Nirvana - Opinion (Sheep / Smart Studio Sessions mock-up)
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2024
- This video imagines that in 1990, Nirvana decide to stay with Sub Pop for their second album, 'Sheep'. They have already recorded one batch of songs with producer Butch Vig at Smart Studios and return to finish off the album.
'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.
Support me in continuing these recreations and buy me a coffee 🖤
www.buymeacoffee.com/cyrdaeb
Just donated and everyone else should. Imagine what he can do with AI Kurt singing over freshly recorded versions of the home demos!
@@eveninhisyouthhh Thank you so much! I've been a pretty hardcore Nirvana fan for a reeeeally long time and they're basically the reason I work in the music field. I'll definitely be making more of these with much tender loving care and I'll try and push it as far as it can go.
Ummm, I'm blown away, its like hearing a new nirvana track. I feel like I'm a teenager again.
That's genuinely the highest praise I could hope to receive 🙏
oh we have hit peak nirvana fan material
Haha I hope not! I've only just gotten started :)
We’ve only just begun 🙄🥸🤪
Yea this hits me hard. This is really good
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
Thanks! In general I'm also wary of AI stuff, you hear too much 'Ozzy Osbourne sings Barbie Girl' or some other totally unsuitable crap. I'll always try to keep it tasteful.
@@cyrdaeb2 even making kurt sing AiC is distasteful, since he and layne had totally different styles. I appreciate that you chose the right path for AI use
You’re the best; you should do one for Poison’s Gone!
Thanks! I'd love to try that one at some point.
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!
Wow thank you so much! I'd love to try all the none studio recorded songs eventually :)
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.
isn't the studio version of it already out?
@@tronntrash3989 Yea, but I mean a what I would sound like in the Smart Sessions
Goosebumps
this is actually so good holy shit
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
Nirvana wouldn't be the same without some Dave backing vocals!
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.
Recently on Ebay there was a Sub Pop/DGC promo album that was the mockup of Sheep as it matched the sheep tracklist in Kurt’s journal. It might still be for sale
@@soulslipsend me the link!
Damn I'd love to see that!
Wow!
🙏🙏🙏
Incredible job!!
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
Whoever put this together is a genius!!!!!
BLOODY BRILLIANT!
My eyes are leaking!
That means so much to me, thank you 🙏
I think it's best version of this song.And solo is🔥
Thanks! The solo was by the awesome guys @ToBoddah
Wow. Didn't realize mixing could make such a difference.
Remake this with snare flams on the 3 and 4 going into the choruses and you'd have this nailed perfectly. Fun to listen to none the less!
Crazy. This sounds like I could have been a slammer on any of the albums.
This is one of the best mock-ups I’ve ever heard great job.
Thank you! You know mock up is probably a better description for this than recreation as I technically didn't recreate anything.
you've really combined the best of all versions of opinion, congralutions
Amazing! Thank you so much
this is INCREDIBLY WELL DONE!!!!
Thank you! 🖤🖤
This freakishly realistic to what Id think a smart session version of Opinion would sound like and I love it
Really appreciate the kind words!
Really love the overall presentation, arrangements, guitar solo, backing vox everything
Great work! Keep going on
This is mind blowing, great work man !!!!
About once a year, I come across a Nirvana mock-up that blows me out of the water.
Found the best one I’ve heard in years. Awesome job.
Damn man, that means so much to me - I really do try to approach these with as much care as possible.
Yea this is jaw dropping
I need something like this for their song "Talk To Me"
Amazing, one of my favorite song
This is pretty good. I def think theres some tweaks that could be made to make it sound more like them,namely the drums. Buts its cool to hear this song like this
This is lovely. Thank you!
I loved your alt reality mix of sltp when i first saw it like 2 years back, glad to see you're making stuff again
More to come hopefully - I never forgot about that old project. Thanks for sticking around :)
@@cyrdaeb2 you should do a whole alt reality mockup of nevermind or in utero both would work really well. if your gonna though i would really reccomened getting other people to help you because that would take forever to do alone
There are so many possibilities! I'll try a couple of songs that didn't get a studio recording first and take it from there.
