The Forms Cover Nirvana @ Gothamist's 5th Birthday Party

Friday night we made the trek out to Union Hall in Brooklyn to help our friends at Gothamist celebrate five fine years of broadcasting NYC news into our RSS readers. Congrats, -ists. Of course, it wasn't just the birthday cake that lured us; with an ill bill featuring Pattern Is Movement, DJ Craig Wedren, and the mighty Forms, where else would we be? PIM seemed to convert more to the cause that is their phenomenal new album, Wedren spun tunes in one of his last NYC engagements before moving out to LA to work on the new David Wain movie, and the Forms played a typically great Icarus/Forms spanning set to a tightly packed room. Alongside the originals, the band launched into their sludgy, beat-flipping cover of Nirvana's "All Apologies" (after a little Shudder To banter and Hillary Clinton tears-of-a-croc tease), here:

Heavy shit, shifty groove -- which is the Forms M.O., as we learned on Drive XV. The "All Apologies" take is always great, but what do we have to do get you guys to play "Ignoreland"? R.E.M. doesn't even play it at shows, you'd have the monopoly on "Ignoreland" live renditions. Think about it, that's all we ask.

Posted at 3:22 PM in Concert, Video
Tags: Craig Wedren | Nirvana | Pattern Is Movement | The Forms

8 Comments

Gahhh!!!! That was too anti-climatic...I kept waiting for the..."in the sun I feel as one, in the sun...MARRIED, BURIED, MARRIED, BURIED, YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH" but to no avail.

Posted by: Jeff at 02/18/08 3:55 PM  | Reply
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Horrible

Posted by: Ace at 02/18/08 4:11 PM  | Reply
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Man. And I thought the original version was boring.

Posted by: CN at 02/18/08 7:34 PM  | Reply
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cool and i am not a huge fan of the original. and yeah hillary sucks.

Posted by: evan at 02/19/08 5:17 AM  | Reply
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No one is supposd to like this song, but call me lame because I do. I've heard it too many times, but its quality stuff if I'm objective about it.

This cover does a few things right, but its still half baked in the end. Shoulda let it cook.

All apologies to those will judge me harshly for liking Nirvana. See what I did there? Im pretty clever. Go fuck a duck you boring contrarians.

Posted by: Staccat0 at 02/19/08 8:50 PM  | Reply
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Love the forms, this is great! Thanks for posting.

Posted by: matt at 02/19/08 11:01 PM  | Reply
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that was probably the worst cover song ive ever heard. terrible

Posted by: matthew at 02/26/08 9:40 PM  | Reply
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Anyone who doesn't like Nirvana should be tied up and shot.

Posted by: W at 02/29/08 8:42 PM  | Reply
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