


"Something in the Way" was first recorded in the studio in May 1991 at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California by Butch Vig, for the band's second album, Nevermind. The first live performance of "Something in the Way" was on November 25, 1990, at The Off Ramp Café in Seattle. Kurt might've done an edit on that track, but I believe it was close to a continuous take." American director Brett Morgen, who compiled the album as a soundtrack to his 2015 Cobain documentary Montage of Heck, discussed the medley in a 2015 NME interview, saying it was "almost like a rock opera, and to hear 'Something in the Way' emerge from the ashes of those other tracks was quite revealing. The earliest known version is a solo electric demo that appeared in a medley, along with the abandoned compositions "You Can't Change Me" and "Burn My Britches," first released on the Cobain compilation Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings in November 2015. "Something in the Way" was written by Cobain in 1990.

It also made the Top 40 in Australia, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Wales and on the Billboard Global 200. On the week of March 26, 2022, the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 46, becoming the band's fifth entry on the chart and first since " You Know You're Right" in 2002. It also reached the top 20 in both Amazon Music's and iTunes' digital music charts. The song peaked at number two on Billboard 's US Rock Digital Songs Sales chart, and number five on their US Alternative Digital Songs Sales charts. Never released as a single and never a consistent part of the band's live setlist, "Something in the Way" charted for the first time in August 2020, after appearing in the first trailer for the 2022 superhero film, The Batman. It is the final listed song on the album, although most copies of Nevermind also feature the hidden track " Endless, Nameless", which occupies the same track as "Something in the Way" and begins after approximately 10 minutes of silence. It is the 12th song on their second album, Nevermind, released in September 1991. " Something in the Way" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain.
