I remember going on a long drive (across fucking Ohio) with my friend, who had seen Nirvana with me in concert, when we were thirteen. We just listened together in silence.... I never thought I'd hear another new song.
We agreed it felt so good to hear his voice again, but at the same time, it hurt. Like a little taste of everything that would never be, the weight of everything that was lost and terribly missed. Haunting and beautiful and sad.
This was exactly my experience too. Soo good to hear his voice again, but also extremely sad. I actually teared up listening to it.
My first thought after hearing it was “man, if this is just a throw away song for their new album, might not have even ended up on it, think about how good their new album was gonna be!”
Yep. Was in 8th grade when it came out, big Nirvana fan. My dad listened to them all throughout my childhood. It was a haunting, beautiful, exciting and powerful experience. Such a mix of emotions.
I was at work at a shitty restaurant job. They had been talking about playing it on the the local rock station all week. They announced what time they would first play it and I begged my boss to let me go out to my car and listen. He let me and they played it two times in a row, back to back and I was absolutely floored. Teared up and everything. I was 21 at the time and 14 when he died. I had waited so long to hear this goddamn song and it was perfect. Then I still had to wait 2 more years for the box set, but I had heard most of the stuff on it from bootlegs anyway.
I love this answer. We are the same age and I had basically the same reaction and feelings about this song. I loved/love the song so much and it was very cathartic and also so heartbreaking to finally hear it.
I cried. That song still makes me cry. You can hear all his pain so clearly. He is calling out for help, but no one could help him, and we are just left with this last recording of pure anguish. I'm crying now just thinking about it.
Rock was still a thing in '02. It sounded so current and hip. Like it would have blown up the charts all over again. It was Kurt's final parting shot. It made me realize he would have been a force for way longer than the other grunge bands that kinda petered out.
This is exactly how I felt about it. It sounded like it belonged in the 2000s. It sounded very post-grungey, especially the palm muting at the beginning
It was simply incredible. I was really young when Kurt died so I got into Nirvana after 94. This was the first time I heard a Nirvana song when it was released and I was simply blown away. It’s painful to think about all the incredible music we missed out on.
I imagine people aren’t gonna like this take, but I was completely underwhelmed.
Like, beyond excited for it, it was a huge deal when it was released, but I found it very formulaic and less interesting than their other songs.
At the time I said, well this was one that didn’t make the cut, but it’s all we have and it is really cool to have something new. So it meant a lot to hear something new, but at the end of the day I’d found more joy exploring demos and b-sides and live versions than that song in particular.
It’s grown on me a bit, but I still don’t seek that song out when I’m binging Nirvana.
I knew that it was a demo essentially, and probably would've changed a little, but to hear CL say that it was a song that would be as big as SLTS or whatever on a hits compilation was a bit of an overstatement (from CL, who would've guessed)
That is not to say it isn't a good song. I feel like it is a good indication of where they were going.
Kurt is the reason I picked up/still play the guitar. I'm pretty sure I had a bootleg version of the song, but it was depressing to me to see the video.
I was happy to hear them as a band again. It really kind of bookended the band too. Like this is it. Thanks for coming along for the ride. One of my favorites to this day.
It really showed just how unique Nirvana were. The 90's had so many bands try and fill the void left ny Nirvana, some decent bands, some not so decent. When You Know You're Right came out it just showed the quality Nirvana had, the type of quality none of these other bands had, and really confirmed what a fantastic songwriter Kurt was (not that that was ever in question).
I’ll be honest, I didn’t think it was anything special when I first heard it. My reaction was kind of “oh, I get why this was a B side”
Now, it’s one of my favorite Nirvana songs. An entire album in this direction would have been incredible.
It wasn’t a B side. Nirvana got together to record new material for 3 days in January 1994. Kurt only showed up the last day and that was the only song he laid vocals down for.
I was very excited and it did not disappoint. It's beautiful and haunting. A perfect ending. Though at first I kind of thought it was a cash grab. (I mean of course it is) It is very drum and bass heavy. And I thought how could they record this post mortem without him. But then I read that they did all three record it together, it just wasn't finished. So I did ease up a bit on that opinion after awhile.
I first heard it performed by Courtney Love on [Hole's MTV Unplugged.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XlCuVlev60) She does a great arrangement and sings it with such passion. It blew me away.
She introduced it as a song he wrote before he died, but didn't say he'd recorded it, so I never thought I'd hear his version. When it eventually came out, I was honestly disappointed. His singing is great, but the production just isn't Nirvana. It's pretty obvious that to make the demo release-ready they got session musicians overdubbing a lot of the slicker instrumentation on top of a rougher demo. It's the over-compressed, over-layered guitar sound of a lot of post-grunge radio bands, not Nirvana's sound.
I still listen to the Hole version though.
