so-called "rain city renaissance," with the emergence of noisy, punk-metal, grunge rock: bands like soundgarden i'm feeling ♪ ♪ i'm feeling outshined ♪ ♪ outshined, outshined ♪ ♪ outshined ♪ - why don't you tell me the biggest misconception 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 what grunge is." - tell me a little bit about the seattle music scene. - 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 ♪ ♪ 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. - ♪ still alive ♪ ♪ i'm still alive ♪ ♪ hey ♪ ♪ oh, i'm still alive ♪ it's a little bit overwhelming to see this ma