{"id":2687,"date":"2026-06-11T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:20:52","slug":"3-alternative-rock-ballads-that-every-90s-kid-will-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/3-alternative-rock-ballads-that-every-90s-kid-will-never-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Alternative Rock Ballads That Every 90s Kid Will Never Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We often have a preference for the music of our generation, because we absorbed those songs as we were coming of age. The music that got you through high school, a first love, a devastating breakup, or the general awkwardness and anxiety of growing up. The 1990s were no different, and here are three alternative rock ballads most Gen X-ers will never forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cFade Into You\u201d by Mazzy Star<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mazzy Star - Fade Into You (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ImKY6TZEyrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou live your life, you go in shadows,\u201d sings Hope Sandoval on \u201cFade Into You\u201d. The dreamy and dusty ballad remains a defining 90s tune. Adrift in sadness, Sandoval drifts between despair and hope. She\u2019s in and out of the shadows, losing herself in a partner. It\u2019s the comfort of being held, but also knowing how hard it is to stand alone. Sandoval, perfectly aloof, distills the spirit that guided Gen X culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fade into you,<br>Strange, you never knew<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cBlack\u201d by Pearl Jam<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pearl Jam - Black (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qgaRVvAKoqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Occasionally, when I hear Stone Gossard\u2019s opening chords of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/pearl-jam\/black\">\u201cBlack\u201d<\/a>, I look at my feet to see if I\u2019m wearing oxblood Dr. Martens and the year is 1991. I picture Eddie Vedder, in a brown corduroy jacket, shaking his hair and singing, \u201cDoo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo\u201d on <em>MTV Unplugged<\/em>. Vedder sings about letting go of an ex and the bitterness that lingers following a breakup. Coming out of the previous decade, rock ballads weren\u2019t typically this visceral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay,<br>Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.<br>All five horizons revolved around her soul,<br>As the earth to the sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cDown In A Hole\u201d by Alice In Chains<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole (Official HD Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f8hT3oDDf6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Neil Young had pioneered grunge when he and Crazy Horse turned up the volume of country music. And the DNA of Young\u2019s earsplitting Americana remained decades later when grunge broke in the 1990s. \u201cDown In A Hole\u201d is a descendant of his electric folk. It features Layne Staley\u2019s emotional howls, translating Jerry Cantrell\u2019s relationship anxiety into a universal plea to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Down in a hole and I don\u2019t know if I can be saved,<br>See my heart, I decorate it like a grave.<br>Oh, you don\u2019t understand who they thought I was supposed to be.<br>Look at me now, a man who won\u2019t let himself be<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Gie Knaeps\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often have a preference for the music of our generation, because we absorbed those songs as we were coming of age. The music that got you through high school, a first love, a devastating breakup, or the general awkwardness and anxiety of growing up. 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