Here’s your daily dopamine hit: One guy cycling through 71 Nirvana riffs in just under five minutes. All the hits are here—“Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Lithium,” “All Apologies,” “Polly”—as are several B-sides, demos, and covers, from “I Hate Myself And Want To Die” to “Magnolia” to Molly’s Lips.”
The riffs unfold (for the most part) alphabetically, meaning Kurt Cobain’s ear-splitting riffs often brush up against his more muted ones—the transition from “Drain You” to “Dumb” to “Endless, Nameless” is an especially jarring (and impressive) one. Careening from “Smells Like Teen Spirit to “Son Of A Gun” to “Spank Thru,” meanwhile, is sure to shake the mid-afternoon bleariness from your eyes.
“Keep in mind that there are two guitar tracks playing in this cover,” says the guitarist, posting under the name yourautnstripe. “One is that I am playing in the video and second one that I recorded step by step before recording this in one take. Bass and drums were created in Garage Band.”
Nirvana covers are all the rage these days, with everyone from Rivers Cuomo to Post Malone to speakers of classical Latin offering their interpretations. And, yeah, laugh all you want at Posty channeling Cobain, but the man does a mean “Heart-Shaped Box.”
[via Boing Boing]
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The Post Malone show was jarring in how good it was. I was shocked. He was all in and did an amazing job getting the energy right.
Al these riffs have me feeling angsty and jaded.
Yeah… they also have *me* feeling surprisingly enlightened on gender politics issues for the early 1990s…
I used to think that Nirvana was more influential than good, but I’ve since come around–Cobain was a fantastic guitarist. (I do still think that more people should listen to the bands that influenced Nirvana before listening to Nirvana themselves)
He was OK. I’d say he was a great songwriter and a decent guitarist.He was influenced by the best, though (on every level) and that’s what I love most about kids geting into Nirvana. The band’s giant arrow pointing at some of the best music ever written (by others).
This guy thinks N comes before M. Mevernind.
He threw Negative Creep into the M’s for some reason, but it wasn’t before M, just weirdly in the middle of them.
You just distilled my adolescence into five minutes. Nevermind came out just as my freshman year was getting rolling; Courtney murdered Kurt in April of my junior year. My senior year involved a lot of discovering old tracks and deep cuts in the absence of new material from the band before I graduated (and moved on musically to stuff like Offspring and Green Day and, maybe not as moved-on-as-I-thought, Foo Fighters) in 1995.