Smells Like Nirvana -> Sounds Like Crap

[mjquilly]

WTF is this???? I just wend to CDnow and did a search for Nirvana, and saw a tribute album called "Smells Like Nirvana". I have previewed about 5 songs so far. This has to be the worst collection of cover songs I have ever heard. I have always been a huge Nirvana fan, maybe that's why. Anyone else agree?

 

[DAM]

you scared me there, i though you were gonna dis nirvana i was ready to flame your ass. but actually there is a cover of teen spirit done by tori amos i think, it doesnt sound that bad. but not great.



stick to what works




dam(the original)

 

[stonerdave]

yeah, this title kinda drew my attention too! What bands were on there?

 

[VladTrishkin]

I wouldnt even look at it, copycats are in bloom :|

 

[veryape]

That Tori Amos cover of Teen Spirit truly sucks!!!

 

[Pacfanweb]

I'll have to check that out. How hard could it be to cover Nirvana? It's not like you have to be a guitar god to play it.

 

[snoogans]

Hmmmm....Tori Amos covering "Smells like Teen Spirit?" Where are the extra barf bags...

Some things just shouldn't be touched and covering Nirvana is one of them.

 

Does anyone else not get the whole Nirvana thing? I mean I understand how they killed off hairbands in the pop charts back in the 90's but I never understood what was so special about their music. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains too. It just sounds like regular rock to me, pretty tame at that. When I first heard SLTS I thought it was a pretty tame, boring song. In fact I still do.

I am not trying to diss Nirvana, I am just wondering if anyone who was around in '92 felt that their music was really revolutionary.

 

[DAM]

i was in junior high, i was not big into music, but i do remember hearing nirvana for the first time, and i truly think that it was different it was a change in the music/style, hell when i hit puberty and all those troubling years i would listen constantly to nirvana, it helped me in some way.


all in all, i think they were a great band, and their music rocks ass.




dam()

 

[JenniZ]

Damn, I came in here, because I was hoping someone was "dissing" nirvana. I love to watch nirvana whiners get all upset when someone "disses" nirvana. I listened to them in highschool too, woopedy-do-dah. Not the best there ever was.


Of course thats just my personal music tastes. I respect someone elses wether they think nirvana was the best or the worst. Music is so personal, its not worth getting upset over if someone doesnt "agree" with your musical tastes.. Some people like that candy guy, whats his name M&M

My name is, My name is, My name is, My name is, My name is...Very annoying
::watches her user rating drop::

 

[DaBoneHead]

Tori Amos is an artist. A true artist. Let's get that straight first, just because some of you can't appreciate her, well that is your fault.


The funny thing about Nirvana (at least for me), was that I didn't like them until after Kurt died. I started to listen to them for some reason, and I realized that he too was an artist. He is a poet of the caliber of Jim Morrison, and society is less without great artists like them.

Another funny thing is that Kurts music got better after his heroine addiction. Both he and Courtney's music had more angst and emotion after their fall into the abyss of drugs than before. Unfortunately, I have no doubt it also killed him.

 

[DefRef]

Tori Amos' version of "Teen Spirit" was fine. Nirvana FANATICS need to follow Kurt's lead. They were a good band, but NOT the end-all-and-be-all that the rock press and sad youth have made them out to be. I'm sure that Kurt is looking up from his firey pit and regreting that he's been made into the one thing he never would've wanted to be: A worshipped icon.

Anyone heard Travis' cover "Baby One More Time"? Cute. Kinda like Aztec Camera's "Jump".

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BTW: Much as I loved "Little Earthquakes", Tori's music declined to the point where I could give a rip anymore. "Boys For Pele" was such an arrogant piece of "You'll buy anything I poop out." garbage, that I couldn't get into "Songs From The Choirgirl Hotel". Too bad. I guess I can stick with her first two CDs.

 

[JenniZ]

Hendrix was awsome for several reasons, in that he had major talent, and was unlike any other artist, AND he droped acid. Acid is a very influential drug, unfortunately it also killed him.

