My, how times have changed. I see hustling, i see killing. Thats what i rap about. Its a tough time to grow up in, and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. I learned how to write for myself, and its pretty ironic that most people relate to it. That is a platinum record. Country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. The honeymoon is over. Now were getting down to real commerce. Arent these girls just crazy . Yeah, they are. You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china , occasionally her teeth, and hypnotizes your children. But what you may want to note is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the Music Business in this country. Mtv makes the hits. Its as if there were just one National Radio station for new songs. Ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, youre getting a lot of hairbands. Youve got poison, rat, warrants. A lot of hairspray going on. There was a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. Its not really deep music, but we have mtv pushing it, so thats selling. When i would turn on npv, all The Rock Bands look a certain way. They played a kind of music. They were expected to have a certain facade. Mtvs ratings are surprisingly small, but those who do watch, mostly teenagers and young adults, i a lot of records and tapes and cds. And they by the most of what they see the most. Recently, two members of the heavymetal Matt Arrowsmith dropped by mtvs offices to screen their new video, and brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. The Record Companies would submit videos every monday, and then we would have our music meeting, and we would look at all the videos and decide who is going to get put into the new rotation. I was a 21yearold kid loved punk rock, and i pretty quickly realized that the music that they were playing just wasnt what i was into. When that new Near Montevideo was delivered to npv, i was completely blown away. I said, listen, they really are incredible, and we need to give them a shot, and if it doesnt work, then you can push me out of the music meetings. Tonights wellprepared video is from the seattle band near ronna. Smells like teen spirit. It was like the musical Kennedy Assassination of our time. Everybody who was alive then can tell you the moment they heard that song, because nothing like that existed to that point. It was really transcendent. Here we are now, entertain us. It sounded like a threat, you know . It sounded like a different generation coming in and saying, you know, what you have for us . What are you going to do for us . The socalled, you know, slackers of 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 in, and i think the band curbing in particular reflect that angst. Kurt cobain was a great songwriter with his ability to scream almost in tune. It just gave an intensity that was really unique. Nirvana gave the record industry a wakeup call and said, here is your new audience. So start looking for the people with the clothes in the holes in the knees, and you better run to those clubs to buy out the next one. I would go to the clubs and see bands like screaming trees. 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 Visit Stories these days is a socalled rain city renaissance, with the emergence of noisy punk metal grunge rock. Van slyke nirvana, allison change, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. Why dont you tell me what the biggest music conception about the socalled 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 about the seattle sound. Whats going on up there . Whats in the water . Van slyke 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. Its a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. Were used to playing small clubs, you know . And we want to go back to playing small clubs. Rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona on thursday night. Its a multiaxe package called the lollapalooza tour. 1991, we were the first band on stage at the first ever lollapalooza. Which was a tremendous thing for my band and die. Lollapalooza is cool. The idea that you could get these important and popular bands from the underground, like janes addiction, nine inch nails, soundgarden, hole, red hot chili peppers, and you get them altogether. It felt like a really new idea. By the mid90s, its already been parodied by the simpsons. Wow, its like woodstock, only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. It is in the american lexicon. The commercial culture has coopted the counterculture but the honeymoon is over. Now were getting down to real commerce, and theres, theres a certain kind of disillusionment going on. Since ive got everything i wanted, i can put a zero after the number of record sales i have, i can play 200,000 city hall instead of 2000 city halls, and i can be on Mtv Thousand Times a week whether the 100 munch. I thought maybe when i reach these goals, i would find some sort of peace. I didnt. Now its like, im more miserable now than i ever was. Tomorrow, on the whole story. 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It was a week lit up in a large way, by the release of in utero, the muchanticipated third album by nirvana. Rape me welcome to the week in rock. It was a weak lit up in a large way by the release of in utero, the muchanticipated third album by nirvana. 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 of the song rape me. I dont think kurt was too happy about that. He always had that conflict between wanting to maintain that kind of punk authenticity, but also wanting to be popular. The star making machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts. And now, they had to deal with it but we decided to lay low, and obviously, that was, you know, some would say its because kurtz on heroin the whole time. It was just, its been really damaging to us, to 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 play the hits, you know . Those songs were chosen for a particular reason for it 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 this connection to kurt cobain, and i was always, even when i was young, just so worried about him. In that era, there was always speculation, you know, kurt is not doing well, kurt has drug problems. And nirvana unplugged was just kind of, like , the clouds parted, you know . And it seemed like everything was going to be okay. From seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. The lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington, today. It