"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Classic Or Dud?

haha

Drop that Rick Astley track down to A and you'd have Joy Division.

Finally watched "Teen Sprite" today. Smiled from start to finish--loved it. I don't know enough about chords and stuff to know if it is indeed a transposition or if it's a wholesale remake and not really what it claims to be. But it's close enough to get me thinking the obvious, how different history would been if that had been put out instead. (And I realize some people will consider that notion silly, and will say that history would have proceeded no differently at all.)

alternative reality William S. Burroughs: "There's something wrong with that boy. He smiles for no reason."

teen sprite gets an A

in some weird way, it finally sounds as the ultimate pixies rip off song he was trying to write

I might be stepping in it but I'm pretty sure it's mostly a careful recreation, not pitchshifting

Yup definitely not a simple major chords transposition but the result is really fun/good!

Yeah parts of it sound recreated but the vocal seems genuine

Albeit pitchshifted

I have to imagine a ton of practicing / rehearsing has to go into something like that, when you’re confounding your own expectations at almost every interval

I love this song. Don't know how they did this without an isolated vocal. Will try to dissect it with my guitar teacher next week and figure out what they did.

the vocals are obviously the originals pitch shifted, the stems for SLTS are easily accessible

any song in a Guitar Hero type game has its stems readily available on the internet

stems!

it starts off kind of cool but once the verse starts going it doesn't really sound convincing. i think it's a little like SNL, sometimes the ideas people come up with are really only good enough to last 15 seconds or so but you can always count on people wanting to waste time on the internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEzrxoy09B0

ftw i prefer the Abigail version

nothing will ever top this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2gj4pwaUuc

lol

the vocals are obviously the originals pitch shifted, the stems for SLTS are easily accessible

I dunno, I think it's the work of a (talented) soundalike. Some of the phrasing is off, in particular on "oh well, whatever, never mind".

The Rick Astley track is kind of awesome. It's interesting how its monochromaticism imposes a sort of minimal techno vibe on one of SAW's frothiest confections.

feel like this has to be posted here now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYV3d9fSW8

flappy bird that video is sooooo funny i laughed like a dork for the entire video.

this merits a listen imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snC4ZtW9dHI

doesn't quite achieve the heights of "imagine" / "jump" mash up (essential btw), but it's p good

I dunno, I think it's the work of a (talented) soundalike. Some of the phrasing is off, in particular on "oh well, whatever, never mind".

― Vast Halo

no, those are absolutely the original vocals. the phrasing and delivery throughout the song is identical. it sounds like there could be some doubling on the "hello, hello" parts, but these are the original vocals. i agree "oh well whatever nevermind" sounds strange, that might've been punched in or doubled. but largely the vocals are the originals, i can say with certainty. i can also say with certainty upon further listening that everything else (except the drums) is a complete recreation.

totally agree with flappy

apparently the guy kept the drums, *re-recorded the guitar parts*, and then pitch-shifted the vocals to match

i am not the guy fwiw. i got that from another board

word

was really weird when Foo Fighters performed the Never Gonna Give You Up/Teen Spirit mash-up with Astley a few times last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdkCEioCp24

Slow start to the year, it seems!

BTW, I'm 14 and I've only recently become a Nirvana fan (and no, it wasn't because of YKYR :P). It's safe to say that Nirvana hasn't lost any meaning over the years.

going "awwww" at this classic crut post

re: Cicieraga, I strongly considered nominating "T.I.M.E." in the tracks poll

wow, that Jump/Imagine is spectacular!!

Ghrol makes this song what it is

I don't know where this BS line started that Grohl was inspired by the Gap Band's "Early in the Morning, but given that "Teen Spirit" already bears a passing minor key resemblance to "More Than a Feeling," check out the drum fill leading in to the final chorus, around 2:45:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufQUxoidxkM

It came from Grohl himself in an interview he did with Pharrell where he cited Funk licks/beats/rolls he used on Nevermind.

Faking the funk! J'accuse!

Yeah, he's full of shit, lol.

That album is exceptionally not funky, and drum intro to Teen Spirit sounds nothing like the Gap Band. But it does sound like that bit in More Than a Feeling, which the rest of the song sounds like, too. Possibly mature Grohl is guilty of a little revisionism.

Stubblefield...Ferrone...Grohl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZCrdSC2-1I

Opened this up and was reminded of "Teen Sprite" from a few years ago. The original link above was taken down, and it's a little harder to find now--it's on YouTube under the name "Nirvirna." It's probably impossible to erase anything permanently, someone will always be around to re-post, but if you've never heard it, there does seem to be some effort to do so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX24A6sSR8s

I agree I don't hear it on "Early In The Morning" but 100% hear it on the opening of "Burn Rubber On Me" fwiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmcncGirAU4

I don't hear it, it lacks that bass drum syncopation, which the Boston fill has.

xpost A few years ago there were a whole bunch of major key versions of minor key songs posted. I seem to recall the major key Losing My Religion was pretty good.

this will always be the definitive version for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRdc0OxUmYg

Oh.

I remember Tom Scholz being sore about the similarities. I heard a radio interview before a Boston concert in the mid-'90s and he and/or Delp bitching about doing "The Nirvana Song" onstage.

xp (Fun fact: the tires screeching before the drum intro is sampled for the instrumental chorus of NWA's "Straight Outta Compton")

I don’t hear any fill at 2:45 in the Boston song?

Agree with Steve it totally sounds like the opening of the gap band jam and it’s used In exactly the same way

I think he meant 3:45

Yeah, sorry. Toward the end.