The Lucky Devils - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Psychobilly Cover) - Video
PUBLISHED:  Mar 20, 2011
DESCRIPTION:
From '' Time Passes By... ''
Label: One Million Dollar Records – Dollar 064
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 2000

Tracklist
A1 Look My Way
A2 Bye Pretty Baby
A3 Honky Tonky Rock
A4 Paint It Black (Written-By – Brian Jones)
A5 Got To Leave You
A6 Strange Kind Of Woman (Written-By – David Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore)
B1 Don't Stop Around
B2 Smells Like Teen Spirit (Written-By – Kurt Cobain)
B3 Time Passes By
B4 Highway Chile (Written-By – Jimi Hendrix)
B5 Bella Mia
B6 I'll Keep On Rockin' When I'm Dead
B7 Surfin' Buffy (Bonus Track)

Recorded at Feelings Studios, Tourcoinc, France (02/2000-09/2000).

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Cover Versions

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" has been covered by numerous artists.
One of the first cover recordings was an acoustic piano version by Tori Amos on her 1992 Crucify EP, which Cobain referred to as "a great breakfast cereal version.".
The jazz trio The Bad Plus recorded the track for its CD These Are the Vistas, the Melvins recorded a version featuring former child star Leif Garrett, and the industrial act Xorcist also released a tribute.
The Moog Cookbook put out a synthesizer-based cover version on The Moog Cookbook and the Japanese Beatboxer Dokaka has recorded a beatboxed cover version.
British group The Flying Pickets released an a cappella version of the song on their album The Original Flying Pickets: Volume 1 - 1994.
Covers of the song on tribute albums include Blanks 77 on Smells Like Bleach: A Punk Tribute to Nirvana, and Beki Bondage on Smells Like Nirvana; both released in 2000. In 2005, "Teen Spirit" was covered as a swing song by 1950s star Paul Anka.
In 2006, the band Flyleaf covered the song for Yahoo's LAUNCHcast service. In 2007, Patti Smith included a cover version, which incorporated a piece of her poetry, on her album of cover songs Twelve.
The song was also covered by grindcore band, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza.
The song has been adapted into other forms over the years.
Germany's Atari Teenage Riot sampled "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in the song "Atari Teenage Riot" from their 1997 album, Burn, Berlin, Burn!.
DJ Balloon, a German techno DJ, also used the sample in his song "Monstersound".
An instrumental cover version (slightly altered and named "Self High-Five" to avoid legal complications) was produced by World Championship Wrestling as the entrance music for wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, with clips of Page's voice dubbed in from time to time.
A snippet of the song was also performed in a cabaret style in the 2001 film Moulin Rouge!.
In addition to cover versions, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has also inspired a few parodies. "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song in 1992 with "Smells Like Nirvana", a song about Nirvana itself. Yankovic parodied the difficulty in understanding Cobain's singing as well as the lyrics and their meaning. Yankovic has said Kurt Cobain told him he realized that Nirvana had "made it" when he heard the parody.
In 1995, the queercore band Pansy Division recorded a parody of the song called "Smells Like Queer Spirit" for its Pile Up album. Pansy Division guitarist Jon Ginoli insisted that his band's version of the song was not a parody but "an affectionate tribute".
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