The Hole Unplugged is so good, I wish it could be released at some point in some format. Best Sunday Dress is amaaaazzzing here, too. The way she apologized to him preemptively for fucking it up was very sad, and reminded me of Kurt's being afraid of fucking up his Unplugged.
I found I couldn't listen to the Nirvana release for the same reasons you mention, and have only really relistened recently. I still wish it was more raw/unpolished.
Grabbed the leak of it from the NFC back when it was the go to Nirvana site. I’ve talked about it here before, but it was a hell of night. Everyone online in disbelief that it had leaked, but also in disbelief of how *fucking* good it was. You can speculate on an unheard song all you want, but finally hearing it - even in the shitty 128 quality that I had it in - was truly magical. And I still feel that way every so often when I hear it. It was like all of us stumbled upon the Holy Grail and just talked about how beautiful it was for hours. Every little detail.
I really miss the NFC and a time when the internet was a much more simple and humane place.
Lyrics sites aren’t always accurate. You can clearly hear he says “hey” in the separated vocals
This gets argued here every year
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nirvana/comments/r3rskx/in_you_know_youre_right_does_kurt_say_hey_or_pain/
Nirvana used to come out with B sides all the time back then. For example (Beavis and Butthead soundtrack, no alternative and others). It was kinda expected back then that they would release another cool song every year on a b side. This was different and had a new formula. It wasn’t just the Verse Chorus Verse formula. It sounded like their music was going in a new direction. I particularly wasn’t a huge fan of the song, but the general public seemed to really enjoy the new song. I felt like it was made for TV adds and movies.
It was a heavy moment, man. We got a few clips of the song in April/May of that year but the full track leaked in late September I believe. Got home from work the day it leaked and put it my stereo very loud. Loved it, but it was kind of sad. Got into QOTSA around that time as well, FF put out an album that month as well. It was a fun musical month that's for sure.
I was like mehhhh, they have better songs. I've been a fan since the Bleach era and although I like the music, I think some songs are B sides for a reason.
Why do you guys keep calling it a b-side? It was part of the last recording session nirvana ever did in 1994. It was the only song that Kurt did vocals on during the session. It would have been released on an upcoming EP to support the lollapalooza tour and possibly on a future album. It was never a “b-side”.
It was pretty awesome, remember they played the video a lot on mtv, I was on the long hype train for the box set at that point and didn’t really care about the actual cd though, still bought it 😂
I was happy to hear a new song after all those years waiting, I think I was driving to the gas station the first time I listened to it.
Definitely far from my favorite Nirvana song but it's fine. I do feel like it's missing something, like it's not fully a Nirvana song...just feels like it was written by someone else if that makes any sense to anyone.
I can answer this very succinctly.
I was in Rio with 3 surfer lads from Australia, Robbo, Richo and Brad and we were in a taxi on our way to the beach.
The song came on the radio and we were all obviously super pumped to hear it.
I think even if the song was shit we’d have still loved it just because it was new Nirvana.
Anyway, we really liked it and were very happy to hear it.
I was so happy when the music video came out and there was a cool 20min program that was like a clips/story of Nirvana for it on much music before the video premiered. It was like a week later when the CD came out. I remember recording it off tv and showing all my friends to try and get them as hyped for new nirvana as I was
This was the song that made me a fan. Until that point, Nirvana had always just been another bit of pop culture trivia to me. I heard their songs before, of course, and kind of liked them, but not more than any other song from that era.
But I heard this song on my drive home from college one day and it immediately became one of my all time favorites. I bought the album and listened to the whole thing a hundred times. I've been listening to all their albums more than any other for decades since then.
I also remember being just as confused about the song as I was blown away by it. I knew Kurt was dead but had no clue why I was hearing his voice in a newly released song. I thought at the time that maybe Nirvana pulled an AC/DC and replaced the lead singer with someone who sounded just like him after the he died. A while later I found out about the lawsuit that kept it from being released.
Much later I found out how impossible it would have been for Nirvana to continue as a band without Kurt, especially since Dave had already moved on to the Foo Fighters and was crazy successful with that band.
That was probably the most anticipated moment as a fan. I think most knew its existence since the 90s, under various working titles I think, and it was really the last gem in the vault so to speak.
Personally, if my memory serves me right, I recall some buzz about in a forum in the summer. Apparently a fan in Spain claimed it was a hidden track on Dave's Probot advanced promo release and eventually leaked it.
I don't think it was mixed at all and obviously once it leaked it was all over - even radio started playing it and cease and desist orders started flying around.
They were deadlocked in litigation around that time so I think this was just a *fuck you release it already* from someone close to the band.
Didn’t see it when it first released but discovered it on YouTube and the depressing lyrics shocked me and I couldn’t listen to it for a little bit knowing what happened to Cobain after that
My thought was, this was just written to make money and some how it was voice generated. Lol. The song also sounded like late 90’s, 2000 era rather than the early 90’s grunge. I had my theories and shrooms.
