see, this is the brilliance of the show. i say always keep them running. all the time running. run. run. run, yasmine, run like the wind. imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones would shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling, killing. that's what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me, though. >> it's a great time to grow up. kurt cobain and nirvana reflect the angst. >> it's pretty ironic that most people responded to it. >> boom. country music has taken over the air waves and the record charts. >> the honeymoon over. now we're getting down to real commerce. >> aren't these girls just crazy? >> yeah, they are.

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occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. you may want to know mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. ♪ rock just bloes me away >> mtv makes the hits. it's as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. >> ending the '80s in terms of rock music, you're getting a lot of hair bands. you have poison, rat. ♪ she's my cherry pie cool drink of water ♪ ♪ such a sweet surprise ♪ tastes so good make a grown man cry ♪ ♪ sweet cherry pie >> a lot of hairspray going on, sexually suggestive lyrics, not particularly deep music, but mtv is pushing it and they're selling. >> i'd turn on mtv all the rock bands looked a certain way, played a certainly music, expected to have a certain facade. >> those who watch, mostly teenagers and young adults buy a

lot of records, tapes and cds and they boy the most of what they see the most. >> recently, two members of the heavy metal band aerosmith dropped by mtv's offices to screen their new video and brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. >> the record companies would submit videos every monday. and then we would have our music meeting and look at the videos and decide who was get put into the new rotation. i was a 21-year-old kid that loved punk rock and quickly realized that the music they were playing just wasn't what i was into. when the new nirvana video was delivered to mtv, i was completely blown away. i said, listen, they really are incredible and we need to give them a shot, and if it doesn't work, then you can push me out of the music meeting. >> tonight's world premiere video from the seattle band nirvana. smells like teen spirit. ♪

>> it was like the musical kennedy assassination of our time. everybody who was alive then can tell you the moment they heard that song. because nothing like that existed to that point. it was really transcendent. ♪ hello hello ♪ here we are now ♪ entertainers >> here we are now, entertainers. sounded like a threat. sounded like a different generation coming in and saying, what do you have for us? what are you going to do for us? ♪ when i'm bad >> 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 kirk cobain in particular reflect that angst. ♪ yeah yeah >> kurt cobain was a great songwriter with an ability to

scream almost in tune. it just gave an intensity that was really unique. ♪ i kill you i'm not gonna crack ♪ >> nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audience. so start looking for the people 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 the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a./hollywood '80s and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. >> one of the biggest music biz stories these day is the so-called rain city renaissance with emergence of noisy grunge rock with sounds like sound garden, alice in chains and pearl jam from seattle, washington.

♪ outshined outshined ♪ >> why don't you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybody's a grunge band. >> all of these bands 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, no one's ever asked us that before. >> never heard that question. >> so tell me about the seattle sound. what's going on up there? >> what's in the water? ♪ son she said are 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 i'm still alive ♪ hey i oh i'm still alive

>> it's a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. we're used to playing small clubs, you know. and we want to go back to playing small clubs. ♪ >> primitive rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona, on thursday night it's a multipacked tour called lollapalooza tour. ♪ all your crossroads >> 1991, we were the first band onstage at the first-ever lollapalooza. which was a tremendous thing for my band and i. >> lollapalooza is cool. >> the idea that you could get these important and popular bands from the underground, like jane's addiction, nine inch nails, soundgarden, red hot

chili peppers and get them all together. it felt like a really new idea. >> by the mid-'90s it was already parodied by "the simpsons." >> oh. like woodstock only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. >> it is in the american lexicon. >> the commercial culture co-opted the counterculture. >> the honeymoon's over. now we're getting down to real commerce and there's a sort of disillusionment going on. >> since i got everything i wanted i could put a zero after the number of record sales i've had. i could play 200 seat halls instead of 2,000 seat halls and i could be on mtv 1,000 times rather than once a month. thought i'd reach the goals and find some sort of peace and i didn't. i'm more miserable now than i ever was. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> the star-making machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, because kurt's on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- it's been really damaging to us, to tell you the truth. it's really affected my personal life a lot. [ applause ] >> i was in the front row of the unplugged performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didn't play the hits. those songs were chosen for a particular reason. ♪ my girl my girl ♪ don't lie to me tell me when did you sleep last night ♪ >> i remember watching him play the cover of a ledbelly song "where did you sleep last

