Mewithoutyou recently covered "In Bloom" for a Nirvana tribute album.
You can stream that dandy at MWY's website:
http://mewithoutyou.com/?p=213
A lot of tribute albums are ultimately unsatisfying. Bands either try to sound too much like the original artist (and fail because they are not) or they try to do their own thing and butcher everything to crap. And also Nirvana, for whatever reason, is a very finicky band to cover.
Mewithoutyou's take on "In Bloom" is... different. It's like listening to a MWY song but with Cobain lyrics. I didn't like the tune at first but warmed up to it before the song ended. I'm still not crazy about Aaron's post-Brother, Sister ball-less vocal style, but whatever. He can do what he wants.
The band reduces the lyrics to their poetic essence by removing all that distracting guitar-riffic fuzz. Filtering "In Bloom" through a MWY-shaped prism may not yield rainbows, but the results are still interesting.
I will probably never listen to the rest of this particular tribute album (titled Come As You Are, if you're interested), but I'm happy at least one of the songs is listenable.
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