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Two things that bug me in weird ways;

• Headlines or whatever about whether UFOs are real. Dude. UFOs are real. Someone saw a very real flying object, which also they couldn't identify. It could be a very real pocket of gas. It could be a very real distortion of a chunk of aircraft fusilage. It could be a very real weather balloon. This doesn't mean any moment a saucer is going to land and Gort is going to step out and start zapping stuff. Not that I think big robots zapping stuff is cool or anything.
  
  
• The commercialization of The Hobbit. Yes, I know, they have to make money, and I mean it's The Hobbit so I'll see it and will probably be completely in love with it, but I'm having that nerd reaction where something special and sacred that helped get me through all these years is now (noez!) popular, and huge ads on YouTube just weird me out. Huge ads for the movie take this special, sacred, crucial thing from my childhood and make it the new McRib & Tasty or whatever.

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So here's a dumb question;

Kurt Cobain obviously liked Queen. As a kid, he drained his dad's van's batteries because he was stuck sitting there for hours, and listening to Queen tapes. His suicide note includes comparing how utterly drained and fake he feels when he finishes performing, to Freddy Mercury who was really recharged by doing concerts.

Cobain was really obviously into a batch of bands. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is Kudt trying to write a Pixies song, "About a Girl" is Kudt trying to write a Beatles song, Bleach has a Shocking Blue cover (really underrated group imo), Unplugged in New York is basically all stuff he thought was awesome; Bowie, Vaselines, Meat Puppets, Ledbelly.

So; why no Nirvana covers of Queen songs or acknowledged attempts to try and write a Queen song? Just so stylistically different he couldn't go there? Copywrite issues making covers unlikely? Feelings of inferiority which didn't extend to any of the other groups Cobain obviously liked?