Weird Al Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana (live at Bamboozle 0

[beLIEveraliveMJ]

this may sound weird but i think al is using kurt's clothes every performance of smells like nirvana. it's either he borrowed it from kurt then legally bought it after kurt was murdered/commited suicide or someone made those clothes exactly like kurt's.

[ByronNix]

he did this when they were still alive cuz cobain gave him permission and liked it and thought he was a musical genius

[1995nineteen]

weird al is a comedy genius. this is better than the original, the lyrics actually mean something.

[atthedriveby1]

Ha Steve Jay throws his bass like Krist Nolvesic did at the MTV movie awards years back haha

[randomperson1865]

Most Musicians are honoured when Weird Al Parodies them and he can't do it without their permission.

[Methstories]

Weird Al wrote this around the same time Nevermind came out. Kurt and the rest of Nirvana loved it.

[131GAMEFREAK]

thank you Al Yankovic for remixing Kurts Song :D 5/5 STARS :D

[MsCarlosmc]

i hate this idiot, write your own songs

[makustream1991]

@MsCarlosmc He writes over half of his own work. Most of the songs he'll put on his albums are songs that he wrote by himself. Less than half are the parodies (like this one) that he just writes lyrics to.

But still, if you can't appreciate humor in this form, you need to re-evaluate your sense of humor. This isn't supposed to be insulting at all, so if anyone besides the band didn't appreciate it (and the band loved it) it was their own fault.

Nirvana is also one of Al's favorite bands so...

[smashbrother182]

weird al kills me lol

[GummieBearsvsATL]

He's Awesome...=-]

[kcobainrock]

WHOO HOO! he rocks. als a comedy genius

[eustakiotonto]

it is a full compared with Kurt Colbain

[fingerzonfire98]

i didnt even know he played live yeah!!!!!!!!!!

[Yokonono99]

Al is the best.

[xXMarielitoXx]

Just after Kurt =)

[Yokonono99]

kay =)

[Ichsan22430]

best cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit........parody

[algonacchick]

That was great! I love hhow Al started laughing, too. I've been blessed with the SLN water several times. Always fun!

[ludovica36]

Awesome piece of footage. I was in the front row centre and copped a faceful of water in Columbus on 20/7

[ThyDungeonman2]

I would KILL for seats like this to a Weird Al show ;-;

[whiteandnerdy2727]

I was 2nd row last year. IT ROCKED!!!

[WeirdAlYankFan27]

Lolol I had front row and he sang to me. I'm suree you'll get it one day, I mean jeez, I haven't even been a fan for long. :/

[jaryth1]

I'm sure as hell that's Krist Novelestic Playing Bass there... (He was the bassist for nirvana)

[wenser13]

it cant be, krist lost all his hair, unless he's wearin a wig lol!

[PineconeCompany]

That ain't Krist, but he is wearing a wig!

[whiteandnerdy2727]

That's Steve Jay!!! Al's freakin bass player.

[WeirdAlYankFan27]

No, thats the lovely and talented Steve Jay! :D

[Pandora87666]

It's great how he's dressing up to the different songs

[musicanmagican]

nice seats

[kyjb70]

you know what would of been great if dave grohl was drumming

[6Foot7Giant]

What would be hilarious is if Nirvana came back and Kurt was replaced by Weird Al

[Robertpianosax]

Oh god....imagine :O

[puddles1991]

The irony of someone complaining he got the lyrics wrong in a song about getting the lyrics wrong is priceless.

[Jamanprince]

XD You have a very good point there!

[Coastergeekperson04]

Well it takes the point out for example, if he forgot the first verse because then you REALLY wouldn't know what the song's about. And it's not complaining, it's pointing out.

[Coastergeekperson04]

At 2:35 he got the lyrics wrong. It's "The lyrics sheet's so hard to find what are the words, oh never mind." and not "how do the words to and go I wish you tell me I don't know" which is in the first verse.

[patback202]

he's at a live concert so he can change the lyrics

[incarnateofsand15]

I just don't think that makes sense... Maybe that's what he's thinking.... and plus he already said "how do the words to and go I wish you tell me I don't know" so I don't think he should say it again.

[patback202]

it's his song so it really dosen't matter, lol

[Jamanprince]

He said "how do the words to it go" XD

[Yankovicfan3125]

Well the song is about forgetting lyrics so it actually looks funny. Now, if he did it in White and Nerdy, it wouldn't.

[PineconeCompany]

He actually says "What are the words to it go"

[WeirdAlYankFan27]

xD! Can you hear him laughing when he screws up the lyrics?

[jimandsteveadventure]

Where does he laugh? LOL How on earth did I miss that?!

[WeirdAlYankFan27]

@Jim&SteveAdventure: 2:38 "What are the words too it go, I wish you'd tell me I dunno." He laughs while he sings that, because they are (obviously) the wrong lyrics.

[Alice45Rodriguez]

You are right. He messed up the lyrics at that point. It is probably hard to sing songs like this without laughing on stage.

[Coastergeekperson04]

Did he just dump the leftover water in the audience and throw the cup? Whoever caught that cup must be lucky, they probably brought it home, lol.

