![]() ![]() Kurt Cobain’s childhood home in Washington state has been unanimously approved by the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation to be turned into a landmark. So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, and the idea of this fictionalized version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor.Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar from ‘Nevermind’ sells at auction for $600,000īilly Corgan says he ‘lost his greatest opponent’ when Kurt Cobain diedįrugal Gen Z fashionistas are bringing back ‘easy’ 1990s grunge looksĬourtney Love: I was fired from ‘Fight Club’ after going ‘nuclear’ on Brad PittĬome as you are to this piece of rock ‘n’ roll history. “That’s when it came to me that, rather than make Bruce Wayne the playboy version we’ve seen before, there’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse. ![]() “When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something in the Way’,” Reeves recalled to Empire. The song’s use wasn’t the result of some promotional machine, but rather an important choice by the movie’s writer and director, Matt Reeves. In 2020, the song was featured in the trailer for the highly anticipated film The Batman. The poignant, haunting appeal of “Something in the Way” has continued to strike a nerve with fans. The tune’s melancholy wasn’t specific to the era in which it was made. And while “Something in the Way” may not have been celebrated the way the LP’s hit songs were, it has nonetheless enjoyed long-standing popularity. The hugely successful album was a cultural phenomenon, hailed as the masterpiece of its era. Released in September 1991, “Something in the Way” - along with the rest of Nevermind - became part of rock legend. Watch Nirvana Perform 'Something in the Way' on 'MTV Unplugged' Cellist Kirk Canning, recommended to Nirvana by friends L7, came in and laid down an emotive piece to round out the track. The final touch came from outside of the trio. “We had to punch in spots just so Krist would get the languid feel on the bass to lock up with the acoustics,” Vig explained. Likewise, Novoselic struggled to get his part just right. Getting Grohl to tone down his hard-hitting ways - “play wimpy” as it was later described - was difficult, but the drummer ultimately delivered an understated performance. So I unplugged the telephone, turned off the air-conditioning, set up mics and we recorded the vocal and acoustic right there, three takes on the couch.” “He sang so quietly, almost in a whisper, that you could hear a pin drop. “He played this old five-string acoustic, and he never tuned, but it had a very unique sound, almost like a ukulele, and it gave the song a lot of character,” the producer later recalled in the book Classic Rock Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind. After several failed attempts to record the track, Cobain marched into the control room and performed it solo for Vig on his acoustic guitar. While recording Nevermind at Sound City studios, Cobain, bandmates Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, plus producer Butch Vig, struggled to make the delicate track work within the group dynamic. Harnessing that emotion was pivotal in Cobain’s creation of the song, but accurately capturing it to tape proved challenging. The place he writes from is so emotionally desperate we all understand it.” The other part of that song, about him living under a bridge, his mom told me later isn’t true because the river was tidal, but it doesn’t matter. “He’s telling himself anything just to get through. “He is clawing his way out on ‘Something in the Way,’" the Hole frontwoman continued. “He knows it’s a lie - here’s a guy who loved turtles - but he thinks that if someone just loves him enough, then maybe, just maybe one day he will become real. “The line ‘ It’s OK to eat fish 'cause they don’t have any feelings’ - nothing else cuts me like that line,” Love admitted to the Los Angeles Times in 2021. Wife Courtney Love would later refer to “Something in the Way” as one of the great rock songs of all time. ![]() Cobain’s melancholy verse captured a distinctive brand of hopelessness, evident even to those fortunate enough to hear it in its earliest form.
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