Song · Live covers
Something in the Way
Kurt Cobain's closer to Nevermind, which fan lore has counted among Radiohead's covers.
1990–91
cobain's closer
Kurt Cobain wrote it in 1990. The earliest known recording is a solo electric demo that runs in a medley with “You Can't Change Me” and “Burn My Britches”, released in 2015 on Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings. Nirvana first played it live at the Off Ramp Café in Seattle on 25 November 1990, and it ended up as the last listed track on Nevermind in September 1991, with “Endless, Nameless” hidden behind 10 minutes of silence on the same index.
It was never a single and never a fixture of Nirvana's set. It charted for the first time in August 2020, after it was used in the first trailer for The Batman, and entered the Hot 100 at number 46 in March 2022, the band's first appearance there in 20 years.
the claim
fan lists only
Fan lore counts it among Radiohead's covers, but neither this site's setlists nor the press have Radiohead or Thom Yorke playing it, so it is listed here only as a claim.
sources2
- Wikipedia, “Something in the Way”, for the Nirvana song's history.
- “Kurt Cobain's Solo Album”, NME, on the Montage of Heck medley.