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Wanting to be popular. ♪ rape me ♪ >> the starmaking machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, thats because kurts on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- its been really damaging to us. tell you the truth. its really affected my personal life a lot. >> i was in the front row of the "unplugged" performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didnt pla...

♪ pour some sugar on me ♪ >> and that begins to bring that kind of music back. ♪ pour your sugar on me ♪ >> at the end of the 80s, everybody came to the same conclusion simultaneously. something new needs to happen here, and its got to be real-sounding, more garage, less produced. ♪ ♪ i need an easy friend ♪ >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being ...

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>> they were the opposite of nirvana because they wanted fame. no matter how big they were, they wanted to be bigger. >> we know were the best band in the country, and its as simple as that. and its that simple. >> the thing about oasis in a way is theyve got no kind of -- no false modesty. >> not anybody can just sort of go, were brilliant. its like -- anybody whos got the balls to do that is good in my book. ♪ but im a creep ♪ >> "creep" came out in the early 90s. and that was as much of a...

Dead. >> in the 2000s the predominant music generally is hip-hop. and thats the case in new york. no ones thinking about new york as a center for interesting rock music anymore. but after 9/11 you had all these bands who were kind of bubbling beneath the surface who start popping up and it really starts with the strokes. ♪ last night she said i feel so down ♪ >> after 9/11 the city was burning. it was smoldering. ♪ >> vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. we needed ...

♪ everybody wants to rule the world ♪ imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones could shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling. i see killing. thats what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the ghetto, but you cant take the ghetto up out of me, dog. >> its a tough time to grow up in. and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. >> i learned how to write for myself, and its pretty ironic that most people related to it. >> boom, t...

Because i love nirvana, and i felt this connection to kurt cobain, and i was always, even when i was young, just so worried about him. ♪ my girl, my girl ♪ >> in that era there was always the speculation kurts not doing well, kurt has drug problems. and nirvana "unplugged" was this kind of thing like, the clouds parted. you know? and it seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ the whole night through ♪ >> from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. >> the lead singer of nirvan...

>> kurt cobain was a great songwriter with this ability to scream almost in tune. it just gave an intensity that was really unique. ♪ i kill you, im not gonna crack ♪ >> nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audience. so start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees. and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. >> i would go to the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. it was such a refr...

♪ im feeling im feeling outshined outshined outshined outshined ♪ >> why dont you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybodys a grunge band. >> all these bands that actually sound pretty different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as, this is what grunge is. >> tell me a little bit about the seattle music scene. >> with all the attention, no ones ever asked us that before. >> weve never heard that question. so, tell me...

Hard dating posts to put on a list of the 100 greatest songs of all time, list came out in 2004 back when kat was 40. aretha franklins "respect" is number one all-time, unseating bob dylans -- they went as woke as you can get with a song from 1989, the year "rolling stone" editors started collecting social security. nirvanas "smell like team team spirit." missy elliott "get your freak on," getting my freak on is what i do best, emily. elton johns "tiny dancer" at a random number 47. most people ...