Posted on 09/17/2020 12:48:48 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Wow, Weird Al is almost like a prophet from almost 30 years ago telling us what would happen now, with the radical Seattle/Portland crowd, with his parody.
Agreed.
Cobain loved the parody and felt being spoofed by Al meant his band had “made it”
when that happened.
The chord pattern lifted from Boston’s More Than a Feeling.
Nirvana’s Come as You Are was a slowed down riff lifted from Killing Joke’s
“Eighties”.
I thought the title was “Smells Like Team Spirit “....
Never listened to Nirvana but loved Weird Al. Always loved his version of songs better than the original. “Like a surgeon” way way better than Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”.
That’s the title of the actual Nirvana song. The title of Weird Al’s parody is correctly given.
Took the kids to a couple of Weird Al concerts a few years ago - husband said it was the only concert outside of a Johnny Cash concert where most of the audience knew all of the lyrics to all of the songs and sang along.
My son and his friends certainly did.
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