Wilco Lead 7th Inning Stretch at Wrigley

Keeping with their hometown tradition, Wilco lead the Cubs fans at Chicago's Wrigley Field in the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." We use the term "singing" loosely though, as frontman Jeff Tweedy and the rest of the band pretty much just hold out their microphones to the stands and let the crowd do all the work. Maybe Wilco was tired from their Lollapalooza set the night before. Tweedy, in a "slimming" Cubs jersey with #3 on the back, does stick around for a half-inning interview in which he possibly destroys all his Chicago cred by admitting he's (gasp!) a St. Louis Cardinals fan. Check out the video above.

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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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