And I’m not saying that the original is bad. You have to have a good song to have a good cover in my opinion. But sometimes the cover artist just understands the mission and takes what the original song did and expands on that a hundred times over.

What’re some of your guys’s favorites?

    • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      8 months ago

      Have you heard the original meat puppet versions? Nirvana basically covered them exactly.

      Not saying that’s bad. But when you look at songs like “All along the washer tower” by Jimi, or “Whiskey in the Jar” by Metallica. Those covers are completely changed to fit their style. In my mind, that’s what makes a cover great.

      A lot of Nirvana’s style is the Meat Puppets

      Good covers, but they lack original twists. Meat Puppets even played the music in the unplugged performance. So really it’s wasn’t Nirvana covering them as much as Kurt Cobain singing.

      It’s what I have against Weezer’s cover of Toto’s Africa. Good cover, but it doesn’t scream Weezer at all.

    • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      8 months ago

      also Jesus doesn’t want me for a Sunbeam which came from unplugged too.

      some of my favorite covers nirvana did though were not off unplugged, Love Buzz, Molly’s Lips, And I Love Her