Grunge Legend Secretly Wrote Nirvana Classic

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Over thirty years later, facts are emerging concerning one of grunge band Nirvana’s most popular songs. It isn’t Teen Spirit, but it’s up there in nostalgic pop-culture status. A new book has revealed that Mark Lanegan in fact co-wrote the Nirvana song, “Something in the Way”. For more on this shocking turn of events let’s dig a little deeper.

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The late Screaming Trees singer Lanegan was close friends with Kurt Cobain during the latter’s lifetime. Cobain performed on Lanegan’s debut solo album, and anecdotes from Lanegan’s memoir illustrated just how tight the two grunge artists were.

It turns out their collaborative efforts apparently went both ways. In the new biographical oral history, Lanegan,  the singer’s former Queens of the Stone Age bandmate Nick Oliveri revealed that Mark helped write lyrics for Nirvana’s stark masterpiece “Something in the Way,” but went uncredited. Therefore Lanegan — who often struggled to make ends meet while coping with drug addiction — didn’t receive what would have been massive royalties for the sales of Nirvana’s mega-selling album Nevermind.

“Mark said he wrote some lyrics on ‘Something in the Way’ with Kurt on Nevermind,” Oliveri told author Greg Prato. “But Kurt had played on some of Mark’s solo stuff, The Winding Sheet. So, instead of getting paid, they just did this thing where, ‘Hey man, I added a lyric on your song and you added a lyric on my song. Let’s just call it even. Whatever happens, happens.’ Little did Mark know, if he would have had publishing on ‘Something in the Way’ on Nevermind, he would have had a lot of money. I remember him kicking himself in the butt a little bit about that – ‘If I had that ‘Something in the Way’ publishing…””