[mrbob424]

ive caught the cup 10 times and been hit with water 20 times by al as i always sit up front. i never saved the cup as it sjust water not holy water for crying out loud LOL

[Coastergeekperson04]

Was it a paper cup or something? And it's Al's cup and I think that's a good reason to keep it. How about mail one to me? I'll keep it.

[mrbob424]

I honestly never saved one. but it was a simple plasitc cup and there is no name on it. so anyone could say they caught it but i hav e legit pics of me and al at an after show party and meet and greet. im truly sorry i didnt save the cups over the yrs. i dropped them on the floor and let them just go in the garbage.

[Yankovicfan3125]

LOL you caught it 10 times? I doubt you've been to 10 concerts and at those 10 concerts you were lucky enough to get it.

[wealldie12]

this shit isnt rite picking on how a dead guy talks?? i like weird al but he did this after kurt cobain died ah wat the hell funny shit =)

[godzillo]

acutally the song was made while kurt cobain was still alive...kurt thought that it was funny, he was asked on the set of saturdya night live by one of the cast members at the time...

[Grunge2009]

@wealldie12 this song came out 1992 and kurt's version came out '91. wierd al ask kurt to parody it. and kurt ask if it was going to be food haha

[gtrmu]

@wealldie12 If I may add on to this, Kurt wrote in his Journals book that Al is America's Pop Genius, video exists of Krist saying they all thought it was really funny, and Dave Grohl said that was the moment he realized Nirvana made it in the music buisness:when they saw the Weird Al parody. In fact when Al pitched the idea to Kurt, he asked "Is it going to be about food?"

[elementsk8rdude]

GraverFD... U R TOTALLY RIGHT!!!! and cantfigureoutanyname READ THE BOOKLET THAT COMES WITH THE ALBUM IT'LL TELL U THE SONGS THAT R PARODIES, AND THAT ARENT PARODIES

[123789h]

not perfect

[CantFigureOutAnyName]

I really think, this song is quite funny but Weird Al is so wimpy, all he can do is making fun about other people's work. Did he ever do something self-contained, where he did not just change the lyrics? That's really poor, always mocking about people and then earning credits for their work. Sorry my english really sucks but i hope i made my point.

[godzillo]

he does have original material but is best known for his parodies.

[GraverFD]

WTF?!? ofcours he has originals, he is well known for doing parodies, but he also has many very good original songs, for example "i'll sue ya" and "don't download this song" and "close but no cigar" that are from his latest album, and he has many more.

[Coastergeekperson04]

Don't download this song is a parody of "We are the world" and a few other songs mixed.

[GraverFD]

well, i didn't know that, though i did hear the melody of "

we are the world and my brother too but it wasn't written in the album that it is a parody, so i figured it's just a little similar.

[roadrunnerunited93]

he asks the bands if they approve and they find it funny, so just leave him alone

[mrbob424]

your a morno as al is a genious. noone has been able to duplicate this in many yrs.. hes pure genious.

[TheRevisionist]

@CantFigureOutAnyName The majority of his output is original material, but he is best known for his parodies.

[befwwe555]

he should have put marbles in his mouth.... lol

[Wolverine149]

lol when i saw him i thought he was going to

[KatieLovesGreenDay]

I kind of founf it disrespectful. He shouldn't do it after his death. Just not right. I mean Al rox! .. but uhh, not this. I know everyone is gonna disagree with me lol. it's okay.. i understand

bye xo

[godzillo]

i hate to break it to you but kurt killed himself...he doesn't have any respect left...he took the coward's way out...al > kurt cobain

[Jamanprince]

@godzillo He didnt kill himself! He was murdered, but they didnt find the evidence in time to prove that so his death was ruled as a suicide.

[accordionsfrommars]

Kurt let him make the damn song.

[Jamanprince]

@KatieLovesGreenDay He actually made this parody while Kurt Cobain was alive, and Kurt even liked this song. :/ How is this disrespectful to Kurt? If anything, he would have encouraged us to like this more than even his own song (since he hated SMTS)

[shitonlymofoswouldo]

@KatieLovesGreenDay it was made before he was dead about 2 months after the video was released

[saladfingerz17]

i just saw him yesterday it was amazing i met him to koolest guy ever

[SkilletFish]

I also met him in his concert in garland he was awesome

[AZOnline]

He's cool, I'd like to see him live in the Czech Republic :)

[packrat182]

i wanna see the cheerleaders up close :-D

[dancerchicky]

he was so fucking awesome! I wanna go see him do a full set at PNC in august

[tarbutten]

i like the album version better

[jjj4y]

Is it a strat that hes wearing? I love the guitars look ;)

[packrat182]

its a fake mustang. he doesnt play guitar haha

[Nintendofan87]

all bow down to al, must make fan club...

[YPSYLON44]

WEIRD AL IS GOD!

[WeirdAlYankFan27]

YES HE IS. Now he kinda looks like jesus... ._.

[Yankovicfan3125]

At 2:38, it sounds like he really didn't know the words! haha.

[Yankovicfan3125]

Wow, this is better than the album version, which is pretty good! :P

[battlepro77]

its good but 1 thing if your going minnesota state fair weird al will performe there to let you know i might be there