Search & Destroy - Music DVDs...

Bjork Royal Opera House concert - a wonderful performance and incredible 5.1 used more as art than ambience. Plus closeups of Matmos at work.

Neil Young In Berlin for sheer weirdness (Trans tour).

Pulp's collection which has the "Help the Aged" video, which is what I base my life on.

The Bjork disc is terrific (in addition to the Gondry vids, it has Nick Knights "Pagan Poetry" and other fantastic stuff).

Saint Etienne - Smash the System will make you happy.

GALAXIE 500
DON'T LET OUR YOUTH GO TO WASTE (1987-1991)
2-Disc DVD Set

2-disc DVD set with over 3 1/2 hours of live performances including unreleased songs, their entire music video collection, a never-before-seen UK television performance with filmed interview, as well as a deluxe booklet containing interviews with all three band members by James McNew of Yo La Tengo.

Street date: June 29, 2004

"Galaxie 500 could be one of the most influential bands to emerge from the late-80's independent rock scene." Karen Schoemer, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Galaxie 500 made some of the starkest, most beautiful, American underground music of the past decade." - MELODY MAKER

"Galaxie 500 is a wintry opiate. A hypnotic open loop of gentle drums, a bass that becalms like a mother's finger to her lips, and a guitar that drifts purposefully from languid to leveling. A voice singing high and strange. Sounds like love (lost) in a cool snap."
Pat Blashill, SPIN

Establishing itself as the independent leader in music DVDs with such highly-acclaimed releases as I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART (named by ROLLING STONE as one of the top ten rock concert movies) and the legendary graffiti/hip hop film STYLE WARS, Plexifilm is following suit with Galaxie 500's DON'T LET OUR YOUTH GO TO WASTE (1987-1991), a comprehensive two-disc visual document spanning the career of one of indie rock's most influential and beloved bands.

A compendium of all their music videos, a TV appearance, and an archive of over 40 songs performed live, DON'T LET OUR YOUTH GO TO WASTE includes a performance of an unreleased original song "Buzz in My Head" and a live version of Jonathan Richman's "Back in Your Life," both of which were never recorded or released in any other form. The deluxe booklet contains photos and an interview with all three members, Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang conducted by Yo La Tengo's James McNew.

DON'T LET OUR YOUTH GO TO WASTE (1987-1991) is a four-hour visual document of Galaxie's ethereal performances as well as their entire career. It has countless live songs culled from eight shows, including two tracks which are exclusive to this DVD. From fan footage to professionally-produced segments, the concerts have been compiled from over 40 hours of performances, starting from an early local show at the Middle East in Boston in 1988, to a full set at a November 1990 concert at the University of London. The NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS raved about a concert, "Galaxie 500 are the world's premier softness trio. Live they leave you stunned."

The first disc contains all four of their videos, directed by friend and photographer Sergio Huidor as well as segments taken from five concerts--from early local performances in Boston to 1990 west coast tour dates--which all came from the band's personal collections. It is rounded out with a performance and interview for UK television, taken at the band's peak in popularity.

The second disc, or "Bootlegs" disc, has two full concerts from 1990: the first in Atlanta and the second in London, both shot by audience members. After receiving tapes by a call-out to fans from around the world, the band curated all the footage and picked what best captured their career.

ABOUT GALAXIE 500:
One of the most important rock groups of the 80s and 90s, before the word "alternative" became industry jargon, Galaxie 500 blended a unique celestial sound with the American rock 'n' roll minimalism of such underground icons as The Velvet Underground as well as referencing the rock canon with frequent nods to The Beatles. Formed in 1987 by three high school friends who all ended up at Harvard together, Galaxie 500's trademark reverb-drenched sonic daydream made possible by producer and Shimmy Disc label owner Kramer established them as one of the great unsung American bands. After their debut record, TODAY, released on Boston microlabel Aurora, the band was commercially overlooked stateside, but across the Atlantic it was another story. With such adulatory proclamations the likes of "Galaxie 500 transcend transcendence" (MELODY MAKER) the band signed to U.K. label Rough Trade which released their brilliant follow-up, ON FIRE.

Again championed by the British press (SOUNDS called the record "utter magnificence" and MELODY MAKER, "a stunning collection of daydream pop") the band naturally went across the pond to tour. Following incessant European touring, their subsequent album was THIS IS OUR MUSIC, a reference to Ornette Coleman's eponymous jazz album recorded exactly 30 years earlier. The trio again embarked on another tour of Europe with an appearance at the giant Glastonbury Music Festival in the U.K. Poised to take rock by storm, this proved to be their last album, the group disbanding in 1991. Dean subsequently formed Luna with members of The Feelies and The Chills and recently released an album of duets with Britta Phillips on Jetset records. Damon and Naomi continued to write and record together as the duo "Damon & Naomi", first for Kramer's Shimmy Disc label and since then for Sub Pop Records. They have also recorded with the Japanese band Ghost, the Boston underground band Magic Hour, and Tom Rapp from the 60s acid-folk group Pearls Before Swine.

