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
- it s a tough time to grow up in, 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 haia
[wind blowowing] [birds c chirping] [dogog whining]] - mymy name is j jared jacob, anand my fatheher is jerryry jerome j jacobson. [dramatitic music] - come h here, boy. come here. bailey, come h her. - i i grew up inin miami, flf. once my momom got divovorcd from him,, uh, hehe cut all t ties. i was s three yearars old whwhen they gogot divorcede. soso this is a a picture o oe asas a baby wiwith my dadd and my m mom s dad.. my mom c called and had d him arreststed fofor back chihild support whenen i was 13,3, and ththat s when n he popped on thehe radar. that s s when i rereally metm fofor the firsrst time. during t the summer,r, i wowould go flyly up to atla and go spepend, yoyou know, three oror four weekeks up t there with h him, kikind of getttting to knonowm a little b bit. i bebelieve he w was livingg withth alison. this is actually a picture of the wedding party whenen my dad anand linda got marrrried. that s my y mom in thehe pice with me e and him. i think k it
and ththis pressurure was s building u up especially in the music industry for something that actually spoke to them. this is the first american generation that will make less than your 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 - kurt cobain was a great songwriter, with this ability to scream. almost in tune. it just t gave an inintensity that w was really unique. - i killed you i m not gonna crack - nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audidience. so, s start lookiking for the peopople with the clothes with the holes in the knees. and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. - i would go to clubs and see bands like cat butt, and bands s like screaeaming tr, and d it was such a refefreshing chchane from the competitive, sort of la, hollywood 80s.