Photo: John Medina
There are two kinds of Weezer covers: the catchy, organic ones and the blatant nostalgia grabs. Recently, fans got a new entry in the former category when Rivers Cuomo performed a stripped-down cover of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” during a Zoom webinar session. Check it out below.
Perhaps it’s the quarantine-induced video conferencing, or Cuomo’s giant bottle of hand sanitizer, or his pasty, indoor-kid beach getup, but there’s something about the Weezer frontman crooning alone on a piano that feels very appropriate for a Nirvana cover.
Look, it may not be much, but at least it isn’t this goddamn thing.
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I appreciate that he’s clearly reading the lyrics. It’s a quarantine. Who can be bothered to memorize things?
Mihali from Twiddle covered most of Nirvana Unplugged the other weekend:That’s just the beginning of the show, it was good though:)
I’ve got a box-shaped heart. It’s a real medical anomaly. My doctors are stumped, but nobody’s singing songs about me!
eh, “King Kong Brody” is only a couple letters off, you could pretty safely claim John Darnielle is singing about you, if that’s what you’re looking for.
(Also, AV Club, why do you keep pulling these videos from your site?)
This was fun. That said, his singing and piano worked for the verses, but the chorus felt empty without the guitar and drums.Either way it reminded me how long it’s been since I listened to In Utero. So I guess I’ll put that on while I make dinner tonight.