@@cyrdaeb2 yippe
Great work! Thanks
Awesome work
Dam this is a good imrpession of it, nice clean tone at first, then distortion, simple and good Smart Studios tone 👌
thank you thank you thank you this is amazing
Yoooo this is so good
Thanks man, I really love your channel and the work you've done!
Excellent effort. Very cool.
incredible work man, can’t wait to see what comes next
Great work 👌
Great job!!!
Wow really impressed great work
so good, very impressive
Incredible!!!
Thanks! 🙏🙏
Amazing
Oh boy - thank you!
Amazing amazing amazing
Thank you!
Great! ❤️🔥
Holy shit my guy, had to do a double-take when I saw you upload this. Can't believe it's been 7 years since you uploaded that Smells Like Teen Spirit vid! Good to see your quality only increased since then!
Haha yeah time really flies. I never forgot that project though and still hope to finish it .. technology has seriously advanced and will hopefully make it easier now.
I agree with this statement here as someone who watched that 4 yrs back.
this Version is very cool thank you made this Version
Thanks my man 🙏
I found this and love it
Yeah. This is quite well done
Congratulations!
You have won!
This is excellent, well done! Hope to hear more from you, as others have already mentioned. Old Age would be great but I’d love to hear Do Re Mi.
Thank you! I am doing some experiments with Old Age at the moment, that will likely be the next one I do.
EXCELLENT! SUPERB!
Glad you like it! 🖤🖤
Good sound 😊
can't wait for you to make "Do re mi" you would crush it bro
Its been 3 days that I cant stop listening to this. Bloody brilliant 🤘🏻.
Now I am curious how it could’ve sound if it would’ve been recorded by Adam Kasper or Scott litt in late 94’ 😏
#NirvanaForever
Wow this is amazing, added to playlist lol
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed :)
@@cyrdaeb2 did you play the guitar for the solo?
LEGEND
This was amazing. Will you be doing more of the sheep tracks?
Thank you so much! I'd love to get a version of Sheep going, not sure what the exact track list would be though. From what I can tell a few Incesticide songs would be on it. There's already Smart Session versions of half the songs. SLTS, CAYA + Drain You might be a bit tricky.
For now I'd like to try songs that didn't get a studio recording!
@@cyrdaeb2 here’s a few tracklists out there that was from Kurt’s journals:
Imodium / Lithium / Dive / Polly / Sappy / Token Eastern Song / Verse Chorus Verse / In Bloom / Pay To Play / Dumb / Been A Son.
In Bloom / Imodium / Pay To Play / Territorial Pissings / Lithium / Sliver / Verse Chorus Verse / Sappy / Polly / Something In The Way.
In Bloom / Lithium / Polly / Territorial Pissings / Imodium / Pay To Play / Sliver / Been A Son / Sappy / Verse Chorus Verse / Something In The Way.
@@Sinfulsoul2004 Nice one thanks, my copy of Journals is in a box in storage somewhere and I haven't seen it in years. I'll keep these in mind but would still like to do a Bleachy version of SLTS . an early ancient attempt is on my channel.
Super
Good work man, and thank you for the shoutout
🙏🙏🙏
Morning
Angel in the style of pissed jeans
ok ai changed the game this is amazing
Can you post the instrumental as well? Love it❤
❤❤❤ from Philippines 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🤘🤘🤘
The line seems so much Verse Chorus verse!
🔥
wow this is incredible how long did it take to make ?
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@cyrdaeb2 Ok. I’m not young but I’m not old either. When they released In Utero I was 11. I remember my dad (1949-2015; ❤️ u dad). taking me to Planet Music so I could buy it on cassette. I hate AI. Don’t know how old you are, but after listening to your version (I bought With The Lights Out box set-fantastic shit!!) you changed my mind about AI. Great job my man. Subscribing to your channel. Keep up the good Nirvana work. Wish I could support you right now but, well, ya know…
Dude your kind words mean more to me than any donation 🙏 I'm almost exactly the same age as you and I have the greatest amount of respect to the source material and would always try to be as tasteful as possible. We are in the early days of AI which means we're getting a lot of .. questionable material but at the end of the day it's a tool and it depends on who's using it. Glad I could sway you to the dark side, haha. RIP to your old man and mine 🥂
i wonder how this song and verse chorus verse would sound together
like a frankenstein song
There's a guy who did an Opinion version using Verse Chorus Verse which turned out very cool! ua-cam.com/video/JrNhAchATQU/v-deo.html
Спасибо, автору ролика, очень круто
Slow clap..slow clap
^ This guy right here spent his pocket money to send me Outcesticide CDs to Egypt in the 90s. He's the reason I heard this song in the first place 🖤🖤🖤
❤❤❤@@cyrdaeb2
The best version. Thanks.
