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Probably the biggest attraction of "1991: The Year Punk Broke," is that it features Nirvana "before they got big." But posers beware, this movie has only a little Nirvana and a whole lot of Sonic Youth...
...Year Punk Broke" is an appropriately low budget tribute to the manic world of punk rock. The title comes from Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore's unwitting prophecy that "1991 will be the year that punk breaks through to mainstream American consciousness," a comment made on the verge of Nirvana's climb to rock superstardom...
...movie can basically be divided into two parts: concert footage and goofing off. The concert footage consists of approximately eight songs by Sonic Youth, four by Nirvana, two each by Dinosaur Jr. and Babes in Toyland and one each from Gumball and the Ramones...
...industrial policy debate here was settled long ago: the government coldly ushers fading industries like textiles offstage, and targets promising new ones like biotechnology with investment, grants and retraining of workers. Oddly in such a capitalist nirvana, the government owns scores of firms, from the telephone, electricity and airline companies to banks, supermarkets and taxis, but they all run on a competitive, profitmaking basis. Says a Western analyst: "Fortune 500 executives love it here because the government runs the country the way AT&T would...
...next four years fulfilling that promise. The songs here, happily, avoid the worst of the excess; the pleasantly catchy "An Elegant Chaos" captures the flavor of the period, and "Sunspots," Iyrically a doodle, is worth listening to if only to hear what a Jethro Tull flute solo over a Nirvana guitar break might sound like. With a tuba...