Nirvana - Opinion (Sheep / Smart Studio Sessions mock-up)
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Publicado 2024-04-20
'Opinion' which debuted as a solo acoustic performance on the KAOS (FM) radio show has now been recorded as a full band version.
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I created this version as a long time Nirvana fan who would have loved to hear a studio recording on this song.
I used a combination of @stevewelsh__ and @ToBoddah amazing covers as the basis of the instrumental. I cannot urge you enough to check out the rest of their work.
I used AI to recreate Kurt's vocal and I also used AI to create backing harmonies by Dave (in this timeline Dave would still have joined Nirvana as it was inevitable by this point).
While ideally I would liked to have worked on the instrumental myself recreating period appropriate amps and voice models, I decided not to let perfect be the enemy of good.
I layered the drums with a Steve Albini sampled drum kit, which while not true to the 1990 timeframe I felt was close enough. I used reverb impulse responses from Smart Studio and copied the EQ curve from the original Smart Studio sessions to help get a little bit closer.
Overall I aimed for a sound between the Smart Studio Sessions and the Devonshire mixes of Nevermind, leaning towards the latter as I believe that's where the overall sound would have went.
The album cover is an unused design from 'Muddy Banks of the Wishkah' by their legendary long term art director Robert Fisher (whose incredible work chronicling his time with Nirvana can be found on his Instagram account 'NirvanaBucket'). While it is doubtful that Nirvana and Robert Fisher would ever have met had they not signed to Geffen (meaning that Sub Pop art director Lisa Orth would have likely still been designing their covers), his work is such an integral part of Nirvana's visual identity that I decided to bend the timeline a bit to include him.
All intellectual property rights belong to Nirvana.
Todos los comentarios (21)
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Support me in continuing these recreations and buy me a coffee 🖤 www.buymeacoffee.com/cyrdaeb
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Ummm, I'm blown away, its like hearing a new nirvana track. I feel like I'm a teenager again.
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oh we have hit peak nirvana fan material
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now i normally dont like when people use AI for songs, but i adore it when its used in this way, for vocals of a song he had already been singing anyway, this is amazing
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Incroyable, 30 ans que j'attends enfin cette version. Un morceau Incroyable de Kurt
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You’re the best; you should do one for Poison’s Gone!
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We need a Verse Chorus Verse sheep version, Kurt always wanted it to be on the album at that time but they just never recorded it in the sessions.
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Never has been something been created this good for a fan recreation, amazing job!!!! what more can i say might be a good song to try too!
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Awesome job! I especially love the added vocal harmonies in the chorus. When it first hits it makes you forget that all this comes from a little dinky home demo
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Great song, thanks for sharing it
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In an alternate universe, Kurt and the boys stayed at Sub Pop and made Sheep instead of going to DGC and making Nevermind. An alternate universe I would love to look into.
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Wow!
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I think it's best version of this song.And solo is🔥
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Goosebumps
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BLOODY BRILLIANT! My eyes are leaking!
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This is by far the best mock up of not just opinion but I think of any Nirvana song, I’d love to see what else you’ve got going mock-up wise in the future
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this is actually so good holy shit
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wow this is amazing..... i put together what I think is a pretty good "studio" version of talk to me but I like this a lot more!
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Whoever put this together is a genius!!!!!
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This is one of the best mock-ups I’ve ever heard great job.