night." it was emotional for me because i love nirvana and i felt a connection to kurt cobain and even when i was young i was so worried about him. ♪ my girl my girl >> in that era, the speculation of kurt's not doing well. kurt has drug problems. and nirvana unplugged was this kind of thing, like, the clouds part, you know. and it seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ night through >> from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. >> the lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington, today. >> it didn't come as a major surprise, but it was devastating because of the way it happened. >> i pulled over and i was like there for 20 minutes to half an hour, just crying right there. i just don't understand it is all. >> i think he was the closest that his generation came to a

john lennon. >> yes. >> in that he was writing very much from the heart, directly, and he didn't play according to the rules. >> i was 16 when that happened. and if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. it certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band be fell apart after only making a couple records. you know, what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, the verve, it was like the hangover of grunge. my head's pounding. this has been insane. let's turn on oasis ♪ and after all you're my wonder wall ♪ >> they were the opposite of nirvana because they wanted fame.

no matter how big they were, they wanted to be bigger. >> we know we're the best band in the country. simple as that. it's that simple. >> the thing about oasis in a way they have no kind of, no false modesty. >> how can anybody go we're the -- it's like -- anybody's who's got the balls to do that is good in my book. ♪ ♪ that i'm a creep >> "creep" came out in the early '90s. that was as much of an alt rock hit as any of the nirvana songs or pearl jam songs, but it was hardly extraordinary. >> inevitably, the first song that becomes a hit everybody caricatures the band from that. we have to wait and see whether we have a chance to prove we're not just that. >> okay. ♪ >> i remember vividly listening to radio head's next record, "the bends" nonstop and i would just seriously geek out on every part, the bass line, the percussion, every tiny little nuance.

♪ don't leave me ♪ don't leave me dry >> this week the band release aid new album that has critics chirping with praise, too. ♪ >> "okay computer" is like "dark side of the moon" of the '90s. it really showed this is going to be the defining band of the next 25 years. ♪ >> you could tell the whole story of the evolution of what came out of grunge through radio head, and what came out of alternative through beck. ♪ in the time of chimpanzees i was a monkey ♪ ♪ into >> i was always interested in hip-hop. this sort of nonlinear 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 'n' roll, everything, everything. he's throwing the kitchen sink in. ♪ >> out of the ashes of nirvana dave grohl created the foo fighters. >> this is the first time i had actually fronted a band, stood up and sing charismatic, which i can't do, but i need to just keep playing and making music. ♪ looking to the sky to save me looking for a sign ♪ ♪ looking for something to help me turn out right ♪ 4. >> in an era where everything was serious, a heavy tone, especially after kurt cobain's death, the foo fighters create a

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the down home music that was once the preserve of cowboys and rednecks is well on its way to becoming the sound of the '90s. >> one of the things overlooked by all of this rock 'n' roll explosion going on was country music. these acts were putting out good music, they were touring

constantly around the country and building up a fan base. ♪ blame it all on my roots ♪ i showed up in boots and ruined your black tie affair ♪ >> when they asked people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. are you surprised by that? >> yes, sir. i guess my family knew they were going to be asking the questions and got there before they did ♪ i got friends in low places where the whisky drowns and the beer chases my blues away ♪ >> living in mississippi, country was a huge part of my life, and it was all because of garth brooks. the first time i ever saw him in concert, i was probably 10 or 11 years old. ♪ to the oasis >> i said, that is exactly what i want to do. >> garth brooks is the biggest selling artist of the decade and the fastest selling musical artist ever. >> he's been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. he's got the looks of a cowboy

