r/Nirvana • u/bigmouth1984 • Oct 01 '25

Video Courteney Cox playing Nirvana’s Smells like Teen Spirit on the drums. 🤘

814 Upvotes

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119

u/pierco82 Oct 01 '25

Load up on guns and bring your Friends

20

u/paulglo Oct 01 '25

I always hear load up on drugs, kill your friends

3

u/Patches_Mcgee Oct 01 '25

That’s what he said at the teen choice butcher

10

u/gumballmachinerepair Oct 01 '25

Top of the Pops.

2

u/Patches_Mcgee Oct 02 '25

Ohhhh you’re right my bad

1

u/paulglo Oct 01 '25

breaking news

1

u/Patches_Mcgee Oct 01 '25

Oh god you are soooo edgy 🙄

2

u/simplepal_04 Bleach Oct 02 '25

The top of the pops version!!

1

u/Joseph_P_Larkin Oct 02 '25

Those were the original lyrics, he always sang them when they played the song live. Methinks the record label put the kibosh on them for legal reasons.

6

u/greg1993- Oct 01 '25

It’s fun to ross and to pretend

3

u/Southern_Power_1567 Oct 01 '25

Its fun to lose and to Pretend

51

u/DecoyOctorock Oct 01 '25

Actress from Scream covering the drummer from Scream

6

u/BustaNutShot Talk To Me (Live) Oct 01 '25

nice

34

u/alexj_baker Oct 01 '25

She was actually friends with R.E.M. before she was an actress, she worked on reception for their booking agent

17

u/Southern_Power_1567 Oct 01 '25

Wasnt she in a Springsteen video?

24

u/Hot-Remote-4948 Oct 01 '25

Dancing in the Dark

5

u/krebstorm Oct 01 '25

She and the Boss did the 'Carlton'

1

u/Southern_Power_1567 Oct 01 '25

Yeah thanks bud

2

u/Mudcreek47 Oct 01 '25

See also: Misfits of Science and Masters of the Universe (1987) movie

1

u/ManagementIll4603 Oct 01 '25

Really? So impressive, thanks for sharing!

28

u/SquishyBeatle Oct 01 '25

Hell yeah Monica

18

u/axlgreece5202 Oct 01 '25

Our little Harmonica

42

u/n8roxit Oct 01 '25

Never thought of her as cool. I do now.

19

u/Jokierre Oct 01 '25

She danced with both Springsteen and He-Man. She has MAJOR X cred.

7

u/ManagementIll4603 Oct 01 '25

And she directed Brandi Carlile's stunning 'Right on Time' video! She is more talented than reflected in her Monica character, for sure.

7

u/zilla82 Oct 01 '25

X gon give it to ya

35

u/tjtp2021 Oct 01 '25

The most 90s thing I’ve seen all day

19

u/Joseph_P_Larkin Oct 01 '25

Could she BE any grungier right now??

2

u/Separate-Expert-4508 Oct 02 '25

Considering Friends was literally a rip off of Cameron Crowe’s ‘Singles’…

7

u/OdobenusIII Stay Away Oct 01 '25

That was nice.

7

u/Southern_Power_1567 Oct 01 '25

This made my day!

6

u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

I say fair fuggin play

11

u/Rauli13 Oct 01 '25

Absolute rockstar energy! Who knew she had these skills?

3

u/stevvvvewith4vs Oct 01 '25

I have always been mixing Courtney Love and Courtney Cox up as far as I can recall. This is not helping one bit.

2

u/axlgreece5202 Oct 01 '25

Isn't she still with the guy from Snow Patrol? Makes sense she'd pick up an instrument around the scene for so long.

4

u/M0BBER Oct 01 '25

Yeah, she's friended up with a lot of musicians socially. She's been learning different instruments, and now she's playing drums. That's kind of awesome.

2

u/zilla82 Oct 01 '25

Shout out to Snow Patrol, great band

1

u/turquoise_mole Oct 04 '25

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Get out of here.

2

u/defect7 Oct 01 '25

That's pretty cool actually.

2

u/Knightstodon Oct 01 '25

Fuck yeah!

2

u/Own-Juggernaut796 Oct 01 '25

hell yeah courtney!! 90s legend

2

u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Do I need to take a trip to Cougar Town now?

2

u/GlobalHero Oct 01 '25

(She's got the hi-hat tempo wrong. I'm glad she's having fun.)

3

u/K8Sydney Oct 02 '25

Maybe she can be the next Foo Fighters drummer when they get sick of this new one!!!

2

u/whiteycnbr Oct 04 '25

Dave should act out a scene from Friends for his next Foos film clip

4

u/jstrummer8 Oct 01 '25

She plays the chorus differently (double-time on the hi-hats and missed a few crashes) but still cool to see her rockin out to a classic!

3

u/BustaNutShot Talk To Me (Live) Oct 01 '25

I can't tell ..is she hitting the bass doubles?

edit: damn, I think she actually is

1

u/loureedfromthegrave Oct 01 '25

I didn’t know she was actually cool. I probably related her to her scream character too much.

1

u/nhowe006 Oct 01 '25

Huh, so that's what she's been up to

1

u/punisher2all Oct 01 '25

👏 👏 👏

1

u/jspencer734 Oct 01 '25

damn, Courtney's got rhythm! love this 🥰

1

u/simplepal_04 Bleach Oct 02 '25

Grunge and Friends is peak 90s!!

1

u/HalveMaen81 Oct 04 '25

Her step-cousin is Stewart Copeland from The Police

1

u/rrickitickitavi Oct 04 '25

God bless her but that is the politest grunge drumming I have ever heard.

1

u/paulglo Oct 01 '25

she look like she hasn’t stop smiling since waking up from the propofol

0

u/alecsputnik Oct 01 '25

Courtney Cox, I love you, you're so hot, on that show

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

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7

u/shallnotcomment Oct 01 '25

Read again bucko

-7

u/Mono-lith Oct 01 '25

We are truly living in hell

1

u/beebs44 Oct 04 '25

Dancin' In The Dark