An in-depth exploration of a seminal moment in DC music history (circa 1976 to 1984) and the rise of harDCore. The film is made up of a mix of rare archive material, conversational interviews, and a collage editing style. Features early DC punk and hardcore bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Slickee Boys, The Faith and more.
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good.
it goes back earlier than i would expect (years pre-dischord) and has lots of great footage you wouldn't think existed.
it hints at revolution summer but instead of covering it it ends on a down note which i thought was pretty weird choice.
if any of the sentences in this review mean anything to you you'd probably enjoy this.
Has a lot of the same strengths and weaknesses these docs on music scenes tend to have. Top heavy, loses focus, some of the best parts are learning about the bands that everyone loved but never recorded anything, looking at you The Enzymes. You can tell the filmmakers really wanted to focus on the pre-Fugazi era as I'm fairly certain Fugazi is never mentioned and the closest we get is ending with some Rites of Spring. There's also this interesting thing going on with memory and time and hearing some of the same stories that have been told countless times in magazine interviews, books and other documentaries and how here the edges have been rounded off. Distance has occurred. Ian…
Документалка с громоздким названием о хардкор-сцене Вашингтона до появления Fugazi интересна с исторической точки зрения, но куча лайвов однообразных групп с быстрыми песнями утомляет. Облегчение наступает только на финальных титрах, где звучит лайв Rites of Spring, фактически единственная мелодичная композиция за весь фильм. Понравилась сцена, где вокалист-укурок Bad Brains говорит, что Иэн Маккей был очень правильный стрейтэджер, даже несколько месяцев с ним не общался, поэтому он с его братом дружил, а Маккей вскидывает брови в духе "разве? не помню такого". И Генри Роллинз, конечно, живчик. Забыл, что до калифорнийцев Black Flag он драл глотку в Вашингтоне во главе румяных сопляков SOA.
A good reminder that it is cool to give a shit about the community around you! Also, hearing about Void playing the Odd Fellows Hall in Towson is funny.
Dc punks > NY punks
Je comprends pas le point, de, faire un film punk à la manière d'un reportage Télé-Québec qui erait le mercredi soir juste après le reportage sur les semences de tomates et la Semaine verte. Bad Brains et Minor Threat luttaient justement contre le système politique inéquitable et... l'art grand marché et structuré. Je m'attendais vraiment à un film à la Replay qui joue sincèrement avec le footage afin de créer quelque chose d'esthétique et documentaire. Pas à des entrevues répétitives avec les anciens membres des groupes qui se remémorent leurs souvenirs de jeunesse vécus à LaChoppe (version D.C) en répétant he asked me to the band and I said, yes! ou we didn't care if we sucked! Pis c’était pas ces membres-là le problème ni leurs interventions, mais l’axe qu’on leur a demandé de prendre. Ils avaient tellement plus à nous dire...
A worthy time capsule from an unexpected place and an influential chapter in punk history, from the Bad Brains PMA philosophy to Minor Threat's straight edge lifestyle anthem to the DiY Dischord ethos, it is conventional talking head format from the usual suspects (H.R. Rollins, Mackaye, etc.) who lived it and experienced it, to lo-fi footage, but it does transcends its moment in time, its influence and contribution on punk music and way of life, although it comes off and feels niche, that it seems to resist a universal blanket for those unfamiliar perhaps.
It did get me to get up this morning, to dust and blast ''Out of step" and Bad Brains live version of "How low can a punk get" and that's saying something.
directors mansplained bluegrass to me but if we separate art from artist it was so awesome
i wanna be at a live show so FUCKING bad bro
shoutout to the guy in the theater who kept randomly shouting out things throughout the doc. really gave me the authentic punk scene experience.
Lots of great footage and really encapsulates what makes the DC music scene unique.
Learnt that DC punk starts earlier than I thought but kinda wish the doc went further. It’s ends before revolution summer and kinda wish they talked about current bands.
a must watch if you live in dc