and the moves of a rock 'n' roll star. >> it sounded like rock 'n' roll, guitars and big drums and everybody singing along. that's what people liked about rock shows. >> as the acts became maybe less twangy that expanded their audience. artists like george strait or brooks & dunn, plenty of acts worked their way up and became massive. >> over the last two years country music has taken over the airwaves and record charts with over $2 billion in sales and climbing. >> as the boom in the music takes hold, western wear dealers can't keep up with demand. >> you've got kids, a house payment and these people are more like you are than madonna is. ♪ is there life out there so much she hasn't done ♪ >> women in country was a huge thing in the '90s. reba mcentire, martina mcbride, the dixie chicks, shania twain. ♪ let's go girls >> i remember when shania twain

came out. i was very attracted to her. but found out i just wanted to be her best friend. ♪ best thing about being a woman is prerogative to have a little fun ♪ ♪ oh oh oh totally crazy >> in all fields in our society now women, i wouldn't say dominating, i think that they're just rising to their true place. ♪ i feel like a woman >> as things wore on, it became a great decade to be a girl ♪ >> after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, she exploded on to the music scene in 1993 with her album "tuesday night music club." ♪ all i wanna do is have some fun ♪ ♪ i got a feeling i'm not the only one ♪ >> radio has been so long in coming playing female artists.

so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. ♪ if it makes you happy >> female artists like sheryl crow or liz fair, even though had had success they were routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. >> there was not a lot of space in pop culture for a young women's thoughts, feelings, voices, respected or taken seriously. ♪ i'm just a girl >> there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani, super girly and kind of tough, and the front of a band of all these guys. ♪ that's all that you'll let me be ♪ >> i'm just a girl in the world and that's all that you'll let me be. it was like the middle finger up to of imguy that ever annoyed y. >> look who's here. alanis. >> ran into her. >> shopping, thought we'd take you with us. alanis has a brand new album, brand-new look, i noticed. >> i was dropped from mca

records after having made records through my teens. and my personal promise was i wouldn't stop until i wrote a record that really exemplified and nailed on the head what was truly going on for me. ♪ is she perverted like me would she go down with you in a theater ♪ >> like what did she say? women can say that? yeah, they could. she was sing being a relationship that had obviously gone wrong, but it wasn't this kind of nice, oh, my god, you left me, now i'm sad. this was rage at this man. you didn't hear that a lot from women. ♪ but i'm here to remind you ♪ ♪ of the mess you left when you went away ♪ ♪ it's not fair >> in america alone "jagged little pill" sells 50 million albums. it's alanis' moment. ♪ you you you oughta know ♪ >> over the last four years just learned how to write for my

own sxreenz write for myself. and it's pretty ironic that the moment i started doing that was the moment that most people related to it. ♪ an old man turned 98 ♪ >> you know, there's that ego centric tendency on my part and perhaps on everyone's part to think you're alone in your pain. i quickly realized i was not alone and that millions of other people were feeling along with me. people were tired of sublimating, being inauthentic about their real experience and conforming. so, i think there was this door that busted open and i was on the crest of the wave. ♪ it's like rain on your wedding day ♪ ♪ it's a free ride on your ♪ >> "ironic" was really funny because what she was talking about wasn't ironic at all. but she was one of the biggest stars of '90s.

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rap ♪ the police coming straight from the underground ♪ >> the group nwa is the harshest, most in your face of the gangsta-style rappers. one song blasts the police in the most obscene terms. >> they write the raps and then me and my boy get together and hook up a good beat we feel goes good with the rap. boom. there it is. platinum records. >> and it's the biggest hip-hop band there is at that point. >> first time i heard nwa, ice guy is all right but the rest of this is garbage. that was pretty much the attitude of most people initially of the hip-hop gang. ♪ dre step to the door >> the east coast felt kind of like, well, we invented hip-hop. you're not coming in as the new kid and the east coast is the home of hip-hop and always have a say where hip-hop goes. ♪ mad thinking about stomping >> you going to continue making

