Smells like industry manure | 30 terrible versions of Teen Spirit
Vote for your least favourite. 1. Olivia Lawson Is she crying? Please God, tell me she isn’t crying. 2. Daniel Johns Once a smug self-congratulatory Chris Martin wannabe twathead, always a smug self-congratulatory Chris Martin wannabe twathead. 3. Miley Cyrus She rocks like Courtney Love. 4. Imagine Dragons …because Nirvana always were a crap metal […]
Daniel Johns turns ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ into a Coldplay song
Wow. I don’t know which is worse. The idea of Daniel Johns (the Chris Martin soundalike guy from national embarrassment Silverchair) covering ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at a triple j party, the actuality of Daniel Johns (the whiny, wallpaper, Chris Martin soundalike guy from national embarrassment Silverchair) covering ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ with harp and […]
Everett True revisits Nevermind (reprint from eMusic)
Pull up a chair, there won’t be a warmer sound for years.
The Muppets cover ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
And yes … fuck yes … I reckon Kurt would have approved. For sure.
the thin line between genius and total shithead crap
Nirvana represents something precious that they don’t want to see defiled, turned into just another product
Oh well, whatever, etc
I was a little underwhelmed. It was so clean, to start with. What was with all those pop hooks?
Nevermind (the years that have passed)
We all start developing an enlightened view of the world from one kernel, one flashpoint.
Advice for Everett True on How to Write About Nevermind
Right now, kids are singing ‘Teen Spirit’ in school chorus, and thinking that Miley Cyrus wrote it
We Don’t Have To Breed – Nirvana’s Nevermind and masculinity
Stuck with powerful sexual impulses, I convinced myself that to act on them was disrespectful and cheap.
