As a baritone, I've spent my entire life not being able to sing about 99.9% of male voiced pop rock songs in their original key. Leonard Cohen songs? I'm your man. Kurt Cobain, not so much.
The song took 5 minutes to learn to play courtesy of some YouTuber, but then I had the problem of how to sing it. Can't do it in original key, and it's right at the bottom end of my register, an octave below, right amongst those notes you really don't want to be hearing as they're all cracked and horrible and with no volume at all.
But it's in drop D, and although I really don't like drop D, or drop anything, apart from drop bears, I didn't see an alternative - it sort of needs to be in drop D to sound of its time. So I just did what I could with the vocals, buried them in the mix and ran an overdrive plug on the main (low) vocal to make it even harder to listen to.
Frankly, it's a fucking mess...I have no effing idea what Cobain is singing about - "The black sheep got black mailed again, forgot to put on the zip code" - say WTF???
Kept it all reasonably minimal including allotting no more than 10 minutes to the drums. Soz about the silibants and fricatives. I lost interest in editing...
Yech...