a lot of money off this? >> as long as it's violence, it's going to be rap music, g g gangster rap music or whatever. >> nwa was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. and the first person that walk as way is ice cube. ♪ they was trying to kill me >> the same reason ice cube left the group is the reason i left. tired of making other people money. it's my turn. ♪ tonight's the night i get in some ♪ >> suge knight who wasn't a real gangster got into cahoots with dr. dre and said, let's start our own record label, which became death row records. >> 6'3", 330-pound former body guard who has become one. most feared men in the music business. >> you go to dr. dre, makes peace better than anybody. this guy delivers a hit. >> dre put out his first solo album "the chronic." not only do you get dre but

then you get snoop dogg. ♪ snoop doggy dog >> oh, boy. snoop doggie dogg and dre -- at the door is crazy. they knocked the door down, baby. ♪ for baby >> 70% of rap music including gangsta rap was purchased by whites. >> growing up in st. paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought compton and south central must be the kooels places in the world based on this music. >> other music is more like a fairytale story where we could hear somebody else's history basically and understand where they're coming from. ♪ bow wow wow yippy yi yippy yea ♪ >> made it die guessable to everybody. it was a hip-hop tsunami. and we didn't see it coming. >> death row records is going to be the next motown, you know what i'm saying. it's going to be the foundation and we're going to keep rolling on until the house is finish. ♪ it's the bow to the wow and

snoop doggie dogg ♪ >> the handful of gangsta rap superstars are not just sing being being mean and nasty and vicious. they're accused of living up to their lyrics. ♪ all respect to those >> tupac shakur, rap star and movie star, was arrested in new york and charged with sodomy and sexual assault. atlanta cops arrested tupac less than a month earlier for shooting two off-duty police officers. >> tupac was languishing in jail waiting for his appeal when suge knight swooped in and basically offered to pay his bail if he signed a contract. >> death row, you will see. your art will pick up to a plateau and you will be paid one of these days. >> even though he was an east coast guy by birth, he's now rapping on the west coast with the big label out there, death row ♪ give me that from dre ♪ let me serenade the streets of l.a. ♪ ♪ from oakland the bay area

back down cali is where they put their neck down ♪ >> suge was trying to expand death row all over the country but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time? bad boy. >> freddie's here. >> oh, what up? >> what goes on. >> it's all good in the hood. >> sean "puffy" combs founded badboy and biggie smalls his marquee artist. they modeled their sound on death row in a way. kind of a gangsta rap for the east coast. ♪ jump in the river tell your friends to jump in nn i got the chronic by the trees ♪ ♪ i love you when you call me big pop ♪ throw your hands in the air ♪ >> i make music about what i know. know what i'm saying? if i worked in mcdonald's i'd have made rhymes about big macs and fries. brooklyn, i see hustling, i see kishlgs i see gam belg, i see

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rap star tupac shakur died last night after a brief life in a rough business. he was 25. >> shakur has been at the center of a battle between east and west coast rappers. >> for the second time in six months, a star in the often brutal world of gangsta rap has been gunned down. >> music industry sources on the west coast suspect that small's

death may in some way be payback for the september killing of rap star tupac shakur. >> when tupac and biggie were assassinated, a watershed moment i think in hip-hop culture. it was kind of death of a revolution. >> these two men were two of the most successful rap artists in the industry. phenomenally wealthy. why are we seeing this happen? >> well, both biggie smalls and tupac had talked about trying to break out of that violence, but many say they were trapped in the world they created. they were forced to keep it real, and that's a sad commentary. >> i remember seeing news reports how violent it was, remember seeing editorials, how can we let our children listen to this when these artists are killed at an incredible rate? and i thought rap was going to end. >> at least one radio station here in los angeles which made a lot of money from gangsta rap music has stopped playing it. >> we lost two of the greatest artists in hip-hop history. that vacuum was there for a while. it was just like, okay, what are we going to do? ♪ seems like yesterday we used to rock the show ♪