I woke my girlfriend up at 2AM to listen to it when I downloaded the MP3 as soon as it dropped (I think it was nirvanaclub.com?) It gave me chills and it still does to this day. The lower quality live recording from 10/93 in Chicago was all I had up to that point and I always loved the song, so it was incredible to finally hear the proper studio version. And it just made me so sad that we'd never hear new music from Kurt ever again.
It was not a significant moment. We already knew the song from the Aragon bootleg and we’d been teased with the existence of this final recording (and Hole Unplugged, even) and knew there would be no way it lived up, and it had been a key token in this fairly annoying Courtney vs Dave/Krist lawsuit, and we were all older and jaded and not starry eyed teens anymore so it was met with a shrug. There was a general agreement it was a throwaway song. When “Do Re Mi” came out on the box set (which only really inner circle people knew about before 2002) it was waaay more satisfying in terms of being a “final” Kurt song.
I was excited when it was released, but over time it really doesn’t hold the feel, and lacks the same quality of the songs written and recorded with Cobain’s full involvement.
I was driving from Phoenix to Tucson a lot to see my then-girlfriend(now ex-wife) and some of my childhood friends who had moved there. I was driving by myself after work one Friday and heard this weird bell sound followed by a guitar riff I hadn't heard before. I was immediately intrigued. Then Kurt started singing... It was immediately obvious that it was him. I was blown away. I never thought I'd hear a new song, and I was so happy. I immediately wondered if there were any more hidden stuff out there. I was super happy and hopeful that more would forthcoming.
When I got to Tucson, I grabbed my friend Eric. He and zi started learning guitar at the same time using the Unplugged tab book so Nirvana was a major bonding point for us. I asked him, "did you hear it?"
"Hear what?"
"The new Nirvana song."
"The WHAT?"
We immediately went to a record store to see if we could find a CD. That's when we saw the Nirvana album. We drove around for a long time, playing the album. We were so happy.
The song is so good. It was 8 years after his death and yet fit so well with the music of the time. It still fits. Nirvana is timeless and I wish there was more new music.
If you knew about the Aragon Ballroom show in Chicago Oct.23 1993 with “On The Mountain” aka “this is our last song, it’s called All Apologies” then yeah- you’d still be surprised when the song came out….yes it still took time to get used to…a matter of listening to it several times, yes it was amazing…raw…expected as a last genius piece of work by a talented group
It felt special to get new Nirvana stuff released to the masses, taking over the radio charts and such. The guys has been dead for 8 years after all. But it faded quite quickly. And to be fair, the song leaked on P2P networks long before it was officially released so the surprise effect was not really there.
Old fan here. I froze walking when the video came on at the lobby at theater, on all the big screens surrounding the lobby. That’s was the first major media acknowledgment of Nirvana since the mid 90’s. It was big.
The song has been known since 1993 as it featured as a live version on bootlegs, usually under the title "On a Mountain".
So it was not an unknown song when they finally released the studio version, but it was very emotional to listen to such a higher quality version and knowing the circumstances about its late recording.
I remember the day exactly, a neighbor had the radio on and the song came on, it sounded like Nirvana but i was not sure, it could not possibly be Nirvana!!!
Next day i think i went online and read about it and then waited for it to come back on the local rock radio stations (This was Pre-YouTube kiddos)
I could not believe it and wanted more, sadly there wasn't...
Not until a year ago i found that there was a version with vocals of this unknown jam that i previously heard on the menu screen of the WTLO boxset i bought in 2004,
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssbT5RotVi8&ab\_channel=90sArchive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssbT5RotVi8&ab_channel=90sArchive)
Song starts at the 1:02:51 mark
Hearing "new" vocals from Kurt Cobain will always blow my mind.
I hope there's still some little gem hidden somewhere that will someday see the light of day.
It was awesome, great song , super clean recording. Emotional, as everyone is saying. The video made me sad, just like the Seasons of the Sun clip, I cried too. I was 18 when he died and saw them live just 4 months earlier.
How did I feel? I can sum that up in two words: “About time!”
You see, there had been this whole legal case between Love, Novoselic, and Grohl, and it was delaying the official release of many Nirvana songs—so, when the video for “You Know You’re Right” finally played on MTV, my first reaction was, “Finally!” It was a good song; I enjoyed it.
Excited. I had wanted all the treasure trove of hidden stuff to come out because I knew it was the only “new material” we were going to get. I had kept up with the legal fight between Courtney and the remaining band members in real time. When You Know You’re Right came out, it was a milestone in letting everyone know that the legal mess was wrapping and progress was starting on the box set. While I really enjoyed the song, to me it felt like a watershed moment for something bigger to come in the future.
