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I know who they are because of their semi-regular appearances on Almost Live back when I was on college. I couldn't pick them out of a crowd or name a song by them if my life depended on it.
Almost Live was a Saturday Night Live knockoff in Seattle and "Bill Nye the Science Guy" grew out of a regular skit Nye did for the show. Soundgarden members would sometimes appear in a skit called "The Lame List" where the announcer would ask whether something was cool or lame and heavy metal types would answer "Lame!" to everything until something really complex was asked and they'd just look stupidly at the camera. I didn't know who Soundgarden was at the time (living in Seattle at the tail end of grunge was not easy for a non-music person; when Cobain killed himself the UW campus went into paralysis and that was how I first heard of him) but they were the most famous of the local bands that would do it and I picked it up from comments of other watchers in the dorm.
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