♪ i laid the track you locked the floor ♪ ♪ so far from hanging on the door ♪ >> "i'll be missing you" was diddy's song about b.i.g. suddenly it's like, oh, damn, puffy's going to be a legitimate solo act. and enters the next phase of hip-hop. ♪ every step i take >> there's sampling and then there's sampling. to take the "every breath i take" police sample and rap over it, puff daddy finds a way to appeal to young listeners and their parents. ♪ i'm coming >> everybody wants to party. ain't nothing wrong with partying at all. puff daddy built an empire out of it. ♪ >> the sound shifted and the use of samples exploded. mo money problems was a diana ross sample an older crowd could hear and say, that sounds familiar to me so maybe this

isn't all bad. >> and julio's gangster paradise a heavier song but the hook is so inviting and warm. ♪ a gangster's paradise >> hip-hop had hit a point where it had become mainstream and all of a sudden it starts appearing in other forms of music. there's this sort of rock/rap happening. there's hip-hop that can be found in pop music. ♪ harrison ford getting frantic ♪ >> there's r&b and rap mixing for new jack swing. ♪ the new jack swing in and around town doesn't give a ♪ >> teddy wily was the big new jack swing producer and he produced everybody. ♪ all i want to do is zoom zoom zoom boom boom ♪ >> he had rex and effect, he had his own group guy, he did heavy d. and the boys. it all had this kind of rhythm that made you have to dance.

♪ going to get down good lord ♪ >> new jack swing was someone that could sing with the level of stevie wonder with the great beat background of a public enemy, and marry those two. ♪ baby i can get you with my ride ♪ ♪ i like the way you work it ♪ >> "no diggity" is the masterpiece of the new jack era. >> hip-hop was a male-dominated music. seriously. like, women were thought, you're not sexy -- ah. get outta here. you're not shaking ass, get out of here. ♪ i wanted to take a minute or two to give respect to the man that made a difference in my world ♪ >> and female artists, not until salt 'n' pepa, and that blew the doors off of it ♪ what a man what a man what a mighty good man ♪ >> opened up the door, well, who else are females and can rap? oh, mc light.

♪ can i get a rock band ♪ i'm a woman >> oh, who's this queen latifah girl? ♪ here we go >> and later on, oh, who's this missy? ♪ oh missy try to maintain >> they were respected as artists. they didn't have to shake booty or wear low-cut blouse. they changed the way we viewed things ♪ i think the way >> to me the best two female emcees to come out of the '90s are missy elliott and >> something that's always been there. whether or not they got the, you know, the acknowledgement they should have, always been there. and just now maybe they'll truly be acknowledged. ♪ guys are only about that thing that thing ♪ ♪ that thing >> she sings, she raps. there's heartache involved. it's all encompassed in one

amazing piece of art. >> the miseducation of lauren hill. >> with her record-breaking fifth grammy win, lauryn hill echoed what many might have been thinking. >> this is crazy, because this is hip-hop music. know what i mean? >> she's going to be big, big -- well, she already is a big star. you get five grammys. >> a lot of people think she's going to redefine the connections between hip-hop, pop. ♪ hi, kids. do you want me to see nine inch nails into my eyelids ♪ >> em came, we sat back like this. what's this white boy doing? and then i really listened -- ♪ but i can't figure out which spice girl i want to ♪ impregnate ♪ >> i was like, whoa! >> ♪ slim shady ♪ you are basic >> and dre's behind it? he's in. he's in! >> he's not trying to be black. he's not pretending he has these great urban stories. he's telling his stories portraying lower middle class

white life, which hip-hop had not done before. i think that's why he was so appealing to so many people. >> the kids in america that always had a sufficient amount of money, and a different pair of clothes to wear to school each day of the week. those type of kids, they admire poor people that have nothing to lose. >> eminem saw the logical conclusion of 20-odd years of hip hop. and white kids now listening to hip-hop were now deciding we create our own thing. ♪ slim shady mini shadow palettes, new from maybelline new york. our purest color pigments inspired by the city. from concrete runway to rooftop bronzes. the city mini shadow palettes. make it happen. ♪ maybelline new york make it happen. stir up a rich creamy flavor. it can inspire you to stir up other things, too. like a new friendship. stir up commitment... with coffee-mate ice cream flavors.

