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We’re more of a vocally oriented band than anything else, and the melody line lets us showcase that.” Well, that and “it would’ve been intimidating to do one of the big hits.” Instead, he says, five minutes after the band chose the song, “we were getting drunk and jamming out on it.” “Right away I knew ‘Drain You’ would be best for us. “I’m the Nirvana guy in the band,” boasts Daisy, bassist for the Cincinnati glam rockers. Then I went through a phase where I thought it was too ’90s.” Having come back around, Pitts found beauty in “the combination of perfect structures and weird, strange chords.” Pitts notes, “Kurt Cobain was dead before I could tie my shoes,” he’s had a complex relationship with Nevermind. That’s what makes a song last.”Įven if, as singer-guitarist J.P. People will always be trying to make sense of what the fuck exactly Kurt was singing about. “The mystery in the lyrics to a song like ‘Polly’ is so profound. “It’s entirely possible that the production on Nevermind is going to feel dated in 50 years, if it doesn’t already,” she says. “The more simple and naive the better.”įor alt-cabaret chanteuse Palmer, the genius of “Polly” has more to do with words than sounds. “Keep it sparse,” he says of their approach. We just didn’t think we could find a way to do it that wasn’t going to feel stupid.” Seventeen years later, they have. performed the Vaselines’ “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam,” on MTV Unplugged, the Scottish twee-poppers were “always being asked if we’d ever cover a Nirvana song,” explains singer-guitarist Eugene Kelly.

“The riff,” he says, “is bad-ass.” You can hear Titus Andronicus’ similarly incorrigible riffs this month at Lollapalooza.Īfter Kurt and Co. But an album like this unites us across time, which is why I wanted to be faithful to the song we covered.” There’s also another, more fundamental reason. “Since indie-rock music is so diverse, there’s not always much common ground. “ Nevermind is a rare thing,” posits main man Patrick Stickles.

It was hugely powerful for a ten-year-old to see.” “The one time they came to Australia, I passed a record store where Kurt was being interviewed with a big crowd watching. After the album’s release, says Vincent Vendetta, frontman for the Melbourne dance-rockers, “all my school friends and I started playing Nirvana songs in our bands.” He even witnessed Nirvanamania firsthand. “It’s a tribute inside a tribute.”Įven on the other side of the world, Nevermind‘s impact was immediate. I got to try making different kinds of music.” Still, there’s a trace of a less-than-fashionable influence on this “In Bloom.” “We slipped some Yes into the guitar solo,” he admits. “I was in my late teens playing shitty glam metal when Nevermind came along and fucked all that up,” says the L.A.-based Walker - and he means that in a good way. It’s easy to play - slap some reverb on there and it’s good to go.” And anyway, he continues, “This was a cool, weird opportunity - like playing with Nirvana on MTV Unplugged - so we’re happy to take it.” “It wasn’t daunting,” says Curt Kirkwood, whose band is on tour in September. One of two bands on this tribute to have been covered by Nirvana, the Meat Puppets chose to repay the compliment by tackling Nevermind‘s best-known song. We’re sorry, this download is no longer available Below you’ll find the complete album tracklist, with reflections from each contributing artist. We were happy that two of Kurt Cobain’s personal faves - the Meat Puppets and the Vaselines, both of whom Nirvana famously covered during their MTV Unplugged taping - joined our effort. The download is called Newermind, and it’s our gift to you. SPIN’s August issue pays tribute to the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, and as part of our package we tapped some of our favorite contemporary artists to cover the influential album’s 13 songs, in their original order.

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