Nirvana - You Know You're Right

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Nirvana recorded this a few months before lead singer Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994. It was the last song the band recorded.

The group recorded this when they had some spare time one weekend. It was not intended for any specific album, so when Cobain died, it went unreleased.

Kurt wrote this song as a sarcastic reference to his wife Courtney Love, at a very turbulent time in their relationship (shortly before his suicide), the title and predominant lyric: "you know your right" and also "nothing really bothers her, she just wants to love herself", both refer to Kurt's frustration with Courtney.

When Cobain died, the 2 remaining members (Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic) formed a partnership with his widow, Courtney Love, that controlled the rights to Nirvana's songs. Grohl and Novoselic wanted to release this sooner, but Love refused, and it was not until 2002 that they reached an agreement where she allowed a Nirvana Greatest Hits CD with this on it. As part of the agreement, the Universal Music Group, which released the CD, let Love out of her contract with the label.

Grohl went years without listening to this. Until it was mixed for the Greatest Hits album, he didn't even have a copy of it.

Before the song was released as a single in 2002, it was called "On the Mountain" by bootleggers. The only time the song was performed live, Dave Grohl told the audience, "This is our last song, its called 'All Apologies'" without realizing Cobain had started playing "You Know You're Right." The poor audio quality left the bootleggers unable to make out exactly what Grohl had said, hence the mistaken title.

Before Nirvana released this, Courtney Love played a live acoustic version of it called "You've Got No Right" for an MTV Unplugged special with her band Hole. She sang "Hey" instead of "Pain." Here's how she introduced the song: "This is a song that Kurt wrote. We worked on it a little bit, we can't do it that well but it's Valentine's Day, and maybe he can hear it, and he'll go, 'You know, you really f---ed up my song, Courtney. Don't even try it.' But if it works, it's dedicated to my mother-in-law.

There is a very rare bootleg recording of Nirvana playing this live on October 23, 1993.

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[TheRiddle7911]

wow classic but a shame we had to hear it after he died...may he rest in peace

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[manhuntruler2]

Fuck Courtney Love, she always screwed Kurt over. That bitch.