Cover: Nirvana, "Here She Comes Now"

Like pretty much any band that doesn't suck, Nirvana has a bit of a Velvet Underground influence. They do this song honor by making it both rough and pretty, in that Nirvana way. It begins as clean, bright power pop, then escalates into a very characteristic Cobain vocal workout as the guitars pound harder and harder, where the original got jammy and jazzy. The Velvets make for some good cover material, their songs being so deep in the DNA of all that follows that it's easy to pick them up and put them back together in a new style that doesn't damage the original. They're that strong.