4 STORIES
1991 · 90S
SEATTLE, USA
Eddie Vedder wrote "Alive" as a curse, not an anthem: a half-autobiographical story about a boy who discovers his father was never his fathe…
1991 · 90S
SEATTLE, USA
"Black" is a first-love wound set to music — the sound of a man realising that the woman who shaped him is going to go on and build a beauti…
1991 · 90S
SEATTLE, USA
The riff everyone air-guitars at weddings and sports bars is actually a portrait of a homeless man freezing on a Seattle sidewalk, unable to…
1991 · 90S
RICHARDSON, TEXAS, USA
"Jeremy" is about a real fifteen-year-old boy in suburban Dallas who shot himself in front of his English class in January 1991 — and the so…