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post #1 of 45
8/27/09 at 5:48pm
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Patti Smith cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

I don't have anything against Patti Smith, but this is just a terrible idea executed terribly.
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post #2 of 45
8/27/09 at 5:51pm
Funny, this reminds me of the abortion that was the Under Pressure cover by and I shit you not: Taking Back Sunday and My Chemical Romance. You could not tell the voices apart.
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post #3 of 45
8/27/09 at 6:03pm
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post #4 of 45
8/27/09 at 6:03pm
The only version of that song that interests me.
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post #5 of 45
8/27/09 at 6:06pm
Better than the Tori Amos cover. Patti Smith gets a pass for a bunch of stuff.
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post #6 of 45
8/27/09 at 6:15pm
Yeah, it's certainly not her best album, but, after all, it is a covers collection. When she sticks close to the original arrangements ("Gimme Shelter," "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," etc.), it just feels redundant, but except for maybe "Teen Spirit", the re-arrangements are kind of interesting; I particularly like "Within You Without You."
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post #7 of 45
8/27/09 at 7:07pm
never mind
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post #8 of 45
8/27/09 at 9:30pm
One of my favorite versions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k
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post #9 of 45
8/27/09 at 9:36pm
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I'm kinda in love with that.
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post #10 of 45
8/27/09 at 9:57pm
Patti Smith has great takes on "My Generation" and "Land Of A Thousand Dances", so it wasn't a long shot to try for another hoary rock anthem (even one way younger than she is.) I'd take Horses over any Nirvana album, still.
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post #11 of 45
8/27/09 at 10:40pm
Also, since her version of "Gloria" is pretty much the greatest cover song in the history of cover songs, she's earned a lifetime pass.
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post #12 of 45
8/27/09 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by Diva View Post
Patti Smith cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

I don't have anything against Patti Smith, but this is just a terrible idea executed terribly.
Let's not start pretending Nirvana is sacrosanct now. It's a decent cover by a brilliant artist. The arrangement is pretty good and her voice has a nice desperation to it. It's not like Rod Stewart covering Tom Waits bad or anything.
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post #13 of 45
8/28/09 at 2:18am
I liked it.
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post #14 of 45
8/28/09 at 9:05am
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Also, since her version of "Gloria" is pretty much the greatest cover song in the history of cover songs, she's earned a lifetime pass.
Forgotten about that one! Yeah, AMAZING tune (and another reason why Horses is a badass album.)
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post #15 of 45
8/28/09 at 9:28am
It baffles me why anyone would want to re-record Teen Spirit. Wasn't it perfect and untouchable the way it was originally put to tape?
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post #16 of 45
8/28/09 at 9:53am
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
Better than the Tori Amos cover.
Funny enough, that was the only cover version Kurt actually liked.
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post #17 of 45
8/28/09 at 10:36am
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It baffles me why anyone would want to re-record Teen Spirit. Wasn't it perfect and untouchable the way it was originally put to tape?
Even better when it was originally recorded by Boston as "More Than A Feeling" O SNAP I WENT THERE ETC
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post #18 of 45
8/28/09 at 10:38am
I would put it at or about the same level of the Amos cover, but there are better covers out there.
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post #19 of 45
8/28/09 at 10:48am
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Funny enough, that was the only cover version Kurt actually liked.
Well, he mocked it quite a bit as well.

I think the bigger deal here is Patti Smith acknowledging and tipping her hat to Kurt. She's one of the Gods he looked up to, and since her legacy touched his, it would've meant a lot.
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post #20 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:09am
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Funny enough, that was the only cover version Kurt actually liked.
Mind blown. That version was ridiculously awful.
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post #21 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:15am
I like to think that Cobain loved this version the best.
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post #22 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:17am
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Mind blown.
Cobain's, too. (And didn't he turn his head into a canoe before he could have heard many other covers of it?)
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post #23 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:18am
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Boooooo! Okay, I laughed.

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I like to think that Cobain loved this version the best.
Weird Al covers are always great. As a Prince fan, I'm disheartened that he has denied Al permission to use his songs several times.
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post #24 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:21am
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Cobain's, too. (And didn't he turn his head into a canoe before he could have heard many other covers of it?)
Hahahaha...what took so long for that one?

And...he killed himself in 97, right? Most of the covers we're talking about came out before then, believe it or not.
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post #25 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:26am
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Well, he mocked it quite a bit as well.

I think the bigger deal here is Patti Smith acknowledging and tipping her hat to Kurt. She's one of the Gods he looked up to, and since her legacy touched his, it would've meant a lot.
Pick a different song.

Like Moist Vagina.
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post #26 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:27am
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Hahahaha...what took so long for that one?

And...he killed himself in 97, right? Most of the covers we're talking about came out before then, believe it or not.
94.
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post #27 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:28am
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Hahahaha...what took so long for that one?

