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♪ 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 nirvana's 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 don't think kurt was too happy about that. he always had that conflict between wanting to maintain that punk authenticity and also wanting to be popular. ♪ rape me ♪ >> the starmaking m...

>> with all the attention, no one's ever asked us that before. >> we've never heard that question. so tell me about the seattle sound? what's going on up there? >> what's 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, i'm still alive ♪ ♪ i, oh, i'm still alive ♪ >> it's a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. we're used to playing small clubs. y...

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. that's what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto up out of me, though. >> it's 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 it's pretty ironic that most people related to it. >> boom, there it is, platinum record. >> country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. >> the honeymoon's over. now we're getti...

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. it's a tough time to grow up in. and i think the band and kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ >> kur...

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. ♪ i'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me ♪ >> beck is defining what's happening now with that mesh of styles. he's mixing electronic, country, rap, rock and roll, everything. everythi...