According to my Joel Whitburn book, Nirvana may have been a bigger Dance/Disco act than Funkadelic!

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"Smells Like Teen Spirit" peaked at #14, 11 wks total.

"One Nation Under a Groove" peaked at #31, 2 wks total.
"(not just) Knee Deep" peaked at #43, 12 wks total.

Which makes sense; I put on "One Nation" at a frat party once and totally cleared the floor.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

What happens at "frat parties" when someone puts on "Smells Like Teen Spirit," dare I ask?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Boppin'!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Alex, there's no need to scare-quote "frat parties" if dr. phil is actually talking about a frat party.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Too bad Nirvana never got an Arthur Baker remix.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

By "frat party" I actually meant "naked Aztec ritual on a spaceship."

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

...where you'd think Funkadelic would go over really well!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Alex, there's no need to scare-quote "frat parties" if dr. phil is actually talking about a frat party.

True, but I find putting quotations around something I find offensive makes me feel better about it. Kinda like putting on rubber gloves before handling something unclean, y'know?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

nirvana would go over like a lead balloon at any frat party today. i mean, how do you grind up against a 18 year old communications major to "with the lights out/ its less dangerous"?

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 22 August 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

You don't, you sigh a manly sigh and say wistfully, "they just don't make music like this anymore." Works almost as well.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Joe Smooth (creator of "Promised Land") was DJing at summerdance, opening for Andre Hatchet, and he played some dance remix of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and everybody went CRAZY.

― deej.., Monday, 22 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" peaked at #14, 11 wks total.
"One Nation Under a Groove" peaked at #31, 2 wks total.

I don't get how this makes them a big dance/disco act. (Surely there are rock singles that have peaked much higher than #14?)

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

not big, bigger

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

neither is as big as Lime, for instance, or Nitzer Ebb

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Note, however, that Funkadelic peaked much higher on the R&B chart than the pop chart.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

some dance remix of "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

A remix of the Nirvana original, or the cover by Abigail?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

There's also the Dirty Fonker (?) bootleg remix of "Lithium" from a year or so ago.

― donut floccinaucinihilipilification (donut), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

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