To highlight how these older sounds influenced ’90s alternative rock bands, here are three grunge-era covers of classic songs. The Smashing Pumpkins’ cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide ...

These Metallica covers are on another level, and some are (debatably!) better than the original heavy metal tunes.

Soundgarden’s “Fell On Black Days”; Alice in Chains’ “Down in a Hole”; Pearl Jam’s “Black”; Nirvana’s cover of "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam.” Why were grunge artists ...