didnt come as a major surprise, but it was devastating because of the way it happened. Pulled over, and i just, i was there for, like, 20 minutes, just crying right there. I just dont understand it, thats all. I think he was the closest that his generation came to a john lennon, in that, you know, he was writing very much from the heart, very directly, and he didnt play according to the rules. I was 16 when that happened, and if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. Its 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 on s. A. N. E. Lets start on oasis. They were the opposite, because they wanted fame, you know . No matter how big they were, they wanted to be bigger. We know were the best band in the country. Its as simple as that. And its that simple. Theyve got know, kind of, no false modesty. Were brilliant, and, i mean, its like, anybody whos got the balls to do that is good in my book. Creep came out in the early 90s, and that was as much of an old rock hit at any of the Nirvana Songs or the pearl jam songs. But it was hardly extraordinary. Inevitably, you know, the first song that becomes a hit, everybody caricatures the band from that. We just have to wait to see whether we have the chance to prove that were not just that. Okay. I remember vividly sitting to radioheads next record, the Bands Nonstop that were just seriously geek out on every part. The baseline, like, percussion, every tiny little nuance. This week, the band released a new album, okay computer, and has critics tripping with praise too. Okay computer is, like, dark 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, the evolution of what came out of grunge through radiohead, and what came out of alternative through back. That was always interesting, hiphop, sort of nonlinear word connections. Beck is defining whats happening now with that mesh of styles. Hes mixing electronic, country, rap, rock n roll, everything. Everything. Hes throwing the kitchen sink in. Out of the ashes of nirvana, dave groll created the foo fighters. This is the first time in my life ive ever fronted a band and actually stand up and sing and, you know, seemed charismatic, whatever. Which i cant do. But i need to just keep playing and making music. In an era where everything was serious and had a heavy tone, especially after kurt cobains death, the foo fighters created the music video. They found this perfect balance between making people laugh, with also having the ability to play incredible rock music. With amazons Back To School deals, you can save money by spending less of it. 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The Tao Home Music that was once the preserve of cowboys and rednecks is well on its way to becoming the sound of the 90s. One of the things that was overlooked by all this Rock N Roll Explosion was going on was Country Music. These acts were putting out good music. They were touring constantly around the country and building up a fan base. When they asked people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. You surprised by that . Yes, sir. I guess my family knew where they were going to be asking the questions and got there before they did. Living in mississippi, country was a huge part of my life, and it was all because of garth brooks. The first time i ever saw him in concert, i was probably 10 or 11 years old. I said, that is exactly what i want to do. Garth brooks is the biggest selling artist of the decade, and the fastest selling musical artist ever. Hes been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. Hes got the looks of a cowboy, and the moves of a rock n roll star. It sounded like rock n roll. Guitars and big drums, and everybody singing along. Thats what people like about rock shows. As the acts became maybe less twangy in their way, that really just expanded their audience. Artists like plenty of acts really worked their way up and became massive. Over the last two years, Country Music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts with over 2 billion in sales and climbing. As the boom in the music takes hold, western wear dealers cant keep up with the demand. You got kids, you got a house payment, and these people are more like you are than madonna is. Women in country was a huge thing in the 90s. You had reba mcintyre, martina mcbride, shelley wright. The dixie chicks, shania twain. I remember when shania twain came out. I was just obsessed with her. I thought it was because i was really attracted to her, but come to find out i just wanted to be her best friend. In all fields in our society now, women, i wouldnt say dominating. I think that theyre just rising to their true place. As things more on, it became a great decade to be a girl. After years of singing backup for such stars as Michael Jackson and rod stewart, he exploded onto the music scene in 1993 with their album tuesday night music club. Radio has been so long and coming playing female artists. So its definitely a different sort of environment and attitude, you know . Female artists like sheryl crow or liz fehr, even though they had success, they were still routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. There was not a lot of space in pop culture for young womens thoughts, feelings, voices respected or taken seriously. There was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stephani. Super girly, and also kind of tough. And then in front of this band of all guys. Im just a girl in the world, and thats all that youll let me be. You know, it was like the middle finger up to every guy that ever annoyed you. Look whos here. Alaniz. Hi, we ran into each other. Were shopping today. We thought youd tickets with us. Alaniz is here with a brandnew album. A brandnew look, ive noticed. I was dropped from ansi records after having made music through my teens, and my personal promise to myself was that i wouldnt stop until i wrote a record that really exemplified and, and nailed on the head what was truly going on for me. It was sort of a pearl clutching moment. What did she say . Women can say that . And, yeah, they could. She was thinking about a relationship that obviously gone wrong, but it was not as nice, like, oh my god, you let me and now im sad. This would rage at this man. You didnt hear that a lot from women. In america alone, Jagged Little Pill sells 15 million albums. Its alaniss moment. Over the last four years, just learned how to write for my own reasons, and write for myself, a