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Better than you might think.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Who saw it?

I saw it last night. It started out like every other blah VH1/whatever thing, crowning VU and the New York Dolls as punk progenitors, but it charmed its way into my heart. I liked seeing Jim Jarmusch and Mary Harron in there. Rollins is always sort of weird/funny/weird. He sort of reminds me of hstencil, in a weird way, in terms of approach.

It made me dig out X-Ray Spex and Richard Hell stuff that I haven't listened to for a while.

Would I like The Pop Group?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

so...James Chance had a stroke?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I saw this. It was OK even if it glosses over what came after. Jello got faaaaaaaaattttttttt

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

and queeny.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

i didn't see this. listen to a pop group song! "we are time"

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

thanks, sleep!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

i like the poop group

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

that hit the spot

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

that Pop Group track is great, but i wouldn't suggest getting "How Long Will We Tolerate Mass Murder". it loses all the great dub aspects and trades it for super claustrophobic noise. i rarely listen to it. still have yet to hear all of "Y".

― Dickset! Dickset! Disckset! (jaxon), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

errrr, nice name, btw!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

The Pop Group were great, and seeing that clip in that movie was awesome. I wrote about that movie on some other threads...some great stuff, Screamers, Alice Bag, Marco Pirroni etc. The chronology is a bit weird, they follow up ny and are talking about post-punk then The Beastie Boys doing Fight before they even mention west coast punk. Then they show Agnostic Front dude say "they think punk stopped in 82" and Thurston says "they think punk stopped in 82 and nothing happened untill Nirvana" and clearly Agnostic Front dude want to talk about how great the 80s CBs hardcore scene was and Thurston's talking about the great american underground of the 80s the led to Nirvana...but Letts takes them at face value and indeed skips from 82 to Nirvana. Then goes onto Blink 182.

Bonus footage on DVD is good but infuriating, adding stuff cut from the interviews pertinent to a million themes, but often including the stuff you've already seen, and by the 12th time you've seen Rollins make the same joke you want to kill yourself.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the Screamers looked great! I have never heard of them before. The Agnostic Front guy and Dick Manitoba made me laugh. They gave good East Coast.

I have a copy of "We Got The Neutron Bomb" which has sat on my bookshelf for about two years. Should I read it?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

I seemed to identify with Captain Sensible more that ANY of the other 500 people interviewed. I'd love to have a pint with that guy.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Then they show Agnostic Front dude say "they think punk stopped in 82" and Thurston says "they think punk stopped in 82 and nothing happened untill Nirvana" and clearly Agnostic Front dude want to talk about how great the 80s CBs hardcore scene was and Thurston's talking about the great american underground of the 80s the led to Nirvana...but Letts takes them at face value and indeed skips from 82 to Nirvana. Then goes onto Blink 182.

yeah, it BARELY touched on american post-punk and didn't talk about uk post-punk/d.i.y. at all, which was odd given how uk-centric the first part was.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

rollins was actually funny in this. it's like he stopped being a bonehead and learned to embrace the gayness within.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

totally!

"pectoral muscles"

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Also, watching Alan Vega made me think of
http://findcoolmovies.com/coversus/warrio.jpg

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

so...James Chance had a stroke?

I wondered that same thing.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

"I have a copy of "We Got The Neutron Bomb" which has sat on my bookshelf for about two years. Should I read it?"

You should, it's a nice companion piece to "Please Kill Me".

― Camtron (Cameron), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

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