A 7th grader's a cappella cover of Nirvana's Nevermind… all of it

David Pescovitz 9:22 am Mon Dec 3, 2018

In the mid-1990s, a 7th grader named Tom Clark gifted his buddy a cassette containing his cover of Nirvana's then-new album Nevermind. All of it. A cappella. In 2008, the recipient released the cassette to the world. Above is Tom Clark's "Nevermind" and the story is below:

so i got a little story for you. early to mid nineties. i am in 7th grade. art class. you know how you really get to know the other 3 or 5 people at yr table. you become friends. well, this young gent and i had a passion for a little underground band-then known as nirvana.

at some point i lent this lad a random mixtape i had lying around. it probably had bad rock music on it. he lost the tape…

to repay me…FOR SOME REASON HE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD MAKE ME A TAPE OF HIMSELF SINGING THE ENTIRE ALBUM 'NEVERMIND' BY NIRVANA—a cappella STYLE!!!

…recorded in a karoake machine…complete with puberty-filled voice cracking and occasional incorrect lyrics. pause and record style editing.

(via /r/ObscureMedia)

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