DVD DETAILS:

DISC 1: (approx. 130 minutes)

MUSIC VIDEOS - 4 music videos directed by Sergio Huidor
-Tugboat
-When Will You Come Home
-Blue Thunder
-Fourth of July

UK TELEVISION, London
February 9, 1990
-Tell Me
-Strange
-Here She Comes Now (Cale/Morrison/Reed/Tucker)
-Interview with the band

LIVE ARCHIVE - 20 songs from 5 shows

1) Middle East, Cambridge, Massachusetts
March 19, 1988
-Oblivious
-I Can't Believe It's Me
-Back in Your Life* (Richman)
-Buzz in My Head*

*Both have never been released.

2) Commonwealth School, Boston, Massachusetts
April 21, 1989
-Tugboat
-Temperature's Rising
-When Will You Come Home

3) Kennel Club, San Francisco, California
March 28, 1990
-Flowers
-Blue Thunder
-Decomposing Trees

4) Club Lingerie, Hollywood, California
March 30, 1990
-Snowstorm
-Plastic Bird
-Victory Garden (Cunningham/Thompson)
-Pictures
-Ceremony (Curtis/Hook/Morris/Sumner)

5) Kennel Club, San Francisco, California
October 15, 1990
-Summertime
-Spook
-Hearing Voices
-Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste (Richman)
-Melt Away

DISC 2: (approx. 100 minutes)

BOOTLEGS - Two full concerts from 1990

The Point, Atlanta, Georgia
January 26, 1990
-Decomposing Trees
-Pictures
-Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste (Richman)
-Blue Thunder
-Plastic Bird
-When Will You Come Home
-Ceremony (Curtis/Hook/Morris/Sumner)

ULU (University of London), London, England
November 15, 1990
-Fourth of July
-Hearing Voices
-Summertime
-Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste (Richman)
-Spook
-When Will You Come Home
-Sorry
-Melt Away
-Listen the Snow is Falling (Ono)
-Blue Thunder
-Here She Comes Now (Cale/Morrison/Reed/Tucker)

For some reason, I was quite disappointed by the Wilco documentary. I felt like it documented neither the record-making process or the label relationship well, and the strongest parts were the live bits. It was well-made as a film, but not as a story.

Destroy: The Felt dvd cuz they are my favorite band and the sound is horrible and the picture is even worse. I find it hard to believe that this is the ONLY video footage of them live. Very sad.

I want to get that Slade movie that I saw advertised, and someone has to come out with a complete Marc Show dvd so that I can die happy.

destroy Pink Floyd-Live at Pompei...where the director changes the title fonts, adds new "stock" footage. You can watch the "original concert film" with the original titles and no extra footage, but they edit out the interview and Dark Side recording segments.

destroy The Fall-Perverted By Language Bis...where Cherry Red does a shitty job with the transfer and puts out a DVD that doesn't look as good as my old IKON Fall VHS

and yeah...I have New Order Substance on VHS...it's an absolute classic, can't believe it's not on DVD yet. Worth it for the Bizarre Love Triange interlude alone.

- the brazilian prince sign of the times concert thing which is cheap (do not belive the hating audio/videophiles, it sounds and looks fine, or, it's so good that it doesn't matter that lots of it looks like a third generation vhs tape.)
- roxy music live at the apollo (which i'll never shut up about)
- pet shop boys' pop art
- cheap trick's music for hangovers
- talking heads' stop making sense
- the aforementioned bjork opera house thing and bjork video collection

Quite, quite so.

Spencer inadvertantly made me sad because I misplaced my Pulp DVD some months back before I could even watch it, and now I don't know where it is. :-(

It's not on DVD yet, but the 2 1/2 hour New Order Story doc is great. I have a VHS version. It has most of the videos on it.

The Ted Leo disc is OK, but probably not worth watching more than once.

i'd like the St Etienne one as well. and "Watch Me Jumpstart". and i'd like to see a comp of Yo La Tengos vids too (i can live without live footage as a rule...)

Please note: these items were viewed without the aid of 5.1 surround sound, which might make them seem really fantastic.

that Galaxie 500 release is approaching release date...

Who thinks it will be worthwhile? or more like "don't let my cash go to waste"?

Any idea on quality of the disc 2 bootleg videos?

Spike's videos = one idea, let's do it.

Gondry's videos = one idea, let's think, more ideas, Is that even possible? How far can we go ---> more ideas.

Just wanna say again that the Incredible String Band thing I bought which was a never-aired BBC film from 1969 is great. Apparently it played in movie theatres once upon a time. It's too short, but I love it. I could watch live footage of them forever.

lightning bolt - the power of salad and milkshakes
friends forever
interstella 5555

i fcken love that new sign o the times 'boot'.
its german so i think it may differ from the '3rd generation' ones mentioned upthread/criticised over on other threads. the sound
on this new one is ace. get it from FOPP for a tenner.