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Lunchtime Poll: In Which Kurt And Courtney Wear Tights

3/28/07, 11:54 am EST

Nirvana HeatherThe NME is reporting that Nirvana’s Nevermind is being turned into “a dance based show” by Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater. We’re not going to speculate on the sucking/rocking odds of the show, which features steps inspired by the dance moves of the L.A. punk scene. But we would like to ponder the following question: Is there any album in existence that could survive adaptation into a modern dance piece? If so, which one? And if not, what should be done to stop those who engage in this kind of (often blasphemous) treatment?


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jandek | 3/28/2007, 12:04 pm EST

pretty much any sigur ros album…they did do a dance piece with radiohead for merce cunningham

Dr. Phil | 3/28/2007, 12:06 pm EST

Anything by the Dave Clark 5.

jb | 3/28/2007, 12:11 pm EST

hate hate hate hate hate

myspace.com/15keys | 3/28/2007, 12:27 pm EST

Im so appalled that someone would even propose this. For mothers day i did take my mother to see a production of “moving out” the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp production and it was terrible. It was basically men and women in tights dancing to a billy joel cover band. Still not sure what was worse…. the music or the dancing.

Marky | 3/28/2007, 12:36 pm EST

Why is the same girl in the polls every day? She’s always standing in exactly the same spot too! This is very weird.

GordonW | 3/28/2007, 12:39 pm EST

“Village Green Preservation Society,” The Kinks
“Los Angeles,” X

electrolite | 3/28/2007, 12:51 pm EST

Reign in Blood by Slayer. It’s loud, incomprehensible and mercilessly short. Just like modern dance should be.

Scenic Anemia | 3/28/2007, 12:59 pm EST

Kurt would be thrilled.

Markeeee | 3/28/2007, 1:03 pm EST

Here I am.

Fyodor Dostoevsky | 3/28/2007, 1:05 pm EST

Amnesiac by Radiohead! It’ll be titled “Instead of Ambien!”

Ass kickers | 3/28/2007, 1:11 pm EST

The dancers should be injected with enough heroin to kill a horse, then have a shotgun put in their mouth and the trigger be pulled. That would be the only appropriate dance interpretation/punishment for interpreting Nevermind through dance.

Mar Key | 3/28/2007, 1:11 pm EST

My mom smokes the curry sausage.

Kristopher | 3/28/2007, 1:12 pm EST

I can’t believe Meat Loaf hasn’t thought of this yet…

Jeff | 3/28/2007, 1:12 pm EST

I wanna see someone dance Master of Puppets

Hu Phlung Pu | 3/28/2007, 1:16 pm EST

A play about Biz Markee would be nice.

My mom doesn’t smoke either, stop it!!

manda lu | 3/28/2007, 1:16 pm EST

rock and roll high school by the ramones, yes it was a movie but imagine it with crazy haired weridos dancing around on stage. i tell you, i could more than likely find someone who’d steal my heart, haha j/k. but i am a huge dork that might actually pay to see that, since i did watch “Grease, You’re the one that i want”

Jesse | 3/28/2007, 1:16 pm EST

“Fire” by Electric Six. All the songs are about dancing, fire, or nuclear war. It would be awesome.

IP Daley | 3/28/2007, 1:17 pm EST

I’m in the 5th grade

Hu Phlung Pu | 3/28/2007, 1:22 pm EST

My mom is an obese cow with banana tits from hell.

abandonedstation | 3/28/2007, 1:28 pm EST

there’s a dance show opening in my city based on radiohead music.

both that show and nirvana’s can be summed up with kurt’s words from the intro track on ‘from the muddy banks of the wishkah’: hhhuuuugggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!! ! gaaaaaaaaahuuuggggghh!!!!

Niko | 3/28/2007, 1:36 pm EST

Purple Rain

Ryan | 3/28/2007, 1:44 pm EST

Just let go of Nirvana. I used to be a fan too, but if he hadn’t shot himself, no one would care about them now. They hit on a cultural zeitgeist, but are probably the most overrated band of all time. Just let ‘em go.

Sanchez | 3/28/2007, 1:46 pm EST

Travesty.

DeezNutz | 3/28/2007, 2:10 pm EST

Anything to turn a buck. What a terrible idea.

Snathan | 3/28/2007, 2:14 pm EST

Scary Monsters

everybody SHADDUP! | 3/28/2007, 2:18 pm EST

Awful, terrible. Further proof that people can ruin anything.

meglovesrs | 3/28/2007, 2:21 pm EST

uum…. yeah how about NEVER!

Nathan | 3/28/2007, 2:22 pm EST

Why does the world want to take everything and redo it. Everyone needs to get out “Let it Be” by the Beatles, and actually listen and understand the words.

Morgan | 3/28/2007, 2:47 pm EST

Does the lunchtime poll girl have a name? She’s kinda hot…but she looks like she could be a real bitch too!

h_e_n_r_y | 3/28/2007, 2:47 pm EST

Marquito Mark y los Funky Bunch

jonmarck | 3/28/2007, 2:59 pm EST

Let go of Nirvana already. Sure, they were great…15 years ago. There’s nothing sacred about them anymore!

The Poll Girl | 3/28/2007, 3:04 pm EST

Hi, I’m the poll girl. My name’s Cherise. No, I’m not bitchy either, so please refrain.

bucky | 3/28/2007, 3:08 pm EST

btw, it’s already been turned into a “dance-based show.” as in, this happened last weekend. way to check those facts, NME!

david c | 3/28/2007, 3:31 pm EST

i ate woke up on a granola mattress.

