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Felt. we needed that sense of defiance, that hubristic sense of possibility and promise that young kids and bands understand. >> they may inspire other people to do. >> much in the same way that nirvana was the spearhead for grunge in the 90s, the strokes really helped usher in a lot of other acts. >> ♪ she carried, she carried, she carried. >> the first wants to break in terms of new york artists, these are strange people, they are countercultural, by nature. karen o, she is this violent, swa...

In this flashback, we remember when Nirvana played Dive at Brazil's Hollywood Rock while Kurt Cobain wore a dress onstage in 1993. Watch the video now.

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. and it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a. hollywood 80s. and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. >> one of the biggest music biz stories these days is the so-called rain city renaissance with the emergence of noisy punk metal grunge rock. bands like soundgarden, nirvana, alice in chains, and pearl ja...

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 best band in the country, and its as simple as...

♪ welcome to the week in rock. it was week lit up in a large way by the release of "in utero," the 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 ma...

>> 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 for you ♪ ♪ what you thought was your daddy ♪ >> bands like nirvana, pearl jam, they wanted no part of the music industry machine. and yet there they were, on mtv, on the charts, selling millions of records. ♪ hey ♪ ♪ oh, im still alive ♪ ♪ i, oh, im still alive ♪ >...

Imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones would 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, though. >> 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, there it is, platinum record. >> country m...

It sounded like a threat. it sounded like a different generation coming in saying what do you have for us? what are you going to do for us? ♪ got to find a way, a better way, a way to live ♪ >> the so-called slackers, generation x, they were not being paid attention to. and this pressure was building up especially in the music industry for something that actually spoke to them. >> this is the first american generation that will make less than their parents will. its a tough time to grow up i...

Side of the moon" of the 90s. it really showed that 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 whats happening now wit...