![]() Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, among other parties. District Court for the Central District of California against the estate of Kurt Cobain the musician’s former bandmates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic and Mr. Elden had learned about the album cover more than 10 years ago, he had waited too long to file his lawsuit, making his claims untimely. Olguin, wrote in his eight-page ruling that because Mr. The man, Spencer Elden, 31, accused Nirvana in his complaint of engaging in child pornography after it used a photo of him for the cover of “Nevermind,” the 1991 album that catapulted the Seattle grunge rock band to international fame. In case you want to compare and contrast the two versions, or realize how few words to the original you actually know, here are Weird Al’s lyrics and Nirvana’s.A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man who, as a baby, had graced the cover of Nirvana’s seminal album, “Nevermind,” and argued 30 years later that the iconic photo of him drifting naked in a pool had been a form of sexual exploitation. I wish it were popular enough for me to do a parody … but that’s never going to happen!” He didn’t have to wait long. When reminiscing about this song’s success in 2011, Yankovic remembers: “I heard Nevermind and I thought, Oh this is really great. ![]() In this 1992 cover, Weird Al takes Nirvana to task for the band’s indecipherable lyrics, replacing the chorus with “Now I'm mumblin', and I'm screamin' / And I don't know what I'm singin'” and subs in some plain gobbledygook (“It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss”) in the verses. Music lore states that Cobain officially thought he ’d “made it” when “Smells Like Teen Spirit” got the Yankovic treatment. Before you write off this cover, remember that getting a Weird Al song parody is the oddball musical equivalent of getting your novel in Oprah’s book club - you’ve truly reached the next level. ![]()
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