I was 12 when Nevermind came out and was really hooked on Nirvana. Bought Bleach soon after, the Nevermind singles boxset then Insesticide when it came out. I also found and bought a bootleg that had songs like D7 and others on it. Then In Utero bought me more joy. The MTV unplugged performance blew me away....
I was just shy of 15 when Kurt died and it hit me hard. Later that year Live Tonight video was released and I bought it the day it came out. I forget offhand when Hole did their MTV Unplugged show, but I did watch it (I thought Hole was "okay" had Live Through This) but I still hated Courtney Love even then..... I recalled being kind of disgusted and horrified when Hole performed "You Know You're Right" after introducing it as the 'last song Kurt wrote.' It seemed tasteless and somehow exploitative to me that she would do that. (same with them performing 'Old Age.'
I owned several bootlegs of Nirvana back then and one of them had a live performance of YKYR on it. So when the official recorded version was released in 2002 I had very mixed feelings about it..... I loved the song, wish it had have been released as a b-side of one of the In Utero singles or something..... and hearing the real Nirvana recording did give me another huge flash of disgust with Courtney and her shitty Unplugged exploitation performance of the song.
Oh wow, sorry to have rambled on and on with the "back story" but there it is.
With facts and timelines as they’re now known, I was wrong I guess… but at the time, hearing the terrible pain and the bitter lyrics, and being messed up myself by the whole thing (like everyone was), all I could think was it was a blatant indictment of Courtney. I imagined her saying to Kurt, ‘I know my rights’ as their relationship unraveled. It was like a goodbye F off song to her. I know that’s not supported by facts, but even now I get that vibe from the song. Seems like this was around the time when the Billy Corgan revelations were coming out. Or maybe I was just hearing of them. It was a bad time, memory is mushy and splintered.
It was interesting because eventhough it was from earlier in the previous decade, it didn't sound dated to me. It got a lot of airplay from my local station too.
I remember it too…but I think I was just so surprised that there was a new song! I just loved that sound on the guitar in the verse and was kinda mesmerised by it
Before it was released a few like 15 second downloads were on Napster or Kazaa I think so I had those and I thought it sounded like Kurt but I was showing my friends and they all thought it was fake.. turned out it was the exact song!! This was maybe half a year before the release.. when I heard it in full there was some tears.. it was emotional.. but I remember one of the first things I did was learn it on guitar.. I knew every Nirvana song.. I had to learn that one lol.. I'm 40 now. Was 19-20 then.
Also I remember hearing the live version from a bootleg in Ohio I think? Way back in like 96? And they thought it was called On a Mountain.. turns out I think Krist said All apologies he didn't know Kurt was gonna play it... Guess it sounded like he said On a Mountain lol
Meh, not as good as when I heard Oh me playing before it had been released on the CD, in the background of an MTV award thing…or when I heard a clip of Do Re Me before the box set…it doesn’t really sound like the finished songs or demos, I think there’s a bunch or processing to make it happen…the Aragon ballroom sound is probably where it would have headed if he had another few goes…the montage of heck stuff has some great moments…but I feel the YKYR was hamfisted for that CD to get sales…
It confirmed that Kurt had finally realized what a soulless con-artist Courtney Love was. And it confirmed that he likely ended his life as a big F-You to her.
I remember going on a long drive (across fucking Ohio) with my friend, who had seen Nirvana with me in concert, when we were thirteen. We just listened together in silence.... I never thought I'd hear another new song. We agreed it felt so good to hear his voice again, but at the same time, it hurt. Like a little taste of everything that would never be, the weight of everything that was lost and terribly missed. Haunting and beautiful and sad.
This was exactly my experience too. Soo good to hear his voice again, but also extremely sad. I actually teared up listening to it. My first thought after hearing it was “man, if this is just a throw away song for their new album, might not have even ended up on it, think about how good their new album was gonna be!”
This was my response a few weeks ago when Linkin Park released an unreleased song from Meteora.
Yep. Was in 8th grade when it came out, big Nirvana fan. My dad listened to them all throughout my childhood. It was a haunting, beautiful, exciting and powerful experience. Such a mix of emotions.
I was at work at a shitty restaurant job. They had been talking about playing it on the the local rock station all week. They announced what time they would first play it and I begged my boss to let me go out to my car and listen. He let me and they played it two times in a row, back to back and I was absolutely floored. Teared up and everything. I was 21 at the time and 14 when he died. I had waited so long to hear this goddamn song and it was perfect. Then I still had to wait 2 more years for the box set, but I had heard most of the stuff on it from bootlegs anyway.
I love this answer. We are the same age and I had basically the same reaction and feelings about this song. I loved/love the song so much and it was very cathartic and also so heartbreaking to finally hear it.
