anand nirvanaa and kukurt cobain,n, in particular, reflect that 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 honeymoooon s over.. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. - unskinny bop just blows me away - mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. - unskinny bop - ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, you re getetting a a lot of haiair bands. you ve gotot poison, r ra
what you thought was your daddy - bands like nirvana, pearl jam they wanted no part of the music-industry machine, and yeyet, there t they were: on mtv,, on the charts, selling millions of records. - still alive i m still alive hey oh, i m still alive it s a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. [laughs] we re used to playing small clubs, you know. and we wanna go back to playing small clubs. [electric guitar chords] - alternative rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona, on thursday night. it s a multi-act package called the lollapalooza tour. - you want to open up when someone says lighten up you find all your doors closed 1991, we were the first band on stage at t the first e ever lollapapa,
and i was on the crest of the wave. it s lilike rain on your wedding day it s a free ride when you ve already paid - ironic was really funny because what she was talking about wasn t t ironic atat all, but she became one of the biggest stars of the mid- 90s, and i think, out of that, you get not just alanis morisette, but the idea of, like, you know what, there s lots of other wowomen mamaking musicic too. and let s s celebrate e all of. - ththe latest t trend in r rock n rololl: women. last night, some of the top female artists took the stage to launch lilith fair. it is a series of summer concerts rocking the world and shattering misconceptions. - a lot of the summer festivals are very male-dominated, and i just thought that wasn t at all a representation of all the music that was out there. so this is sort of a, you know, a way to even the scales a little bit. - i went to the doctor i went to the mountains i looked to the children i drank from the mo