1. Alanis Morissette felt embarrassed after it was pointed out that the situations in her song "Ironic" weren't really ironic.

2. The female voice heard moaning at the beginning of Garbage's "#1 Crush" (the remixed Nellee Hooper version from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack) is actually Madonna's. The vocals were sampled from Madonna's song "Bedtime Story," which Hooper also co-produced.

3. Filter's lead singer, Richard Patrick, wrote "Take a Picture" about the time he got blackout drunk and naked on a plane.

4. Oasis's "Live Forever" was written as an optimistic retort to Nirvana's "I Hate Myself and Want to Die."

5. Hole's "Malibu" is about Kurt Cobain's stay at a rehab clinic in Malibu.