 2
Such a perfect song...
Super11killer 5 months ago
dude seriously, its not about a fuckin turtle. so tired of hearing that. cause you know, turtles often cut themselves. makes complete sense.
SonicKitten91 5 months ago 2
@SonicKitten91
yeah but what if was true?
If this song is really about a turtle?
hahahaha!
''they'll keep you in a jar''
raziel2122 4 months ago
@raziel2122
if it wouldve added
"they'll make you into soup" or
"if you fall on your back, youll need me to help you"
then maybe. haha
SonicKitten91 4 months ago
greatttttttttttttttttttttttt
salvadorallende73 6 months ago
im in a laundry room
guitarlvrify 7 months ago 10
@guitarlvrify im in the living room
Nevo244 2 weeks ago
@Nevo244 :)
guitarlvrify 2 weeks ago
this and even in his youth are the bests songs evar
Zahassa 7 months ago
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Check out my "remix", or interpretation of the song. Click my name its in uploads on my channel.
BlackMountain86 7 months ago
I think it's about a girl who let's her guys push her around in relationships because she has no self esteem. I am that girl sadly.
blacklipstick2009 7 months ago
@blacklipstick2009 actually i think its about his pet turtle i read somewhere.
ganzer88 5 months ago
the best and very sad guitar solo ....
qzzz77 8 months ago 2
The solo is EPIC!!
Jessejames1537 8 months ago 2
this song was played on the radio the other day, and i was jamming out
shaneshaneshane94 8 months ago 3
who cares how many people have heard of this song...........if anything i feel bad for the people who havent heard it,,there missing out
Enzeroable 8 months ago 2
Wondering what people think this song means. I see it as some kind of confined trapped relationship and how we fool ourselves and think were happy. I also kinda see it as singing about god. Were bugs in a jar and were in a fake enviroment that we are fooled into believing we are happy there when its not much of a life. I'm still trying to figure ou the laundry part. Washed - dirtied - cleaned. Still brain washed and fooled into believing everything is alright in our fake life.
Luci57flavors 8 months ago
@Luci57flavors It's about his tuturles... Whom he kept in his laundry room...
RedBluebird94 8 months ago
@RedBluebird94 okay I heard it was about his turtles - if he kept them in a laundry room I guess that makes sense. I keep my turtles in strange places too - I often wonder if they think their life sucks or if it's okay since their not being transported all over the place in the reptile show circuit. Interesting that he wrote a song about his turtles.
Luci57flavors 8 months ago
@Luci57flavors He was a very interesting man...
RedBluebird94 6 months ago
we all share something in common with Kurt's feeling on life in these times. He was just expressing it on the right riffs, with the right words... I wouldn't be surprised if all of these comments were posted by teens in the 90s- like myself
yenchi25 9 months ago
rip Kurt!
XXXXstargirl 9 months ago
My all time favorite from Kurt!
euphoricinsomniac 10 months ago
R.I.P Kurt Cobain. You are a beautiful person and you have touched us all. if only the world wasnt so hard on you... oh well i guess shit happens :'(
theHgghgghgg 10 months ago
@guigs219 It's spelled Churt
matttylove 10 months ago
Words can't even describe how much I like this song!!!!!
"What else should I write, I don't have a right."
-Kurt Cobain
colormagicsky 10 months ago 2
Buy Nirvana's Pennyroyal Tea! Poor Kurt died before it was relesed as a single, so let's fulfill his last purpose!
Copy and paste his on other rock videos!!!
ty2drew 10 months ago
Love this song!
srvfan42 10 months ago
Curt Cobain R.I.P
the0geme 11 months ago
@the0geme *Kurt you cunthole.
matttylove 11 months ago
@the0geme if ur gonna pay respects to sombody at least spell the name right.
insanepain101 11 months ago
WHO THE F^CK DISLIKE THIS VIDEO! YOU GOTTA BE OUT OF YOUR MIND OR DON'T KNOW MUSIC AT ALL! DAMN! IDIOT!
alliphorez 11 months ago
@alliphorez maybe a troll, and judging by your comment a successful one
blakeandcrap 11 months ago
I don't understand how this song wasn't on any of their albums.
neilk500 11 months ago
this song gots all the truth!!!....
MuStAnGRoCkErMaN 11 months ago
Happy Birthday Kurt. ;((
Weolee 11 months ago
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DEAR ALL ROCK AND NIRVANA FANS, FEBRUARY 20TH IS KURT COBAIN'S BIRTHDAY. THAT DAY WE WILL ALL VISIT THE "SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT" VIDEO, LIKE IT, AND WISH HIM A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. NOT ONLY WILL IT PAY BACK RESPECT TO HIM, IT WILL ALSO HELP NIRVANA GET TO THE TOP OF YOUTUBE AGAIN. THUMBS UP THIS COMMENT AND REPOST THIS ON ANY NIRVANA OR ANY ROCK VIDEO
paulinhovcf 11 months ago
This is probably the best Nirvana song. I love Nirvana, and I'm a 12 year-old girl. Please check out my cover. /watch?v=MURl9vqTMqE
cerystalkstoyouall 11 months ago
God Kurt is beautiful .
kurtcobainbaabey 1 year ago
R.I.P. `Kurt`*
BrodEirennach90 1 year ago
Love that song! it's really great and awesome even though few people know it (as most of you said)
NB: The Solo is a PURE NIRVANA SOLO!!
cobain1ful 1 year ago
This is good song, but few people know it
MSBasic 1 year ago
I wish kurt was ALIVE in my laundry room :)!
kellierose0 1 year ago
this has got to be one of their best songs!
nirvanafan818 1 year ago
your really in a laundry room!
knicklebucker 1 year ago
@knicklebucker just "YOUR IN A LAUNDRY ROOM!" actually, if you listen carefully you can tell.
