Something In The Way (track)
by Nirvana

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Something In The Way by Nirvana
Year: 1991
From the album Nevermind (track #12)
Average Rating: 
87/100 (from 844 votes)
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Average Rating: 
87/100 (from 844 votes)
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 		03/06/2026 22:58 HorribleClaus25  Ratings distribution  12892/100
 
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From 02/15/2022 22:11 | #281362
Such a haunting song. A doorway into a tortured mind. "It's okay to eat fish, cause they don't have any feelings"
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From 06/11/2020 19:23 | #253322
This is one of those songs that sounds like it came from another planet. Its existence is so surreal to me, I don't know why. Great song. One of my favorite Nirvana songs.
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From 04/15/2018 22:42 | #212979
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From 04/10/2017 14:29 | #188994
"Okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings" Nirvana's best ballad and one of the best songs on this album. I see this as being as monumentally important to the later 90's sounds as anything else on this album.
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From 12/21/2016 14:20 | #180671
I love this, top 3 on the album :)
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From 08/20/2015 14:22 | #148126
Beautiful
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From 03/13/2015 01:30 | #136658
My absolute favorite of them. They have so many loud and fast song to produce a sound of isolation and anger but the minimalistic approach on this song really does it for me.
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85/100
From 08/26/2014 17:32 | #120440
Haunting
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From 05/29/2014 22:30 | #113247
I like the melancholic ending.
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From 05/23/2014 02:07 | #112708
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