Sludgeyy

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[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.