Araclain 10 months ago
Great great great song
jtdonner1 1 year ago
the entire song is really catchy but the solo do not connected with the rest, it's a kind clumsy....it's not about how complicated it can be...i don't know, if it were more continuous..I emphasize on that..XD
Cruztitucion 1 year ago
Sick Solo!
MosquitoBand 1 year ago
4/8/94: The day everything changed.
95ponzo 1 year ago
That picture of the band has to be among their best. I especially like the two anarchy symbols in the background.
bieniek1 1 year ago
this solo sucks...but it's a great song! ...Bleach, Insecticide and these rare songs are the best things done by Nirvana!
Cruztitucion 1 year ago
@Cruztitucion i have to disagree about the solo. sry. i think its a really awsome solo. sry if u think i sound like a douch.
95ponzo 1 year ago
@Cruztitucion :O ...I like the solo..even if its not the most complicated to play or conjure up its still good
rawrSIERRArawr 1 year ago
i was born the year he died, yet since the age of 10 nirvana's had such an influence on me,fist time i heard em they blew my mind, im also a big Dave grohl fan, hes just such an epic muscician, most artists would have just faded away after their main band ended, but he rose out of nirvanas shadow.
Jimmy666Vengeance 1 year ago 11
@Jimmy666Vengeance thanks for acknowledging others in the band instead of just kurt
SuperShagme 1 year ago
@Jimmy666Vengeance omg your to young to understand nirvana you just came to late.
lacokakid 1 year ago
@lacokakid what do u mean to young to understand them? i love their music and kurt influenced me greatly, thats all the understanding i need, besides id much rather listen to music from past times than the shit i grew up with.
Jimmy666Vengeance 1 year ago
@Jimmy666Vengeance What a cute kid.
neppy180 2 months ago
does anyone know when he died?????
CherryCola761 1 year ago
@CherryCola761 wow if u dont know that ur not a fan 1994 if u want to know more look it up -____-
midnitedeth 1 year ago
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CherryCola761 1 year ago
@CherryCola761 wow loser
JazminesCobains 1 year ago
@CherryCola761 1994
boomwacker101 1 year ago
@CherryCola761 -_-
joanjettpwns1 1 year ago
Mhmmm that solo
nissanxrma 1 year ago
This Song kicks ass and even tho Kurt aint here no more his soul ives in everysingle Nirvana Lover in the world
woitsryder 1 year ago
you make me happy kurt!
kdlkg 1 year ago
i was born in 86...never got to see them live...feels like i missed a lifetime...miss you kurt..
DrLen23 1 year ago
R.I.P kurt cobain ur my hero
thecripper4 1 year ago
Man and people said Kurt Cobain sucked at guitar. The solo is sickkkkk on this osng
Fuckingflesheater 1 year ago 4
great song. thanks kurdt, krist, dave
Jojos25 2 years ago 4
damn kurt u shouldnt havent had ended ur self like that u will alwayz be a legend thanx for the memories beautiful music damn thats sad R.I.P KURT COBAIN
gabrielmorales100 2 years ago 4
Only Nirvana!!!!
Markarianos 2 years ago 4
I'm in a laundrey room in college listening to this. Yeah!
Rileyoco 2 years ago 2
my fav song ever :)
r.i.p kurt
bozzy3399 2 years ago 4
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I did a good video for this song. You should check it out.
ThePaleWriter 2 years ago
I love Nirvana.
Kurt, R.I.P...
RosexKaulitzxCobain 2 years ago 6
One of my all time favourite songs. Fuckin mean as
DegenerateJackrabbit 2 years ago 4
LOVE IT
RIP kurt cobain
jpotter333 2 years ago 2
shit- this song always amazing, one of my all time favorite Nirvana song- love this till the END- thank you Kurt
ThRaShErScAn 2 years ago 6
so simple yet so great,,,,,r i p kurt!!
DARKstranger4ever 2 years ago 2
Without a doubt, one of my favorite Nirvana songs :))
wolverine251077 2 years ago 4
anyone know what scale the solo is in sounds like minor pentatonic
rhcp93093 2 years ago
ultimate-guitar has a tab of the solo its perfect
gbrundish 2 years ago
fuckin bad ass picture wish i had that poster
rhcp93093 2 years ago 5
one of the many under rated songs by nirvana.
LedHendrix6969 2 years ago 83
my favorite by nirvana..behind you know your right, and rape me.
greenleaf82 3 years ago 5
The solo is one of kurt's best
potasio1221 3 years ago 3
cheer up
christ
johnnyshame 3 years ago 3
uuuu areee in laundryy room¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡(8)
my favoriteeee songg 4everr...
solidd24 3 years ago 7
I have that pic in my band room
Carvo392 3 years ago 5
this song is one of there best personaly
kageninden 3 years ago 74
@kageninden *their
osmancica 1 year ago
@kageninden personal, arnt they all personal?
1CoLd3 10 months ago
great song
kurt=legend
123789h 4 years ago 7