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hi jennifer,
i was just listening to the starting of the song "daughters of the northern coast" by australian crawl and i noticed that the starting of this song is almost identical to that of "smells like teen spirit".
i was wondering if you knew anything about this as the australian crawl song was written about ten years before teen spirit. did nirvana get the rights to this piece of music or is it just coincidence?
Hello Richard,
Ive never heard that song, or heard of it. To be honest Im not sure if they ever got rights to use it. The fact that you said "Almost" identical means they probably didnt. There is another punk song that I belive that Kurt may have been inspired by melody wise when writing Teen Spriti, but the name slips my mind at the moment.
Jenn
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Jennifer Hollman
Expertise
I can answer questions about the release history of NIRVANA from 1989-Present, questions about the history of the band, life & death of Kurt Cobain, the remaining members of NIRVANA, and most questions about his family. I can fact check tour dates, live shows, and just about anything related.
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I helped out Carrie Borzillo, rock new editor for cdnow.com (now amazon.com) with fact checking, an interview, eyewitness account and was given special thanks in her book Eyewitness Nirvana. I've been studying NIRVANA since 1993 and have read literally thousands of books, magazine articles, and other publications throughout the last decade and a half. My reference collection is huge with just about every book, entire release catalog, and more from all around the world.
I started volunteering for AllExpterts.com in 1999 before it was purchased by About.com sometime in the early 00's. You can find all of the answers to previously asked public question dating back to 1999.
I wrote, edited, and published a NIRVANA newsletter (NIRVANA FOREVER), and online zine (About a Son; Lithium) that both ran 7 years on America Online. I've founded and sistered a lot of NIRVANA communities on LiveJournal.com (NIRVANA FOREVER, Kurt & Jim, and NIRVANA Elitests), and Yahoo.com (NIRVANA FOREVER).
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