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Study Guide - School of Rock: Alt Rock's Evolution

Artist Song
Portishead  Sour Times  
No Doubt  Just a Girl  
Smash Mouth  Walkin' on the Sun  
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones  The Impression That I Get  
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy  You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)  
Beck  Where It's At  
Whiskeytown  16 Days  
Fiona Apple  Criminal  
Eels  Novocaine for the Soul  
Elliott Smith  Angeles  
Ben Folds Five  Brick  
Sarah McLachlan  Building a Mystery  
Marilyn Manson  The Beautiful People  
Moby  Bodyrock  
Foo Fighters  Learn to Fly  

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Alt rock ruled the ’90s as thoroughly as Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq. Fact is, by the decade’s midpoint, it [i]was[/i] the mainstream, having flattened what had come before as completely as a nuclear blast. In this newly fertile landscape, all sorts of hybrids sprang up — alt country and alt metal, trip-hop and Britpop. But the [i]rock[/i] part of alt rock continued to be the sun of this solar system, with the various subgenres orbiting around it.

Fans spent countless hours in their darkened bedrooms, tripping on the surreal sounds of Radiohead’s [i]OK Computer[/i], Beck’s [i]Odelay[/i], Portishead’s [i]Dummy[/i], and Wilco’s [i]Being There[/i]. They also tore it up on the dance floor, bouncing to third-wave ska, jitterbugging to big-band swing, and raving to electronica.
The scene got so big that it had its own Woodstock festival, 30 years after the first one — so big that female artists mounted their own traveling fest, Lilith Fair. It was only a matter of time before [i]alterna
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