Sean Nelson is a writer and musician, known widely as the lead singer of the band Harvey Danger, whose 1998 single “Flagpole Sitta” became a staple of “alternative rock” radio and MTV and an inescapable earworm in 90s pop culture. In Part One of this conversation, we talk about what “alternative” means, tracing a line from the 1960s psychedelic culture that produced insane shit like the Monkees movie Head (1968) to the Seattle scene that drew Sean and many others in the early 1990s.

Check out Part Two of our conversation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-353-part-79010461