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" Today (April 5) marks the anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain, the frontman of Nirvana. The influence of Cobain and his music goes way beyond grunge, punk or guitar rock. With breakthrough second album Nevermind in 1991 and its lead single &amp;#039;Smells Like Teen Spirit&amp;#039;, the band were catapulted into the mainstream.  Some evidence of that widespread appeal comes in how many bands have sampled or covered Nirvana&amp;#039;s work, and below Digital Spy rounds up 11 of the most striking reworkings of &amp;#039;... Teen Spirit&amp;#039;. 1. Tori Amos      One of the earliest - and most memorable - covers came from Tori Amos. Featuring on her 1992 Crucify EP (which also included takes on The Rolling Stones&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Angie&amp;#039; and Led Zep&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Thank You&amp;#039;), the version above comes from her second performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in two years. 2. &amp;#039;Weird Al&amp;#039; Yankovic      Another (sort of) cover quick out the blocks was this parody &amp;#039;Smells Like Nirvana&amp;#039; by Weird Al. Despite the myth of Cobain as a humourless miseryguts, he gave Al permission to record the song after coming up with the idea. A reverential ribbing of Kurt&amp;#039;s incomprehensible garbling, rather than a full-on grunge satire. 3. Take That      From the 1994 Nobody Else tour. A shirtless Take That rock out. We have no words. 4. Patti Smith      Despite being a proto-punk godmother to Nirvana&amp;#039;s music, on her 2007 cover album Twelve, Smith stripped back the song to a twangy Americana that, despite its acoustic backing, is every bit as powerful as the original. 5. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain      Another version based around unconventional acoustic strings that&amp;#039;s good fun - but if anything it&amp;#039;s a little bit too wedded to the original. We&amp;#039;ll stick to Patti if that&amp;#039;s alright, thanks. 6. The Flying Pickets      If you can&amp;#039;t match the powerhouse sound of Kurt&amp;#039;s guitar, Krist&amp;#039;s bass and Dave&amp;#039;s drums, well, you could try going without instruments altogether. That&amp;#039;s what The Flying Pickets did with their a capella version from 1994&amp;#039;s The Original Flying Pickets: Volume 1. 7. The Muppets      If the Pickets&amp;#039; version was a bit too down-the-line, another a capella take comes from Barbershop quartet of Beaker, Link Hogthrob, Rowlf the Dog and Sam the Eagle for The Muppets movie in 2011. Jack Black is clearly not a fan. 8. Miley Cyrus      Even before the saucy photoshoots, wreckin&amp;#039; balls, hammer-lickin&amp;#039; and Beatles covers with The Flaming Lips, Miley Cyrus still had the power to shock. In a set also featuring a Joan Jett medley and Poison cover, Miley annoyed grungey fanboys the world over with this pretty faithful rendition of &amp;#039;Smells Like Teen Spirit&amp;#039;. 9. Paul Anka      &amp;quot;Nirvana! Yes Nirvana!&amp;quot; Anka tells the audience before kicking into this live rendition. Recorded in the studio for his 2005 album Rock Swings (which also featured songs by Oasis, Van Halen, The Pet Shop Boys and The Cure), you can think of it as Big Band revenge for Sid Vicious&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;My Way&amp;#039;.  10. Willie Nelson      Recorded for the Andrew Denton&amp;#039;s Musical Challenge project, where the Australian comedian challenged stars to record covers of songs from a genre different to their own. Weirdly disorientating, we can&amp;#039;t make up our minds about this one, but we think we like it. Maybe. 11. Kathleen Hannah      It was Bikini Kill/Le Tigre star Kathleen Hannah who gave birth to the song&amp;#039;s title, writing &amp;quot;Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit&amp;quot; on the singer&amp;#039;s wall. Apparently Kurt didn&amp;#039;t know that Teen Spirit was a deodorant marketed at female teens (we&amp;#039;re imagining a US version of Impulse). Above, she tells the famous story before covering the track. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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