alternative reality William S. Burroughs: "There's something wrong with that boy. He smiles for no reason."
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 6 January 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
teen sprite gets an A
― calstars, Saturday, 6 January 2018 11:44 (six years ago) link
in some weird way, it finally sounds as the ultimate pixies rip off song he was trying to write
― tonga, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
I might be stepping in it but I'm pretty sure it's mostly a careful recreation, not pitchshifting
― Simon H., Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
Yup definitely not a simple major chords transposition but the result is really fun/good!
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Yeah parts of it sound recreated but the vocal seems genuine
― calstars, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
Albeit pitchshifted
― calstars, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
the vocals are obviously the originals pitch shifted, the stems for SLTS are easily accessible
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
any song in a Guitar Hero type game has its stems readily available on the internet
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
stems!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
lol
― calstars, Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
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.
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 7 January 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
feel like this has to be posted here now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYV3d9fSW8
― #TeamHailing (imago), Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
doesn't quite achieve the heights of "imagine" / "jump" mash up (essential btw), but it's p good
― 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.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
totally agree with flappy
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
apparently the guy kept the drums, *re-recorded the guitar parts*, and then pitch-shifted the vocals to matchi am not the guy fwiw. i got that from another board
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
word
― flappy bird, Monday, 8 January 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
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
― ufo, Monday, 8 January 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
Slow start to the year, it seems!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 8 January 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
re: Cicieraga, I strongly considered nominating "T.I.M.E." in the tracks poll
― Simon H., Monday, 8 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
wow, that Jump/Imagine is spectacular!!
― niels, Monday, 8 January 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Ghrol makes this song what it is
― calstars, Saturday, 21 July 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:08 (five months ago) link
It came from Grohl himself in an interview he did with Pharrell where he cited Funk licks/beats/rolls he used on Nevermind.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:14 (five months ago) link
Faking the funk! J'accuse!
― BrianB, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:16 (five months ago) link
Yeah, he's full of shit, lol.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:20 (five months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:23 (five months ago) link
Stubblefield...Ferrone...Grohl
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:26 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZCrdSC2-1I
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:28 (five months ago) link
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
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:29 (five months ago) link
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
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:31 (five months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:33 (five months ago) link
this will always be the definitive version for mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRdc0OxUmYg
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:37 (five months ago) link
Oh.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:40 (five months ago) link
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.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:41 (five months ago) link
xp (Fun fact: the tires screeching before the drum intro is sampled for the instrumental chorus of NWA's "Straight Outta Compton")
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:09 (five months ago) link
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
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:27 (five months ago) link
I think he meant 3:45
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:31 (five months ago) link
Yeah, sorry. Toward the end.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:36 (five months ago) link
Dave Grohl got me reelingWhen ripped off "More Than Feeling"
AMANDA
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:38 (five months ago) link
The drums definitely enter "Teen Spirit" the same sort of way they enter those Gap Band tracks, but come on, there is no way Grohl was thinking Gap Band, Cameo and Chic when he was recording "Nevermind." At, what, age 22? With his punk background? Nah. But old man Grohl now, friend to everyone, lover of all music, sure. He probably wanted to seem hip to Pharrell.
Reminds me of some making of "Murmur" thing I read years ago (I don't think it was Niimi's book) where they were talking about the supposedly "anything goes" recording, trying everything, including sliding in James Brown samples. Come on, no they weren't.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 01:48 (five months ago) link
I read the early circa 2000 posts above. So much hate for this song/band!
Like, show us on the doll where the Anarchy cheerleader touched you...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 05:34 (five months ago) link