The lyrics to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" were often difficult for listeners to decipher, both due to their nonsensicality and because of Cobain's slurred, guttural singing voice. This problem was compounded by the fact that the Nevermind album liner notes did not include any lyrics for the songs aside from selected lyrical fragments. The lyrics for the album—and some from earlier or alternate versions of the songs—were later released with the liner notes of the "Lithium" single in 1992. I have been reading through the comments and I believe your reply here is not on target. I have used Whoop for a couple of years and have benchmarked it with chest straps and/or Apple Watch for Crossfit, running, and cycling and the Polar OH1 HRM against the temple and on the goggle strap for swimming.
The Whoop does give me highly variable data vs what I consider more gold stand measurement of chest straps and the aforementioned OH1. The Apple watch is probably the preeminent OHR monitor. Whoop overestimates by around 20 bpm for swimming and cycling and is fairly close running. Given that, the Whoop strain is off and can give inaccurate advice. Regarding sleep and in line with the post you replied to, Whoop gives me far less sleep than the Oura ring, much higher deep sleep, so I do not know which one is right.
I also agree that the more advanced lab studies are the truly only real indicator even though all these sleep devices want you to think differently. I do have a bicep strap on order for the Whoop and will benchmark again versus the bicep strap. I do feel wrist geometry may play into the accuracy of the Whoop. Nirvana often altered the song's lyrics and tempo for live performances. Some live performances of the song had the line "our little group has always been" changed to "our little tribe has always been", which can be heard on the 1996 live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah. Rolling Stone remarked that the Wishkah version of "Teen Spirit" " Cobain's guitar reeling outside the song's melodic boundaries and sparking new life in that nearly played-out hit".
Cobain later said he was trying to sound like former Smiths frontman Morrissey. When Top of the Pops was cancelled in 2006, The Observer listed Nirvana's performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as the third greatest in the show's history. This performance can be found on the 1994 home video Live! "10%" is a song you can dance to with your eyes closed.
The lyrics provide texture, but it's the rhythm itself that advises you on what to do, and you can do it as awkwardly or as expertly as you're physically capable. Twirl, two-step or kind of roller-skate in place, sure. In this way, the song is selling what SoulCycle is ostensibly selling, what the forever-upbeat fitness coach on my workout app is selling. Looking good helps, maybe, but the real item for sale is feeling good.
And whether or not you can find that dark dance floor full of strangers, "10%" is also selling the feeling of not being alone. All music has elements of emotional aspiration , but dance music offers a particular, seductive aspiration — the possibility of being in physical and emotional communion with others, if only for three minutes. The key differentiator of WHOOP is that all those sensors collect data 100 times per second (and 24/7), as long as you wear the strap. In comparison, the Apple Watch only collects heart-rate data at a high frequency during workouts.
Otherwise, it only samples your heart rate every few minutes. The same is true for most of the other fitness trackers I've reviewed, including the Fitbit Versa and Biostrap. I am aware of the lack of accuracy on wrist worn devices during exercise. I strap on a Wahoo TickerX for my HRM during my Crossfit workouts. In your opinion, if I were to switch from wrist worn to biceps worn during the workouts, would that increase the accuracy enough to consider making the switch? It would stand to reason that the biceps would give it a more consistent contact with less flexion during the workout.
Thank you in advance and thank you for a great review. The video received its world premiere on MTV's late-night alternative rock program 120 Minutes and proved so popular that the channel began to air it during its regular daytime rotation. MTV added the video to its "Buzz Bin" selection in October, where it stayed until mid-December. By the end of the year, the song, music video, and the Nevermind album had become hits.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Nevermind became a rare cross-format phenomenon, reaching all the major rock radio formats including modern rock, hard rock, album rock, and college radio. Fabrizio Moretti is the greatest Spin instructor in rock & roll. By name alone, the metronomic Strokes drummer even sounds like a Tour de France racer. The perfect Is This It track might immediately bring to mind cigarettes, denim and booze, but Fab's inhumanly locked rhythms help make the debut an optimal exercise regime anthem. The 160 bpm beat (coincidentally, a great target heart rate for the average 30-year-old) of 'Hard to Explain' keeps your legs pumping the cycle at a brisk 22 mph pace.