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it's hot news for electronica, the techno dance genre touted as the next big musical thing. prodigy's new album enters the billboard pop chart at number one. ♪ >> up until the end of the '90s, dance music was just a deejay, it was a beat. then all of a sudden there's a face to it. the chemical brothers come up. >> this is very much the recycling age. is this music recycled? >> everything is second hand. you take things from different places and create something new with it. ♪ >> all of this stuff was going on at the same time. massive attack, moby, so you're seeing what we called

electronica which is edm, which is techno really started to kind of take hold beyond dance clubs. ♪ all these artists end up laying the seeds for what would become a pretty huge revolution of music. ♪ >> everybody's talking about them and they're headed to america. it started with the beatles and then the stones, well, move over, boy, and roll over beethov beethoven, the spice girls are coming. ♪ if you want to be my lover >> there's never been a group where every person had their own personality and every fan could choose a different one that they related to. and it was brilliant. ♪ taking this too easy ♪ but that's the way it is >> there needed to be some music to be the sorbet and the palate cleansing for the intensity of

the earlier part of the '90s. >> the recording industry doesn't need to be told that it's a teen/teen world. >> there's about to be more teenagers than any other time in america's history. teenagers wanted to be entertained. they wanted to have fun. ♪ even in my heart ♪ i see ♪ you're not being true to me >> the backstreet boys made a video for quit playing games with my heart. them in the rain, getting all wet, being all sexy. and it became a hit. ♪ quit playing games with my heart ♪ ♪ with my heart >> this is where it started right here, this house. on a recording machine i had. >> their manager lou perelman said i think i need another one of these. ♪ when we are apart ♪ i feel it too >> it was overwhelming to be,

you know, 16 years old and have tham people trying to attack you. it was craziness. and it felt like a dream. >> one by one the breathless few got their lucky autographs. most were missing school. many had mom as chaperones. >> all these people who would go on to be huge pop stars began on disney. so many people came out of the mickey mouse club. kerry russell, justin timberlake, christine aguilera, ryan gosling, britney spears. >> that's like the 1927 yankees in terms of pop. ♪ oh baby baby ♪ how was i supposed to know ♪ that something wasn't right here ♪ >> and britney has become their queen. ♪ not that innocent ♪ oops i did it again >> britney was the madonna

whereas christina was like the mariah. ♪ i'm a genie in a bottle >> christina, you know, very tiny girl, she's under 5 feet. when she opened her mouth, it was like this burst of like wind came through your hair. you were like, that voice is coming out of that girl? >> the end of the '90s is a really precarious strange time for music because mtv stops playing music videos and starts doing reality television programming which everyone is like, that's never going to take off. >> music would be as much or more in people's lives than it ever had been, but the economics of it would vanish. ♪ another turning point ♪ a fork stuck in the road ♪ time grabs you by the wrist ♪ directs you where to go >> the '90s represented being who you are.

this is the kind of music i'm going to make and i don't care who likes it and who doesn't like it, and i'm not going to sound like anybody else. this is who i am. >> people were starving for authenticity, they were starving for what the real experience was, the messy, chaotic, fallible experience of being human. and the '90s gave complete green light permission for that to be explored. >> you talk about this band a lot. oh, wait a minute. you can't talk about the '90s without this one and this one and this one, where there's so many monumental bands, one after another. that's the '90s. ♪ take the photographs in still frames in your mind ♪ ♪ hang it on a shelf and get up in good time ♪ ♪ for what it's worth ♪ it was worth all the while ♪ it's something unpredictable

♪ but in the end it's right ♪ i hope you had the time of your life ♪ >> that's all. in the '90s, we're going to revolutionize human communication using these desktop computers. >> you've got mail. >> what is the worldwide web? >> in the world of computers it's kill or be killed. >> please welcome bill gates. >> do you agree or disagree you that you have a monopoly? >> check out windows 95. >> this is imac. >> it's a technological revolution that's changing the way we do everything from making friends to falling in love. >> when the new millennium arrives so will a technological tidal wave.