The Canadian superstars played the iconic tune during their own song 'Rococo'.
Arcade Fire head honcho Win Butler has gone on the record many times in interviews about his admiration for Nirvana and particularly the band's late frontman Kurt Cobain. Speaking to Rolling Stone to mark the 20th anniversary of the singer's death earlier this year, Butler said that Nirvana's seminal record 'Nevermind' was a hugely important album for him during his youth.
"All of a sudden, the whole kind of social dynamic at my junior high school changed where these kind of misfit kids who maybe come from a broken home and they're smoking cigarettes in the back and they didn't have money for nice clothes were in a weird way on the same level as everyone else socially", Butler said.
"I was sort of like a weird kid who didn't know where I fit in or whatever and just to have that kind of voice be that big in culture, I feel like that was a magical period of alternative music where we had Jane's Addiction and R.E.M. and Nirvana. It was like seeing these kind of freaks from all the different cities of North America and you're like, Oh, wow."
As if to prove his point, Butler and his band sprinkled some notes from 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' during their rendition of the song 'Rococo' during their gig in George, Washington - Nirvana's home state. Watch the clip above.