That brilliant pause comes in at two minutes, giving you a chance to catch your breath before hammering the pedals for the closing burn. Music video"Smells Like Teen Spirit" on YouTube"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by American rock band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band's second album, Nevermind , released on DGC Records. The unexpected success of the song propelled Nevermind to the top of several albums charts at the start of 1992, an event often marked as the point when grunge entered the mainstream. In the original cast recording, the music does as much educating as the lyrics. The song begins in a dark alleyway, where textured horns seem to steal between shadows.
The blink of a xylophone's dissonant chords suggests a pair of yellow cat eyes in the night — and further suggests the show's classic poster. This combination of music and sensual, not-quite-camp feline dance made "Cats" the longest-running show of its time, shattering records on both Broadway and the West End. The dancing cats formed their suicide cult more than 16,000 times throughout the era, as busloads of tourists arrived to watch them die. The show's T-shirt was a best seller of the '80s, second only to merch from the Hard Rock Cafe. That's an ingenious way of ensuring the device is receiving accurate data.
However, it's important to understand that the accuracy of any wrist-worn heart rate sensor is limited by how well it maintains contact with your skin. Strain Coach provides you with live data — including your strain, heart rate and calories burned — that you can leverage during a workout. That way, you can make instant adjustments to your workout activity, based on your recovery. Every morning, the WHOOP app gives me a recovery score, expressed as a percentage (e.g., 75% recovered), based on key metrics from my heart, nervous system and sleep performance. Depending on my recovery, WHOOP suggests how much strain I should take on that day to prevent over-training and to lower the risk of injury. What's crucial is that WHOOP uses the collected data to calculate your daily strain.
In other words, the device can tell you how hard your cardiovascular system worked on a given day. That's important because it directly influences your recovery and sleep requirements . The video was filmed on August 17, 1991 on Stage 6 of GMT Studios in Culver City. The music video features Nirvana playing at a pep rally in a high school gym to an audience of apathetic students on bleachers, and cheerleaders wearing black dresses with the Circle-A anarchist symbol. The video features an appearance by Burton C. Bell, later known as frontman of heavy metal band Fear Factory.
Occasionally, the scene cuts to a janitor wearing a navy blue jumpsuit and dancing with a push broom handle. The video ends with the students destroying the set and the band's gear. The discontent was genuine; the extras that filled the bleachers had been forced to stay seated through numerous replays of the song for an entire afternoon of filming. Cobain convinced Bayer to allow the extras to mosh, and the set became a scene of chaos. "Once the kids came out dancing they just said 'fuck you', because they were so tired of his shit throughout the day," Cobain said.
Cobain disliked Bayer's final edit and oversaw a re-edit of the video, creating the final version. One of Cobain's major additions was the penultimate shot, a close-up of his face after it had been obscured for most of the video. Cobain had the principal's footage entirely removed as well as most of the teacher's footage, aside from the ending scene which shows the teacher tied to the pole as the janitor sweeps the floor nearby.
Bayer said that unlike subsequent artists he worked with, Cobain was not vain, and was more interested that "the video had something that was truly about what they were about". I've worn Whoop for 18 months now and while I love the concept, I don't feel the accuracy of the device is close enough yet for me to trust the recommendations. If it can't measure heart rate accurately, then how can I trust any of the other measurements? It frequently tells me I'm sleeping when I'm actually just reading in bed. I have started initial training to be able to work up to real, age appropriate exercise and making better life/work decisions on my time and activities.
I've shed 17 lbs in the last 2 months and building more walking stamina. I am looking for a fitness monitor that is accurate enough for my profile (not a competitor/athlete) the will provide a more fully featured range of health metrics and the Whoop sees to fit the bill. I have read many reviews over the last week on a spectrum of fitness monitors and yours stands out as convincing me that I should give the whoop a trial run. Most of the fitness and sleep trackers on the market use the same optical heart rate monitor technology and the same open-source algorithms to interpret the signal from the sensors. With WHOOP Snap+ you can film your workout and overlay live data, including heart rate strain and calories burned. For example, by answering a few simple questions every day, WHOOP can tell you how alcohol use impacts your sleep performance and/or resting heart rate.
Once you've worn your WHOOP Strap for 28 consecutive days, you'll get a weekly performance assessment. The report visualizes your current training state based on your daily strain, your rate of recovery, and your sleep performance. You'll also get an indication of how you compare to other members of the WHOOP community. Since the WHOOP Strap doesn't have any buttons or a display, you can't tell the device to start an exercise routine. Remember, WHOOP measures your heart rate 100 times per second, all the time.
