Nevertheless, you have to admit, their achievements outstripped the usual teenage musical path of lumbering through an off-key version of Smells Like Teen Spirit in the end-of-term assembly, then splitting acrimoniously when the bass player's girlfriend gets off with the drummer.
Apart from a pronounced emphasis on the bass line, the Meat Puppets sound strenuously mindful of history on their lo-fi version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
#"Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain, Grohl, Novoselic) – 4 30 #"Drain You" (Cobain) – 3 44 #"Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain, Grohl, Novoselic) – 5 01 #"Drain You" (Cobain) – 3 43 #"Even in His Youth" (Cobain, Grohl, Novoselic) – 3 03 Features album version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
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One reading was a new musical version of "Sweet Smell of Success," a workshop that is to provide Mr. James with his first real musical leading role, as a sycophantic press agent in the orbit of a gossip columnist, played by John Lithgow.
Coach Trip is a very distilled version of every smell-your-own-breath-in-front-of-you stale driving holiday you had as a kid, the sheer spirit of the underwhelmed Brit abroad – but, of course, for Brendan, a true angel of the light.
The tracks listed include Radiohead and Bob Dylan singing "Creep" together, Suge Knight giving the order to have Tupac killed, 'N Sync cursing at fans during a concert, and the Foo Fighters (led by the former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl) performing a cover version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
And now, with a workshop of the musical version of "Sweet Smell" in the offing, John Lithgow has landed the role.
After taking a snapshot of John Lithgow, who plays the gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker in the musical version of "Sweet Smell of Success," Reuben darted over, thrust an eight-by-ten glossy at him, and said, "That's how you were years ago — I think it's from an opening-night party at Mr. Chow".
On Saturday, his latest project -- a Broadway musical version of "The Sweet Smell of Success," based on the 1957 film, which in turn was based on a 1949 novella by Ernest Lehman, Mr. Brown's childhood friend -- begins previews at the Martin Beck Theater.
