Give It A Rest, Nevermind Baby
In 1991, Spencer Elden was immortalized on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind, and he's spent the last seventeen years not letting anyone forget it. Recently the high school student recreated that famous image in the same pool in Pasadena. "It remains unclear as to why Elden decided to shoot this new photo," reports MTV.com. Maybe he did it for the same reason he recreated the photo six years ago? "Every five years or so, somebody's gonna call me up and ask me about Nevermind," he told Rolling Stone in 2003. "And I'm probably gonna get some money from it." Someone get this kid a reality show already.
Posted at 4:21 PM by Scott
Tags: Nirvana
i'd probably be pretty nostagic about it too, but i don't know about as much as he clearly is. whatever. CLING, SPENCER! CLING TO IT!!!
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Haha, another byproduct of the ME-llienial generation.
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no one should care about this idiot, i don't care what album he was on as a baby
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this is inaccurate. in the original he was naked.
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i'd pay to see that.
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Not in this economy...
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I agree w/ alec: should have been naked....
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Will he ever catch that elusive dollar? Tune in again in five years when he is still trying to milk the picture in which he was taken twenty-two years ago!
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most overrated album and band of all time. but fuck it, if you were that kid, you'd cling to this too.
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I fucking love you for saying what I was gonna for me.
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If generation take-a-picture-of-myself doesn't like Nirvana, that's fine with me, just so long as we can agree they're the awesome.
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Couldn't agree more.
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Know what.... I agree. Sick of Nirvana. Just because every once in awhile somebody gets huge and flames out doesn't mean they are the voice of a generation. Up next Amy Winehouse. When she's dead in a few years I don't want to have to explain in 20 years why I still don't give a shit.
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Wrong. Nirvana was a great band, and this was an important (and, yes, great) album. Does that mean we should deify Cobain or give a shit about Spencer Elden? Hell, no. But let's not lose all perspective.
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See, what I did there was spell "deify" wrong and then try to fix it after hitting "Submit". Shit.
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omg THANK YOU. They are so overrated, and I feel like no one agrees with me on this.
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Hey! At least he's not getting picked on for it--you know, kids beating him up after school and the like.
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this kid's a douchey tool.
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I bet the grown up version of the baby on the cover of Pablo Honey could kick this kids ass.
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Gotta admit, if it were me I'd probably recreate this shit every day, and make a youtube video out of it a la Noah.
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Another sad attempt at a bit of fame. =\
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Hey Diskobox, is your pretty princess of a picture "another sad attempt at a bit of fame" as well?
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im pleasuring myself to your dp ever so gently
...oh yeah and this nevermind kid sucks
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way to make fun of a kid, you tools.
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pasadena! i live there....
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I want to see the Bee Girl in Hustler,
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http://tinyurl.com/442oyg
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From the MTV article:
"I have to use stupid pickup lines like, 'You want to see my penis ... again?'"
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I really don't blame him, at all....
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you don't see the oversized PEARL JAM block letters from Ten crying out for attention.
just saying.
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Its funny: in the album cover you can see a baby with a penis. In the updated version, I just see a penis.
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You know, I'd rather hear the story about the dollar. Are any of the recreations of the picture using the same dollar? If not, why? What did the dollar do to deserve such lack of appreciation? I mean besides have some heroin residue...
...hmm...too soon?
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I'd rather hear the story about the dollar as well. Chasing a dollar today would be like chasing a penny in 1991. They really need to stick a Euro in that Pasadena swimming pool.
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"This kid's a tool."
"Yea, he's just looking for attention."
"What a jerk."
"Yep."
"So...we'll put the picture up on the website then?"
"Absolutely."
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I think that most people are failing to recognize that Spencer is the Grunge™ Generation's equivalent to Michael Apted's "7-Up!" documentary series.
Wait and see -- you'll find yourself wistful for him again around 2015 or so.
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Oh come on. How many people have a fact that cool about themselves as a baby, even if they had no cognitive clue of what they were doing at the time. All I know about my baby life is that I got a seizure from watching Star Wars. I've recreated baby photos before, and none of them are as cool as an insanely iconic album cover.
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I'd rather see him recreate Cobain's suicide.
Oh come on, I KID, we kid on this show.
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just had to note to bearface that, while sometimes i wish they were, nirvana are not overrated. also.. hard to blame the guy, after all this is exactly what most of you dumbfucks would be doing had you been on the cover.
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just had to note to bearface that, while sometimes i wish they were, nirvana are not overrated. also.. hard to blame the guy, after all this is exactly what most of you dumbfucks would be doing had you been on the cover.
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just had to note to bearface that, while sometimes i wish they were, nirvana are not overrated. also.. hard to blame the guy, after all this is exactly what most of you dumbfucks would be doing had you been on the cover.
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it's funny that the third post of this comment got one thumbs down rating, but the other two stayed at 0. I would think the first would receive this and the others remain ignored.
Oh, that's right, there is an actual topic to address: I agree.
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Lame, but I can't blame him. I'd flog the same dead horse every five years if the price was right, too.
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WHAT ABOUT THE PINKISH BABY IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER OF THE CHUMBAWAMBA ALBUM TUBTHUMPER? HUH? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? I WANT TO KNOW, STEREOGUM
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there is a very different tone between these comments and the ones on the MTV.com article. So different that one could draw a conclusion should one want to.
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i dont think he needs to keep reminding everybody of his one claim to fame. i mean he's obviously still entitled to some royalties of his image but hey that was years ago...no one cares any more
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i dont think he needs to keep reminding everybody of his one claim to fame. i mean he's obviously still entitled to some royalties of his image but hey that was years ago...no one cares any more
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Well, someone still cares enough to pay him to do this.
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You all are just haters. Get over yourselves Nirvana was and still is one of the greatest of all time.
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