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♪ pour some sugar on me >> def leppard. fantastic record. ♪ 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...

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. ♪ sunlight >> vulnerability, anxiety. all this became how the country felt. we needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids in bands can deliver. >> theyre the most important band in the world for what the...

Takes that analysis to the next step. they thought john bolton was going to be again the nirvana in this whole impeachment quest that they have. but boltons lawyers, they dont seem like they are any rush to get up there and testify either. they are either really bad at making predictions or they dont know the law or they dont know how to read an opinion or that the opinion is limited to a certain set of special facts. i dont know what it is but its getting embarrassing now how repeatedly wrong t...

Bolton, this is something that takes that analysis to the next step. they thought john bolton was going to be again the nirvana in this whole impeachment quest that they have. but boltons lawyers, they dont seem like they are any rush to get up there and testify either. they are either really bad at making predictions or they dont know the law or they dont know how to read an opinion or that the opinion is limited to a certain set of special facts. i dont know what it is but its getting embarras...

Songwriter with an 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 refreshing change from the compet...

♪ im being, im being, 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 of these bands 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 about the seattl...

>> "ok computer" is like "dark side of the moon" of the 90s. it really showed this is going to be a defining band of the next 25 years. >> you could tell the whole story of the evolution of what came out of grunge through radiohead, and what came out of alternative through beck. ♪ in the time of chimpanzees i was a monkey ♪ ♪ butane in my veins >> i was always interested in hip-hop. sort of non-linear word connections. ♪ im a loser, baby, so why dont you kill me ♪ >> beck is defining w...

It certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band fell apart after only making a couple records. you know? what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, the verve, blur, the britpop thing, it was like the hangover of grunge. oh, my god, my heads pounding. this has been insane. lets turn on oasis. ♪ and after all ♪ youre my wonderwall >> 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 b...

To tell you the truth. its really affected my personal life a lot. [ applause ] >> i was in the front row of the "unplugged" performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didnt play the hits. those songs were chosen for a particular reason. ♪ my girl, my girl ♪ dont lie to me ♪ tell me where did you sleep last night ♪ >> i remember watching him play a cover of a leadbelly song, "where did you sleep last night?" and it was emotional for me because i love nirvana and i felt th...

♪ welcome to the week in rock. it was week lit up in a large way by the release of "in utero," a much anticipated third album by nirvana. ♪ rape me >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvanas new release which includes a song called "rape me." the chain says it wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. >> to get into walmart they had to change the title from "rape me" to "waif me." i dont think kurt was too happy about that. he always had that conflict between wanting to maintain...