Watch Arcade Fire cover Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" live
11 August 2014, 10:30
| Written by
Luke Morgan Britton
Arcade Fire have been handpicking hometown covers for their current Reflektor tour and stopping off in Washington State over the weekend, you can pretty much guess who they choose to pay homage to.
Yes, Win Butler and co interspersed (admittedly quite brief) snippets of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” into the beginning and end of Suburbs track “Rococo”. You can watch footage of that beneath:
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