The Seattle sound. Flannel shirts. Rejecting conformity. Embracing dirty hair. What is "grunge"? Join us this week as we dive into a couple of grunge songs (and make some interesting connections to musical influence on the grunge scene).

SONGS:

Silverchair: Tomorrow (Australian version, 1995)

Nirvana: Turnaround (1990)

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

Hey Millennials, Grunge Was Never A Movement. It Was Never A Genre. Get Over Yourselves. (Thought.is)

Silverchair - Tomorrow - Live on MTV Awards 1995 (YouTube)

Why Nirvana’s label originally hated ‘In Utero’ (Far Out)

Tomorrow music video - U.S. version (YouTube)

Silverchair – Tomorrow: the song that blew open Australian rock (The Guardian)

Devo: Turn Around (1980)

Turnaround Live (1990)

Flashback: Nirvana Cover Devo's 1980 Obscurity "Turn Around" (Rolling Stone)

LiveNirvana (Everything you never cared to learn about Nirvana)

The Lost Interview Guitar World (1993)

Musique Plus Interview (1991)

Devo: Clockout (1979)

Nirvana: Stay Away (1992)

We Are Legend: Devo (The Guardian)

Pitchfork Review of Incesticide (2018)

BBC Peel Sessions

The Folk Roots of Nirvana: Kurt Cobain's Love of Lead Belly and Beyond

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