and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. - one e of the bigiggest mumusic biz ststories theseses 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 jam, from seattle, washington. - ♪ i'm feeling ♪ ♪ i'm feeling outshined ♪ ♪ o outshined,, outshihined ♪ ♪ o outshined ♪ - why don'n't you tellll me the e biggest mimisconceptioion about the so-called seattle music scenes. - everybody's a grunge band. - all these bands that actually sound pretty different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as: "this is w what grungege is." - tetell me a lilittlet about ththe seattle e music sc. - with all the attention, you know, no one's ever asked us that before. - [laughs] - that's amazing. - we've never heard of that question. "so, tell me about the seattle sound. what's going on up there?" uh... - "what's in the water?" ♪ son, she said ♪ ♪ have i got a little story for you ♪