Wednesday Morning Music: Elliott Smith - "Thirteen"

Elliott Smith as an extremely earnest teenager who commandeers his small town church's music equipment and sings songs about the power of rock and roll, youthful innocence, and sexual intensity in the church's youth room/basement/bingo parlor.

At least that's how I like to read this Big Star cover. Maybe not better than the original, but very true to it, and pulling off the right kind of angst-filled innocence without seeming like an emo cliché or a twee drama nerd (or, worse, a pathetic old fogey), is a pretty neat trick IMHO.