Mountain Dew Launches Music Site, Upload Exclusive Cool Kids Song

Soda makers Mountain Dew have launched a web-only music site, Green Label Sound. The site is still in its infancy, but it already boasts a pretty good exclusive track by the Cool Kids, dubbed "Delivery Man." The song is available as a free download. The site also promises an exclusive song soon from indie duo Matt & Kim, as well as two more artists coming in the fall. We're not sure if this is some kind of promotion for an ad campaign or Mountain Dew's attempt to enter the blogosphere, but so far the tunes are better than Code Red.

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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