Nineties alternative... to what?

This is the kind of stuff that got me into music in the first place. 1996 was my year, and I spent a lot of my childhood recording songs off the radio onto cassette tapes. I think that a lot of naysayers would claim that '90s alternative rock killed classic rock or whatever. But it's all a reaction to hair metal, among other things.

Enough analysis. On with the music. Here are a few videos that meant a lot to me in middle school:













That's enough nostalgia for one post. But, fifteen years later (!) this stuff still sounds great to me.