{"id":1188,"date":"2011-08-06T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2011-08-06T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T19:35:08","slug":"newermind-track-by-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/newermind-track-by-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Newermind Track by Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been (mostly) digging Spin’s cleverly titled\u00c2\u00a0Newermind<\/a> <\/em>cover album in honor of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind. \u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Song by song thoughts:<\/p>\n

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” covered by the Meat Puppets<\/strong>
\nGreat choice of band to kick things off, great cover that’s both true to the original while performed in an Unplugged-ish Meat Puppets style.<\/p>\n

“In Bloom” covered by Butch Walker & the Black Widows
\n<\/strong>Groovy take that accentuates the bass line and funks up the guitar. \u00c2\u00a0Really like the vocals here too. \u00c2\u00a0A fun cover.<\/p>\n

“Come As You Are” covered by Midnight Juggernauts
\n<\/strong>Gothy and ambient with a weird child-like vocal, I didn’t really like this one at first but it’s grown on me a little. \u00c2\u00a0Best part is the extended repetition of the “memoria” mantra in the middle.<\/p>\n

“Breed” covered by Titus Andronicus
\n<\/strong>Straight up rocker gets a straight up cover treatment. \u00c2\u00a0One of my early faves from Nevermind back in the day that holds up no matter who covers it. \u00c2\u00a0Love what sounds like the whole band singing the “she said” bit.<\/p>\n

“Lithium” covered by The Vaselines
\n<\/strong>I really like the Vaselines. \u00c2\u00a0I really like the concept of having the two bands Nirvana most famously covered return the favor here. \u00c2\u00a0But this version doesn’t really do it for me as much as the Polyphonic Spree cover of the same song does. \u00c2\u00a0(Related — I wish they took this “covers by bands covered” concept a little further with tracks by Devo, Greg Sage of the Wipers, and Lou Reed.)<\/p>\n

“Polly” covered by Amanda Palmer
\n<\/strong>Haunting version that turns this into a creepy lullaby accentuated by music box sounding chimes.<\/p>\n

“Territorial Pissings” covered by Surfer Blood
\n<\/strong>Another rocker gets the straight up treatment, right down to the “Get Together” opening. \u00c2\u00a0Doesn’t try to break any new ground, but doesn’t really need to.<\/p>\n

“Drain You” covered by Foxy Shazam
\n<\/strong>Another one that’s grown on me a lot, starting off as a ballad before unexpectedly rocking out.<\/p>\n

“Lounge Act” covered by Jessica Lea Mayfield
\n<\/strong>I’m torn here. \u00c2\u00a0This is my favorite song on Nevermind<\/em>, so my expectations were probably a little high. \u00c2\u00a0And the Painting Tasters<\/a> managed to hit it out of the park when Ken Gordon covered it. \u00c2\u00a0So this version here isn’t a bad cover per se, just disappointing.<\/p>\n

“Stay Away” covered by Charles Bradley & the Menahan Street Band
\n<\/strong>Hands down the best song on this tribute. \u00c2\u00a0If you weren’t paying attention and heard this cold you might not realize what it is until midway through. \u00c2\u00a0A perfect example of what Brian Ibbott from Coverville is talking about when a band makes a song their own.<\/p>\n

“On A Plain” covered by Telekinesis
\n<\/strong>Neat turn on a classic. \u00c2\u00a0Almost sounds like an electric cover of Nirvana’s Unplugged version, taking things full circle in a metaphorical loud-quiet-loud Pixies concept Kurt was so fond of.<\/p>\n

“Something In The Way” covered by JEFF The Brotherhood
\n<\/strong>Speaking of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0loud quiet loud, this take on the not-quite closing track does just that. \u00c2\u00a0I dig.<\/p>\n

“Endless Nameless” covered by EMA
\n<\/strong>Props to SPIN for including this, even if they didn’t try the ten minutes of silence hidden track trick. \u00c2\u00a0It’s a hard song to cover and pulled off admirably here — though I may have preferred a Local Boy<\/a> style softer take that took the song in a different direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been (mostly) digging Spin’s cleverly titled\u00c2\u00a0Newermind cover album in honor of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind. \u00c2\u00a0Song by song thoughts: “Smells Like Teen Spirit” covered by the Meat Puppets Great choice of band to kick things off, great cover that’s both true to the original while performed in an Unplugged-ish Meat Puppets style. “In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-ja","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2240,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-commentary-10-all-youve-got-to-do-is-fall-in-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":1188,"position":0},"title":"LX Commentary #10: All You’ve Got To Do Is Fall In Love","author":"LBDG","date":"July 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Upon deciding to run with this fairytale interlude for the rest of side B, my storytelling goal became connecting the dots from Benji & Jessica to Benji & L while moving things towards a confrontation in \"The Tower\"\u2014whatever that might turn out to be. 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