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For years after Kurt Cobain's suicide it was available only as a bootlegged recording of the live version. In 2002, after much wrangling between Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, and the surviving band members, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic it was released on the Nirvana "best-of" album. Some months earlier a bootleg of the studio version had surfaced. Some radio stations played this, and were sent Cease-and-desist letters asking them to stop, until the song was released as a promo.
Aside from a few guitar and vocal overdubs, the entirety of "You Know You're Right" was recorded in one take. Highlighted by Cobain's distinct vocal style and raw, stripped-down guitar work, Novoselic's droning bass, and Grohl's dynamic drumming, "You Know You're Right" gave a final glimpse into a sound and a generation inspired by Neil Young's epithet, "It's better to burn out than to fade away".
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