And...he killed himself in 97, right? Most of the covers we're talking about came out before then, believe it or not.
94. But there were a shitload of covers before that.
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post #28 of 45
8/28/09 at 11:57am
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I like to think that Cobain loved this version the best.
Wikipedia

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In an interview performed by MTV in mid 1992, Cobain had the following to say:

MTV: What about Weird Al's "Smells Like Nirvana"?

Cobain: Oh, I laughed my butt off. I thought it was one of the funniest things I ever saw. He has some good people working for him. Those people really know how to... I mean, I'm sure he has a lot to do with it, but they really know how to reproduce things to the T. He had the exact same setup. It's the same video with him in it. It's great.

MTV: Do you go along with the idea that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

Cobain: Sure. Yeah.
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post #29 of 45
8/28/09 at 12:12pm
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Funny, this reminds me of the abortion that was the Under Pressure cover by and I shit you not: Taking Back Sunday and My Chemical Romance. You could not tell the voices apart.
It was actually The Used with My Chemical Romance, which is way, way, worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ivOuCbaZ4

Funny that they dedicated it to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, thereby victimizing them all over again.
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post #30 of 45
8/28/09 at 12:37pm
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Originally Posted by Diva View Post
Yeah, I knew he was a fan, I was just saying I hope he liked it best. For being known as such a serious musician, Cobain seemed to have a pretty good sense of humor. I like the story about how Weird Al got Victoria Jackson to get Cobain on the phone when he was on SNL to ask if he could do the parody. Cobain was fine with it, but asked if it was going to be about food (since many Weird Al songs are).

I also remember reading an interview where Cobain was sitting around watching Beevis and Butthead, laughing his ass off and pleased as punch that the duo liked the Nirvana video they were watching.
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post #31 of 45
8/28/09 at 12:42pm
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Thanks for the info. I didn't know those stories.
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post #32 of 45
8/30/09 at 2:32am
Let's get the indignant outrage back on track.
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post #33 of 45
8/30/09 at 3:23am
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Heh. I once saw Patti Smith do a dead-serious cover of "You Light Up My Life." It was better than that.

ETA: it says that her album is called "Perfect Day." Please tell me she covers Lou Reed, too.
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post #34 of 45
8/30/09 at 9:30am
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I think every last song ever written has a trance remix.
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post #35 of 45
8/30/09 at 11:49am
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Was this an experiment to see if they could suck any soul out of the music and still be able to call it a song?
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post #36 of 45
8/30/09 at 4:42pm
Technically, that's not a trance version. It's more of a Euro-Pop/dance remix. And I know I'm sending my rep into the basement, but I like Cascada. She's got a great voice and the production on her songs are pretty excellent. Or maybe it's that I've played "Everytime We Touch" so many times over the last two years at my job that I'm suffering from musical Stockholm Syndrome.
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post #37 of 45
8/30/09 at 4:46pm
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Technically, that's not a trance version. It's more of a Euro-Pop/dance remix. And I know I'm sending my rep into the basement, but I like Cascada. She's got a great voice and the production on her songs are pretty excellent. Or maybe it's that I've played "Everytime We Touch" so many times over the last two years at my job that I'm suffering from musical Stockholm Syndrome.
I have some difficulties distinguishing between Eurodance and Trance, I'll admit. Like, I know there's a "harder" underground Trance scene but most of the crossover hits through the years have sounded pretty much like Eurodance to me.
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post #38 of 45
8/30/09 at 4:50pm
Jan Wayne's cover of that song and of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" are much closer to what I think trance is. The distingushing characteristics are minimal, but you have more instrumentals and a much harder, pulsing base and rhythm in trance music and each song lasts seven minutes long. And it's fun to say "Jan Wayne gonna mooove yoouuuuuu."

...I need help.

This is my favorite "awesomely bad" cover of recent note. It's actually a pretty good version, but it's so, so, so, so bizarre.


The Gaslight Anthem covers "I Do Not Hook Up" by Miss Kelly Clarkson.
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post #39 of 45
8/30/09 at 5:09pm
Cascada?

All right, I officially announce my new Euro-pop/trance/what-the-fuck-ever persona: Palmoliver. Watch for my debut album in '10. I'll be covering...I dunno. Maybe Nelson's "After the Rain."
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post #40 of 45
9/3/09 at 4:46pm
I just lost my religion.
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post #41 of 45
9/3/09 at 4:51pm
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You could have told me that was a Funny Or Die video starring Chris Meloni, and I would have believed you.
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post #42 of 45
9/3/09 at 4:56pm
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You could have told me that was a Funny Or Die video starring Chris Meloni, and I would have believed you.
It's nice to see retired gay porn stars can still get work, though.
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post #43 of 45
9/3/09 at 4:57pm
I'm not being funny, but I stopped after "oh, life." That sounded horrendous.
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post #44 of 45
9/3/09 at 5:08pm
Then you missed him turning into a superhero during the chorus.
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post #45 of 45
9/3/09 at 8:16pm
I don't think I'm going back.
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