A brand new e-book has revealed that Mark Lanegan “co-wrote” Nirvana’s closing ‘Nevermind’ monitor ‘One thing In The Method’.
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An excerpt from the brand new e-book Lanegan that includes former Queens Of The Stone Age bandmate Nick Oliveri claims that the late Screaming Bushes frontman helped write lyrics for the monitor with Kurt Cobain, which went uncredited.
“Mark mentioned he wrote some lyrics on ‘One thing In The Method’ with Kurt on ‘Nevermind’,” Oliveri informed creator Greg Prato by way of Consequence. “However Kurt had performed on a few of Mark’s solo stuff, ‘The Winding Sheet’.
“So, as a substitute of getting paid, they only did this factor the place, ‘Hey man, I added a lyric in your tune and also you added a lyric on my tune. Let’s simply name it even. No matter occurs, occurs.’ Little did Mark know, if he would have had publishing on ‘One thing In The Method’ on Nevermind, he would have had some huge cash. I bear in mind him kicking himself within the butt just a little bit about that – ‘If I had that ‘One thing In The Method’ publishing…’”
Elsewhere within the e-book, Lanegan’s Screaming Bushes bandmate Gary Lee Conner recalled how Courtney Love as soon as provided the band the then-unreleased Nirvana tune ‘You Know You’re Proper’ following Cobain’s dying.
“Once we have been engaged on songwriting for [1996 album] ‘Mud’, throughout that point, Mark is like, ‘Courtney needs us to do a tune,’” Conner mentioned. “And it was that tune – ‘You Know You’re Proper’ [a then-unreleased Nirvana song]. So, I bought a tape of it and we realized it. We by no means recorded it. However we realized it with out Mark, and Mark got here all the way down to sing it…and he couldn’t. He modified his thoughts. And that was the tip of it.”
Conner added: “However who is aware of? We may have had a giant hit with Kurt’s tune. [Laughs] I’d think about it could have been a fairly large deal – in ’95 or ’96 to launch a canopy of an unknown Nirvana tune. I don’t know. That was the concept. However I don’t know if it was the concept of capitalising on Kurt … though we may have used the cash.”
The tune was ultimately launched as a single from Nirvana’s 2002 self-titled compilation.
Again in 2020 Lanegan informed NME that Nirvana stay “simply as very important at present” as they have been in these early days.
Lanegan died on the age of 57 final February.
