If this had been submitted I would probably have had to listen to it eight times to figure out placement. I have no clue whether I like it or not on first try.
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I know I gave this joker a first place, but how have we let Walrus come to this!!
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Frankly, if I get someone to listen to my submission 8 times I count that as a win, regardless of where it places ;-)
Better than the Sarah Palin version at least.
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I intensely dislike the fact that I looked that up and listened to a whole 5 seconds of it.
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I appreciate what Nirvana did and what they meant to music but I once heard someone call them a Pixies cover band and now thatās how I think of them.
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Since I got the submissions as a block in which entries werenāt randomized, I assume yours was Royals based on the rest of the submissions?
Iāll go even further than mjiggy and say that Iām glad Cobain is dead so I donāt have to listen to more Nirvana music.
Trying too hard, man. The shiniest blade isnāt always the sharpest. Play it like youāre very sad he died because his death is the only reason people still talk about them yadda yadda.
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Ok letās do another while I have time, might get busy soon. In 9th place with four points:
Within Temptation - Skyfall
On the bright side, this fits what I was looking for in a submission in that it sounds quite different from the original. On the not so bright side, I think it sounds fairly generic and indistinct. Itās fine, I canāt come up with anything else to say about it. No bonus points on this entry either.
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When he died I remember my dad said something like, āI see your mate Kurt killed himself,ā in a way that meant I suspected he agreed with you.
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OK, fine. I greatly prefer āSmells Like Nirvanaā to āSmells Like Teen Spiritā. Is that what youāre looking for? Someone I know already took the take that Nirvana is that band that Dave Grohl was in before he did his best stuff.
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Even though Nirvana meant nothing to me at that age, I still distinctly remember hearing about Cobain killing himself on the radio.
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Were the entrants so far not accompanied by any writeups? When my turn comes, Iām going to need everybody to appreciate the excruciating thought process that led me to where I ended up. This category had me quite vexed.
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Iām not looking for anything man, like, youāre trying to annoy Nirvana fans and seemed to be struggling, thought Iād give you a dig out is all.
Not trying to annoy Nirvana fans. Possibly trying to annoy people who think we shouldnāt speak ill of the dead.
There werenāt many write ups with the entries and Iām only including ones that I think add something to the flavor of the post.
I remember being at school a few guys were talking. One said he didnāt like Nirvana at all, and this other Nirvana obsessed guy said āwell if Kurt was here right now you know what heād say? Heād say youāre a redneck teenybopperā. Without missing a beat the first guy responds āOh yeah? Well Iāve got something to say to him. Heās dead and Iām not, so he can suck my dick.ā
That pretty much ended the discussion.
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Can we table further discussion of Nirvana or Kurt Cobain until itās relevant to the thread? No one even discussed whether they like Love Buzz! Also no entries claimed yet 
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Well you said you know/can figure out. Iām Johnny One Point, anyway. The Bowie and Ure versions probably sound quite alike to people who understand/care about music, but they sound completely different to me. The Bowie one is lumpy, shapeless. The vocal ā both Bowieās delivery and the effects laid on it ā just distance him from the music. Itās very much Bowie in Paris with an arm full of heroin and a head full of bollocks about witches.
The Ure version is crisp, urgent, haunting. It has a metronomic quality I far prefer and the vocals mesh far better with the music. It even covers up for the ropey lyrics in the back half. Bowie had a habit of falling down badly in the second verse.
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