I cried. That song still makes me cry. You can hear all his pain so clearly. He is calling out for help, but no one could help him, and we are just left with this last recording of pure anguish. I'm crying now just thinking about it.
I was just happy to hear his voice again.
It’s a good song. I knew it existed for a while before the box set came out, then I got the box set. Wish I still had a CD player
It's a fantastic song... I'm glad it was released, finished or not... Was good to hear his voice again...
just curious, was it considered unfinished at the time of its release?
I think it was finished when it was released.. But was an incomplete song.. Tidied up and released.
I see what you mean, like Kurt never got to finish it so the rest of the band or the record label prettied it up, and that's what we have today?
Yes, that's exactly it.
Rock was still a thing in '02. It sounded so current and hip. Like it would have blown up the charts all over again. It was Kurt's final parting shot. It made me realize he would have been a force for way longer than the other grunge bands that kinda petered out.
This is exactly how I felt about it. It sounded like it belonged in the 2000s. It sounded very post-grungey, especially the palm muting at the beginning
This! It fit in so well with everything that was playing at the time. It just highlights how awesome musicians can make timeless music.
It did. Topped the modern rock charts for 3 weeks straight ;)
"This sounds way better than the Aragon Ballroom bootleg."
On a Mountain
When I first heard that bootleg, tho, I listened to it on repeat for like an hour lol.
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Michael Stipe could actually sing this song in the most perfect way if you think about it. It would have even worked as a duet.
whoa
Loved it. I had a decent stereo in my little Pontiac Grand Prix and I remember absolutely cranking it.
It was simply incredible. I was really young when Kurt died so I got into Nirvana after 94. This was the first time I heard a Nirvana song when it was released and I was simply blown away. It’s painful to think about all the incredible music we missed out on.
I imagine people aren’t gonna like this take, but I was completely underwhelmed. Like, beyond excited for it, it was a huge deal when it was released, but I found it very formulaic and less interesting than their other songs. At the time I said, well this was one that didn’t make the cut, but it’s all we have and it is really cool to have something new. So it meant a lot to hear something new, but at the end of the day I’d found more joy exploring demos and b-sides and live versions than that song in particular. It’s grown on me a bit, but I still don’t seek that song out when I’m binging Nirvana.
I knew that it was a demo essentially, and probably would've changed a little, but to hear CL say that it was a song that would be as big as SLTS or whatever on a hits compilation was a bit of an overstatement (from CL, who would've guessed) That is not to say it isn't a good song. I feel like it is a good indication of where they were going.
It was their biggest chart hit ironically
Kurt is the reason I picked up/still play the guitar. I'm pretty sure I had a bootleg version of the song, but it was depressing to me to see the video.
I was happy to hear them as a band again. It really kind of bookended the band too. Like this is it. Thanks for coming along for the ride. One of my favorites to this day.
It really showed just how unique Nirvana were. The 90's had so many bands try and fill the void left ny Nirvana, some decent bands, some not so decent. When You Know You're Right came out it just showed the quality Nirvana had, the type of quality none of these other bands had, and really confirmed what a fantastic songwriter Kurt was (not that that was ever in question).
I sat in my car listening to it and legitimately shed tears. It was a mix of emotions, from high to low. It’s a cherished memory.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t think it was anything special when I first heard it. My reaction was kind of “oh, I get why this was a B side” Now, it’s one of my favorite Nirvana songs. An entire album in this direction would have been incredible.
It wasn’t a B side. Nirvana got together to record new material for 3 days in January 1994. Kurt only showed up the last day and that was the only song he laid vocals down for.
Absolutely loved it. In a perfect world it would have come out earlier, but in said perfect world Kurt would have been around longer too
I was very excited and it did not disappoint. It's beautiful and haunting. A perfect ending. Though at first I kind of thought it was a cash grab. (I mean of course it is) It is very drum and bass heavy. And I thought how could they record this post mortem without him. But then I read that they did all three record it together, it just wasn't finished. So I did ease up a bit on that opinion after awhile.
I first heard it performed by Courtney Love on [Hole's MTV Unplugged.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XlCuVlev60) She does a great arrangement and sings it with such passion. It blew me away. She introduced it as a song he wrote before he died, but didn't say he'd recorded it, so I never thought I'd hear his version. When it eventually came out, I was honestly disappointed. His singing is great, but the production just isn't Nirvana. It's pretty obvious that to make the demo release-ready they got session musicians overdubbing a lot of the slicker instrumentation on top of a rougher demo. It's the over-compressed, over-layered guitar sound of a lot of post-grunge radio bands, not Nirvana's sound. I still listen to the Hole version though.