Morgan | 3/28/2007, 3:31 pm EST

Poll Girl, you rock my world! Cherise is purty name

Jay | 3/28/2007, 3:50 pm EST

Purple Rain would be good. One time my school put on this dancy production of “Sgt Pepper’s”. It was odd.

Zebra | 3/28/2007, 3:57 pm EST

Courtney is behind this, right?

she was behind the selling out of their music.

Pole Girl | 3/28/2007, 3:59 pm EST

Hi Morgan, what do you look like? What are your hobbies? Want to meet?

Will G. | 3/28/2007, 4:10 pm EST

a modern dance piece on any slipknot album would be great. or ballet on 40 oz of Freedom by Sublime

Will G. | 3/28/2007, 4:10 pm EST

jk

drinkanddrug | 3/28/2007, 4:12 pm EST

A Nirvana dance show? I hope the finale piece is the asshole of a businessman who put this on blowing his brains out with a shotgun. That would be irony/justice/good entertainment.

Mule Fan | 3/28/2007, 4:16 pm EST

I Robot

Thad | 3/28/2007, 4:35 pm EST

Thriller or some other Michael Jackson albums…

charliemapleton | 3/28/2007, 4:39 pm EST

As if the ‘99 dance remake of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” wasn’t embarassing enough…

Sarah | 3/28/2007, 4:49 pm EST

American Idiot – Green Day

it would make a great dance piece because the whole album is basically a ballad.

El Fuego Phallus | 3/28/2007, 5:18 pm EST

Morgan, I hope you know that’s not really the Poll Girl. Dumbass. And to answer the question: Girl Talk!

mr roboto | 3/28/2007, 7:53 pm EST

In all seriousness, I’d like to see a modern dance interpretation of New Order’s Power, Corruption, and Lies starring Cheryl Burke! Rowrrrr

bob | 3/28/2007, 8:52 pm EST

The best thing about Nirvana is thay are gone. Maybe the most over rated band in Rock history. Cheezy music mag like NME and RS keeping the “dream” alive. Even Kurt knew this, probably why he took the quick way out. Drop it now before others decide to take the same exit. The whole idea is orver done.

Dr. Ralph | 3/28/2007, 9:06 pm EST

Rock music should not be turned into dance recitals. What should be done to those who so engage? Does anyone know where Kurt Cobain left his shotgun? Loaded question?

Spaceboy | 3/28/2007, 9:55 pm EST

Rape me, rape me my friend/Rape me, rape me again…

jungleland | 3/28/2007, 9:59 pm EST

“A Night At The Opera” by Queen

stelle | 3/29/2007, 3:28 am EST

spaceboy might actually have something… yes, i’d definitley pay money to see a dance recital over the cover of “rape me”; what a thrill that would be…

Martin | 3/29/2007, 6:51 am EST

How about Tchaikovsky’s album “Opus 20″ ? Get a bunch of chicks dressed as swans and … doh … too late !!!

Hehehe … “Poll Girl” became “Pole Girl” ? Does that make her a pole-dancing statistician ?

Tenacious Z | 3/29/2007, 10:14 am EST

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots…oh wait, they’re already doing that on Broadway!

cheesecrop | 3/29/2007, 10:41 am EST

A great album from a great band, but don’t give it some ridiculous step treatment. The only rock that works w/ dancing is 50’s and early 60’s stuff (pre-brit invasion twist stuff). There’s a reason why the Alvin Ailey Dance Troup hasn’t copped any Zep, VH, Pearl Jam, whatever… cause the shit wasn’t meant to go together! Heard Lennon and the Beach Boys bombed onstage… may this disappear as well.

timmay | 3/29/2007, 12:04 pm EST

Sometimes when im nervous, i’ll put my fingers in ur mom and pull’em out them watch the goo run down my arm!

That Guy | 3/29/2007, 1:52 pm EST

scissor sisters – Split Legs would be entertaining

dlt | 3/30/2007, 8:07 pm EST

It Seems

Jim Carroll–check out CD/Pools of Mercury and book/Void of Course–

Liked Cobain’s art better than I do. But I remember where I was

And what I was doing–painting a new, small store in Yuppieville–the

sad day he (finally) killed himself.

So, regarding the dance show,
Here here

Katie | 3/30/2007, 10:47 pm EST

to that morgan fellow who wants to know the name of the poll girl…Heather, from the movie Heathers…the lunchtime pole was from that movie…stars Wynona ryder pre sacs fifth avenue…its a classic 80’s movie…yeah

Katie | 3/30/2007, 10:48 pm EST

heres a little equation for you all…
rock + musical/Ballet= completely nonsensical idea
anyone who wants to fuse these things together is a complete moron

staindpearlygirl | 4/1/2007, 5:12 pm EST

I actually think “Pink Floyd”, “The Wall” would be a great live play but as far as dance goes, not really into taking Nirvana’s great legacy into something so cheesy….:o

zentropa | 4/2/2007, 7:33 pm EST

Dance Piece? Throw the Guilty Parties into a Plague-Pit and Fill it with Premium. I will be honored to light the Match.

k-bones(a7xrox) | 4/5/2007, 2:45 am EST

it whold be cool to see green days american idiot wonder how theyd ruin that!

Katie | 4/6/2007, 2:46 pm EST

implying that american idiot would be ruined if it were turned into a musical is ludacris, because that would imply that that over played, over rated album was any good to start with, which is was not

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