''You Know You're Right'' (2010)

Image credit: Nirvana: Frank W. Ockenfels/Corbis Outline

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GLUM LORDS As ever, Nirvana are too unsettling to overlook

With its murmur-to-a-scream structure, Nirvana's long-suppressed recording ''You Know You're Right doesn't add any new musical revelations to an already impressive canon. But as a chilling near-farewell taped months before Kurt Cobain left the building, the song -- leaked to the Internet and now set for release next month on a Nirvana anthology -- is a musical car wreck that's hard to ignore. Even in a genre that continues to be degraded by imitators, Cobain's rusty-pipe voice and painful sarcasm (''Things have never been so swell/And I have never felt this well'') are so raw it's scary. The ultimate in queasy listening.