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♪ pour some 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 played on radio. ♪ i cant see you every night >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the...

Market continues to raise higher in optimism about technology. nobody is worried about rate hikes. everybody say its economic nirvana and theyre drunk with power. thats whats going on there. more after this. hey mercedes,

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 played on radio. ♪ i cant see you every night >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end ...

Night?" and it was emotional for me 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 [ cheers and applause ] >> from seattle tonight, word o...

Punk authenticity and also 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, because kurts on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- its been really damaging to us. 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 a...

♪ take me to your best friends house ♪ ♪ going around this roundabout ♪ ♪ oh, yeah ♪ 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...

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 competitive sort of l.a. hollywood 80s. and it was just sud...

>> 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. >> 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 an alt r...

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 seattle sound? whats going on up there? >> whats in the water? ♪ son, have i got a little story...

Connections. ♪ im a loser, baby, so why dont you kill me ♪ >> beck is defining whats happening now with that mesh of styles. hes mixing electronic, country, rap, rock and roll, everything. everything. hes throwing the kitchen sink in. ♪ >> out of the ashes of nirvana dave grohl created the foo fighters. >> this is the first time in my life ive ever fronted a band, had to actually stand up and sing. and seem charismatic or whatever, which i cant do. but i need to just keep playing and makin...