Iron Butterflys "In a gadda da vida" is also great because of drugs. The name is even a result of it!

 

Regarding Cobain's music. Him and Beck are either both lyrical geniuses or they make no sense whatsoever, I can't tell. None of their lyrics make any sense to me unless I do some blind guesswork on the interpretation. So either they are writing about really "out there" stuff or they are just babbling about nonsense.

 

[DAM]

dwell: are you dissing beck??? he is one of my fav artist.







dam(in the time of the chimpanze i was a mokey, butane in my veins...)

 

[DefRef]

Beck's overrated too. Anyone who heard "Paul's Boutique" could spot that "Odelay" was just the same thing recycled a decade later and that it was the producers (the Dust Bros.) that made Beck cool.

 

DAM: No, I am not dissing him. I am just saying I don't understand a thing he writes about.

DefRef: Yeah, Paul's was the Sgt. Pepper of my generation. The Sgt. Pepper samples didn't hurt either Great album. There is no way an album like Paul's could be made today with all the sampling laws.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Nirvana was simply a back-to-basics rock band that came along at the right time. They were pretty popular when Cobain was alive, but nowhere near as popular as they became after the loser killed himself. I believe that had he lived, they would be rated right now in the same class as maybe Pearl Jam.(which isn't too shabby, popularity-wise)
I liked Nirvana when they came out, but let's face it: rock is all about the live show, and live, they sounded like crap. Cobain sounded like a dying cow, and their playing was very sloppy. Not the stuff of legends. (just listen to the unplugged album for proof)
He died at the height of Nirvana's popularity, and that is the sole reason why Nirvana has the status they have now.

Keep in mind, I did and still do like Nirvana, but face it, they were not all that.

 

[SuperGroove]

People...knocking...Nirvana...must...not...kill...them...


Why did Nirvana mean so much to me? Simply because it was music filled with raw emotion, in a time where $$$ meant everythang. I spent a lot of time just listening to their music, and just becoming oblivious of what was around me. Not hypnotic, nor anything that can be deemed talented....but the dudes kicked ass.

Pearl Jam kicks ass too! Not all grunge is good, but Pearl Jam and Nirvana kicked mucho ass

 

I totally understand why Nirvana was so popular. I mean Michael Jackson and Poison was what people were forced to listen to at the time (popwise). It's my pre-Nirvana musical taste that kept me from seeing them as revolutionary. I guess it's sort of like the Sex Pistols kicking disco's ass back in the 70's. Although I must admit the Pistols were way more groundbreaking than Nirvana, IMHO.

 

[VladTrishkin]

There aren?t that many topics I can get involved in, but NIRVANA is one of them. Kurdt Kobain (Yes that?s one of the ways he wrote his own name), was simply a Genius at that time, and for me no band will ever come close to the lyrics of Nirvana.

I just don?t like when people come here (and many other places) and say things they know nothing about. I can claim that I am a fan, and I have read all of the facts, books, articles etc out on Nirvana. Nirvana was a revolution; Kurt was the father of Grunge. Pearl Jam, Beck, etc are just the followers. For me there is no greater record then "Nirvana Unplugged In NY".

As it was once said;



<< I am worst at what I do best, and for this gift I feel blessed... Oh well whatever Nevermind >>

 

[kami]

<< Cobain sounded like a dying cow, and their playing was very sloppy. Not the stuff of legends. (just listen to the unplugged album for proof) >>


what are you talking about? the unplugged album had to be one of their best. i have a bootlegged, uncensored VHS copy of their unplugged in new york album...not the silly stripped down MTV version. mine is much longer

 

[VladTrishkin]

True that kami, and you've got a PM

 

[slunk]

The reason they are so important to me is very similar to what SuperGroove stated. For a rather small person, Kurt expressed the anger, sadness and (sometimes) joy inside him like no other. Unplugged haunts me everytime I hear it or see it. His raw power was insane, and it just fills me up everytime I listen to them. He didn't fake it either. That was most obvious. It made me realize how naive most other groups were. I only wish the mainstream music scene had learned something from them.

 

[laelb]

Love Nirvana..