That allows the gadget to detect when you're working out. Provides insight into your daily strain and recovery rate, as well as detailed sleep performance data. WHOOP accurately tracks strain, as well as exercise and sleep performance. It also tells you how well you recovered overnight, and how hard you can push it that day. VitalTech, a cloud-based platform that improves patient health and wellness through connected care, launched its newest product under its VitalCare brand in June 2018.
The song's lyrics and the album's title bring to mind the W.B. Yeats poem "The Second Coming" — "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" — it's hard not to think of them as a parable. The band didn't emerge from this album as the same band that went into the making of it. Janet Weiss, one of the great rock drummers of all time, played on the album but departed the band before the album came out.
For those who have known Sleater-Kinney and loved them for a long time, it might feel as if the band is in peak form for one last time. Kaytranada, born Louis Kevin Celestin, is a 27-year-old Haitian-Canadian producer from Montreal. He made his first album, "99.9%" , in his mother's house while sharing a basement bedroom with his younger brother.
He came out as gay shortly before the album's release. Sometimes I imagine Kaytranada in his early 20s, having never yet been with a man , sharing a bedroom in his family home. Perhaps he also felt a need to swing into a dark place filled with people and let out a wail. It is a genre sometimes derided for prizing feeling over thinking, for using thumping bass and simple repetition to get people onto a dance floor.
But that discounts the healing that can happen when people feel the urge to move. I logged data for several weeks for sleep to see what the differences were. Whoop always showed more deep sleep than Oura-every night. Biostrap only characterizes Deep Sleep, not a breakdown of REM/Slow wave. Overnight HRV was somewhat consistent between the three. I let my Whoop expire as the strain algorithm never meant much to me as I only do Peloton cycling and it always desired more strain for some reason.
I still use Biostrap for sleep and Oura 24/7 although I am suspicious of the sleep data as it shows 5-30 minutes per night of deep sleep every night. I love new wearable tech and try most platforms and ultimately think it will become very reliable and significant to healthcare. As far as unusual heart rhythms are concerned, I'm not aware that WHOOP has been pre-calibrated for a "normal" rhythm but that's something you'd have to confirm with WHOOP directly. But based on your example given, I can tell you that all wrist-worn devices have problems detecting rapid changes in HR . That's less an issue with the calibration as it is with the technology those devices use to read HR data from the wrist.
Although it does recognize activity of sleep and exercise I have found the results to be wildly inconsistent. I referred to heart rate during exercise and the corresponding algorithm results for calories burned, HRV, strain etc. I have tested it against other competitive products which has led me to this conclusion. Initially the customer support was attentive however when requesting a refund, as I had prepaid, there were crickets. This conversation started several months ago during which I was quite patient however when the refund was requested the correspondence ceased.
On the flip side, if you do a workout consisting of single repetitions — for example, if you're trying to beat your back squat 1 rep max — your heart rate will not stay elevated long enough to cause any cardiovascular strain. Sleep performance is only one of three factors that influence your recovery score. The two others are resting heart rate and heart rate variability .
Yes, the WHOOP Strap measures your ambient skin temperature, which is an important parameter for ensuring accurate sleep tracking. However, WHOOP doesn't expose the measurements via its app, so you can't use WHOOP to actively measure your body temperature. Health insights to monitor key metrics including heart rate variability, resting heart rate, skin temperature, blood oxygen levels and respiratory rate. You'll also be able to export and share these insights with anyone, including health care professionals.
Note that WHOOP calculates strain from your max heart rate, which means that score is highly personalized. The same workout, performed by different people , might result in different strain scores. WHOOP is a high-tech gadget that can guide you through exercise, recovery and sleep.
For example, it tells you if your body has recovered sufficiently to push it during your next workout, or if it's better to take it easy for a day. It also lets you know how much sleep you'll need tonight, based on your level of activity during the day and any sleep debt you might have accrued. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has inspired a few parodies. "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song in 1992 with "Smells Like Nirvana", a song about Nirvana itself.
Cobain quickly gave permission, but asked, "It's not about food, is it?" Yankovic answered, "No, it's about how nobody can understand your lyrics." Upon hearing the parody, Cobain and his band members laughed hysterically. Yankovic has said Cobain told him he realized that Nirvana had "made it" when he heard the parody. In 1995, the queercore band Pansy Division recorded a parody of the song called "Smells Like Queer Spirit" for its Pile Up album. Pansy Division guitarist Jon Ginoli insisted that his band's version of the song was not a parody but "an affectionate tribute". Tori Amos recorded the song and released it in 1992 on her "Crucify" EP single.
