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[ SECRET POST #3371 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3371 ⌋

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Agreed. It sounds... happy-go-lucky? Which was actually something Kurt did as well, but there was always an edge to it, and this cover lacks edge.

Yeah. The point of the original In Bloom was that teens don't give a shit about anything important and don't understand the consequences of anything and they just want to fuck and look at pretty things but that's how the world is so fuck it lol Spring is here

This one is... not.

^ SA

It's the cover equivalent of if Johnny Cash's Hurt had been about someone's broken leg. Might be a good song by a good singer, but missing the entire point.

That's a good analogy.

How do you take a song that begins "Sell the kids for food" and make it that? I feel like I should be having a slow dance at a hoedown.

NA

I agree with what you're saying here (both about this cover and, in general, about Hurt). Except that ironically, Johnny Cash's version of Hurt was a cover. It's actually the perfect example of a cover that goes the opposite direction to Simpson's - it brings sincerity and weight of meaning to Reznor's original track.

ayrt

I think the fact that Cash's Hurt is a cover was the point of the original comment

*nayrt

OP

Wow, I think that's probably the first time Sturgill Simpson's been described as 'lacking edge'. Well, he does do a lot of psychotropic drugs so maybe he was just too high when arranging this cover lol.

I think by edge, anon meant edge as in an edge of anger or bitterness.

It sounds psychedelic for sure, but the original song was really bitter and this one sounds like it's all good bro just relax.

OP

Oh, fair enough then. Although towards the end of the song he ramps it up quite a bit, and it loses its 'bro relax' feel, which is a thing Sturgill does often in his songs.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't know why he didn't cover Lithium instead of In Bloom. This genre of music would go much better with that song and - if he kept the same style he uses here - be a good cover of sounding literally medicated into happy relaxed submission, which keeps the original meaning intact while adding a creepy feel on top.

OP

On his previous album he did a cover of an 80s pop song, and turned it into a sad ballad. I think he likes turning genres on their heads.

80s pop song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HI_xFQWiYU
Sturgill's cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eWJmN8D820

I can appreciate the genre-spinning. It just doesn't always work, is all. Especially with groups like Nirvana where the originals are usually already bitter angry songs being spun into something more upbeat.

OP

Yeah, I get that. I guess I just don't have the same connection to the original, so whatever has been lost from it is going over my head.

Have you ever listened to the original?

OP

I have, but I'm still so unfamiliar with Nirvana and their intent to really make up my mind on it.

Ramps it up?? Maybe in the sense of going from country ballad to sweeping American Idol inspirational number.

OP

Sturgill knows how to burn up a stage, man. That cover is him at his mildest. Comparing him to American Idol contestants is laughable.

Too bad he couldn't have brought some of that to this cover.

OP

Eh, you win some you lose some.

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