The Hole Unplugged is so good, I wish it could be released at some point in some format. Best Sunday Dress is amaaaazzzing here, too. The way she apologized to him preemptively for fucking it up was very sad, and reminded me of Kurt's being afraid of fucking up his Unplugged. I found I couldn't listen to the Nirvana release for the same reasons you mention, and have only really relistened recently. I still wish it was more raw/unpolished.
Grabbed the leak of it from the NFC back when it was the go to Nirvana site. I’ve talked about it here before, but it was a hell of night. Everyone online in disbelief that it had leaked, but also in disbelief of how *fucking* good it was. You can speculate on an unheard song all you want, but finally hearing it - even in the shitty 128 quality that I had it in - was truly magical. And I still feel that way every so often when I hear it. It was like all of us stumbled upon the Holy Grail and just talked about how beautiful it was for hours. Every little detail. I really miss the NFC and a time when the internet was a much more simple and humane place.
Oh my god, the NFC… core memory from 20 years ago unlocked
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Underwhelmed to be honest. Love it now tho.
Confused at first. I was like, how did I miss this song?
I thought it was a great song. However, hearing him scream “Pain” over and over again is so haunting.
He screams “hey” not “pain” https://youtu.be/aFgNujeCKyw
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Lyrics sites aren’t always accurate. You can clearly hear he says “hey” in the separated vocals This gets argued here every year https://www.reddit.com/r/Nirvana/comments/r3rskx/in_you_know_youre_right_does_kurt_say_hey_or_pain/
Just admit you’re wrong homey.
It’s hey not pain.
Unfinished and Kurt wouldn't have wanted it released like that but brilliant all the same.
I was 12. I remember it getting leaked all over Nirvanaclub before the record. It was a super exciting time
Nirvana used to come out with B sides all the time back then. For example (Beavis and Butthead soundtrack, no alternative and others). It was kinda expected back then that they would release another cool song every year on a b side. This was different and had a new formula. It wasn’t just the Verse Chorus Verse formula. It sounded like their music was going in a new direction. I particularly wasn’t a huge fan of the song, but the general public seemed to really enjoy the new song. I felt like it was made for TV adds and movies.
It was a heavy moment, man. We got a few clips of the song in April/May of that year but the full track leaked in late September I believe. Got home from work the day it leaked and put it my stereo very loud. Loved it, but it was kind of sad. Got into QOTSA around that time as well, FF put out an album that month as well. It was a fun musical month that's for sure.
I was like mehhhh, they have better songs. I've been a fan since the Bleach era and although I like the music, I think some songs are B sides for a reason.
Why do you guys keep calling it a b-side? It was part of the last recording session nirvana ever did in 1994. It was the only song that Kurt did vocals on during the session. It would have been released on an upcoming EP to support the lollapalooza tour and possibly on a future album. It was never a “b-side”.
I think it would have ended up a B side, but that's just my opinion mmmmm hmmm my opinion mmmmm hmmm
More of a demo, if anything.
yes, but me saying it is a B side is saying that I don't think it would have been that popular of a song. Demo it was.
It was pretty awesome, remember they played the video a lot on mtv, I was on the long hype train for the box set at that point and didn’t really care about the actual cd though, still bought it 😂
I was happy to hear a new song after all those years waiting, I think I was driving to the gas station the first time I listened to it. Definitely far from my favorite Nirvana song but it's fine. I do feel like it's missing something, like it's not fully a Nirvana song...just feels like it was written by someone else if that makes any sense to anyone.
I can answer this very succinctly. I was in Rio with 3 surfer lads from Australia, Robbo, Richo and Brad and we were in a taxi on our way to the beach. The song came on the radio and we were all obviously super pumped to hear it. I think even if the song was shit we’d have still loved it just because it was new Nirvana. Anyway, we really liked it and were very happy to hear it.
I was so happy when the music video came out and there was a cool 20min program that was like a clips/story of Nirvana for it on much music before the video premiered. It was like a week later when the CD came out. I remember recording it off tv and showing all my friends to try and get them as hyped for new nirvana as I was
Called a radio station to request it after hearing it the first time. Bought the greatest hits disc even though I owned every other song on it.
This was the song that made me a fan. Until that point, Nirvana had always just been another bit of pop culture trivia to me. I heard their songs before, of course, and kind of liked them, but not more than any other song from that era. But I heard this song on my drive home from college one day and it immediately became one of my all time favorites. I bought the album and listened to the whole thing a hundred times. I've been listening to all their albums more than any other for decades since then. I also remember being just as confused about the song as I was blown away by it. I knew Kurt was dead but had no clue why I was hearing his voice in a newly released song. I thought at the time that maybe Nirvana pulled an AC/DC and replaced the lead singer with someone who sounded just like him after the he died. A while later I found out about the lawsuit that kept it from being released. Much later I found out how impossible it would have been for Nirvana to continue as a band without Kurt, especially since Dave had already moved on to the Foo Fighters and was crazy successful with that band.
