Did you know that’s Flea playing bass on Alanis Morrisette’s acidic “You Oughta Know”? What a perfect microcosm of rock in the 90s, when the alternative became mainstream, aging mainstream sounds (like the power-pop fetishized by Teenage Fanclub) went underground, and a dirtbag like Anthony Kiedis decided he should start writing ballads about grief (and he was right!). Did Dinosaur Jr. foreshadow the burnout of endless online activism when they sang “I feel the pain of everyone, then I feel nothing”? Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep…