Three absolutely different takes on a song - Smells Like Teen Spirit

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Patti Smith

Nirvana

Tori Amos

Amazing how three different artists can have a different take on songs.

Which is your favorite?

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	Patti Smith
	2 (40%)
	Nirvana
	1 (20%)
	Tori Amos
	0 (0%)
	Other - please specify
	1 (20%)
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	1 (20%)
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[MrSlayer]

1. I'm not really a Nirvana fan.

But their version of their own song is far and away the best of the lot.

Nirvana was/is very overrated.

[BlueJazz]

2. I vaulted.

[Aerows]

4. I love her version, too

She's got a relationship with the piano that rivals a hot, sweaty affair that spans decades.

[BlueJazz]

5. Perceptive you.

[Aerows]

7. ;)

I love my friends down under, flying and witnessing the Southern Cross!

[TlalocW]

3. Best

TlalocW

[Aerows]

6. That was a hilarious take on Nirvana's version

But mostly, I wanted to highlight how the differences between artists can be WIDE, as is the case with some performances.

[ManiacJoe]

8. This one gets my vote!

[Aerows]

10. I like the White and Nerdy

take .

[Tx4obama]

11. Weird Al is always great :) n/t

[Aerows]

12. Okay, since you encouraged satiristic music

I have to post this one.

[Aerows]

9. The primary reason I created this thread

Is that it is amazing how songs can get reinterpreted - even songs by folk singers. I had NO IDEA Patti Smith did the original version of this, but it was cool to see the song I lost my mind to on the dance floor in the 90's was the version Nirvana did. Then Tori Amos played it on her piano that she manipulates like sex, and it was better. Only to find out, Patti Smith did it first

It was interesting to a whippersnapper like me.

[aikoaiko]

14. Are you sure Smith did it first?

I thought the story was that some of or references Smith's verse from a poem was incorporated into it, but Nirvana wrote the song and she covered it.

[Aerows]

16. LOL

Of Course she didn't write that song.

[aikoaiko]

18. Darn. I've stupefied myself.

Again.

[Aerows]

19. I won't hold it against you LMAO n/t

[Aerows]

13. Nobody recs it?

I'm rather stunned.

[aikoaiko]

15. K&R&H

H for heart.

[Aerows]

17. Thank you, cher

and I am just attempting to bring up good music. We have Mardi Gras coming here, and I feel like a young one most of the time since I am of the barely 40 set.

[uriel1972]

20. I love the Tori Amos one

haunting and melancholy. YMMV

[Aerows]

29. She has a beautiful voice

and can rock a piano like nothing I've ever seen.

[Aerows]

21. Precious Things

[Crabby Appleton]

22. Other

[Aerows]

23. OMG! That was awesome!

truly

[Lars39]

24. My favorite version:

[Aerows]

26. I love your signature

and that episode of Star Trek. Picard kicked ass.

[Lars39]

27. That he did.

Damn fine actor.

[Aerows]

25. This thread turned out to be a heck of a lot more fun

than I thought it would be .

[Aerows]

28. I love this song for telling a story

[Mojorabbit]

30. I have always loved Patti Smith's version

but had never heard Tori Amos do it. She totally smoked it! Just beautifully done!