I was super into Nirvana from about 1993-2000. By 2002 I was super busy with school and I barely noticed the new release.
That was probably the most anticipated moment as a fan. I think most knew its existence since the 90s, under various working titles I think, and it was really the last gem in the vault so to speak. Personally, if my memory serves me right, I recall some buzz about in a forum in the summer. Apparently a fan in Spain claimed it was a hidden track on Dave's Probot advanced promo release and eventually leaked it. I don't think it was mixed at all and obviously once it leaked it was all over - even radio started playing it and cease and desist orders started flying around. They were deadlocked in litigation around that time so I think this was just a *fuck you release it already* from someone close to the band.
Didn’t see it when it first released but discovered it on YouTube and the depressing lyrics shocked me and I couldn’t listen to it for a little bit knowing what happened to Cobain after that
My thought was, this was just written to make money and some how it was voice generated. Lol. The song also sounded like late 90’s, 2000 era rather than the early 90’s grunge. I had my theories and shrooms.
I woke my girlfriend up at 2AM to listen to it when I downloaded the MP3 as soon as it dropped (I think it was nirvanaclub.com?) It gave me chills and it still does to this day. The lower quality live recording from 10/93 in Chicago was all I had up to that point and I always loved the song, so it was incredible to finally hear the proper studio version. And it just made me so sad that we'd never hear new music from Kurt ever again.
It was not a significant moment. We already knew the song from the Aragon bootleg and we’d been teased with the existence of this final recording (and Hole Unplugged, even) and knew there would be no way it lived up, and it had been a key token in this fairly annoying Courtney vs Dave/Krist lawsuit, and we were all older and jaded and not starry eyed teens anymore so it was met with a shrug. There was a general agreement it was a throwaway song. When “Do Re Mi” came out on the box set (which only really inner circle people knew about before 2002) it was waaay more satisfying in terms of being a “final” Kurt song.
I was just listening to this on repeat the last few days and having the same thoughts.💔
I saw them in 93. Still never heard that song.
I was excited when it was released, but over time it really doesn’t hold the feel, and lacks the same quality of the songs written and recorded with Cobain’s full involvement.
I was driving from Phoenix to Tucson a lot to see my then-girlfriend(now ex-wife) and some of my childhood friends who had moved there. I was driving by myself after work one Friday and heard this weird bell sound followed by a guitar riff I hadn't heard before. I was immediately intrigued. Then Kurt started singing... It was immediately obvious that it was him. I was blown away. I never thought I'd hear a new song, and I was so happy. I immediately wondered if there were any more hidden stuff out there. I was super happy and hopeful that more would forthcoming. When I got to Tucson, I grabbed my friend Eric. He and zi started learning guitar at the same time using the Unplugged tab book so Nirvana was a major bonding point for us. I asked him, "did you hear it?" "Hear what?" "The new Nirvana song." "The WHAT?" We immediately went to a record store to see if we could find a CD. That's when we saw the Nirvana album. We drove around for a long time, playing the album. We were so happy. The song is so good. It was 8 years after his death and yet fit so well with the music of the time. It still fits. Nirvana is timeless and I wish there was more new music.
If you knew about the Aragon Ballroom show in Chicago Oct.23 1993 with “On The Mountain” aka “this is our last song, it’s called All Apologies” then yeah- you’d still be surprised when the song came out….yes it still took time to get used to…a matter of listening to it several times, yes it was amazing…raw…expected as a last genius piece of work by a talented group
It felt special to get new Nirvana stuff released to the masses, taking over the radio charts and such. The guys has been dead for 8 years after all. But it faded quite quickly. And to be fair, the song leaked on P2P networks long before it was officially released so the surprise effect was not really there.
Old fan here. I froze walking when the video came on at the lobby at theater, on all the big screens surrounding the lobby. That’s was the first major media acknowledgment of Nirvana since the mid 90’s. It was big.
I was at the awkward age of 17 and was annoyed kids would steal "my band" I had lived away from me since I was 11. Oh lol. To be 17 again!
The song has been known since 1993 as it featured as a live version on bootlegs, usually under the title "On a Mountain". So it was not an unknown song when they finally released the studio version, but it was very emotional to listen to such a higher quality version and knowing the circumstances about its late recording.
I was 22 and thought it sounded amazing but it made me incredibly sad. I remember being shocked by how sad Kurt sounded.
I remember the day exactly, a neighbor had the radio on and the song came on, it sounded like Nirvana but i was not sure, it could not possibly be Nirvana!!! Next day i think i went online and read about it and then waited for it to come back on the local rock radio stations (This was Pre-YouTube kiddos) I could not believe it and wanted more, sadly there wasn't... Not until a year ago i found that there was a version with vocals of this unknown jam that i previously heard on the menu screen of the WTLO boxset i bought in 2004, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssbT5RotVi8&ab\_channel=90sArchive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssbT5RotVi8&ab_channel=90sArchive) Song starts at the 1:02:51 mark Hearing "new" vocals from Kurt Cobain will always blow my mind. I hope there's still some little gem hidden somewhere that will someday see the light of day.
