10 Best Songs Released After The Singer Passed Away

3. Nirvana – ‘You Know You're Right’ (2002)

When Kurt Cobain took his own life in 1994, the idea of ‘new Nirvana music’ was a hollow dream. But cut to 2002 and that’s exactly what occurred when ‘You Know You're Right’ was announced, released as the first song on the band's self-titled greatest hits album.

It was the last song the band recorded before Cobain's death, during Nirvana’s final studio session in Seattle, Washington, less than three months before he passed. It was known only as ‘Kurt's Tune #1’ at the time.

“When they started playing it, I was almost speechless,” said the studio’s owner Robert Lang. Going unreleased for years, the song became a legal nightmare between his widow Courtney Love and surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl.

Courtney actually performed it during Hole’s MTV Unplugged set in 1995 as ‘You’ve Got No Right’.

From start to finish it’s gloomily creepy. From the creepy guitar screech to the build-up of drums to that brutal chorus. You can hear the physical and mental anguish in Kurt at the time with the intense repeated chorus of ‘Pain’. Of all the tracks in this piece, this is the most haunting. An unforgettable last song from a legend.