Man, this sounds great as if Kurt really recorded it! Can't you add this to spotify because copyrights I guess?
Thanks! I'm afraid I won't be able to upload it to Spotify as ethically/legally I can't make money off of this.
no way this ai
Wait what voice recording is that? Cause that’s not AI right?
what do we have here?! ❤ more on the way??
I'm planning on it!
sounds great dude! Where did you find the ir for Smart Studios?
They're buried in here somewhere: www.waves.com/downloads/ir-convolution-reverb-library
Should be a free download!
@@cyrdaeb2 Sick! Thanks man!!
Guitar doesnt sounds like Kurt, but this is great, thanks!!!
He hurt his hand and Krist was playing that day.
@@cyrdaeb2 hahahaa
what's the song in the outro?
Go! Save The Hostages! - The Year Was Long & Our Skin Grew Thicker ua-cam.com/video/qZpkJdidD1Q/v-deo.html
This is brilliant, but what app do you use to create these, and where do you start? i have no idea but i'd like to get into this and creating myself.
Thanks! It's a bit more involved than just a single app but if you go to weights.gg then that will give you a solid start!
@@cyrdaeb2 thanks, i'll have a look tomorrow.
This is the best we’ll get. Only problem is the drums aren’t gritty enough.
That means it can get better!!
Essa voz é do kurt?
What the Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
This is amazing. Honestly, this is a valid use of AI in my opinion to try and contruct studio versions of these pieces we have. I tried to add Dave Grohls drums from In Utero to Do Re Mi maybe 10 years ago and called it "Do Re Mi as a Bird" on Soundcloud after the Beatles song where they took a piece of John or whatever. Free as a Bird.
Anyway it sucked sh*t lmao. Okay, it was just a four bar loop but it was all out of place. But I wanted Dave on the track. here you have dave on the track but it's "natural." It's amazing. Great musicianship as well from the band, a really nice hybrid!
I had actually tried adding Dave's drums to the acoustic version of Opinion a few years ago with very sloppy results and I never released it so I feel your pain! This time around the music was all done to a metronome so easy to piece together but the vocals took a fair bit of work to nudge back and forth into time. I actually ended up recording the vocal track myself and then using it as a guide to line up the AI vocals phrase by phrase.
I do want to use In Utero drums next time I do a song so I'll be back in drum editing hell again haha.
Please do talk to me next, there’s one on youtube but the voice is no where near this quality 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'd love to try that one soon. It's a bit tricky as there aren't any clear performances of it so I'll have to be creative with interpreting the lyrics and getting the voice right. It's such a good song though, crazy how they never recorded it in a studio.
@@cyrdaeb2yeah it sucks it never got recorded in the studio, though i think the lyrics provided by the genius page of the song are pretty accurate. At least that’s what I hear from the little recordings there is
when kurts throwaways were better than some of his hits
I always preferred the way he did it. No drums and acoustic. I would have liked Kurt to have recorded a studio version like that.
Nothing beats the original! Did you hear the recently leaked home demo tape? It's incredible.
@@cyrdaeb2 Yeah. I think there was a short version of old age too from somewhere.
I hate AI, but i rly like this. The drums and guitar are typical superior Nirvana sounding to everything else and the guitar solo i listen to over and over because it's so good.
This is really great, but I think the vocals are ever so slightly out of sync. like. A millisecond off. Though I could be wrong, it may just be something with the ai. It’s just not very tight throughout
I agree they're not perfect but at least that gives me some room to improve haha.
This is the fucking tits my guy. Adding this to my Nirvana playlist ❤
Will this be on a Album?
Courtney says probably not.
But you could make it as a Google Drive fill or mega?
I'm gonna be a stickler and say the distorted guitars don't sound right, especially the lead riff, almost sounds more like 80s rock, probably because Kurt was never known to use an octave pedal.
Best Britney Spears song eva 🫶🏻
Здорово!!!!