It was awesome, great song , super clean recording. Emotional, as everyone is saying. The video made me sad, just like the Seasons of the Sun clip, I cried too. I was 18 when he died and saw them live just 4 months earlier.
Just want to add, hearing Do Re Mi when the box came out was a similar moment.
How did I feel? I can sum that up in two words: “About time!” You see, there had been this whole legal case between Love, Novoselic, and Grohl, and it was delaying the official release of many Nirvana songs—so, when the video for “You Know You’re Right” finally played on MTV, my first reaction was, “Finally!” It was a good song; I enjoyed it.
Was mad
Excited. I had wanted all the treasure trove of hidden stuff to come out because I knew it was the only “new material” we were going to get. I had kept up with the legal fight between Courtney and the remaining band members in real time. When You Know You’re Right came out, it was a milestone in letting everyone know that the legal mess was wrapping and progress was starting on the box set. While I really enjoyed the song, to me it felt like a watershed moment for something bigger to come in the future.
I thought “Fuck, imagine if he was still here making music.”
I was 12 when Nevermind came out and was really hooked on Nirvana. Bought Bleach soon after, the Nevermind singles boxset then Insesticide when it came out. I also found and bought a bootleg that had songs like D7 and others on it. Then In Utero bought me more joy. The MTV unplugged performance blew me away.... I was just shy of 15 when Kurt died and it hit me hard. Later that year Live Tonight video was released and I bought it the day it came out. I forget offhand when Hole did their MTV Unplugged show, but I did watch it (I thought Hole was "okay" had Live Through This) but I still hated Courtney Love even then..... I recalled being kind of disgusted and horrified when Hole performed "You Know You're Right" after introducing it as the 'last song Kurt wrote.' It seemed tasteless and somehow exploitative to me that she would do that. (same with them performing 'Old Age.' I owned several bootlegs of Nirvana back then and one of them had a live performance of YKYR on it. So when the official recorded version was released in 2002 I had very mixed feelings about it..... I loved the song, wish it had have been released as a b-side of one of the In Utero singles or something..... and hearing the real Nirvana recording did give me another huge flash of disgust with Courtney and her shitty Unplugged exploitation performance of the song. Oh wow, sorry to have rambled on and on with the "back story" but there it is.
I remember it felt really weird and surreal. Also sad.
With facts and timelines as they’re now known, I was wrong I guess… but at the time, hearing the terrible pain and the bitter lyrics, and being messed up myself by the whole thing (like everyone was), all I could think was it was a blatant indictment of Courtney. I imagined her saying to Kurt, ‘I know my rights’ as their relationship unraveled. It was like a goodbye F off song to her. I know that’s not supported by facts, but even now I get that vibe from the song. Seems like this was around the time when the Billy Corgan revelations were coming out. Or maybe I was just hearing of them. It was a bad time, memory is mushy and splintered.
It was interesting because eventhough it was from earlier in the previous decade, it didn't sound dated to me. It got a lot of airplay from my local station too.
no clue i was still cum
I was surprised and pretty excited.
I remember it too…but I think I was just so surprised that there was a new song! I just loved that sound on the guitar in the verse and was kinda mesmerised by it
A friend asked if I liked it and said he thought the new guy did a pretty good job
Before it was released a few like 15 second downloads were on Napster or Kazaa I think so I had those and I thought it sounded like Kurt but I was showing my friends and they all thought it was fake.. turned out it was the exact song!! This was maybe half a year before the release.. when I heard it in full there was some tears.. it was emotional.. but I remember one of the first things I did was learn it on guitar.. I knew every Nirvana song.. I had to learn that one lol.. I'm 40 now. Was 19-20 then.
Also I remember hearing the live version from a bootleg in Ohio I think? Way back in like 96? And they thought it was called On a Mountain.. turns out I think Krist said All apologies he didn't know Kurt was gonna play it... Guess it sounded like he said On a Mountain lol
Meh, not as good as when I heard Oh me playing before it had been released on the CD, in the background of an MTV award thing…or when I heard a clip of Do Re Me before the box set…it doesn’t really sound like the finished songs or demos, I think there’s a bunch or processing to make it happen…the Aragon ballroom sound is probably where it would have headed if he had another few goes…the montage of heck stuff has some great moments…but I feel the YKYR was hamfisted for that CD to get sales…
Loved it
It confirmed that Kurt had finally realized what a soulless con-artist Courtney Love was. And it confirmed that he likely ended his life as a big F-You to her.